Leviticus 9:7-17

7 Moses then said to Aaron, "Come near to the altar and 1offer your sin offering and your burnt offering, that you may make atonement for yourself and for the people; then make the offering for the people, that you may make atonement for them, just as the LORD has commanded."
8 2So Aaron came near to the altar and slaughtered the calf of the sin offering which was for himself.
9 3Aaron's sons presented the blood to him; and he dipped his finger in the blood and 4put some on the horns of the altar, and poured out the rest of the blood at the base of the altar.
10 The fat and the kidneys and the lobe of the liver of the sin offering, he then offered up in smoke on the altar just as the LORD had commanded Moses.
11 5The flesh and the skin, however, he burned with fire outside * the camp.
12 Then he slaughtered the burnt offering; and Aaron's sons handed the blood to him and he sprinkled it around on the altar.
13 They handed the burnt offering to him in pieces, with the head, and he offered them up in smoke on the altar.
14 He also washed the entrails and the legs, and offered them up in smoke with the burnt offering on the altar.
15 Then he presented the people's offering, and took the 6goat of the sin offering which was for the people, and slaughtered it and offered it for sin, like the first.
16 He also presented the burnt offering, and offered it according to 7the ordinance.
17 Next he presented 8the grain offering, and filled his hand with some of it and offered it up in smoke on the altar, 9besides * the burnt offering of the morning.

Leviticus 9:7-17 Meaning and Commentary

INTRODUCTION TO LEVITICUS 9

Aaron and his sons, being consecrated to and invested with the priest's office, are called upon to the exercise of it, to offer a sin offering and a burnt offering for themselves, and all sorts of offerings, a sin offering, a burnt offering, peace offerings, and a meat offering, for the people; and a promise is made for their encouragement, that the glory of the Lord would appear to them, Le 9:1-7 and which were in their course accordingly offered; first, Aaron's sin offering for himself, Le 9:8-11 then his burnt offering, Le 9:12-14 after that the several offerings of the people before mentioned, Le 9:15-21 when Aaron and Moses blessed the people, the one as soon as he had done offering, and both together when they came out of the tabernacle, Le 9:22,23 upon which a fire came forth from the Lord, and consumed the burnt offering upon the altar, Le 9:24.

Cross References 9

  • 1. Hebrews 5:3; Hebrews 7:27
  • 2. Leviticus 4:1-12
  • 3. Leviticus 9:12, 18
  • 4. Leviticus 4:7
  • 5. Leviticus 4:11, 12; Leviticus 8:17
  • 6. Leviticus 4:27-31
  • 7. Leviticus 1:1-13
  • 8. Leviticus 2:1-3
  • 9. Leviticus 3:5

Footnotes 6

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