Leviticus 9:6

6 Moses said, "This is what the Lord commanded you to do, that the glory of the Lord may appear to you."^[a]

Leviticus 9:6 Meaning and Commentary

Leviticus 9:6

This [is] the thing which the Lord commanded that ye should
do
Namely, what they had done, bring the creatures and things for sacrifice they had:

and the glory of the Lord shall appear unto you;
either Christ, the brightness of his Father's glory, in an human form, as a presage of his future incarnation, as he frequently did; or some more than ordinary refulgence of glory breaking out of the holy of holies, where God had now taken up his dwelling between the cherubim; or, as Aben Ezra explains it, the fire that should go out from him, and consume the sacrifice, which would be a demonstration of his presence with them, and of his acceptance of the sacrifice.

Leviticus 9:6 In-Context

4 an ox and a ram for a fellowship offering to sacrifice before the Lord; and a grain offering mixed with oil. For today the Lord is going to appear to you.' "

5 They brought what Moses had commanded to the front of the tent of meeting, and the whole community came forward and stood before the Lord.

6 Moses said, "This is what the Lord commanded you to do, that the glory of the Lord may appear to you."

7 Then Moses said to Aaron, "Approach the altar and sacrifice your sin offering and your burnt offering; make atonement for yourself and the people. Sacrifice the people's offering and make atonement for them, as the Lord commanded."

8 So Aaron approached the altar and slaughtered the calf as a sin offering for himself.

Footnotes

• [a] Ex 16:7,10; 24:16-17