Leviticus 8:33

33 Do not leave the entrance to the tent of meeting for seven days, until the days of your ordination are completed, for your ordination will last seven days.

Leviticus 8:33 in Other Translations

33 And ye shall not go out of the door of the tabernacle of the congregation in seven days, until the days of your consecration be at an end: for seven days shall he consecrate you.

33 And you shall not go outside the entrance of the tent of meeting for seven days, until the days of your ordination are completed, for it will take seven days to ordain you.

33 You must not leave the Tabernacle entrance for seven days, for that is when the ordination ceremony will be completed.

33 Don't leave through the entrance of the Tent of Meeting for the seven days that will complete your ordination. Your ordination will last seven days.

33 You must not go outside the entrance to the tent of meeting for seven days, until the time your days of ordination are completed, because it will take seven days to ordain you.

Leviticus 8:33 Meaning and Commentary

Leviticus 8:33

And ye shall not go out of the door of the tabernacle of
the congregation [in] seven days
Which was the time of their consecration, so long it lasted; and they had provision enough every day from the ram of consecration, whose flesh they were to boil and eat. The Jewish writers ^F3 are puzzled where they should ease nature, since the place was holy; but the orders are not to be considered as so strict but that they might go in and out, though they were not to stay long, or to attend to any other business; and it was always necessary there should be some upon the spot, keeping the Lord's charge in their turns; and it was always requisite that they should also sleep alternately; for it cannot be thought that they should be all this time without rest, any more than without food:

until the days of your consecration be at an end;
which were to continue so long:

for seven days shall he consecrate you;
that is, Moses, who here speaks of himself in the third person, as appears from ( Exodus 29:35 ) . Aben Ezra observes, that the word "end" is wanting, and that the sense is, at the end of seven days he shall consecrate you, finish their consecration; all the seven days he was doing it, and at the end of the seventh concluded it.

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FOOTNOTES:

F3 Aben Ezra, Hiscuni in loc.

Leviticus 8:33 In-Context

31 Moses then said to Aaron and his sons, “Cook the meat at the entrance to the tent of meeting and eat it there with the bread from the basket of ordination offerings, as I was commanded: ‘Aaron and his sons are to eat it.’

32 Then burn up the rest of the meat and the bread.

33 Do not leave the entrance to the tent of meeting for seven days, until the days of your ordination are completed, for your ordination will last seven days.

34 What has been done today was commanded by the LORD to make atonement for you.

35 You must stay at the entrance to the tent of meeting day and night for seven days and do what the LORD requires, so you will not die; for that is what I have been commanded.”

Cross References

• 1. Leviticus 14:8; Leviticus 15:13,28; Numbers 19:11; Ezekiel 43:25