Leviticus 8:18

Contemporary English Version

Moses led out the ram for the sacrifice to please the Lord . After Aaron and his sons had laid their hands on its head,

Parallel Translations

Hebrew Names Version
He presented the ram of the burnt offering: and Aharon and his sons laid their hands on the head of the ram.

King James Version
And he brought the ram for the burnt offering: and Aaron and his sons laid their hands upon the head of the ram.

Lexham English Bible
Then he brought the ram of the burnt offering near, and Aaron and his sons placed their hands on the ram's head,

New Century Version
Next Moses brought the male sheep of the burnt offering, and Aaron and his sons put their hands on its head.

New English Translation
Then he presented the burnt offering ram and Aaron and his sons laid their hands on the head of the ram,

Amplified Bible
He brought the ram for the burnt offering, and Aaron and his sons laid their hands on the head of the ram.

New American Standard Bible
Then he presented the ram of the burnt offering, and Aaron and his sons laid their hands on the head of the ram.

Geneva Bible (1587)
Also hee brought the ram for the burnt offring, and Aaron and his sonnes put their hands vpon the head of the ramme.

Legacy Standard Bible
Then he brought near the ram of the burnt offering, and Aaron and his sons laid their hands on the head of the ram.

Complete Jewish Bible
Next, the ram for the burnt offering was presented. Aharon and his sons laid their hands on the head of the ram;

Darby Translation
And he presented the ram of the burnt-offering; and Aaron and his sons laid their hands on the head of the ram;

Easy-to-Read Version
Then Moses brought the ram of the burnt offering. Aaron and his sons put their hands on the ram's head.

English Standard Version
Then he presented the ram of the burnt offering, and Aaron and his sons laid their hands on the head of the ram.

George Lamsa Translation
And he brought the ram for the burnt offering; and Aaron and his sons laid their hands upon the head of the ram.

Good News Translation
Next, Moses brought the ram for the burnt offering, and Aaron and his sons put their hands on its head.

Christian Standard Bible®
Then he presented the ram for the burnt offering, and Aaron and his sons laid their hands on the head of the ram.

Literal Translation
And he brought the ram of the burnt offering, and Aaron and his sons laid their hands on the head of the ram;

Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
And he brought a ramme for a burntofferynge. And Aaron wt his sonnes layed their handes vpon his heade,

American Standard Version
And he presented the ram of the burnt-offering: and Aaron and his sons laid their hands upon the head of the ram.

Bible in Basic English
And he put the male sheep of the burned offering before the Lord, and Aaron and his sons put their hands on its head,

Bishop's Bible (1568)
And he brought the Ramme for the burnt offering, and Aaron & his sonnes put their handes vpon the head of the Ramme,

JPS Old Testament (1917)
And the ram of the burnt-offering was presented; and Aaron and his sons laid their hands upon the head of the ram.

King James Version (1611)
And he brought the ramme for the burnt offring: and Aaron and his sonnes laid their hands vpon the head of the ramme.

Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
And Moses brought near the ram for a whole-burnt-offering, and Aaron and his sons laid their hands on the head of the ram. And Moses slew the ram: and Moses poured the blood on the altar round about.

English Revised Version
And he presented the ram of the burnt offering: and Aaron and his sons laid their hands upon the head of the ram.

Berean Standard Bible
Then Moses presented the ram for the burnt offering, and Aaron and his sons laid their hands on its head.

Wycliffe Bible (1395)
He offride also a ram in to brent sacrifice; and whanne Aaron and hise sones hadden set her hondis on the heed therof,

Young's Literal Translation
And he bringeth near the ram of the burnt-offering, and Aaron and his sons lay their hands on the head of the ram,

Update Bible Version
And he presented the ram of the burnt-offering: and Aaron and his sons laid their hands on the head of the ram.

Webster's Bible Translation
And he brought the ram for the burnt-offering: and Aaron and his sons laid their hands upon the head of the ram.

World English Bible
He presented the ram of the burnt offering: and Aaron and his sons laid their hands on the head of the ram.

New King James Version
Then he brought the ram as the burnt offering. And Aaron and his sons laid their hands on the head of the ram,

New Living Translation
Then Moses presented the ram for the burnt offering. Aaron and his sons laid their hands on the ram's head,

New Life Bible
Moses brought the ram of the burnt gift. And Aaron and his sons laid their hands on the head of the sheep.

New Revised Standard
Then he brought forward the ram of burnt offering. Aaron and his sons laid their hands on the head of the ram,

J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
Then was brought near the ram for the ascending-sacrifice, - and Aaron and his sons leaned their hands upon the head of the ram;

Douay-Rheims Bible
He offered also a ram for holocaust. And when Aaron and his sons had put their hands upon its head:

Revised Standard Version
Then he presented the ram of the burnt offering; and Aaron and his sons laid their hands on the head of the ram.

THE MESSAGE
Moses presented the ram for the Whole-Burnt-Offering. Aaron and his sons laid their hands on the head of the ram. Moses slaughtered it and splashed the blood against all sides of the Altar. He cut the ram up into pieces and then burned the head, the pieces, and the fat. He washed the entrails and the legs with water and then burned the whole ram on the Altar. It was a Whole-Burnt-Offering, a pleasing fragrance—a gift to God, just as God had commanded Moses.

New American Standard Bible (1995)
Then he presented the ram of the burnt offering, and Aaron and his sons laid their hands on the head of the ram.

Contextual Overview

¹⁴ Moses led out the bull that was to be sacrificed for sin, and Aaron and his sons laid their hands on its head. ¹⁵ After it was killed, Moses dipped a finger in the blood and smeared some of it on each of the four corners of the bronze altar, before pouring out the rest at the foot of the altar. This purified the altar and made it a fit place for offering the sacrifice for sin. ¹⁶ Moses then took the fat on the bull's insides, as well as the lower part of the liver and the two kidneys with their fat, and sent them up in smoke on the altar fire. ¹⁷ Finally, he took the skin and the flesh of the bull, together with the food still in its stomach, and burned them outside the camp, just as the Lord had commanded. ¹⁸ Moses led out the ram for the sacrifice to please the Lord . After Aaron and his sons had laid their hands on its head, ¹⁹ Moses killed the ram and splattered its blood against the four sides of the altar. ²⁰Moses had the animal cut up, and he washed its insides and hind legs. Then he laid the head, the fat, and the rest of the ram on the altar and sent them up in smoke with a smell that pleased the Lord . All this was done just as the Lord had commanded. ²² Moses led out the ram for the ceremony of ordination. Aaron and his sons laid their hands on its head, ²³ and it was killed. Moses smeared some of its blood on Aaron's right earlobe, some on his right thumb, and some on the big toe of his right foot. ²⁴ Moses did the same thing for Aaron's sons, before splattering the rest of the blood against the four sides of the altar.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

Leviticus 1:4-13, Exodus 29:15-18

Reciprocal: Exodus 29:10 - put Leviticus 1:3 - a burnt Leviticus 1:8 - General Leviticus 9:2 - and a ram Leviticus 9:12 - General Leviticus 9:16 - manner Leviticus 16:3 - a ram for a burnt offering Numbers 8:12 - the one Ezekiel 43:18 - to offer Ezekiel 43:22 - a kid

Cross-References

Psalms 121:8
The Lord will protect you now and always wherever you go.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

And he brought the ram for the burnt offering,.... One of the two he was ordered to take, Leviticus 8:2

and Aaron and his sons laid their hands on the head of the ram; as they had done before on the head of the bullock, see Leviticus 8:14 their right hands, as the Targum of Jonathan, and that at the same time; not first Aaron and then his sons, as a famous grammarian, Aben Ezra makes mention of, thought; but, as he himself says, they laid them on together.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Moses as the mediator of the covenant of the Law Galatians 3:19; Hebrews 8:6 was called to perform the priestly functions, in consecrating those on whom henceforth those functions were to devolve, and in inaugurating the legal order of sacrifices. See Exodus 40:23 note. The sin-offering was now offered for the first time. The succession in which the sacrifices followed each other on this occasion, first the sin-offering, then the burnt-offering, and lastly the peace-offering, has its ground in the meaning of each sacrifice, and became the established custom in later ages. The worshipper passed through a spiritual process. He had transgressed the Law, and he needed the atonement signified by the sin-offering: if his offering had been made in truth and sincerity, he could then offer himself as an accepted person, as a sweet savour, in the burnt-offering; and in consequence, he could enjoy communion with the Lord and with his brethren in the peace-offering.

Leviticus 8:14-17

See the marginal references. The flesh of the sin-offering could not be eaten by any but a legally consecrated priest (Leviticus 6:25 note). Moses therefore could not eat of it himself, though he was, for the occasion, performing the duties of a priest. Those whom he was consecrating could not eat it, not only because they were not yet duly installed, but because the sacrifice was offered on their behalf, and the body of the victim stood to them in the same relation as that of the regular sin-offering afterward stood to the high priest.

Leviticus 8:15

Purified the altar ... sanctified it, to make reconciliation upon it - The altar had been sanctified by the anointing oil Leviticus 8:11 like the priests who were to officiate at it; it was now, like them, sanctified by blood, in acknowledgment of the alienation of all nature, in itself, from God, and the need of a reconciliation to Him of all things by blood. Colossians 1:20; Hebrews 9:21-22. See Leviticus 17:11; Exodus 28:38.

Leviticus 8:18-21

Atonement having been made, Aaron and his sons were now permitted, by the laying on of their hands, to make themselves one with the victim, which was to be sent up to Yahweh as “a burnt sacrifice for a sweet savour, an offering made by fire unto the Lord.” All was done strictly according to the ritual Leviticus 1:3-9, except that Moses performed the duties of the priest.

Leviticus 8:22

The ram of consecration - The sacrifice of this ram was by far the most unique part of the whole ceremony. The words may be literally rendered “the ram of the fillings”, and the name has been supposed to have reference to the ceremony in which Moses filled the hands of the priests; see Leviticus 8:27. The offering was in the highest sense “the sacrifice of completion or fulfilling”, as being the central point of the consecrating rite. The final perfection of the creature is consecration to the Lord.

Leviticus 8:23, Leviticus 8:24

Before casting forth the blood round the altar in the usual manner, Moses took a portion of the blood and put some of it on the right extremities of each of the priests. This, being performed with the blood of the peace-offering, has been supposed to figure the readiness of the priest who is at peace with Yahweh to hear with the ear and obey the divine word, to perform with the hand the sacred duties of his office, and to walk with the feet in the way of holiness.

Leviticus 8:25-28

In the rite of filling the hands of the priests, Moses took the portions of the victim which usually belonged to the altar, with the right shoulder (or leg); he placed upon them one cake of each of the three kinds of unleavened bread contained in the basket (see Leviticus 8:2 note), and then put the whole first upon the hands of Aaron and in succession upon the hands of his sons: in each case, according to Jewish tradition, he put his own hands under the hands of the priest, moving them backwards and forwards, so as to wave the mass to and fro.

In this remarkable ceremony the gifts of the people appear to have been made over to the priests, as if in trust, for the service of the altar. The articles were presented to Yahweh and solemnly waved in the hands of the priests, but not by their own act and deed. The mediator of the Law, who was expressly commissioned on this occasion, was the agent in the process.

Leviticus 8:25

The rump - See Leviticus 3:9 note.

Leviticus 8:29

The heave-shoulder was the ordinary perquisite of the officiating priest, but the wave-breast appears to have been awarded to Moses as the servant of Yahweh now especially appointed for the priestly service.

Leviticus 8:30

The sprinkling was on their garments as well as their persons, because it belonged to them in reference to the office with which they had been formally invested by putting on the garments. (See Exodus 28:3 note). The union of the two symbols of the atoning blood and the inspiring unction appears to be a fit conclusion of the entire rite.

Leviticus 8:33-36

The rites of consecration were to last a whole week, and thus, like the longer of the annual festivals, were connected in an emphatic manner with the sabbatical number of the covenant. During this period the priests were not to leave the holy precinct for the sake of any worldly business; and the whole series of ceremonies, including the sacrifice of the Ram of consecration, was to be gone through on each day. Compare the marginal references.

Leviticus 8:33

Rather, ye shall not go away from the entrance of the tent. With this agree Cranmer, the Geneva Bible, etc. The meaning is evidently that they were not to go out of the court, as is more clearly expressed in Leviticus 8:35.

Leviticus 8:35

That ye die not - See Exodus 28:35 note.