Leviticuschapter 8
36 verses · Moses, by tradition · 15th to 13th century BC · The Law
Original Language
Leviticus 8— Hebrew word study · with the Hebrew tradition
In Jewish life
Jewish practice and Jewish teaching both have something to say about Leviticus 8. Three things follow: where it is read, what is done because of it, and how the rabbis have taught it. The purpose is to inform a Christian reader what Jews believe and how Judaism was and is practised.
The reading
Weekly portion 25 of 54
צַו Tzav, Leviticus 6:1 to 8:36
Read with it: Jeremiah 7:21 to 8:3 and 9:22 to 9:23.
The verse numbers here are the ones a Hebrew Bible carries, which differ from an English Bible by a verse or two in several places. The Sephardi reading is named only where this site records a difference; communities vary beyond what is listed. What these books are, and how a Christian reader meets them →
Where the rabbis cite this chapter
4 rows sit beside their verses in the text, on 4 verses of this chapter. No row that speaks to the chapter as a whole is recorded. Every quote links to its full source.
Texts and citation data: Sefaria (sefaria.org); excerpts follow each version’s license, and every passage opens at its source.
How to read a word below: the Hebrewword, then how it sounds, then what it means, then its number in Strong’s concordance, a widely used lookup this site follows (H for Hebrew and Aramaic, G for Greek). Square brackets hold a word the English supplies that the Hebrew does not, angle brackets mark the Hebrew’s own grammatical elements that English renders as separate words, and the mark ס or פ is where the Hebrew manuscripts end a paragraph.
Washed, robed, and anointed1
Leviticus 8:1· Hebrew and glosses: STEP Bible
Leviticus 8:2· Hebrew and glosses: STEP Bible
Leviticus 8:3· Hebrew and glosses: STEP Bible
Leviticus 8:4· Hebrew and glosses: STEP Bible
Leviticus 8:5· Hebrew and glosses: STEP Bible
Leviticus 8:6· Hebrew and glosses: STEP Bible
Leviticus 8:7· Hebrew and glosses: STEP Bible
Leviticus 8:8· Hebrew and glosses: STEP Bible
Leviticus 8:9· Hebrew and glosses: STEP Bible
Leviticus 8:10· Hebrew and glosses: STEP Bible
Ramban on Leviticus 8:10
AND MOSES TOOK THE ANOINTING OIL, AND ANOINTED THE TABERNACLE …. AND HE POURED OF THE ANOINTING OIL UPON AARON’S HEAD. This too. See Ramban on Verse.
Read it in full at Sefaria · Commentary on the Torah by Ramban (Nachmanides). Translated and annotated by Charles B. Chavel. New York, Shilo Pub. House, 1971-1976
Leviticus 8:11· Hebrew and glosses: STEP Bible
Ramban on Leviticus 8:11
AND HE SPRINKLED THEREOF [i.e., of the anointing oil] UPON THE ALTAR. Rashi commented: “I do not know where Moses was commanded about these sprinklings.
Read it in full at Sefaria · Commentary on the Torah by Ramban (Nachmanides). Translated and annotated by Charles B. Chavel. New York, Shilo Pub. House, 1971-1976
Leviticus 8:12· Hebrew and glosses: STEP Bible
Leviticus 8:13· Hebrew and glosses: STEP Bible
The bull of the sin offering14
Leviticus 8:14· Hebrew and glosses: STEP Bible
Leviticus 8:15· Hebrew and glosses: STEP Bible
Ramban on Leviticus 8:15
“He cleansed it and purified it from anything ‘strange’ [not holy], so that it might enter into a state of holiness. AND HE SANCTIFIED IT by this rite. TO MAKE ATONEMENT UPON IT — from that time onward for all atonements of sin.” This is the language of Rashi.
Read it in full at Sefaria · Commentary on the Torah by Ramban (Nachmanides). Translated and annotated by Charles B. Chavel. New York, Shilo Pub. House, 1971-1976
Leviticus 8:16· Hebrew and glosses: STEP Bible
Rashi on Leviticus 8:16
הכבד [AND THE LOBE OF] THE LIVER — i. e. he took it (the lobe) besides some of the liver — it means that he took a little of the liver with it (the lobe).
Read it in full at Sefaria · Pentateuch with Rashi's commentary by M. Rosenbaum and A.M. Silbermann, 1929-1934
Leviticus 8:17· Hebrew and glosses: STEP Bible
The ram given wholly to the fire18
Leviticus 8:18· Hebrew and glosses: STEP Bible
Leviticus 8:19· Hebrew and glosses: STEP Bible
Leviticus 8:20· Hebrew and glosses: STEP Bible
Leviticus 8:21· Hebrew and glosses: STEP Bible
Blood on the ear, the thumb, the toe22
Leviticus 8:22· Hebrew and glosses: STEP Bible
Leviticus 8:23· Hebrew and glosses: STEP Bible
Leviticus 8:24· Hebrew and glosses: STEP Bible
Leviticus 8:25· Hebrew and glosses: STEP Bible
Leviticus 8:26· Hebrew and glosses: STEP Bible
Leviticus 8:27· Hebrew and glosses: STEP Bible
Leviticus 8:28· Hebrew and glosses: STEP Bible
Leviticus 8:29· Hebrew and glosses: STEP Bible
Leviticus 8:30· Hebrew and glosses: STEP Bible
Seven days at the door of the tent31
Leviticus 8:31· Hebrew and glosses: STEP Bible
Leviticus 8:32· Hebrew and glosses: STEP Bible
Leviticus 8:33· Hebrew and glosses: STEP Bible
Leviticus 8:34· Hebrew and glosses: STEP Bible
Leviticus 8:35· Hebrew and glosses: STEP Bible
Leviticus 8:36· Hebrew and glosses: STEP Bible
