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Leviticus 14:18

in Leviticus 14

The rest of the oil in his palm, the priest is to put on the head of the one to be cleansed, to make atonement for him before the LORD.

BSB

The same verse in ASV and KJV ▾

ASV

and the rest of the oil that is in the priest’s hand he shall put upon the head of him that is to be cleansed: and the priest shall make atonement for him before Jehovah.

KJV

And the remnant of the oil that is in the priest’s hand he shall pour upon the head of him that is to be cleansed: and the priest shall make an atonement for him before the Lord.

This verse in Leviticus 14

Commentary

4 notes on this verse

This site's exposition

take some of the blood from the guilt offering

on Leviticus 14:14-20

Blood goes on the right earlobe, the right thumb and the right big toe. Exodus 29:20 marks the priests at the same three points, so a man shut out comes back marked where a priest is marked.

This site's exposition

put on the head of the one to be cleansed

Verse 18 ties atonement to the oil on his head, before the sin offering of verse 19 has been made. Jamieson, Fausset and Brown explain atonement here as removing the ceremonial pollution that barred him from religious ordinances.

The record, by era

The Puritans and the Awakening1 voice

And the remnant of the oil that is in the priests hand,....

The Nineteenth Century1 voice

A commentator

Jamieson, Fausset & Brown

1802–1910

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible (1871)

proposed

And this was considered to make atonement "for him"; that is, it removed that ceremonial pollution which had excluded him from the enjoyment of religious ordinances, just as the atonement of Christ restores all who are cleansed through faith in His sacrifice to the privileges of the children of God.

The words behind it

15 Hebrew words

Every Hebrew word of this verse in the order it stands, with what it means and the door to its own study. The last column counts the times a word stands in the whole Bible: the rarer the word, the more the places it appears belong together.

  • וְהַנּוֹתָ֗רand the remainder

    vehanotarH3498 →106 times

  • בַּשֶּׁ֙מֶן֙in the oil

    bashemenH8081 →193 times

  • אֲשֶׁר֙which

    ʾasherH834 →5497 times

  • עַל־[is] on

    ʾal-H5921 →5755 times

  • כַּ֣ף[the] palm of

    kafH3709 →192 times

  • הַכֹּהֵ֔ןthe priest

    hakohenH3548 →750 times

  • יִתֵּ֖ןhe will put

    yitenH5414 →2011 times

  • עַל־on

    ʾal-H5921 →5755 times

  • רֹ֣אשׁ[the] head of

    roshH7218 →599 times

  • הַמִּטַּהֵ֑רthe [one] purifying himself

    hamitaherH2891 →94 times

  • וְכִפֶּ֥רand he will make atonement

    vekhiperH3722 →102 times

  • עָלָ֛יוon him

    ʾalavH5921 →5755 times

  • הַכֹּהֵ֖ןthe priest

    hakohenH3548 →750 times

  • לִפְנֵ֥י<to> before

    lifneiH6440 →2123 times

  • יְהוָֽה׃Yahweh

    yahwehH3068 →6520 times

A shaded row is a word that stands 400 times or fewer in the Bible.

The walk

8 stops

Each card is a verse this one points to, and under it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it.

  • Through

    Leviticus 8:12

    He also poured some of the anointing oil on Aaron’s head and anointed him to consecrate him.

    it leads to

    • Exodus 30:30

      Anoint Aaron and his sons and consecrate them to serve Me as priests.

    • Psalms 133:2

      It is like fine oil on the head, running down on the beard, running down Aaron’s beard over the collar of his robes.

  • Through

    Leviticus 4:31

    Then he is to remove all the fat, just as it is removed from the peace offering, and the priest is to burn it on the altar as a pleasing aroma to the LORD.…

    it leads to

    • Leviticus 4:26

      He must burn all its fat on the altar, like the fat of the peace offerings; thus the priest will make atonement for that man’s sin, and he will be forgiven.

    • Genesis 8:21

      When the LORD smelled the pleasing aroma, He said in His heart, “Never again will I curse the ground because of man, even though every inclination of his heart is evil from his youth.…

    • Leviticus 4:35

      And he shall remove all the fat, just as the fat of the lamb is removed from the peace offerings, and he shall burn it on the altar along with the offerings made by…

  • Through

    Leviticus 5:16

    Regarding any holy thing he has harmed, he must make restitution by adding a fifth of its value to it and giving it to the priest, who will make atonement on his behalf with…

    it leads to

    • Leviticus 22:14

      If anyone eats a sacred offering in error, he must add a fifth to its value and give the sacred offering to the priest.

    • Numbers 5:7

      and must confess the sin he has committed. He must make full restitution, add a fifth to its value, and give all this to the one he has wronged.

  • Through

    Leviticus 4:26

    He must burn all its fat on the altar, like the fat of the peace offerings; thus the priest will make atonement for that man’s sin, and he will be forgiven.

    it leads to

    • Leviticus 4:20

      He shall offer this bull just as he did the bull for the sin offering; in this way the priest will make atonement on their behalf, and they will be forgiven.

Where this verse is studied

About Leviticus

The Scapegoat, William Holman Hunt, 1854. Public domain.
The Scapegoat, William Holman Hunt, 1854. Public domain.

This page draws on Andrew Bonar, A Commentary on Leviticus; Jamieson, Fausset & Brown, Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible; John Gill, Exposition of the Old Testament (1748-1763) and Keil and Delitzsch, Biblical Commentary on the Old Testament: The Pentateuch.