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Leviticus 8:34

in Leviticus 8

What has been done today has been commanded by the LORD in order to make atonement on your behalf.

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The same verse in ASV and KJV ▾

ASV

As hath been done this day, so Jehovah hath commanded to do, to make atonement for you.

KJV

As he hath done this day, so the Lord hath commanded to do, to make an atonement for you.

This verse in Leviticus 8

Commentary

5 notes on this verse

A commentator

Matthew Henry

1662–1714

Commentary on the Whole Bible (1710)

This shows the imperfection of the legal sacrifices, which, because they could not take away sin, were often repeated ( Heb. x. 1, 2 ), but were here repeated seven times (a number of perfection), because they typified that one offering, which perfected for ever those that were sanctified.

This site's exposition

You must not go outside the entrance to the Tent of Meeting

on Leviticus 8:33-35

The priests stay at the entrance for seven days. Verse 34 names the purpose, to make atonement on your behalf. The men who will make atonement for Israel had it made for them first.

This site's exposition

in order to make atonement on your behalf

The verse names what was done today, and verse 33 has the same rites repeated on each of the seven days. Matthew Henry reads the repetition as a mark of the weakness of the legal sacrifices, citing Hebrews 10:1-2.

The record, by era

The Puritans and the Awakening2 voices

A commentator

John Wesley

1703–1791

Explanatory Notes upon the Old Testament (1765)

proposed

He - Either Moses, as in the following clause, or some other person by his appointment; which may be the reason why he is not named here, as he is to the sprinkling of the blood, which was an action more proper to the priest, and more essential to the sacrifice.
As he hath done this day, so the Lord hath commanded to do,....

The words behind it

9 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.

  • כַּאֲשֶׁ֥רjust as

    kaasherH834 →5497 times

  • עָשָׂ֖הsomeone has done

    ʾasahH6213 →2628 times

  • בַּיּ֣וֹםon the day

    baiyomH3117 →2304 times

  • הַזֶּ֑ה<the> this

    hazehH2088 →1180 times

  • צִוָּ֧הhe has commanded

    tzivahH6680 →494 times

  • יְהוָ֛הYahweh

    yahwehH3068 →6520 times

  • לַעֲשֹׂ֖תto do

    laasotH6213 →2628 times

  • לְכַפֵּ֥רto make atonement

    lekhaperH3722 →102 times

  • עֲלֵיכֶֽם׃on you

    ʾaleikhemH5921 →5755 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

    Hebrews 7:27

    Unlike the other high priests, He does not need to offer daily sacrifices, first for His own sins and then for the sins of the people; He sacrificed for sin once for all when…

    it leads to

    • Hebrews 9:28

      so also Christ was offered once to bear the sins of many; and He will appear a second time, not to bear sin, but to bring salvation to those who eagerly await Him.

    • Hebrews 9:12

      He did not enter by the blood of goats and calves, but He entered the Most Holy Place once for all by His own blood, thus securing eternal redemption.

    • Hebrews 9:14

      how much more will the blood of Christ, who through the eternal Spirit offered Himself unblemished to God, purify our consciences from works of death, so that we may serve the living God!

    • Ephesians 5:2

      and walk in love, just as Christ loved us and gave Himself up for us as a fragrant sacrificial offering to God.

    • Hebrews 10:6–12

      In burnt offerings and sin offerings You took no delight.

  • Through

    Hebrews 7:16

    one who has become a priest not by a law of succession, but by the power of an indestructible life.

    it leads to

    • Galatians 4:3

      So also, when we were children, we were enslaved under the basic principles of the world.

    • Galatians 4:9

      But now that you know God, or rather are known by God, how is it that you are turning back to those weak and worthless principles? Do you wish to be enslaved by them…

    • Colossians 2:20

      If you have died with Christ to the spiritual forces of the world, why, as though you still belonged to the world, do you submit to its regulations:

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 Adam Clarke, Commentary on the Bible; Jamieson, Fausset & Brown, Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible; John Gill, Exposition of the Old Testament (1748-1763); John Wesley, Explanatory Notes upon the Old Testament and Matthew Henry, Commentary on the Whole Bible.