Numbers 8:12
The Levites are to place their hands on the heads of the bulls. One is to be sacrificed as a sin offering to the Lord, and the other as a burnt offering to set the Levites right with the Lord.
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Exodus 29:10Take the bull to the front of the Tent of Meeting, and Aaron and his sons are to place their hands on its head.
Leviticus 4:20He shall offer this bull in the same way he did for the sin offering. This is how the priest will make them right, and they will be forgiven.
Leviticus 5:7If you can't afford a lamb, you may offer to the Lord as compensation for your sin two turtledoves or two young pigeons, one as a sin offering and one as a burnt offering.
Leviticus 8:14Moses brought the bull over for the sin offering, and Aaron and his sons put their hands on its head.
Leviticus 8:18Moses brought the ram for the burnt offering, and Aaron and his sons put their hands on its head.
Leviticus 9:7Then Moses told Aaron, “Go to the altar and sacrifice your sin offering and your burnt offering to make you and the people right. Then sacrifice the offerings brought by the people as a means to make them right, as the Lord ordered.”
Matthew Henry on Numbers 8:6-26
The Consecration of the Levites. ( b. c. 1490.) 5 And the Lord spake unto Moses, saying, 6 Take the Levites from among the children of Israel, and cleanse them. 7 And thus shalt thou do unto them, to cleanse them: Sprinkle water of purifying upon them, and let them shave all their flesh, and let them wash their clothes, and so make themselves clean. 8 Then let them take a young bullock with his meat offering, even fine flour mingled with oil, and another young bullock shalt thou take for a sin offering. 9 And thou… Read the whole commentary →