8:14 Then he brought near the sin offering bull 2 and Aaron and his sons laid their hands on the head of the sin offering bull,
8:18 Then he presented the burnt offering ram and Aaron and his sons laid their hands on the head of the ram,
8:22 Then he presented the second ram, the ram of ordination, 3 and Aaron and his sons laid their hands on the head of the ram
9:22 Then Aaron lifted up his hands toward the people and blessed them and descended from making the sin offering, the burnt offering, and the peace offering.
1 tn Heb “and he shall slaughter.” The singular verb seems to refer to an individual who represents the whole congregation, perhaps one of the elders referred to at the beginning of the verse, or the officiating priest (cf. v. 21). The LXX and Syriac make the verb plural, referring to “the elders of the congregation.”
2 sn See Lev 4:3-12 above for the sin offering of the priests. In this case, however, the blood manipulation is different because Moses, not Aaron (and his sons), is functioning as the priest. On the one hand, Aaron and his sons are, in a sense, treated as if they were commoners so that the blood manipulation took place at the burnt offering altar in the court of the tabernacle (see v. 15 below), not at the incense altar inside the tabernacle tent itself (contrast Lev 4:5-7 and compare 4:30). On the other hand, since it was a sin offering for the priests, therefore, the priests themselves could not eat its flesh (Lev 4:11-12; 6:30 [23 HT]), which was the normal priestly practice for sin offerings of commoners (Lev 6:26[19], 29[22]).
3 tn For “ordination offering” see Lev 7:37
4 tn Heb “And all who the man with the discharge touches in him and his hands he has not rinsed in water.”