Discovery BoxLeviticus 8:19 
Context8:19 and he slaughtered it. 1 Moses then splashed the blood against the altar’s sides.
Leviticus 8:23
Context8:23 and he slaughtered it. 2 Moses then took some of its blood and put it on Aaron’s right earlobe, 3 on the thumb of his right hand, and on the big toe 4 of his right foot.
1 tn Aaron probably did the slaughtering (cf. the notes on Lev 8:15-16 above).
2 tn Again, Aaron probably did the slaughtering (cf. the notes on Lev 8:15-16 above).
3 tn Heb “on the lobe of the ear of Aaron, the right one.”
4 tn The term for “big toe” (בֹּהֶן, bohen) is the same as that for “thumb.” It refers to the larger appendage on either the hand or the foot.
