Discovery BoxLeviticus 8:22-24 
Context8:22 Then he presented the second ram, the ram of ordination, 1 and Aaron and his sons laid their hands on the head of the ram 8:23 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. 8:24 Next he brought Aaron’s sons forward, and Moses put some of the blood on their right earlobes, on their right thumbs, and on the big toes of their right feet, and Moses splashed the rest of the blood against the altar’s sides.
1 tn For “ordination offering” see Lev 7:37
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.
