Discovery BoxLeviticus 8:33 
Context8:33 And you must not go out from the entrance of the Meeting Tent for seven days, until the day when your days of ordination are completed, because you must be ordained over a seven-day period. 1
Leviticus 14:34
Context14:34 “When you enter the land of Canaan which I am about to give 2 to you for a possession, and I put 3 a diseased infection in a house in the land you are to possess, 4
Leviticus 26:8
Context26:8 Five of you will pursue a hundred, and a hundred of you will pursue ten thousand, and your enemies will fall before you by the sword.
1 tn Heb “because seven days he shall fill your hands”; KJV “for seven days shall he consecrate you”; CEV “ends seven days from now.”
sn It is apparent that the term for “ordination offering” (מִלֻּאִים, millu’im; cf. Lev 7:37 and the note there) is closely related to the expression “he shall fill (Piel מִלֵּא, mille’) your hands” in this verse. Some derive the terminology from the procedure in Lev 8:27-28, but the term for “hands” there is actually “palms.” It seems more likely that it derives from the notion of putting the priestly responsibilities (or possibly its associated prebends) under their control (i.e., “filling their hands” with authority; see J. Milgrom, Leviticus [AB], 1:538-39). The command “to keep the charge of the
2 tn Heb “which I am giving” (so NAB, NIV).
3 tn Heb “give.”
4 tn Heb “in the house of the land of your possession” (KJV and ASV both similar).
