Today, I am reading and commenting on  Leviticus 8-9.

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Reading this I realized how much work the initial consecration of the tabernacle and its furnishings with their utensils at the same time as the consecration and ordination of Aaron and his sons must have been.  Moses needed to wash Aaron and his sons, then dress them in the priestly garments.  After that he needed to anoint the tabernacle, all its furnishings and their utensils, Aaron and his sons, and their priestly garments.  That was just the beginning of the day.  Next Moses offered up the bull of the sin offering, followed by the ram of the burnt offering, and finally the ram of ordination.  Only after doing most of this last offering, that of the ram of ordination, were Aaron and his sons able to begin assisting Moses.  I have trouble comprehending just how much work this must have been for one man to accomplish.

On to another point.  For years I have read this passage where it says that as part of the ordination process Moses took some of the blood of the ram of ordination and put it on the lobe of Aaron’s right ear, the thumb of his right hand and the big toe of his right foot, and then did the same thing for each of Aaron’s sons.  I never thought much about that.  It was just a strange ritual that was part of the ordination of priests.  Today, I realized that the symbolism of this was important, but wasn’t sure what it was.  So, I looked it up and I really like the symbolism.  The significance of placing a bit of the blood of the offering on the right ear is that Aaron, and his sons, and the priests who followed after them, need to dedicate themselves to listen to God and pay attention to what He says to them.  The significance of the right thumb is that they need to dedicate their actions to doing God’s will.  Finally, the significance of the big toe is that the priests need to walk in righteousness, need to follow the paths which God guides them on.  We as believers are to be priests before God.  Therefore we should take this ordination process to heart and dedicate ourselves to listening to God’s Word (that which we read in the Bible, that which we hear preached by God’s servants, and that which the Holy Spirit speaks in our hearts), dedicate our actions to serving God with purity and dedication, and dedicate our walk to following the path of righteousness which Christ has revealed to us through His life.

I use the daily Bible reading schedule from “The Bible.net” for my daily Bible reading.