Leviticus 8:33
New International Version
Do not leave the entrance to the tent of meeting for seven days, until the days of your ordination are completed, for your ordination will last seven days.

New Living Translation
You must not leave the Tabernacle entrance for seven days, for that is when the ordination ceremony will be completed.

English Standard Version
And you shall not go outside the entrance of the tent of meeting for seven days, until the days of your ordination are completed, for it will take seven days to ordain you.

Berean Standard Bible
You must not go outside the entrance to the Tent of Meeting for seven days, until the days of your ordination are complete; for it will take seven days to ordain you.

King James Bible
And ye shall not go out of the door of the tabernacle of the congregation in seven days, until the days of your consecration be at an end: for seven days shall he consecrate you.

New King James Version
And you shall not go outside the door of the tabernacle of meeting for seven days, until the days of your consecration are ended. For seven days he shall consecrate you.

New American Standard Bible
And you shall not go outside the doorway of the tent of meeting for seven days, until the day that the period of your ordination is fulfilled; for he will ordain you through seven days.

NASB 1995
“You shall not go outside the doorway of the tent of meeting for seven days, until the day that the period of your ordination is fulfilled; for he will ordain you through seven days.

NASB 1977
“And you shall not go outside the doorway of the tent of meeting for seven days, until the day that the period of your ordination is fulfilled; for he will ordain you through seven days.

Legacy Standard Bible
And you shall not go outside the doorway of the tent of meeting for seven days, until the day that the period of your ordination is fulfilled; for he will ordain you through seven days.

Amplified Bible
You shall not go outside the doorway of the Tent of Meeting for seven days, until the days of your consecration (ordination) are ended; for it will take seven days to consecrate you.

Christian Standard Bible
Do not go outside the entrance to the tent of meeting for seven days, until the time your days of ordination are completed, because it will take seven days to ordain you.

Holman Christian Standard Bible
You must not go outside the entrance to the tent of meeting for seven days, until the time your days of ordination are completed, because it will take seven days to ordain you.

American Standard Version
And ye shall not go out from the door of the tent of meeting seven days, until the days of your consecration be fulfilled: for he shall consecrate you seven days.

Contemporary English Version
and stay near the entrance to the sacred tent until the ordination ceremony ends seven days from now.

English Revised Version
And ye shall not go out from the door of the tent of meeting seven days, until the days of your consecration be fulfilled: for he shall consecrate you seven days.

GOD'S WORD® Translation
You will not leave the entrance to the tent of meeting for seven days, not until the last day of your ordination is over. It will take seven days to ordain you.

Good News Translation
You shall not leave the entrance of the Tent for seven days, until your ordination rites are completed.

International Standard Version
Furthermore, you are not to go out past the entrance to the Tent of Meeting until the days of your ordination have been completed, since it will take seven days to ordain you.

Majority Standard Bible
You must not go outside the entrance to the Tent of Meeting for seven days, until the days of your ordination are complete; for it will take seven days to ordain you.

NET Bible
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.

New Heart English Bible
You shall not go out from the door of the Tent of Meeting seven days, until the days of your consecration are fulfilled: for he shall consecrate you seven days.

Webster's Bible Translation
And ye shall not go out of the door of the tabernacle of the congregation in seven days, until the days of your consecration shall be at an end: for seven days shall he consecrate you.

World English Bible
You shall not go out from the door of the Tent of Meeting for seven days, until the days of your consecration are fulfilled: for he shall consecrate you seven days.
Literal Translations
Literal Standard Version
and you do not go out from the opening of the Tent of Meeting [for] seven days, until the day of the fullness, the days of your consecration—for seven days he consecrates your hand;

Young's Literal Translation
and from the opening of the tent of meeting ye go not out seven days, till the day of the fulness, the days of your consecration -- for seven days he doth consecrate your hand;

Smith's Literal Translation
And ye shall not go out from the door of the tent of appointment, seven days, till the day of filling up the days of your fillings up: for seven days shall he fill your hands.
Catholic Translations
Douay-Rheims Bible
And you shall not go out of the door of the tabernacle for seven days, until the day wherein the time of your consecration shall be expired. For in seven days the consecration is finished:

Catholic Public Domain Version
Also, you shall not exit from the door of the tabernacle for seven days, until the day on which the time of your consecration shall be completed. For in seven days the consecration is finished,

New American Bible
Moreover, you are not to depart from the entrance of the tent of meeting for seven days, until the days of your ordination are completed; for your ordination is to last for seven days.

New Revised Standard Version
You shall not go outside the entrance of the tent of meeting for seven days, until the day when your period of ordination is completed. For it will take seven days to ordain you;
Translations from Aramaic
Lamsa Bible
And you shall not go out of the door of the tabernacle of the congregation for seven days, until the days of your consecration are at an end; for your consecration will be completed in seven days.

Peshitta Holy Bible Translated
And you shall not exit from the door of the Time Tabernacle for seven days until the days of your consecration are full because your hands are consecrated for seven days.
OT Translations
JPS Tanakh 1917
And ye shall not go out from the door of the tent of meeting seven days, until the days of your consecration be fulfilled; for He shall consecrate you seven days.

Brenton Septuagint Translation
And ye shall not go out from the door of the tabernacle of witness for seven days, until the day be fulfilled, the day of your consecration; for in seven days shall he consecrate you,

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Context
The Ram of Ordination
32Then you must burn up the remainder of the meat and bread. 33You must not go outside the entrance to the Tent of Meeting for seven days, until the days of your ordination are complete; for it will take seven days to ordain you. 34What has been done today has been commanded by the LORD in order to make atonement on your behalf.…

Cross References
Exodus 29:35-37
This is what you are to do for Aaron and his sons based on all that I have commanded you, taking seven days to ordain them. / Sacrifice a bull as a sin offering each day for atonement. Purify the altar by making atonement for it, and anoint it to consecrate it. / For seven days you shall make atonement for the altar and consecrate it. Then the altar will become most holy; whatever touches the altar will be holy.

Hebrews 7:28
For the law appoints as high priests men who are weak; but the oath, which came after the law, appointed the Son, who has been made perfect forever.

Exodus 40:12-15
Then bring Aaron and his sons to the entrance to the Tent of Meeting and wash them with water. / And you are to clothe Aaron with the holy garments, anoint him, and consecrate him, so that he may serve Me as a priest. / Bring his sons forward and clothe them with tunics. ...

Numbers 18:7
But only you and your sons shall attend to your priesthood for everything concerning the altar and what is inside the veil, and you are to perform that service. I am giving you the work of the priesthood as a gift, but any outsider who comes near the sanctuary must be put to death.”

Hebrews 5:1-4
Every high priest is appointed from among men to represent them in matters relating to God, to offer gifts and sacrifices for sins. / He is able to deal gently with those who are ignorant and misguided, since he himself is subject to weakness. / That is why he is obligated to offer sacrifices for his own sins, as well as for the sins of the people. ...

1 Samuel 16:13
So Samuel took the horn of oil and anointed him in the presence of his brothers, and the Spirit of the LORD rushed upon David from that day forward. Then Samuel set out and went to Ramah.

Hebrews 9:6-10
When everything had been prepared in this way, the priests entered regularly into the first room to perform their sacred duties. / But only the high priest entered the second room, and then only once a year, and never without blood, which he offered for himself and for the sins the people had committed in ignorance. / By this arrangement the Holy Spirit was showing that the way into the Most Holy Place had not yet been disclosed as long as the first tabernacle was still standing. ...

1 Kings 8:10-11
And when the priests came out of the Holy Place, the cloud filled the house of the LORD / so that the priests could not stand there to minister because of the cloud. For the glory of the LORD filled the house of the LORD.

Hebrews 10:11-14
Day after day every priest stands to minister and to offer again and again the same sacrifices, which can never take away sins. / But when this Priest had offered for all time one sacrifice for sins, He sat down at the right hand of God. / Since that time, He waits for His enemies to be made a footstool for His feet, ...

2 Chronicles 5:13-14
The trumpeters and singers joined together to praise and thank the LORD with one voice. They lifted up their voices, accompanied by trumpets, cymbals, and musical instruments, in praise to the LORD: “For He is good; His loving devotion endures forever.” And the temple, the house of the LORD, was filled with a cloud / so that the priests could not stand there to minister because of the cloud. For the glory of the LORD filled the house of God.

Hebrews 9:24-26
For Christ did not enter a man-made copy of the true sanctuary, but He entered heaven itself, now to appear on our behalf in the presence of God. / Nor did He enter heaven to offer Himself again and again, as the high priest enters the Most Holy Place every year with blood that is not his own. / Otherwise, Christ would have had to suffer repeatedly since the foundation of the world. But now He has appeared once for all at the end of the ages to do away with sin by the sacrifice of Himself.

1 Peter 2:5
you also, like living stones, are being built into a spiritual house to be a holy priesthood, offering spiritual sacrifices acceptable to God through Jesus Christ.

Numbers 3:3
These were Aaron’s sons, the anointed priests, who were ordained to serve as priests.

Hebrews 8:3-6
And since every high priest is appointed to offer both gifts and sacrifices, it was necessary for this One also to have something to offer. / Now if He were on earth, He would not be a priest, since there are already priests who offer gifts according to the law. / The place where they serve is a copy and shadow of what is in heaven. This is why Moses was warned when he was about to build the tabernacle: “See to it that you make everything according to the pattern shown you on the mountain.” ...

2 Chronicles 29:11
Now, my sons, do not be negligent, for the LORD has chosen you to stand before Him, to serve Him, to minister before Him, and to burn incense.”


Treasury of Scripture

And you shall not go out of the door of the tabernacle of the congregation in seven days, until the days of your consecration be at an end: for seven days shall he consecrate you.

seven days

Leviticus 14:8
And he that is to be cleansed shall wash his clothes, and shave off all his hair, and wash himself in water, that he may be clean: and after that he shall come into the camp, and shall tarry abroad out of his tent seven days.

Exodus 29:30,35
And that son that is priest in his stead shall put them on seven days, when he cometh into the tabernacle of the congregation to minister in the holy place

Numbers 19:12
He shall purify himself with it on the third day, and on the seventh day he shall be clean: but if he purify not himself the third day, then the seventh day he shall not be clean.

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Leviticus 8
1. Moses consecrates Aaron and his sons
14. Their sin offering
18. Their burnt offering
22. The ram of consecration
31. The place and time of their consecration














You are not to leave
This phrase underscores the importance of obedience and dedication in the service of God. The Hebrew root here is "yatsa," meaning to go out or depart. In the context of the priestly ordination, it signifies a period of consecration and separation from the ordinary world. This command reflects the necessity for the priests to remain focused and committed to their sacred duties, emphasizing the gravity and sanctity of their calling.

the entrance of the Tent of Meeting
The "Tent of Meeting" is a central place of worship and divine encounter for the Israelites. In Hebrew, it is "Ohel Moed," which translates to "tent of appointment." This was where God communicated with Moses and the priests, symbolizing God's presence among His people. The entrance signifies a threshold between the divine and the mundane, a place of transition where the priests prepare to serve in the presence of God.

for seven days
The number seven in the Bible often represents completeness or perfection, rooted in the Hebrew word "sheva." This period of seven days for ordination reflects a complete cycle of preparation and sanctification. It mirrors the creation week, suggesting that just as God completed creation in seven days, the priests are being made complete and ready for their divine service.

until the days of your ordination are complete
The term "ordination" in Hebrew is "milu'im," which means "filling" or "consecration." This process involves filling the priests with the necessary spiritual and ritual readiness to serve. The completion of these days signifies a full preparation, ensuring that the priests are wholly dedicated and equipped for their sacred duties.

for your ordination will last seven days
Reiterating the duration emphasizes the thoroughness required in preparing for priestly service. The repetition of "seven days" highlights the importance of this period as a time of transformation and dedication. It serves as a reminder that entering into God's service is not to be taken lightly but requires a full and complete commitment, symbolized by the sacred number seven.

(33) And ye shall not go out of the door of the tabernacle.--Better, and ye shall not go from the enclosure of the tent of meeting, that is, Aaron and his sons are not to go out of the court, as the consecration was not performed within but at the entrance of the tent of meeting. This is most distinctly stated in Leviticus 8:35.

In seven days.--Better, for seven days. As the ceremony of consecration lasted seven days, it was but natural that Aaron and his sons were enjoined not to quit the sacred enclosure for any secular transactions during the whole of this period.

For seven days shall he consecrate you.--That is, on each of these seven days the same sacrifices are to be repeated, the sin offering, the burnt offering, and the consecration offering are to be offered up, and Aaron and his sons, as well as their garments, are to be sprinkled with the sacrificial blood and the anointing oil. (See Exodus 29:36.)

Verses 33-36. - The sacrificial ceremonies were repeated for seven days, during which Aaron and his sons remained in the court of the tabernacle, but did not enter the holy place, abstaining throughout that time from ministering, as the apostles did during the interval between the Ascension and the day of Pentecost. The words, Ye shall not go out of the door of the tabernacle, should rather be, Ye shall not go away from the entrance of the tabernacle, and for seven days shall he consecrate you, should rather be, during seven days ye shall be consecrated



Parallel Commentaries ...


Hebrew
You must not
לֹ֤א (lō)
Adverb - Negative particle
Strong's 3808: Not, no

go outside
תֵֽצְאוּ֙ (ṯê·ṣə·’ū)
Verb - Qal - Imperfect - second person masculine plural
Strong's 3318: To go, bring, out, direct and proxim

the entrance
וּמִפֶּתַח֩ (ū·mip·pe·ṯaḥ)
Conjunctive waw, Preposition-m | Noun - masculine singular construct
Strong's 6607: An opening, door, entrance way

to the Tent
אֹ֨הֶל (’ō·hel)
Noun - masculine singular
Strong's 168: A tent

of Meeting
מוֹעֵ֜ד (mō·w·‘êḏ)
Noun - masculine singular
Strong's 4150: Appointed time, place, or meeting

for seven
שִׁבְעַ֣ת (šiḇ·‘aṯ)
Number - masculine singular construct
Strong's 7651: Seven, seven times, a week, an indefinite number

days,
יָמִ֔ים (yā·mîm)
Noun - masculine plural
Strong's 3117: A day

until
עַ֚ד (‘aḏ)
Preposition
Strong's 5704: As far as, even to, up to, until, while

the days
י֣וֹם (yō·wm)
Noun - masculine singular
Strong's 3117: A day

of your ordination
מִלֻּאֵיכֶ֑ם (mil·lu·’ê·ḵem)
Noun - masculine plural construct | second person masculine plural
Strong's 4394: A fulfilling, a setting, consecration

are complete;
מְלֹ֔את (mə·lōṯ)
Verb - Qal - Infinitive construct
Strong's 4390: To fill, be full of

for
כִּ֚י (kî)
Conjunction
Strong's 3588: A relative conjunction

it will take seven
שִׁבְעַ֣ת (šiḇ·‘aṯ)
Number - masculine singular construct
Strong's 7651: Seven, seven times, a week, an indefinite number

days
יָמִ֔ים (yā·mîm)
Noun - masculine plural
Strong's 3117: A day

to ordain
יְמַלֵּ֖א (yə·mal·lê)
Verb - Piel - Imperfect - third person masculine singular
Strong's 4390: To fill, be full of

you.
יֶדְכֶֽם׃ (yeḏ·ḵem)
Noun - feminine singular construct | second person masculine plural
Strong's 3027: A hand


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