Lev 8:1-4 | KD | STEP | contain an account of the preparations for this holy act, the performance of which was enjoined upon Moses by Jehovah after the publication of the laws of sacrifice ( ). Moses brought the persons to be consecrated, the official costume that had been made for them (Ex 28), the anointing oil (Exo 30:23.), and the requisite sacrificial offerings ( ), to the door of the tabernacle (i.e., into the court, near the altar of burnt-offering), and then gathered “the whole congregation” - that is to say, the nation in the persons of its elders-there also (see my Archäeologie ii. p. 221). The definite article before the objects enumerated in may be explained on the ground that they had all been previously and more minutely described. The “ basket of the unleavened ” contained, according to ) unleavened bread, which is called חלּה in , i.e., round flat bread-cakes, and לחם כּכּר (loaf of bread) in , and was baked for the purpose of the consecration (see at , ); ( ) unleavened oil-cakes; and (3) unleavened flat cakes covered with oil (see at and ).

‏ Leviticus 8:1-4

Lev 8:1-5 contain an account of the preparations for this holy act, the performance of which was enjoined upon Moses by Jehovah after the publication of the laws of sacrifice (Lev 8:1). Moses brought the persons to be consecrated, the official costume that had been made for them (Ex 28), the anointing oil (Exo 30:23.), and the requisite sacrificial offerings (Exo 29:1-3), to the door of the tabernacle (i.e., into the court, near the altar of burnt-offering), and then gathered “the whole congregation” - that is to say, the nation in the persons of its elders-there also (see my Archäeologie ii. p. 221). The definite article before the objects enumerated in Lev 8:2 may be explained on the ground that they had all been previously and more minutely described. The “basket of the unleavened” contained, according to Exo 29:2-3, (1) unleavened bread, which is called חלּה in Lev 8:26, i.e., round flat bread-cakes, and לחם כּכּר (loaf of bread) in Exo 29:23, and was baked for the purpose of the consecration (see at Lev 8:31, Lev 8:32); (2) unleavened oil-cakes; and (3) unleavened flat cakes covered with oil (see at Lev 2:4 and Lev 7:12).