The son who succeeds him as priest and enters the Tent of Meeting to minister in the Holy Place must wear them for seven days.
Parallel translations
- WEB Seven days shall the son who is priest in his place put them on, when he comes into the Tent of Meeting to minister in the holy place.
- KJV 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.
- NKJV That son who becomes priest in his place shall put them on for seven days, when he enters the tabernacle of meeting to minister in the holy place.
- NASB For seven days the one of his sons who is priest in his place shall put them on when he enters the tent of meeting to minister in the Holy Place.
- NLT The descendant who succeeds him as high priest will wear these clothes for seven days as he ministers in the Tabernacle and the Holy Place.
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Quick answer
The son who succeeded as high priest was to wear the garments seven days when he came to minister in the holy place. A full week of consecration marked each new priest.
Overview
The seven-day investiture set apart each new high priest before he ministered, emphasizing the completeness of his consecration. The number seven often signifies fullness in Scripture. This careful induction underscores the holiness of the office and magnifies Christ, who needed no such ordination, being eternally holy.
Cross-references & the web
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- Num 20:28After Moses had removed Aaron’s garments and put them on his son Eleazar, Aaron died there on top of the mountain. Then Moses and Eleazar came down from the mountain.
- Josh 6:14–15So on the second day they marched around the city once and returned to the camp. They did this for six days.
- Lev 9:8So Aaron approached the altar and slaughtered the calf as a sin offering for himself.
- Lev 8:33–35You 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.
- Acts 20:6–7And after the Feast of Unleavened Bread, we sailed from Philippi, and five days later we rejoined them in Troas, where we stayed seven days.
- Ezek 43:26For seven days the priests are to make atonement for the altar and cleanse it; so they shall consecrate it.
- Gen 8:12And Noah waited seven more days and sent out the dove again, but this time she did not return to him.
- Lev 13:5On the seventh day the priest is to reexamine him, and if he sees that the infection is unchanged and has not spread on the skin, the priest must isolate him for another seven days.
- Lev 12:2–3“Say to the Israelites, ‘A woman who becomes pregnant and gives birth to a son will be unclean for seven days, as she is during the days of her menstruation.
- Gen 8:10Noah waited seven more days and again sent out the dove from the ark.
- Lev 9:1On the eighth day Moses summoned Aaron and his sons and the elders of Israel.
- Exod 29:35This 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.
- Heb 7:26Such a high priest truly befits us—One who is holy, innocent, undefiled, set apart from sinners, and exalted above the heavens.
- Exod 12:15For seven days you must eat unleavened bread. On the first day you are to remove the leaven from your houses. Whoever eats anything leavened from the first day through the seventh must be cut off from Israel.
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