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.
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.
- BSB 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.
- 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 20:28Moses stripped Aaron of his garments, and put them on Eleazar his son. Aaron died there on the top of the mountain, and Moses and Eleazar came down from the mountain.
- Josh 6:14–15The second day they marched around the city once, and returned into the camp. They did this six days.
- Lev 9:8So Aaron came near to the altar, and killed the calf of the sin offering, which was for himself.
- Lev 8:33–35You 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.
- Acts 20:6–7We sailed away from Philippi after the days of Unleavened Bread, and came to them at Troas in five days, where we stayed seven days.
- Ezek 43:26Seven days shall they make atonement for the altar and purify it; so shall they consecrate it.
- Gen 8:12He waited yet another seven days, and sent out the dove; and she didn’t return to him anymore.
- Lev 13:5The priest shall examine him on the seventh day, and, behold, if in his eyes the plague is arrested, and the plague hasn’t spread in the skin, then the priest shall isolate him for seven more days.
- Lev 12:2–3“Speak to the children of Israel, saying, ‘If a woman conceives, and bears a male child, then she shall be unclean seven days; as in the days of her monthly period she shall be unclean.
- Gen 8:10He waited yet another seven days; and again he sent the dove out of the ship.
- Lev 9:1On the eighth day, Moses called Aaron and his sons, and the elders of Israel;
- Exod 29:35“You shall do so to Aaron, and to his sons, according to all that I have commanded you. You shall consecrate them seven days.
- Heb 7:26For such a high priest was fitting for us: holy, guiltless, undefiled, separated from sinners, and made higher than the heavens;
- Exod 12:15“‘Seven days you shall eat unleavened bread; even the first day you shall put away yeast out of your houses, for whoever eats leavened bread from the first day until the seventh day, that soul shall be cut off from Israel.
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The Passover lamb whose blood turns away death, the exodus through the sea, the manna, the rock, and the tabernacle where God dwells with his people all foreshadow Jesus — our Passover, our redemption, the bread from heaven, and God-with-us in the flesh.
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