and call the entire community of Israel together at the entrance of the Tabernacle.”
Parallel translations
- WEB and assemble all the congregation at the door of the Tent of Meeting.”
- KJV And gather thou all the congregation together unto the door of the tabernacle of the congregation.
- BSB and assemble the whole congregation at the entrance to the Tent of Meeting.”
- NKJV and gather all the congregation together at the door of the tabernacle of meeting.”
- NASB and assemble all the congregation at the doorway of the tent of meeting.”
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Quick answer
Moses is to assemble the whole congregation at the entrance of the Tent of Meeting. The ordination was to be a public act witnessed by all Israel.
Overview
The community was gathered so that the consecration of the priesthood would be openly seen and acknowledged. This public character affirmed that the priests served on behalf of the whole people before God. It underscores that the ministry instituted here belonged to and represented all Israel.
Cross-references & the web
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- 2 Chr 30:13Many people assembled at Jerusalem to keep the feast of unleavened bread in the second month, a very great assembly.
- Acts 2:1Now when the day of Pentecost had come, they were all with one accord in one place.
- Ps 22:25Of you comes my praise in the great assembly. I will pay my vows before those who fear him.
- Num 21:16From there they traveled to Beer; that is the well of which Yahweh said to Moses, “Gather the people together, and I will give them water.”
- 1 Chr 15:3David assembled all Israel at Jerusalem, to bring up Yahweh’s ark to its place, which he had prepared for it.
- 2 Chr 5:6King Solomon and all the congregation of Israel, who were assembled to him, were before the ark, sacrificing sheep and cattle that could not be counted or counted for multitude.
- 2 Chr 30:25All the assembly of Judah, with the priests and the Levites, and all the assembly who came out of Israel, and the foreigners who came out of the land of Israel, and who lived in Judah, rejoiced.
- Neh 8:1All the people gathered themselves together as one man into the wide place that was in front of the water gate; and they spoke to Ezra the scribe to bring the book of the law of Moses, which Yahweh had commanded to Israel.
- 2 Chr 5:2Then Solomon assembled the elders of Israel, and all the heads of the tribes, the princes of the fathers’ households of the children of Israel, to Jerusalem, to bring up the ark of Yahweh’s covenant out of David’s city, which is Zion.
- Num 20:8“Take the rod, and assemble the congregation, you, and Aaron your brother, and speak to the rock before their eyes, that it pour out its water. You shall bring water to them out of the rock; so you shall give the congregation and their livestock drink.”
- 2 Chr 30:2For the king had taken counsel with his princes and all the assembly in Jerusalem to keep the Passover in the second month.
- 1 Chr 13:5So David assembled all Israel together, from the Shihor the brook of Egypt even to the entrance of Hamath, to bring God’s ark from Kiriath Jearim.
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Every sacrifice, every priest, and every day of atonement points beyond itself to the one perfect offering and the great High Priest who, by his own blood, makes the unclean holy once for all.
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