And thou shalt take the other ram; and Aaron and his sons shall put their hands upon the head of the ram.
The verse commands Aaron and his sons to lay their hands upon the head of the second ram as part of the seven-day ceremony that consecrated them and set them apart to minister as priests in the earthly sanctuary. That laying on of hands was the confession of sin over the victim and the transfer of guilt to it, offered in acknowledgment that the sinner deserved death. The tabernacle with its priests and sacrifices was a shadow and object-lesson of heavenly things, typifying Christ's ministry in the heavenly sanctuary and pointing to the Lamb of God who forgives sin and transforms character. The blood of bulls and goats could take away no sin but only pointed forward to the great Sacrifice, and that typical service passed away forever when Christ died once for all at Calvary. The blood and oil of consecration teach acceptance and entire devotion, for believers are bought with the blood of Jesus and sanctified unto continual service, with ear, hand, and foot consecrated to God alone, and wherever there is cleansing and consecration there is the presence of the Holy Spirit.
Setting in Exodus
Exodus 29:19 belongs to the legislative part of Exodus, in which Israel is bound to Jehovah by covenant and given ordinances for guidance, including the detailed instructions concerning the Tabernacle and its service. It belongs to the sanctuary instructions God gave Moses during the forty days and nights on the mountain after Israel's covenant with God had been made and ratified. The sanctuary was built and set up afterward, and these instructions are distinct from the covenant book containing the agreement between God and Israel, the Ten Commandments, and the judgments in Exodus 21-23.
The verse stands within Exodus 25-30, which give the complete divinely given pattern for the tabernacle structure with its furniture and vessels. After Israel's deliverance from Egyptian bondage the sanctuary was built from free-will offerings of gold, silver, brass, acacia wood, fine linen, goat's hair and other materials by specially endowed workmen, in fulfillment of the command to make a sanctuary that God may dwell among the people. It was a great multiple object-lesson by various forms and rites to teach the plan of salvation, with its pattern divinely given by God to Moses in the mount. The verse falls within the Sinai narrative that records God's personal descent on the mountain with his angels.
The verse falls within regulations for Israel's worship, distinct from the laws for civil government, and concerns the consecration of Aaron and his sons as priests. It is included in the instructions for ordaining the priesthood that would serve in the sanctuary before the ark containing the law. It shows part of Moses setting apart Aaron and his sons in the Levitical priesthood to minister before the ark containing the law in the typical sanctuary through the whole Old Testament period.
Consecration Rite and Typology
The laying of hands on the ram belonged to the seven-day ceremony that set Aaron and his sons apart for priestly service in the sanctuary. After their consecration God publicly accepted them by sending fire to consume Aaron's first offering for the people as high priest. The priesthood and its rites were committed to Aaron and his sons, so others were not to perform priestly rites unless the Lord specially directed them. Saul had not been ordained for such service and had been told to wait for Samuel, so his offering the sacrifices himself was presumptuous disobedience.
The laying on of hands within the sanctuary's sacrificial service was the sinner's confession over a victim and the transfer of guilt to it, with the victim offered as a sin offering in acknowledgment that the sinner deserved death. The sacrifices, anointing oil, and blood of the consecration signified consecration. The oil and blood typified Christ's blood and the Holy Spirit, which qualified Aaron and his sons for their office.
The verse is part of the rites of the worldly sanctuary first pitched in the wilderness, which served unto the shadow of heavenly things. The ancient tabernacle and its priests serving in sacrifices and offerings typified the heavenly temple, and the Levitical ministration in the earthly sanctuary served as an example and shadow of Christ's ministry in the heavenly sanctuary where Jesus now ministers. Like an object lesson it pointed to the Lamb of God that takes away the sin of the world, typical of the coming Messiah and of his power to forgive sin, transform the character, and deliver from burdens, with its significance and efficacy lying in Christ. The people's participation in the sanctuary service shows that humans cooperate with God in his work through Christ as priest and king.
That typical and shadowy earthly service passed away entirely and forever when Christ came and died once for all, with his sacrifice at Calvary and the rending of the veil of the temple. After Christ suffered the animal sacrifices were not to be continued. Those blood offerings of bulls and goats could take away no sin but could only point penitent sinners forward to the great Sacrifice to be offered for the sins of men. Only Jesus, the Lamb of God, really takes away sin, having appeared to put away sin by the sacrifice of himself and having borne sins in his own body on the tree, and eternal life requires eating the flesh of the Son of man and drinking his blood.
Law and Christian Application
The verse belongs to the law of ordinances given through Moses, written out after the moral law in Exodus 19-30. Those Mosaic laws include regulations about sacrifices and offerings as well as ceremonial and moral laws. These sacrificial laws reveal types that help trace the substance of the new dispensation from the shadows of the old. It is not part of the Ten Commandments that God spoke directly to the people from heaven and wrote on the two tables of stone with nothing added. It belongs with the laws recorded chiefly in Exodus 25-30 and Leviticus that were commanded by the hand of Moses during the forty days in the mount, which included burdensome ceremonies such as the required yearly pilgrimages of males, circumcision, diverse washings and carnal ordinances imposed until the time of reformation, a yoke which neither the fathers nor their children were able to bear.
That Levitical ministration that set apart Aaron and his sons to minister before the ark containing the law in the typical sanctuary through the whole Old Testament period brought only condemnation and death, because it set the holy law before a sinful people to show guilt with no promise of pardon in itself. Its sacrifices could take away no sin but could only point penitent sinners forward to the great Sacrifice to be offered for the sins of men. The consecration of the typical priests instructs about acceptance with God and the believer's position. The ram of consecration and the sprinkling of its blood on the priest means the blood of Jesus separates believers unto God, for they are not their own but bought with a price. The blood not only justifies but sanctifies unto God for continual service and worship.
God required the same offerings and consecration of the high priest that He required of the cleansed leper, so the humblest child of God must be as devoted and consecrated as Christ was. The blood put on the right ear means hearing is consecrated to God to know no voice but His. The blood put on the thumb and toe means the service of the hands and feet is for Him alone. The oil placed upon the blood means that wherever there is cleansing and consecration there is the presence of the Holy Spirit.
The verse commands Aaron and his sons to lay their hands upon the head of the second ram as part of the seven-day ceremony that consecrated them and set them apart to minister as priests in the earthly sanctuary. That laying on of hands was the confession of sin over the victim and the transfer of guilt to it, offered in acknowledgment that the sinner deserved death. The tabernacle with its priests and sacrifices was a shadow and object-lesson of heavenly things, typifying Christ's ministry in the heavenly sanctuary and pointing to the Lamb of God who forgives sin and transforms character. The blood of bulls and goats could take away no sin but only pointed forward to the great Sacrifice, and that typical service passed away forever when Christ died once for all at Calvary. The blood and oil of consecration teach acceptance and entire devotion, for believers are bought with the blood of Jesus and sanctified unto continual service, with ear, hand, and foot consecrated to God alone, and wherever there is cleansing and consecration there is the presence of the Holy Spirit.
Setting in Exodus
Exodus 29:19 belongs to the legislative part of Exodus, in which Israel is bound to Jehovah by covenant and given ordinances for guidance, including the detailed instructions concerning the Tabernacle and its service. It belongs to the sanctuary instructions God gave Moses during the forty days and nights on the mountain after Israel's covenant with God had been made and ratified. The sanctuary was built and set up afterward, and these instructions are distinct from the covenant book containing the agreement between God and Israel, the Ten Commandments, and the judgments in Exodus 21-23.
The verse stands within Exodus 25-30, which give the complete divinely given pattern for the tabernacle structure with its furniture and vessels. After Israel's deliverance from Egyptian bondage the sanctuary was built from free-will offerings of gold, silver, brass, acacia wood, fine linen, goat's hair and other materials by specially endowed workmen, in fulfillment of the command to make a sanctuary that God may dwell among the people. It was a great multiple object-lesson by various forms and rites to teach the plan of salvation, with its pattern divinely given by God to Moses in the mount. The verse falls within the Sinai narrative that records God's personal descent on the mountain with his angels.
The verse falls within regulations for Israel's worship, distinct from the laws for civil government, and concerns the consecration of Aaron and his sons as priests. It is included in the instructions for ordaining the priesthood that would serve in the sanctuary before the ark containing the law. It shows part of Moses setting apart Aaron and his sons in the Levitical priesthood to minister before the ark containing the law in the typical sanctuary through the whole Old Testament period.
Consecration Rite and Typology
The laying of hands on the ram belonged to the seven-day ceremony that set Aaron and his sons apart for priestly service in the sanctuary. After their consecration God publicly accepted them by sending fire to consume Aaron's first offering for the people as high priest. The priesthood and its rites were committed to Aaron and his sons, so others were not to perform priestly rites unless the Lord specially directed them. Saul had not been ordained for such service and had been told to wait for Samuel, so his offering the sacrifices himself was presumptuous disobedience.
The laying on of hands within the sanctuary's sacrificial service was the sinner's confession over a victim and the transfer of guilt to it, with the victim offered as a sin offering in acknowledgment that the sinner deserved death. The sacrifices, anointing oil, and blood of the consecration signified consecration. The oil and blood typified Christ's blood and the Holy Spirit, which qualified Aaron and his sons for their office.
The verse is part of the rites of the worldly sanctuary first pitched in the wilderness, which served unto the shadow of heavenly things. The ancient tabernacle and its priests serving in sacrifices and offerings typified the heavenly temple, and the Levitical ministration in the earthly sanctuary served as an example and shadow of Christ's ministry in the heavenly sanctuary where Jesus now ministers. Like an object lesson it pointed to the Lamb of God that takes away the sin of the world, typical of the coming Messiah and of his power to forgive sin, transform the character, and deliver from burdens, with its significance and efficacy lying in Christ. The people's participation in the sanctuary service shows that humans cooperate with God in his work through Christ as priest and king.
That typical and shadowy earthly service passed away entirely and forever when Christ came and died once for all, with his sacrifice at Calvary and the rending of the veil of the temple. After Christ suffered the animal sacrifices were not to be continued. Those blood offerings of bulls and goats could take away no sin but could only point penitent sinners forward to the great Sacrifice to be offered for the sins of men. Only Jesus, the Lamb of God, really takes away sin, having appeared to put away sin by the sacrifice of himself and having borne sins in his own body on the tree, and eternal life requires eating the flesh of the Son of man and drinking his blood.
Law and Christian Application
The verse belongs to the law of ordinances given through Moses, written out after the moral law in Exodus 19-30. Those Mosaic laws include regulations about sacrifices and offerings as well as ceremonial and moral laws. These sacrificial laws reveal types that help trace the substance of the new dispensation from the shadows of the old. It is not part of the Ten Commandments that God spoke directly to the people from heaven and wrote on the two tables of stone with nothing added. It belongs with the laws recorded chiefly in Exodus 25-30 and Leviticus that were commanded by the hand of Moses during the forty days in the mount, which included burdensome ceremonies such as the required yearly pilgrimages of males, circumcision, diverse washings and carnal ordinances imposed until the time of reformation, a yoke which neither the fathers nor their children were able to bear.
That Levitical ministration that set apart Aaron and his sons to minister before the ark containing the law in the typical sanctuary through the whole Old Testament period brought only condemnation and death, because it set the holy law before a sinful people to show guilt with no promise of pardon in itself. Its sacrifices could take away no sin but could only point penitent sinners forward to the great Sacrifice to be offered for the sins of men. The consecration of the typical priests instructs about acceptance with God and the believer's position. The ram of consecration and the sprinkling of its blood on the priest means the blood of Jesus separates believers unto God, for they are not their own but bought with a price. The blood not only justifies but sanctifies unto God for continual service and worship.
God required the same offerings and consecration of the high priest that He required of the cleansed leper, so the humblest child of God must be as devoted and consecrated as Christ was. The blood put on the right ear means hearing is consecrated to God to know no voice but His. The blood put on the thumb and toe means the service of the hands and feet is for Him alone. The oil placed upon the blood means that wherever there is cleansing and consecration there is the presence of the Holy Spirit.