OLD TESTAMENT

Leviticus 8:13

The Holy Bible · English
All chapters

Read all chapter notes ↗

Bilingual reading
Text

Open an explanation beneath verses with notes. Your notes and highlights stay on this device.

13

Moses brought Aaron’s sons, and clothed them with tunics, and tied sashes on them, and put headbands on them, as the LORD commanded Moses.

ExplanationCommentary
EXPLANATION

Verse 13. Linen. Aquila translates “inward.” It was next to the skin.—Mitres, caps. Exodus 28:4. These were the garments of priests. Those of the Levites are not particularized. About six years before the destruction of the temple by Titus, the Levites obtained of Agrippa leave to wear the linen tunic, which was deemed a great innovation, seldom left unpunished. Joseph. Ant. xx. 8.

Read all chapter notes
Read the whole chapter