John Gill's Exposition on Leviticus 8:18

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Exposition of the Old and New Testament
John Gill (1697–1771) · 18th-century historical commentary
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And he brought the ram for the burnt offering, etc.] One of the two he was ordered to take, (<030802>Leviticus 8:2) and Aaron and his sons laid their hands on the head of the ram; as they had done before on the head of the bullock, (see <030814>Leviticus 8:14) their right hands, as the Targum of Jonathan, and that at the same time; not first Aaron and then his sons, as a famous grammarian, Aben Ezra makes mention of, thought; but, as he himself says, they laid them on together.

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