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Leviticus 8:3
and assemble the whole congregation at the entrance to the Tent of Meeting.”
Berean Standard Bible
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Study note
Setting — God gives this command to Moses during the consecration of Aaron and his sons as priests. The instruction occurs at the start of the tabernacle inauguration, directing Moses to gather the Israelite community at the Tent of Meeting.
The words — The directive hinges on הַקְהֵ֑ל (hak.Hel), meaning “assemble,” applied to the עֵדָה (e.Dah), or “congregation.” The designated location is the פֶּתַח אֹהֶל מוֹעֵד (pe.tach 'ohel mo.'Ed), literally the “entrance of the tent of meeting.”
The thread — The pattern of gathering the congregation at a sacred threshold recurs in Numbers 20:8 during the wilderness period. Similar corporate assemblies at designated places appear in 2 Chronicles 30:13 and Acts 2:1.
Why it lands — The text establishes that priestly ordination and covenant administration require public, corporate presence rather than isolated ritual. Readers must acknowledge that divine instruction and sacred space function together to structure communal obedience.
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The Hebrew words
King James Version
And gather thou all the congregation together unto the door of the tabernacle of the congregation.
Cross-references
- 2 Chronicles 30:13 In the second month, a very great assembly gathered in Jerusalem to celebrate the Feast of Unleavened Bread.
- Acts 2:1 When the day of Pentecost came, they were all together in one place.
- Numbers 20:8 “Take the staff and assemble the congregation. You and your brother Aaron are to speak to the rock while they watch, and it will pour out its water. You will bring out water from the rock and provide drink for the congregation and their livestock.”
- Numbers 21:16 From there they went on to Beer, the well where the LORD said to Moses, “Gather the people so that I may give them water.”
- 1 Chronicles 13:5 So David assembled all Israel, from the River Shihor in Egypt to Lebo-hamath, to bring the ark of God from Kiriath-jearim.
- 1 Chronicles 15:3 And David assembled all Israel in Jerusalem to bring up the ark of the LORD to the place he had prepared for it.
- 2 Chronicles 5:2 At that time Solomon assembled in Jerusalem the elders of Israel—all the tribal heads and family leaders of the Israelites—to bring up the ark of the covenant of the LORD from Zion, the City of David.
- 2 Chronicles 5:6 There, before the ark, King Solomon and the whole congregation of Israel who had assembled with him sacrificed so many sheep and oxen that they could not be counted or numbered.
- 2 Chronicles 30:2 For the king and his officials and the whole assembly in Jerusalem had decided to keep the Passover in the second month,
- 2 Chronicles 30:25 Then the whole assembly of Judah rejoiced along with the priests and Levites and the whole assembly that had come from Israel, including the foreigners who had come from Israel and those who lived in Judah.