“Therefore shall ye abide at the door of the tabernacle of the congregation day and night seven days, and keep the charge of the Lord, that ye die not: for so I am commanded.”
You must stay at the entrance to the tent of meeting day and night for seven days and do what the Lord requires, so that you will not die; for that is what I have been commanded. The seven days at the tent's entrance are seven days of required presence: day and night, without departure. The consequence of departure — death — communicates the seriousness of the ordination period. The priests being installed into the service of the holy God are in the most sacred moment of their lives; departing from the prescribed station during the ordination is departing from the prescribed holiness that the ordination requires. The obedience to the ordination protocol is itself the first act of the priestly obedience that will characterize the entire ministry.
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