“And the Levites shall lay their hands upon the heads of the bullocks: and thou shalt offer the one for a sin offering, and the other for a burnt offering, unto the Lord, to make an atonement for the Levites.”
The Levites shall lay their hands on the heads of the bulls, and you shall offer the one as a sin offering and the other as a burnt offering to the LORD, to make atonement for the Levites — the Levites' hand-laying on the bulls reverses the pattern of 8:10: now the Levites identify with the animals whose sacrifice atones for them. The two bulls—one sin offering (addressing their impurity) and one burnt offering (expressing total dedication)—parallel the offerings brought for the congregation in Levitical law.
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