On the eighth day, the healed person was required to appear in the tabernacle with various offerings: the guilt offering, the burnt offering, the purification offering, the grain offering. We see a pattern developing concerning the eighth day: it is a day of consecration in Israel. The eighth day was the day of circumcision (Genesis 17:12); the day on which the priesthood was consecrated (Leviticus 8:33); the climax of the Feast of Booths (Leviticus 23:33–36). On this occasion, the eighth day marks the time when the Israelite was restored to full fellowship as a covenant member.
10 “And on the eighth day he shall take two male lambs without blemish, and one ewe lamb a year old without blemish, and a grain offering of three tenths of an ephah of fine flour mixed with oil, and one log of oil.