in this sacrifice. They were not chosen because there were as yet no priests in Israel; Aaron, Nadab and Abihu already had that role even though they, as yet, did not have their priestly vestments and formal investiture under the terms of the covenant (see Exod. 28). Rather, the young men were probably representatives of all the tribes.118 They symbolically placed all the tribes under the covenant obligation, because all the tribes participated in the covenant sacrifice. The chosen representatives