Exodus 29
1 “This is what you are to do for them to consecrate them, so that they may serve me as priests: take a young bull and two unblemished rams,
2 unleavened bread, unleavened cakes mixed with oil, and unleavened wafers brushed with oil. Make them from fine wheat flour.
3 Put them in one basket and present them in the basket, along with the bull and the two rams.
4 Bring Aaron and his sons to the entrance of the tent of meeting, and wash them with water.
5 Take the garments and dress Aaron in the tunic, the robe of the ephod, the ephod, and the breastpiece. Fasten the ephod on him with its woven sash.
6 Place the turban on his head and put the holy diadem on the turban.
7 Take the anointing oil, pour it on his head, and anoint him.
8 Bring his sons forward and dress them in tunics.
9 Fasten sashes around Aaron and his sons, and tie headbands on them. The priesthood will belong to them as a lasting statute. In this way you are to ordain Aaron and his sons.
10 Bring the bull before the tent of meeting, and Aaron and his sons are to lay their hands on the bull’s head.
11 Slaughter the bull before the LORD, at the entrance of the tent of meeting.
12 Take some of the bull’s blood and put it on the horns of the altar with your finger. Pour all the rest of the blood out at the base of the altar.”
13 “Take all the fat covering the entrails, the lobe of the liver, the two kidneys, and the fat on them, and burn them on the altar.
14 But burn the bull’s flesh, hide, and dung in the fire outside the camp. It is a sin offering.
15 Take one of the rams, and Aaron and his sons are to lay their hands on the ram’s head.
16 Slaughter the ram, take its blood, and splash it all around the altar.
17 Cut the ram into pieces, wash its entrails and legs, and place them on the pieces and the head.
18 Burn the whole ram on the altar. It is a burnt offering to the LORD, a pleasing aroma, an offering made by fire to the LORD.
19 Take the second ram, and Aaron and his sons are to lay their hands on the ram’s head.
20 Slaughter the ram and take some of its blood. Put it on the right earlobes of Aaron and his sons, on the thumbs of their right hands, and on the big toes of their right feet. Splash the blood all around the altar.
21 Take some of the blood that is on the altar and some of the anointing oil, and sprinkle it on Aaron and his garments, and on his sons and their garments with him. Then he and his garments will be consecrated, along with his sons and their garments.
22 Take from the ram the fat and the fat tail, the fat covering the entrails, the lobe of the liver, the two kidneys and the fat on them, and the right thigh, for it is a ram for ordination.
23 Take one round loaf, one oil cake, and one wafer from the basket of unleavened bread that is before the LORD.”
24 “Place all these in the hands of Aaron and his sons, and have them wave them as a wave offering before the LORD.
25 Then take them from their hands and burn them on the altar, on top of the burnt offering, as a pleasing aroma before the LORD. It is an offering made by fire to the LORD.
26 Take the breast of the ram used for Aaron’s ordination and wave it as a wave offering before the LORD; it will be your portion.
27 Set apart the breast of the wave offering and the thigh given as a contribution, which were waved and lifted up from the ram of ordination, from what belongs to Aaron and his sons.
28 This will belong to Aaron and his sons as a lasting due from the Israelites, because it is a contribution. It will be the contribution from the Israelites, taken from their fellowship offerings, their contribution to the LORD.
29 Aaron’s holy garments will belong to his sons after him, so that they may be anointed and ordained in them.
30 For seven days, the son who succeeds him as priest and enters the tent of meeting to minister in the holy place is to wear them.
31 Take the ram of ordination and cook its meat in a holy place.
32 Aaron and his sons are to eat the ram’s meat and the bread in the basket at the entrance of the tent of meeting.
33 They are to eat the things by which atonement was made for their ordination and consecration. No outsider may eat them, because they are holy.
34 If any of the meat from the ordination offering or any of the bread remains until morning, burn what is left in the fire. It must not be eaten, because it is holy.
35 Do this for Aaron and his sons according to everything I have commanded you. Ordain them for seven days.”
36 “Each day offer a bull as a sin offering for atonement. Purify the altar by making atonement for it, and anoint it to consecrate it.
37 For seven days make atonement for the altar and consecrate it. Then the altar will be most holy, and everything that touches the altar will become holy.
38 This is what you are to offer on the altar: two one-year-old lambs each day, continually.
39 Offer one lamb in the morning and the other at twilight,
40 with the first lamb, a tenth of an ephah of fine flour mixed with a quarter of a hin of beaten oil, and a drink offering of a quarter of a hin of wine.
41 Offer the other lamb at twilight, with a grain offering and drink offering like those of the morning, as a pleasing aroma, an offering made by fire to the LORD.
42 This is to be a continual burnt offering throughout your generations, at the entrance of the tent of meeting before the LORD, where I will meet with you to speak with you.
43 There I will meet with the Israelites, and the place will be consecrated by my glory.
44 I will consecrate the tent of meeting and the altar. I will also consecrate Aaron and his sons to serve me as priests.
45 I will dwell among the Israelites and be their God.
46 They will know that I am the LORD their God, who brought them out of the land of Egypt so that I might dwell among them. I am the LORD their God.”
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