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Exodus Chapter 29

¹This is what you must do to them to make them holy, to minister to me in the priest's office: take one young bull and two rams without defect, ²unleavened bread, unleavened cakes mixed with oil, and unleavened wafers anointed with oil. Make them of fine wheat flour. ³Put them into one basket, and bring them in the basket, with the bull and the two rams. ⁴Bring Aaron and his sons to the door of the Tent of Meeting and wash them with water. ⁵Take the garments, and put on Aaron the tunic, the robe of the ephod, the ephod, and the breastplate, and clothe him with the skillfully woven band of the ephod. ⁶Set the turban on his head, and put the holy crown on the turban. ⁷Then take the anointing oil, and pour it on his head, and anoint him. ⁸Bring his sons, and put tunics on them. ⁹Clothe them with belts, Aaron and his sons, and bind headbands on them. The priesthood is theirs by a perpetual statute. Consecrate Aaron and his sons.

¹⁰Bring the bull before the Tent of Meeting; and Aaron and his sons will lay their hands on the head of the bull. ¹¹Kill the bull in Yahweh's presence at the door of the Tent of Meeting. ¹²Take some of the blood of the bull, and put it on the horns of the altar with your finger; and pour out all the blood at the base of the altar. ¹³Take all the fat that covers the innards, the cover of the liver, the two kidneys, and the fat that is on them, and burn them on the altar. ¹⁴But burn with fire the flesh of the bull, with its skin and its dung, outside the camp. It is a sin offering.

¹⁵Also take the one ram, and Aaron and his sons are to lay their hands on the head of the ram. ¹⁶Kill the ram and take its blood and sprinkle it around on the altar. ¹⁷Cut the ram into pieces, and wash its innards, and its legs, and put them with its pieces, and its head. ¹⁸Burn the whole ram on the altar: it is a burnt offering to Yahweh; it is a pleasant aroma, an offering made by fire to Yahweh.

¹⁹Take the other ram, and Aaron and his sons will lay their hands on the head of the ram. ²⁰Then kill the ram, and take some of its blood, and put it on the tip of the right ear of Aaron, and on the tip of the right ear of his sons, and on the thumb of their right hand, and on the big toe of their right foot; and sprinkle the blood around on the altar. ²¹Take some of the blood that is on the altar with some of the anointing oil, and sprinkle it on Aaron, on his garments, and on his sons, and on their garments with him. So he will be made holy, and his garments, his sons, and his sons' garments with him. ²²Also take some of the ram's fat, the fat tail, the fat that covers the innards, the cover of the liver, the two kidneys, the fat that is on them, and the right thigh (for it is a ram of consecration), ²³and one loaf of bread, one cake of oiled bread, and one wafer from the basket of unleavened bread that is in Yahweh's presence. ²⁴Put all of this in Aaron's hands, and in his sons' hands, and wave them for a wave offering in Yahweh's presence. ²⁵Take them from their hands, and burn them on the altar on the burnt offering, for a pleasant aroma in Yahweh's presence. It is an offering made by fire to Yahweh.

²⁶Take the breast of Aaron's ram of consecration, and wave it for a wave offering in Yahweh's presence. It will be your portion. ²⁷Sanctify the breast of the wave offering and the thigh of the wave offering, which is waved, and which is raised up, of the ram of consecration, even of what is for Aaron, and of what is for his sons. ²⁸It will be for Aaron and his sons as their portion forever from the children of Israel; for it is a wave offering. It will be a wave offering from the children of Israel of the sacrifices of their peace offerings, even their wave offering to Yahweh.

²⁹The holy garments of Aaron will be for his sons after him, to be anointed in them, and to be consecrated in them. ³⁰The son who is priest in his place must put them on for seven days, when he comes into the Tent of Meeting to minister in the holy place.

³¹Take the ram of consecration and boil its flesh in a holy place. ³²Aaron and his sons must eat the flesh of the ram, and the bread that is in the basket, at the door of the Tent of Meeting. ³³They must eat those things with which atonement was made, to consecrate and sanctify them; but a stranger may not eat of it, because they are holy. ³⁴If anything of the flesh of the consecration, or of the bread, remains till morning, then burn the remainder with fire. It may not be eaten, because it is holy.

³⁵Do these things to Aaron and his sons, exactly as I have commanded you. You will consecrate them for seven days. ³⁶Offer the bull of sin offering for atonement every day. Cleanse the altar when you make atonement for it. Anoint it to sanctify it. ³⁷Make atonement for the altar for seven days and sanctify it; and the altar will be most holy. Whatever touches the altar will be holy.

³⁸Now this is what to offer on the altar: two lambs a year old day every day continually. ³⁹Offer the one lamb in the morning; and the other lamb offer in the evening; ⁴⁰and with the one lamb a tenth of an ephah of fine flour mixed with a quarter of a hin of beaten oil, and a quarter of a hin of wine for a drink offering. ⁴¹Offer the other lamb at evening, and do to it according to the meal offering of the morning and according to its drink offering, for a pleasant aroma, an offering made by fire to Yahweh. ⁴²It will be a continual burnt offering throughout your generations at the door of the Tent of Meeting in Yahweh's presence, where I will meet with you, to speak to you there. ⁴³There I will meet with the children of Israel; and the place will be sanctified by my glory. ⁴⁴I will sanctify the Tent of Meeting and the altar. I will also sanctify Aaron and his sons to minister to me in the priest's office. ⁴⁵I will live among the children of Israel, and will be their God. ⁴⁶They will know that I am Yahweh their God, who brought them from the land of Egypt, that I might live among them. I am Yahweh their God.