Exodus 29
29
Appointing the Priests
1“This is what you must do to appoint Aaron and his sons. Then they may serve me as priests. Take one young bull and two male sheep that have nothing wrong with them. 2Use fine wheat flour without yeast to make bread and cakes mixed with olive oil. Also use wheat flour without yeast to make wafers brushed with olive oil. 3Put these in one basket. Bring them in the basket along with the bull and two male sheep. 4Bring Aaron and his sons to the entrance of the Meeting Tent. Then wash them with water. 5Take the clothes. Dress Aaron in the inner robe and the outer robe of the holy vest. Then put on him the holy vest and the chest covering. Then tie the holy vest on him with its skillfully woven belt. 6Put the turban on his head. Put the holy crown, the strip of gold, on the turban. 7Take the special olive oil and pour it on his head to make him a priest.
8“Then bring his sons and put the inner robes on them. 9Put the headbands on their heads. Then tie cloth belts around their waists. Aaron and his descendants will be priests in Israel. This is by a rule that will continue from now on. This is how you will appoint Aaron and his sons as priests.
10“Bring the bull to the front of the Meeting Tent. Aaron and his sons must put their hands on the bull’s head. 11Then kill the bull before the Lord at the entrance to the Meeting Tent. 12Take some of the bull’s blood and go to the altar. Use your finger to put some blood on the corners of the altar. Pour the blood that is left at the bottom of the altar. 13Then take all the fat that covers the inner organs. Take the best part of the liver, and take both kidneys and the fat around them. Burn these on the altar. 14Take the bull’s meat, skin and intestines. Burn these things outside the camp. This is an offering to take away sin.
15“Take one of the male sheep. Have Aaron and his sons put their hands on its head. 16Then kill that male sheep. Take its blood and sprinkle it on all four sides of the altar. 17Then cut the male sheep into pieces. Wash its inner organs and its legs. Put them with its head and its other pieces. 18Burn the whole male sheep on the altar. It is a burnt offering made by fire to the Lord. Its smell is pleasing to the Lord.
19“Take the other male sheep. Have Aaron and his sons put their hands on its head. 20Kill that male sheep and take some of its blood. Put it on the bottom of the right ears of Aaron and his sons. Also put it on the thumbs of their right hands. And put it on the big toes of their right feet. Then sprinkle the rest of the blood against all four sides of the altar. 21Then take some of the blood from the altar. Mix it with the special oil used in appointing priests. Sprinkle this on Aaron and his clothes. And sprinkle this on his sons and their clothes. This will show that Aaron and his sons and their clothes are given to my service.
22“Then take the fat from the male sheep. Take the fat tail and the fat that covers the inner organs. Take the best part of the liver. Take both kidneys and the fat around them and the right thigh. This is the male sheep to be used in appointing priests.
23“Then take the basket of bread that you made without yeast. This is the basket you put before the Lord. From it take a loaf of bread, a cake made with olive oil and a wafer. 24Put these in the hands of Aaron and his sons. Tell them to present these things in their hands before the Lord. This will be an offering presented to the Lord. 25Then take them from their hands. Burn them on the altar with the whole burnt offering. This is an offering made by fire to the Lord. Its smell is pleasing to the Lord. 26Then take the breast of the male sheep used to appoint Aaron as priest. Present the breast of the male sheep before the Lord. It is an offering presented to the Lord. This part of the animal will be your share. 27Then give to the service of the Lord the parts of the male sheep used to appoint them as priests. They belong to Aaron and his sons. They are the breast and the right thigh. These were presented to the Lord. 28This is to be the regular share which the Israelites will always give to Aaron and his sons. This is the gift the Israelites must give to the Lord from their fellowship offerings.
29“The holy clothes made for Aaron will belong to his descendants. They must wear these clothes when they are appointed as priests. 30Aaron’s son will become high priest after Aaron. He will come to the Meeting Tent to serve in the Holy Place. He is to wear these clothes for seven days.
31“Take the male sheep used to appoint priests. Boil its meat in a place made holy for serving me. 32Then Aaron and his sons must eat the meat of the male sheep. They must do that at the entrance of the Meeting Tent. And they must also eat the bread that is in the basket. 33These offerings were used to remove their sins when they were made priests so they would belong to God. Now they should eat these offerings. But no one else is to eat these things because they are holy. 34If any of the meat from that male sheep or any of the bread is left the next morning, it must be burned. It shall not be eaten because it is holy.
35“Do all these things that I commanded you to do to Aaron and his sons. You are to spend seven days appointing them. 36Each day for seven days you are to offer a bull. This will remove the sins of Aaron and his sons so they will be given for service to the Lord. Make the altar ready for service to the Lord. Pour oil on it to make it holy. 37Spend seven days making the altar ready for service to God and making it holy. Then the altar will become very holy. Anything that touches it must be holy.
The Daily Sacrifices
38“Every day from now on, offer on the altar two lambs that are one year old. 39Offer one lamb in the morning and the other in the evening. 40In the morning, when you offer the first lamb, offer also two quarts of fine flour. Mix it with one quart of oil from pressed olives. Pour out a quart of wine as a drink offering. 41Offer the second lamb in the evening. Also offer the same grain offering and drink offering as you did in the morning. This is an offering by fire to the Lord. And its smell is pleasing to the Lord.
42“You must burn these things as an offering to the Lord every day. Do this at the entrance of the Meeting Tent before the Lord from now on. When you make the offering, I, the Lord, will meet you there and speak to you. 43I will meet with the people of Israel there. And that place will be holy because of my greatness.
44“So I will make the Meeting Tent and the altar holy. And I will make Aaron and his sons holy so they may serve me as priests. 45I will live with the people of Israel. I will be their God. 46And they will know that I am the Lord their God. They will know that I am the one who led them out of Egypt. I did this so I could live with them. I am the Lord their God.
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Exodus 29
29
Instructions for Consecrating Aaron and His Sons
1“And this is the thing that you will do for them to consecrate them to serve as a priest for me: Take one young bull#Literally “a son of cattle” and two rams without defect 2and unleavened bread and unleavened, ring-shaped bread cakes mixed with oil, and wafers of unleavened breads smeared with oil. You will make them with finely milled wheat flour, 3and you will put them on one basket, and you will bring them on the basket and bring the bull and the two rams. 4And you will bring Aaron and his sons to the entrance of the tent of assembly, and you will wash them with water. 5And you will take the garments and clothe Aaron with the tunic and the robe of the ephod, and you will fasten to him the ephod and the breast piece with the waistband of the ephod. 6And you will set the turban on his head, and you will put the holy diadem on the turban. 7And you will take the anointing oil and pour it on his head and anoint him. 8And you will bring his sons and clothe them with tunics. 9And you will gird Aaron and his sons with sashes and wrap headdresses on them. And priesthood will be theirs as a lasting rule, and you will ordain Aaron and his sons.#Literally “you will fill the hand of Aaron and the hands of his sons”
10“And you will bring the bull before the tent of assembly, and Aaron and his sons will lay their hands on the head of the bull. 11And you will slaughter the bull before Yahweh at the entrance of the tent of assembly. 12And you will take some of the blood of the bull and with your finger put it on the horns of the altar, and you will pour out all the blood at the base of the altar. 13And you will take and turn into smoke on the altar all the fat covering the inner parts and the lobe on the liver and the two kidneys and the fat that is on them. 14And the flesh of the bull and its skin and its offal you will burn with fire outside the camp; it is a sin offering.
15“And you will take the one ram, and Aaron and his sons will lay their hands on the head of the ram. 16And you will slaughter the ram and take its blood and sprinkle it on the altar all around. 17And you will cut the ram into pieces and wash its inner parts, and you will put its legs with its pieces and with its head. 18And you will turn into smoke on the altar all of the ram; it is a burnt offering for Yahweh; it is a smell of appeasement, an offering by fire for Yahweh.
19“And you will take the second ram, and Aaron and his sons will lay their hands on the head of the ram. 20And you will slaughter the ram and take some of its blood and put it on Aaron’s right earlobe and on the right earlobe of his sons and on the thumb of their right hand and on the big toe#Literally “the thumb of” of their right foot, and you will sprinkle the blood at the base of the altar all around. 21And you will take some of the blood that is on the altar and some of the anointing oil, and you will spatter it on Aaron and on his garments and on his sons and on his sons’ garments with him, and he will be sacred, and his garments and his sons and his sons’ garments with him. 22And you will take from the ram the fat and the fat tail and the fat covering the inner parts and the lobe of the liver and the two kidneys and the fat that is on them and the right thigh, because it is the ram of ordination.
23“And one loaf of bread and one ring-shaped bread cake of oiled bread and one wafer from the basket of unleavened bread that is before Yahweh— 24you will put them all on the palms of Aaron and on the palms of his sons, and you will wave them as a wave offering before Yahweh. 25And you will take them from their hand and turn them to smoke on the altar beside the burnt offering as a fragrance of appeasement before Yahweh; it is an offering made by fire before Yahweh.
26“And you will take the breast section from the ram of ordination that is for Aaron, and you will wave it as a wave offering before Yahweh. It will be your portion. 27And you will consecrate the wave offering breast section and the thigh of the contribution that was waved and that was presented#Literally “lifted up” from the ram of the ordination that is for Aaron and for his sons. 28And it will be for#Or “belong to” Aaron and for his sons as a lasting rule from the Israelites,#Literally “sons/children of Israel” because it is a contribution, and it will be a contribution from the Israelites#Literally “sons/children of Israel” from their sacrifices of fellowship, their contribution to Yahweh.
29“And the holy garments that are for Aaron will be for his sons after him in which to anoint them and to ordain them.#Literally “to fill in them their hands” 30Seven days the priest who replaces him from among his sons will wear them, who comes to the tent of assembly to serve in the sanctuary. 31And you will take the ram of ordination and boil its meat in a holy place. 32And Aaron and his sons will eat the meat of the ram and the bread that is in the basket at the entrance of the tent of assembly. 33And they will eat them—the things by which atonement was made for them to ordain them to consecrate them—and a stranger will not eat them because they are holy objects. 34If any remains until morning from the ordination meat or from the bread, you will burn the remainder in fire; it will not be eaten, because it is a holy object. 35And you will do so for Aaron and for his sons, according to all that I have commanded you; seven days you will ordain them.
Instructions for Regular Offerings at the Tabernacle
36“And you will offer a bull for a sin offering every day for the atonement; and you will offer a sin offering on the altar#Or “you will purify the altar” when you make atonement for it, and you will anoint it to consecrate it. 37Seven days you will make atonement for the altar, and you will consecrate it, and the altar will be a most holy thing.#Literally “a holiness of holinesses” or “a holy thing among holy things,” a thing of utmost holiness Anyone who#Or “anything that”; literally “all touching” touches the altar will be holy.
38“And this is what you shall offer on the altar: Two one-year-old#Literally “sons of a year” male lambs every day#Literally “for the day,” or per day continually. 39The first lamb you will offer in the morning, and the second lamb you will offer at twilight.#Literally “between the evenings” 40And a tenth of finely milled flour mixed with a fourth of a hin of beaten oil, and a fourth of a hin of wine as a libation with the first lamb. 41And the second lamb you will offer at twilight;#Literally “between the evenings” you will offer a grain offering and its libation like that of the morning for a fragrance of appeasement, an offering made by fire for Yahweh. 42It will be a burnt offering of continuity throughout your generations at the entrance of the tent of assembly before Yahweh, where I will meet with you to speak to you there.
43“And I will meet with the Israelites#Literally “sons/children of Israel” there, and it will be consecrated by my glory. 44And I will consecrate the tent of assembly and the altar, and Aaron and his sons I will consecrate to serve as priests for me. 45And I will dwell in the midst of the Israelites,#Literally “sons/children of Israel” and I will be their God. 46And they will know that I am Yahweh, their God, who brought them out from the land of Egypt in order to dwell in their midst. I am Yahweh their God.
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