Exodus 29
29
Instructions about Consecration
1“This is what you are to do for them to consecrate them to serve me as priests. Take a young bull and two unblemished rams, 2with unleavened bread, unleavened cakes mixed with oil, and unleavened wafers coated with oil. Make them out of fine wheat flour, # 29:2 Lv 2:4; 6:19–23 3put them in a basket, and bring them in the basket, along with the bull and two rams. 4Bring Aaron and his sons to the entrance to the tent of meeting and wash them with water. # 29:4 Ex 40:12; Lv 8:6; Heb 10:22 5Then take the garments and clothe Aaron with the tunic, the robe for the ephod, the ephod itself, and the breastpiece; fasten the ephod on him with its woven waistband. # 29:5 Ex 28:2,8; Lv 8:7 6Put the turban on his head and place the holy diadem # 29:6 Ex 28:36–37; Lv 8:9 on the turban. 7Take the anointing oil, pour it on his head, and anoint # 29:7 Ex 30:25; Lv 8:12; 10:7; 21:10; Nm 35:25 him. 8You must also bring his sons and clothe them with tunics. 9Tie the sashes on Aaron and his sons and fasten headbands on them. The priesthood is to be theirs by a permanent statute. This is the way you will ordain Aaron and # 29:9 Lit you will fill the hand of Aaron and the hand of; Ex 29:23–24 his sons. # 29:9 Ex 28:41; Nm 18:7
10“You are to bring the bull to the front of the tent of meeting, and Aaron and his sons must lay their hands on the bull’s head. # 29:10 Lv 1:4; 8:14 11Slaughter the bull before the Lord at the entrance to the tent of meeting. 12Take some of the bull’s blood and apply it to the horns # 29:12 Ex 27:2; Lv 8:15 of the altar with your finger; then pour out all the rest of the blood at the base of the altar. 13Take all the fat # 29:13 Lv 3:3–4 that covers the entrails, the fatty lobe of the liver, and the two kidneys with the fat on them, and burn them on the altar. 14But burn the bull’s flesh, its hide, and its waste outside the camp; # 29:14 Lv 4:11–12,21; Heb 13:11 it is a sin offering.
15“Take one ram, and Aaron and his sons are to lay their hands on the ram’s head. # 29:15 Lv 1:4; 8:18 16You are to slaughter the ram, take its blood, and splatter it on all sides of the altar. 17Cut the ram into pieces. Wash its entrails and legs, and place them with its head and its pieces on the altar. 18Then burn the whole ram on the altar; it is a burnt offering to the Lord. It is a pleasing aroma, # 29:18 Gn 8:21; Ex 29:25 a food offering to the Lord.
19“You are to take the second ram, and Aaron and his sons must lay their hands on the ram’s head. # 29:19 Ex 29:3; Lv 8:22 20Slaughter the ram, take some of its blood, and put it on Aaron’s right earlobe, on his sons’ right earlobes, on the thumbs of their right hands, and on the big toes of their right feet. Splatter the remaining blood on all sides of the altar. 21Take some of the blood that is on the altar and some of the anointing oil, # 29:21 Ex 30:25,31; Heb 9:22 and sprinkle them on Aaron and his garments, as well as on his sons and their garments. So he and his garments will be holy, as well as his sons and their garments.
22“Take the fat from the ram, the fat tail, the fat covering the entrails, the fatty lobe of the liver, the two kidneys and the fat on them, and the right thigh (since this is a ram for ordination # 29:22 The priest would normally receive the right thigh to be eaten, but here it is burned; Lv 7:32–34.); 23take one loaf of bread, one cake of bread made with oil, and one wafer from the basket of unleavened bread that is before the Lord; 24and put all of them in the hands of Aaron and his # 29:24 Lit in the hands of his sons and present them as a presentation offering before the Lord. # 29:23–24 Lv 7:30; 8:22 25Take 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 a food offering to the Lord.
26“Take the breast from the ram of Aaron’s ordination and present it as a presentation offering before the Lord; it is to be your portion. # 29:26 Lv 7:3; 8:29 27Consecrate for Aaron and his sons # 29:27 Lv 7:31,34; Nm 18:11,18; Dt 18:3 the breast of the presentation offering that is presented and the thigh of the contribution that is lifted up from the ram of ordination. 28This will belong to Aaron and his sons as a regular portion from the Israelites, for it is a contribution. It will be the Israelites’ contribution from their fellowship sacrifices, their contribution to the Lord.
29“The holy garments that belong to Aaron are to belong to his sons after him, so that they can be anointed and ordained # 29:29 Lit him for anointing in them and for filling their hand in them. # 29:29 Nm 18:8; 20:26,28 30Any priest who is one of his sons and who succeeds him and enters the tent of meeting to minister in the sanctuary must wear them for seven days. # 29:30 Lv 8:35; Nm 20:28
31“You are to take the ram of ordination and boil its flesh in a holy place. 32Aaron and his sons are to eat the meat of the ram and the bread that is in the basket at the entrance to the tent of meeting. # 29:31–32 Lv 8:31; Mt 12:4 33They must eat those things by which atonement was made at the time of their ordination # 29:33 Lit made to fill their hand and consecration. An unauthorized person must not eat # 29:33 Lv 10:14–15,17; 22:10 them, for these things are holy. 34If any of the meat of ordination or any of the bread is left until morning, burn what is left over. It must not be eaten because it is holy.
35“This is what you are to do for Aaron and his sons based on all I have commanded you. Take seven days to ordain them. 36Sacrifice a bull as a sin offering each day for atonement. Purify # 29:36 Or Make a sin offering on the altar when you make atonement for it, and anoint it in order to consecrate it. # 29:36 Ex 40:10; Heb 10:11 37For seven days you must make atonement for the altar and consecrate it. The altar will be especially holy. Whatever touches the altar will be consecrated. # 29:37 Ex 30:29; Mt 23:19
38“This is what you are to offer regularly on the altar every day: two year-old lambs. # 29:38 Nm 28:3; 1Ch 16:40; Ezr 3:3; Dn 12:11 39In the morning offer one lamb, and at twilight offer the other lamb. # 29:39 1Kg 18:29,36; 2Kg 16:15; Ezr 9:4–5; Ps 141:2; Ezk 46:13–15 40With the first lamb offer two quarts # 29:40 Lit offer a tenth of fine flour mixed with one quart # 29:40 Lit a fourth of a hin of oil from crushed olives, and a drink offering of one quart of wine. 41You are to offer the second lamb at twilight. Offer a grain offering and a drink offering with it, like the one in the morning, as a pleasing aroma, a food offering to the Lord. 42This will be a regular burnt offering throughout your generations at the entrance to the tent of meeting before the Lord, where I will meet you # 29:42 = Moses to speak with you. # 29:42 Ex 25:22; 30:8 43I will also meet with the Israelites there, and that place will be consecrated by my glory. # 29:43 1Kg 8:11; 2Ch 5:14; Ezk 43:5; Hg 2:7,9 44I will consecrate the tent of meeting and the altar; I will also consecrate Aaron and his sons to serve me as priests. 45I will dwell # 29:45 Zch 2:10; Jn 14:17 among the Israelites and be their God. # 29:45 Ex 25:8; Lv 26:12 46And 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. # 29:46 Ex 20:2
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Exodus 29
29
Instructions for ordaining priests
(Leviticus 8.1-36)
The LORD said to Moses:
1When you ordain one of Aaron's sons as my priest, choose a young bull and two rams that have nothing wrong with them. 2Then from your finest flour make three batches of dough without yeast. Shape some of it into larger loaves, some into smaller loaves mixed with olive oil, and the rest into thin wafers brushed with oil. 3Put all this bread in a basket and bring it when you come to sacrifice the three animals to me.
4Bring Aaron and his sons to the entrance of the sacred tent and make them wash themselves. 5Dress Aaron in the priestly shirt, the robe that goes under the sacred apron, the apron itself, the breastpiece, and the sash. 6Put on his turban with its narrow strip of engraved gold 7and then ordain him by pouring olive oil on his head.
8Next, dress Aaron's sons in their special shirts 9and caps and their sashes,#29.9 their sashes: One ancient translation; Hebrew “the sashes of Aaron and his sons”. then ordain them, because they and their descendants will always be priests.
10Lead the bull to the entrance of the sacred tent, where Aaron and his sons will lay their hands on its head. 11Kill the bull near my altar in front of the tent. 12Use a finger to smear some of its blood on each of the four corners of the altar and pour out the rest of the blood on the ground next to the altar. 13Then take the fat from the animal's insides, as well as the lower part of the liver and the two kidneys with their fat, and send them up in smoke on the altar. 14But the meat, the skin, and the food still in the bull's stomach must be burnt outside the camp as an offering to ask forgiveness for the sins of the priests.#29.14 for the sins of the priests: When a sacrifice for the forgiveness of sins was made for someone other than priests, the part that was not burnt on the altar could be eaten by the priests (see Leviticus 5.13; 6.26).
15Bring one of the rams to Aaron and his sons and make them lay their hands on its head. 16Kill the ram and splatter its blood against all four sides of the altar. 17Cut up the ram, wash its insides and legs, and lay all its parts on the altar, including the head. 18Then make sure that the whole animal goes up in smoke with a smell that pleases me.#Eph 5.2; Phil 4.18.
19Bring the other ram to Aaron and his sons and make them lay their hands on its head. 20Kill the ram and place some of its blood on Aaron's right ear lobe, his right thumb, and the big toe of his right foot. Do the same for each of his sons and splatter the rest of the blood against the four sides of the altar. 21Then take some of the blood from the altar, mix it with the oil used for ordination, and sprinkle it on Aaron and his clothes, and also on his sons and their clothes. This will show that they and their clothes have been dedicated to me.
22This ram is part of the ordination service. So remove its right hind leg,#29.22 right hind leg: This was usually given to the officiating priest (see Leviticus 7.33). its fat tail, the fat on its insides, as well as the lower part of the liver and the two kidneys with their fat. 23Take one loaf of each kind of bread#29.23 each kind of bread: See verses 2,3. from the basket, 24and put this bread, together with the meat, into the hands of Aaron and his sons. Then they will lift it all up#29.24 lift it all up: Or “wave it all”. to show that it is dedicated to me. 25After this, the meat and bread are to be placed on the altar and sent up in smoke with a smell that pleases me.
26You may eat the choice ribs from this second ram, but you must first lift them up#29.26 lift them up: Or “wave them”. to show that this meat is dedicated to me.
27-28In the future, when anyone from Israel offers the ribs and a hind leg of a ram either to ordain a priest or to ask for my blessing, the meat belongs to me, but it may be eaten by the priests. This law will never change.
29-30After Aaron's death, his priestly clothes are to be handed down to each descendant who succeeds him as high priest, and these clothes must be worn during the seven-day ceremony of ordination.
31Boil the meat of the ordination ram in a sacred place, 32then Aaron and his sons are to eat it together with the three kinds of bread#29.32 three kinds of bread: See verses 2,3. at the entrance to the sacred tent. 33At their ordination, a ceremony of forgiveness was performed for them with this sacred food, and only they have the right to eat it. 34If any of the sacred food is left until morning, it must be burnt up.
35Repeat this ordination ceremony for Aaron and his sons seven days in a row, just as I have instructed you. 36Each day you must offer a bull as a sacrifice for sin and as a way of purifying the altar. In addition, you must smear the altar with olive oil to make it completely holy. 37Do this for seven days, and the altar will become so holy that anyone who touches it will become holy.
Daily sacrifices
(Leviticus 6.8-13; Numbers 28.1-8)
The LORD said:
38Each day you must sacrifice two lambs a year old, 39one in the morning and one in the evening. 40-41With each lamb offer one kilogramme of your finest flour mixed with a litre of pure olive oil, and also pour out a litre of wine as an offering. The smell of this sacrifice on the fires of the altar will be pleasing to me. 42-43You and your descendants must always offer this sacrifice on the altar at the entrance to the sacred tent.
People of Israel, I will meet and speak with you there, and my shining glory will make the place holy. 44Because of who I am, the tent will become sacred, and Aaron and his sons will become worthy to serve as my priests. 45I will live among you as your God, 46and you will know that I am the LORD your God, the one who rescued you from Egypt, so that I could live among you.
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