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Exodus 29:1 (show verse)

“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,

Exodus 29:2 (show verse)

with unleavened bread, unleavened cakes mixed with oil, and unleavened wafers coated with oil. Make them out of fine wheat flour,

Exodus 29:3 (show verse)

put them in a basket, and bring them in the basket, along with the bull and two rams.

Exodus 29:4 (show verse)

Bring Aaron and his sons to the entrance to the tent of meeting and wash them with water.

Exodus 29:5 (show verse)

Then 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.

Exodus 29:6 (show verse)

Put the turban on his head and place the holy diadem on the turban.

Exodus 29:7 (show verse)

Take the anointing oil, pour it on his head, and anoint him.

Exodus 29:8 (show verse)

You must also bring his sons and clothe them with tunics.

Exodus 29:9 (show verse)

Tie 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 his sons.

Exodus 29:10 (show verse)

“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.

Exodus 29:11 (show verse)

Slaughter the bull before the Lord at the entrance to the tent of meeting.

Exodus 29:12 (show verse)

Take some of the bull’s blood and apply it to the horns of the altar with your finger; then pour out all the rest of the blood at the base of the altar.

Exodus 29:13 (show verse)

Take all the fat 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.

Exodus 29:14 (show verse)

But burn up the bull’s flesh, its hide, and its dung outside the camp; it is a sin offering.

Exodus 29:15 (show verse)

“Take one ram, and Aaron and his sons are to lay their hands on the ram’s head.

Exodus 29:16 (show verse)

You are to slaughter the ram, take its blood, and sprinkle it on all sides of the altar.

Exodus 29:17 (show verse)

Cut the ram into pieces. Wash its entrails and shanks, and place them with its head and its pieces on the altar.

Exodus 29:18 (show verse)

Then burn the whole ram on the altar; it is a burnt offering to the Lord. It is a pleasing aroma, a fire offering to the Lord.

Exodus 29:19 (show verse)

“You are to take the second ram, and Aaron and his sons must lay their hands on the ram’s head.

Exodus 29:20 (show verse)

Slaughter 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. Sprinkle the remaining blood on all sides of the altar.

Exodus 29:21 (show verse)

Take some of the blood that is on the altar and some of the anointing oil, and sprinkle them on Aaron and his garments, as well as on his sons and their garments. In this way, he and his garments will become holy, as well as his sons and their garments.

Exodus 29:22 (show verse)

“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);

Exodus 29:23 (show verse)

take 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;

Exodus 29:24 (show verse)

and put all of them in the hands of Aaron and his sons and wave them as a presentation offering before the Lord.

Exodus 29:25 (show verse)

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 a fire offering to the Lord.

Exodus 29:26 (show verse)

“Take the breast from the ram of Aaron’s ordination and wave it as a presentation offering before the Lord; it is to be your portion.

Exodus 29:27 (show verse)

Consecrate for Aaron and his sons the breast of the presentation offering that is waved and the thigh of the contribution that is lifted up from the ram of ordination.

Exodus 29:28 (show verse)

This 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.

Exodus 29:29 (show verse)

“The holy garments that belong to Aaron are to belong to his sons after him, so that they can be anointed and ordained in them.

Exodus 29:30 (show verse)

Any 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.

Exodus 29:31 (show verse)

“You are to take the ram of ordination and boil its flesh in a holy place.

Exodus 29:32 (show verse)

Aaron 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.

Exodus 29:33 (show verse)

They must eat those things by which atonement was made at the time of their ordination and consecration. An unauthorized person must not eat them, for these things are holy.

Exodus 29:34 (show verse)

If any of the meat of ordination or any of the bread is left until morning, burn up what is left over. It must not be eaten because it is holy.

Exodus 29:35 (show verse)

“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.

Exodus 29:36 (show verse)

Sacrifice a bull as a sin offering each day for atonement. Purify the altar when you make atonement for it, and anoint it in order to consecrate it.

Exodus 29:37 (show verse)

For seven days you must make atonement for the altar and consecrate it. The altar will become especially holy; whatever touches the altar will become holy.

Exodus 29:38 (show verse)

“This is what you are to offer regularly on the altar every day: two year-old lambs.

Exodus 29:39 (show verse)

In the morning offer one lamb, and at twilight offer the other lamb.

Exodus 29:40 (show verse)

With the first lamb offer two quarts of fine flour mixed with one quart of oil from crushed olives, and a drink offering of one quart of wine.

Exodus 29:41 (show verse)

You 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 fire offering to the Lord.

Exodus 29:42 (show verse)

This 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 to speak with you.

Exodus 29:43 (show verse)

I will also meet with the Israelites there, and that place will be consecrated by My glory.

Exodus 29:44 (show verse)

I will consecrate the tent of meeting and the altar; I will also consecrate Aaron and his sons to serve Me as priests.

Exodus 29:45 (show verse)

I will dwell among the Israelites and be their God.

Exodus 29:46 (show verse)

And they will know that I am Yahweh their God, who brought them out of the land of Egypt, so that I might dwell among them. I am Yahweh their God.