Exodus 29

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Consecration of the Priests

¹“Now this is what you are to do to consecrate Aaron and his sons to serve Me as priests: Take a young bull and two rams without blemish,

¹“ And this is the thing that you shall do to them to sanctify them to minister as priests to Me: Take one bull, a son of the herd, and two rams, unblemished,

²along with unleavened bread, unleavened cakes mixed with oil, and unleavened wafers anointed with oil. Make them out of fine wheat flour,

²and unleavened bread, and unleavened cakes mixed with the oil, and unleavened wafers anointed with the oil; you shall make them of fine flour of wheat.

³put them in a basket, and present them in the basket, along with the bull and the two rams.

³And you shall put them in one basket and bring them near in the basket and with the bull and the two rams.

⁴Then present Aaron and his sons at the entrance to the Tent of Meeting and wash them with water.

⁴And you shall bring near Aaron and his sons to the door of the Tent of Meeting, and you shall wash them with the water.

⁵Take the garments and clothe Aaron with the tunic, the robe of the ephod, the ephod itself, and the breastplate. Fasten the ephod on him with its woven waistband.

⁵And you shall take the garments, and you shall clothe Aaron—the tunic, and the robe of the ephod, and the ephod, and the breastplate—and you shall gird him with the skillfully woven waistband of the ephod.

⁶Put the turban on his head and attach the holy diadem to the turban.

⁶And you shall put the turban on his head, and put the holy diadem on the turban.

⁷Then take the anointing oil and anoint him by pouring it on his head.

⁷And you shall take the anointing oil and pour it on his head and anoint him.

⁸Present his sons as well and clothe them with tunics.

⁸And you shall bring his sons near, and put on them tunics.

⁹Wrap the sashes around Aaron and his sons and tie headbands on them. The priesthood shall be theirs by a permanent statute. In this way you are to ordain Aaron and his sons.

⁹And you shall gird them with sashes—Aaron and his sons—and tie on them the headbands; and the priesthood shall be theirs for an everlasting statute. And you shall fill the hand of Aaron and the hand of his sons.

The Order of the Sacrifices

¹⁰You are to present the bull at the front of the Tent of Meeting, and Aaron and his sons are to lay their hands on its head.

¹⁰And you shall bring near the bull before the face of the Tent of Meeting, and Aaron and his sons shall lay their hands on the head of the bull.

¹¹And you shall slaughter the bull before the LORD at the entrance to the Tent of Meeting.

¹¹And you shall slaughter the bull before the face of YHWH, by 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; then pour out the rest of the blood at the base of the altar.

¹²And you shall take from the blood of the bull and put it on the horns of the altar with your finger, and you shall pour out all the blood at the base of the altar.

¹³Take all the fat that covers the entrails and the lobe of the liver, and both kidneys with the fat on them, and burn them on the altar.

¹³And you shall take all the fat that is covering the entrails, and the lobe of the liver, and the two kidneys, and the fat that is on them, and you shall burn them on the altar.

¹⁴But burn the flesh of the bull and its hide and dung outside the camp; it is a sin offering.^a

¹⁴And the flesh of the bull, and its skin and its dung, you shall burn with the fire outside of the camp; it is a sin offering.

¹⁵Take one of the rams, and Aaron and his sons shall lay their hands on its head.

¹⁵And the one ram you shall take, and Aaron and his sons shall lay their hands on the head of the ram.

¹⁶You are to slaughter the ram, take its blood, and splatter it on all sides of the altar.

¹⁶And you shall slaughter the ram, and you shall take its blood and sprinkle it on the altar all around.

¹⁷Cut the ram into pieces, wash the entrails and legs, and place them with its head and other pieces.

¹⁷And the ram you shall cut into its pieces, and you shall wash its entrails and its legs, and you shall put them on its pieces and on its head.

¹⁸Then burn the entire ram on the altar; it is a burnt offering to the LORD, a pleasing aroma, a food offering to the LORD.

¹⁸And you shall burn all the ram on the altar. It is a burnt offering to YHWH, a pleasing aroma; it is a fire offering to YHWH.

¹⁹Take the second ram, and Aaron and his sons are to lay their hands on its head.

¹⁹And you shall take the second ram, and Aaron and his sons shall lay their hands on the head of the ram.

²⁰Slaughter the ram, take some of its blood, and 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. Splatter the remaining blood on all sides of the altar.

²⁰And you shall slaughter the ram, and you shall take from 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 hands, and on the big toe of their right foot, and sprinkle the blood on the altar all around.

²¹And take some of the blood on the altar and some of the anointing oil and sprinkle it on Aaron and his garments, as well as on his sons and their garments. Then he and his garments will be consecrated, as well as his sons and their garments.

²¹And you shall take from the blood that is on the altar, and from the anointing oil, and sprinkle them on Aaron, and on his garments, and on his sons, and on the garments of his sons with him; and he shall be holy, and his garments, and his sons, and the garments of his sons with him.

²²Take the fat from the ram, the fat tail, the fat covering the entrails, the lobe of the liver, both kidneys with the fat on them, and the right thigh (since this is a ram for ordination),

²²And you shall take from the ram the fat, and the fat tail, and the fat that is covering the entrails, and the lobe of the liver, and the two kidneys, and the fat that is on them, and the right thigh (for it is a ram of ordination),

²³along with 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.

²³and one loaf of bread, and one cake of oiled bread, and one wafer from the basket of the unleavened bread that is before the face of YHWH,

²⁴Put all these in the hands of Aaron and his sons and wave them before the LORD as a wave offering.

²⁴and you shall put all these on the palms of Aaron, and on the palms of his sons, and you shall wave them as a wave offering before the face of YHWH.

²⁵Then take them from their hands and burn them on the altar atop the burnt offering as a pleasing aroma before the LORD; it is a food offering to the LORD.

²⁵And you shall take them from their hands and burn them on the altar upon the burnt offering, a pleasing aroma before the face of YHWH; it is a fire offering to YHWH.

²⁶Take the breast of the ram of Aaron’s ordination and wave it before the LORD as a wave offering, and it will be your portion.

²⁶And you shall take the breast from the ram of ordination that is for Aaron and wave it, a wave offering before the face of YHWH; and it shall be for you—your portion.

²⁷Consecrate for Aaron and his sons the breast of the wave offering that is waved and the thigh of the heave offering that is lifted up from the ram of ordination.

²⁷And you shall sanctify the breast of the wave offering, and the thigh of the contribution, which is waved and which is raised from the ram of ordination, from that which is for Aaron and from that which is for his sons.

²⁸This will belong to Aaron and his sons as a regular portion from the Israelites, for it is the heave offering the Israelites will make to the LORD from their peace offerings.

²⁸And it shall be for Aaron and for his sons for a statute forever from the sons of Israel, for it is a contribution; and it shall be a contribution from the sons of Israel from the sacrifices of their peace offerings, their contributions to YHWH.

²⁹The holy garments that belong to Aaron will belong to his sons after him, so they can be anointed and ordained in them.

²⁹And the holy garments that are for Aaron shall be for his sons after him, to be anointed in them and to fill their hand in them.

³⁰The son who succeeds him as priest and enters the Tent of Meeting to minister in the Holy Place must wear them for seven days.

³⁰For seven days the priest from among his sons shall put them on in his place when he enters into the Tent of Meeting to minister in the Holy Place.

Food for the Priests

³¹You are to take the ram of ordination and boil its flesh in a holy place.

³¹And the ram of the ordination you shall take and boil its flesh in a holy place.

³²At the entrance to the Tent of Meeting, Aaron and his sons are to eat the meat of the ram and the bread that is in the basket.

³²And Aaron shall eat—and his sons—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 by which atonement was made for their ordination and consecration. But no outsider may eat them, because these things are sacred.

³³And they shall eat them, that which atonement was made by them, to fill their hand, to sanctify them. And an outsider shall not eat them, because they are holy.

³⁴And if any of the meat of ordination or any bread is left until the morning, you are to burn up the remainder. It must not be eaten, because it is sacred.

³⁴And if remains from the flesh of the ordination or from the bread until the morning, then you shall burn the remainder with the fire; it shall not be eaten, because it is holy.

³⁵This is what you are to do for Aaron and his sons based on all that I have commanded you, taking seven days to ordain them.

³⁵And you shall do thus to Aaron and to his sons according to all that I have commanded you; seven days you shall fill their hand.

³⁶Sacrifice a bull as a sin offering each day for atonement. Purify the altar by making atonement for it, and anoint it to consecrate it.

³⁶And a bull as a sin offering you shall offer day by day for the atonements, and you shall cleanse from sin upon the altar in your making atonement upon it, and you shall anoint it to sanctify it.

³⁷For seven days you shall make atonement for the altar and consecrate it. Then the altar will become most holy; whatever touches the altar will be holy.

³⁷Seven days you shall make atonement upon the altar and sanctify it, and the altar shall be holy of holies; anything that touches the altar shall be holy.

The Daily Offerings

³⁸This is what you are to offer regularly on the altar, each day: two lambs that are a year old.

³⁸And this is what you shall offer on the altar: Two lambs, sons of a year, day by day continually.

³⁹Offer one lamb in the morning and the other at twilight.^a

³⁹The one Lamb you shall offer in the morning, and the second lamb you shall offer between the evenings.

⁴⁰With the first lamb offer a tenth of an ephah of fine flour,^a mixed with a quarter hin of oil from pressed olives,^b and a drink offering of a quarter hin of wine.

⁴⁰And shall be a tenth of an ephah of flour mixed with pressed oil, and a fourth of a hin as a drink offering, and a fourth of a hin of wine for the one lamb.

⁴¹And offer the second lamb at twilight with the same grain offering and drink offering as in the morning, as a pleasing aroma, a food offering to the LORD.

⁴¹And the second lamb you shall offer between the evenings according to the grain offering of the morning, and according to its drink offering you shall offer with it for a pleasing aroma, a fire offering to YHWH—

⁴²For the generations to come, this burnt offering shall be made regularly at the entrance to the Tent of Meeting before the LORD, where I will meet you to speak with you.

⁴²a continual burnt offering throughout your generations at the door of the Tent of Meeting before the face of YHWH, where there I will meet you to speak to you there.

⁴³I will also meet with the Israelites there, and that place will be consecrated by My glory.

⁴³And I will meet there with the sons of Israel, and it shall be sanctified by My glory.

⁴⁴So I will consecrate the Tent of Meeting and the altar, and I will consecrate Aaron and his sons to serve Me as priests.

⁴⁴And I will sanctify the Tent of Meeting and the altar, and Aaron and his sons I will sanctify to minister as priests to Me.

God Will Dwell among the People

⁴⁵Then I will dwell among the Israelites and be their God.

⁴⁵And I will dwell in the midst of the sons of Israel, and will be their God.

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.

⁴⁶And they shall know that I am YHWH their God, who brought them out from the land of Egypt, to dwell in their midst. I am YHWH their God.