Exodus 29

1 Ref "This is the thing that you shall do to them to make them holy, to minister to me in the priest's office: take one young bull and two rams without blemish,

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

3 Ref You shall put them into one basket, and bring them in the basket, with the bull and the two rams.

4 Ref You shall bring Aaron and his sons to the door of the tent of meeting, and shall wash them with water.

5 Ref You shall take the garments, and put on Aaron the coat, the robe of the ephod, the ephod, and the breastplate, and dress him with the skillfully woven band of the ephod;

6 Ref and you shall set the turban on his head, and put the holy crown on the turban.

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

8 Ref You shall bring his sons, and put coats on them.

9 Ref You shall dress them with belts, Aaron and his sons, and bind headbands on them: and they shall have the priesthood by a perpetual statute: and you shall consecrate Aaron and his sons.

10 Ref "You shall bring the bull before the tent of meeting: and Aaron and his sons shall lay their hands on the head of the bull.

11 Ref You shall kill the bull before Yahweh, at the door of the tent of meeting.

12 Ref You shall take of 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.

13 Ref You shall take 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.

14 Ref But the flesh of the bull, and its skin, and its dung, you shall burn with fire outside of the camp: it is a sin-offering.

15 Ref "You shall also take the one ram; and Aaron and his sons shall lay their hands on the head of the ram.

16 Ref You shall kill the ram, and you shall take its blood, and sprinkle it around on the altar.

17 Ref You shall cut the ram into its pieces, and wash its innards, and its legs, and put them with its pieces, and with its head.

18 Ref You shall burn the whole ram on the altar: it is a burnt offering to Yahweh; it is a sweet savor, an offering made by fire to Yahweh.

19 Ref "You shall take the other ram; and Aaron and his sons shall lay their hands on the head of the ram.

20 Ref Then you shall 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 on the altar round about.

21 Ref You shall take of the blood that is on the altar, and of the anointing oil, and sprinkle it on Aaron, and on his garments, and on his sons, and on the garments of his sons with him: and he shall be made holy, and his garments, and his sons, and his sons' garments with him.

22 Ref Also you shall 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),

23 Ref and one loaf of bread, one cake of oiled bread, and one wafer out of the basket of unleavened bread that is before Yahweh.

24 Ref You shall put all of this in Aaron's hands, and in his sons' hands, and shall wave them for a wave-offering before Yahweh.

25 Ref You shall take them from their hands, and burn them on the altar on the burnt offering, for a sweet savor before Yahweh: it is an offering made by fire to Yahweh.

26 Ref "You shall take the breast of Aaron's ram of consecration, and wave it for a wave-offering before Yahweh: and it shall be your portion.

27 Ref You shall sanctify the breast of the wave-offering, and the thigh of the heave-offering, which is waved, and which is heaved up, of the ram of consecration, even of that which is for Aaron, and of that which is for his sons:

28 Ref and it shall be for Aaron and his sons as their portion forever from the children of Israel; for it is a heave-offering: and it shall be a heave-offering from the children of Israel of the sacrifices of their peace-offerings, even their heave-offering to Yahweh.

29 Ref "The holy garments of Aaron shall be for his sons after him, to be anointed in them, and to be consecrated in them.

30 Ref Seven days shall the son who is priest in his place put them on, when he comes into the tent of meeting to minister in the holy place.

31 Ref "You shall take the ram of consecration, and boil its flesh in a holy place.

32 Ref Aaron and his sons shall eat the flesh of the ram, and the bread that is in the basket, at the door of the tent of meeting.

33 Ref They shall eat those things with which atonement was made, to consecrate and sanctify them: but a stranger shall not eat of it, because they are holy.

34 Ref If anything of the flesh of the consecration, or of the bread, remains to the morning, then you shall burn the remainder with fire: it shall not be eaten, because it is holy.

35 Ref "Thus shall you do to Aaron, and to his sons, according to all that I have commanded you. Seven days shall you consecrate them.

36 Ref Every day shall you offer the bull of sin-offering for atonement: and you shall cleanse the altar, when you make atonement for it; and you shall anoint it, to sanctify it.

37 Ref Seven days you shall make atonement for the altar, and sanctify it: and the altar shall be most holy; whatever touches the altar shall be holy.

38 Ref "Now this is that which you shall offer on the altar: two lambs a year old day by day continually.

39 Ref The one lamb you shall offer in the morning; and the other lamb you shall offer at evening:

40 Ref and with the one lamb a tenth part of an ephah of fine flour mixed with the fourth part of a hin of beaten oil, and the fourth part of a hin of wine for a drink-offering.

41 Ref The other lamb you shall offer at evening, and shall do to it according to the meal-offering of the morning, and according to its drink-offering, for a sweet savor, an offering made by fire to Yahweh.

42 Ref It shall be a continual burnt offering throughout your generations at the door of the tent of meeting before Yahweh, where I will meet with you, to speak there to you.

43 Ref There I will meet with the children of Israel; and the place shall be sanctified by my glory.

44 Ref I will sanctify the tent of meeting and the altar: Aaron also and his sons I will sanctify, to minister to me in the priest's office.

45 Ref I will dwell among the children of Israel, and will be their God.

46 Ref They shall know that I am Yahweh their God, who brought them forth out of the land of Egypt, that I might dwell among them: I am Yahweh their God.

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