CHAPTER 29
Now this
is what
you are to do
to consecrate
them
to serve Me as priests:
Take
a
young
bull
and two
rams
without blemish,
along with unleavened
bread,
unleavened
cakes
mixed
with oil,
and unleavened
wafers
anointed
with oil.
Make
them out of fine wheat
flour,
Take
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.
Wrap
the sashes
around Aaron
and his sons
and put
headbands
on them.
The priesthood
shall be
theirs
by a perpetual
statute.
In this way you are to ordain
Aaron
and his sons.
Bring
the bull
to the front
of the Tent
of Meeting,
and Aaron
and his sons
are to lay
their hands
on
its
head.
Take 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.
Take
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.
Cut
the ram
into pieces,
wash
the entrails
and legs,
and place
them with
its head
and other pieces.
Then burn
the entire
ram
on the altar;
it
is a burnt offering
to the LORD,
a pleasing
aroma,
an offering made to the LORD by fire.
Slaughter
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.
Sprinkle
the remaining blood
on
all sides
of the altar.
And 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.
Take
the fat
from
the ram,
the fat tail,
the fat
covering
the entrails,
the lobe
of the liver,
both
kidneys
and the fat
on them,
and the right
thigh
(since
this
is a ram
for ordination),
along 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.
Put
all these
into
the hands
of Aaron
and his sons
and wave
them
before
the LORD
as a wave offering.
Then take
them
from their hands
and burn
them on the altar
atop
the burnt offering
as a pleasing
aroma
before
the LORD;
it
is an offering made by fire
to the LORD.
Take
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.
Consecrate
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.
This 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.
The holy
garments
that
belong to Aaron
will belong
to his sons
after him,
so they can be anointed
and ordained
in them.
The son
who
succeeds him
as priest
and enters
the Tent
of Meeting
to minister
in the Holy Place
must wear
them for seven
days.
At 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.
They 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.
And if
any of
the meat
of ordination
or any bread
is left
until
the morning,
burn up
the remainder.
It must not
be eaten,
because
it
is sacred.
This 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.
Sacrifice
a bull
as a sin offering
each day
for
atonement.
Purify
the altar
by making atonement
for it,
and anoint
it
to consecrate it.
For 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.
With the first
lamb
offer a tenth of an ephah
of fine flour,
mixed
with a quarter
hin
of oil
from pressed olives,
and a drink offering
of a quarter
hin
of wine.
And
you shall offer
the second
lamb
at
twilight
with
the same
grain offering
and drink offering
as in the morning,
as a pleasing
aroma,
an offering made by fire
to the LORD.
For 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.
So I will consecrate
the Tent
of Meeting
and the altar,
and I will consecrate
Aaron
and his sons
to serve Me as priests.
And 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.