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Consecration of the Priests

aThis is what you shall do to consecrate Aaron and his sons so that they may serve Me as priests: take one young bull and two rams, without blemish, and aunleavened bread and unleavened cakes mixed with oil, and unleavened wafers spread with oil; you shall make them of fine wheat flour. You shall put them in one basket, and present them in the basket along with the bull and the two rams. Then abring Aaron and his sons to the doorway of the Tent of Meeting out where the basin is and wash them with water. Then you shall take the garments, and put on Aaron the atunic and bthe robe of the ephod and cthe ephod and dthe breastpiece, and wrap him with the skillfully ewoven sash of the ephod; and you shall put the aturban on his head and put bthe holy crown on the turban. Then you shall take athe anointing oil and pour it on his head and anoint him. You shall bring his sons and put atunics on them. And you shall wrap them with asashes, Aaron and his sons, and put the ornamental caps on them; and bthe priest’s office shall be theirs by a perpetual statute. So you shall cordain Aaron and his sons.

The Sacrifices

10 “Then you shall bring the bull before the Tent of Meeting, and Aaron and his sons shall 1alay their hands on the bull’s head. 11 Then you shall kill the bull before the LORD by the doorway of the Tent of Meeting. 12 And you shall atake some of the blood of the bull and with your finger put it on bthe horns of the altar of burnt offering, and you shall pour out the remainder of the blood at the base of the altar. 13 aYou shall take all the fat that covers the intestines and the lobe of the liver, and the two kidneys and the fat that is on them, and offer them up in smoke on the altar. 14 But athe meat of the bull, its hide, and the contents of its intestines you shall burn in the fire outside the camp; it is a sin offering. Heb 13:11-13

15 aAnd you shall take one of the rams, and Aaron and his sons shall lay their hands on the head of the ram; 16 then you shall kill the ram and you shall take its blood and sprinkle it around the altar of burnt offering. 17 Then you shall cut the ram into pieces, and wash its intestines and legs, and place them with its pieces and its head, 18 and you shall burn the whole ram on the altar. It is a burnt offering to the LORD: ait is a sweet and soothing aroma, an offering by fire to the LORD.

19 “Then ayou shall take the other ram, and Aaron and his sons shall lay their hands on the head of the ram. 20 Then you shall kill the ram, and take some of its blood and put it on the tip of the right ears of Aaron and his sons and on the thumbs of their right hands and on the big toes of their right feet, and sprinkle the rest of the blood around on the altar of burnt offering. 21 Then you shall take some of the blood that is on the altar and some of the aanointing oil, and sprinkle it on Aaron and his garments and on his sons and their garments. Now Aaron and his garments and his sons and their garments shall be consecrated (dedicated, made holy, declared sacred for God’s purpose) .

22 “You shall also take the fat of the ram, the fat tail, the fat that covers the intestines, the lobe of the liver, the two kidneys with the fat that is on them, and the right thigh; (for it is a ram of ordination), 23 and one loaf of bread and aone cake of oiled bread and one wafer out of the basket of the unleavened bread that is before the LORD; 24 and you shall put all these in the hands of Aaron and his sons, and wave them as a 1wave offering before the LORD. 25 aThen you shall take them from their hands, add them to the burnt offering, and burn them on the altar for a sweet and soothing aroma before the LORD; it is an offering by fire to the LORD.

26 “Then you shall take athe breast of the ram of Aaron’s ordination, and wave it as a wave offering before the LORD; and it shall be your (Moses) portion. 27 You shall consecrate the waved breast offering of the ram used in the ordination and the waved thigh offering of the priests’ portion, since it is a contribution for Aaron and for his sons. 28 It shall be for Aaron and his sons as their due portion from the Israelites forever, for it is a 1heave offering. It shall be a heave offering to the LORD from the Israelites from the sacrifices of their peace offerings.

29 aThe holy garments of Aaron shall be for his sons after him, to be anointed and ordained in them. 30 That son who is high priest in his place shall put them on each day for seven days when he comes into the Tent of Meeting to minister in the Holy Place.

Food of the Priests

31 “You shall take the ram of the ordination and aboil its meat in a holy place. 32 Aaron and his sons shall eat the meat of the ram and the bread in the basket, at the doorway of the Tent of Meeting. 33 aThey shall eat those things by which atonement was made at their ordination and consecration; but a blayman shall not eat them, because they are holy that is, set apart to the worship of God. 34 And aif any of the meat of ordination or the bread remains until morning, you shall burn it in the fire; it shall not be eaten, because it is holy.

35 “So you shall do to Aaron and to his sons in accordance with all I have commanded you; during aseven days you are to ordain them. 36 aYou shall offer a bull every day as a sin offering for atonement. You shall cleanse the altar from sin when you make atonement for it, and you shall banoint it to consecrate it for God’s sacred purpose. 37 For seven days you shall make atonement for the altar of burnt offering and consecrate it; then athe altar shall be most holy. Whatever touches the altar must be holy (set apart for God’s service) .

38 “Now athis is what you shall offer on the altar: two one year old lambs shall be offered each day, continuously. 39 aOne lamb you shall offer in the morning and the other lamb 1at twilight; 40 and with the one lamb there shall be one-tenth of a measure of fine flour mixed with one-fourth of a hin of beaten olive oil, and one-fourth of a hin of wine for a drink offering to be poured out. 41 And the other lamb you shall offer at twilight, and do with it as with the grain offering of the morning and with the drink offering, for a sweet and soothing aroma to appease God, an offering by fire to the LORD. 42 This will be a continual burnt offering throughout your generations at the doorway of the Tent of Meeting before the LORD, awhere I will meet with you, to speak to you there. 43 There I will meet with the Israelites, and the Tent of Meeting shall be 1sanctified by My glory the 2Shekinah, God’s dwelling presence. 44 I will sanctify the Tent of Meeting and the altar of burnt offering; also I will sanctify Aaron and his sons to serve as priests to Me. 45 aI will dwell among the sons of Israel and be their God. 46 They shall know from personal experience and acknowledge that aI 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.

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