Exodus 29

¹ "This is what you are to do to consecrate them so they may serve me as priests: Take a young bull and two rams without defect.

² And using the finest wheat flour, make bread, and thick loaves, and thin wafers without yeast, mixing oil into the loaves and brushing the wafers with oil.

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

⁴ Then bring Aaron and his sons to the entrance of the tent of meeting and wash them with water.

⁵ Take the garments and dress Aaron in the tunic, the robe of the ephod, the ephod itself, and the breastpiece. Fasten the ephod on him with its skillfully woven waistband.

⁶ Put the turban on his head and attach the sacred emblem to the turban.

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

⁸ Bring his sons and dress them in tunics

⁹ and put headbands on them. Fasten sashes on Aaron and his sons. The priesthood is theirs by a lasting ordinance. In this way you will ordain Aaron and his sons.

¹⁰ "Bring the bull to the front of the tent of meeting, and Aaron and his sons are to lay their hands on its head.

¹¹ Slaughter it before the LORD at the entrance to the tent of meeting.

¹² Take some of the bull's blood and put it on the horns of the altar with your finger, and pour out the rest of the blood at the base of the altar.

¹³ Then take all the fat around the internal organs, the long lobe of the liver, and both kidneys with the fat on them, and burn them on the altar.

¹⁴ But burn the bull's flesh, its hide, and its dung outside the camp. It is a sin offering.

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

¹⁶ Slaughter it, take its blood, and splash it against all sides of the altar.

¹⁷ Cut the ram into pieces, wash the internal organs and the legs, and put them with the head and the other pieces.

¹⁸ 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.

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

²⁰ Slaughter it, take some of its blood, and put it on the lobes of the right ears of Aaron and his sons, on the thumbs of their right hands, and on the big toes of their right feet. Then splash blood against all sides of the altar.

²¹ Take some of the blood on the altar and some of the anointing oil and sprinkle it on Aaron and his garments and on his sons and their garments. Then he and his sons and their garments will be consecrated.

²² "From this ram take the fat, the fat tail, the fat around the internal organs, the long lobe of the liver, both kidneys with the fat on them, and the right thigh, since this is the ram for the ordination.

²³ From the basket of bread made without yeast, which is before the LORD, take one round loaf, one thick loaf made with oil, and one wafer.

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

²⁵ Then take them from their hands and burn them on the altar along with the burnt offering, as a pleasing aroma to the LORD, an offering made by fire.

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

²⁷ "Set apart the breast that was waved and the thigh that was presented from the ram for Aaron's ordination—the parts belonging to Aaron and his sons.

²⁸ This is always to be the share the Israelites give Aaron and his sons. It is the contribution the Israelites are to make to the LORD from their fellowship offerings.

²⁹ "Aaron's sacred garments will belong to his descendants so they can be anointed and ordained in them.

³⁰ The son who succeeds him as priest and enters the tent of meeting to minister in the Holy Place is to wear them seven days.

³¹ "Take the ram for the ordination and cook its meat in a sacred place.

³² 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.

³³ They are to eat these offerings by which atonement was made for their ordination and consecration. But no one else may eat them, because they are sacred.

³⁴ And if any of the meat of the ordination ram or any bread is left over till morning, burn it. It must not be eaten, because it is sacred.

³⁵ "Do for Aaron and his sons everything I have commanded you, taking seven days to ordain them.

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

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

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

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

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

⁴¹ Offer the second lamb at twilight with the same grain offering and drink offering as in the morning—a pleasing aroma, an offering made to the LORD by fire.

⁴² "For the generations to come this burnt offering is to be made regularly at the entrance to the tent of meeting before the LORD. There I will meet you and speak to you;

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

⁴⁴ So I will consecrate the tent of meeting and the altar, and I will consecrate Aaron and his sons to serve me as priests.

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

⁴⁶ They will know that I am the LORD their God, who brought them out of Egypt so that I might dwell among them. I am the LORD their God.