Exodus 29

1 This is what you are to do to make them holy, to do the work of priests to me: Take one young ox and two male sheep, without any mark on them,

Now this is how you are to proceed to dedicate them to serve me as priests. Take a young bull and two rams with no defects.

2 And unleavened bread, and unleavened cakes mixed with oil, and thin unleavened cakes on which oil has been put, made of the best bread-meal;

Then using the best wheat flour, make the following without yeast: bread, cakes mixed with olive oil, and wafers sprinkled with olive oil.

3 Put these in a basket and take them, with the ox and the two sheep.

Put them all in a basket, and bring them as an offering, along with the bull and the two rams.

4 And let Aaron and his sons come to the door of the Tent of meeting, and there let them be washed with water.

Then bring Aaron and his sons to the entrance of the Tent of Meeting, and wash them with water.

5 Take the robes, and put the coat and the dress and the ephod and the priest's bag on Aaron; put the band of needlework round him,

Take the clothes and put them on Aaron: the tunic, the robe of the ephod, the ephod itself, and the breastpiece. Tie the ephod on him with its waistband.

6 And let the head-dress be placed on his head and the holy crown on the head-dress.

Wrap the turban on his head and attach the holy crown to the turban.

7 Then take the oil and put it on his head.

Then use the anointing oil to anoint him by pouring it over his head.

8 And take his sons and put their robes on them;

Then have his sons come and put the tunics on them.

9 And put the linen bands round Aaron and his sons, and the head-dresses on them, to make them priests by my order for ever: so you are to make Aaron and his sons holy to me.

Tie the sashes around Aaron and his sons and put headdresses on them. The priesthood belongs to them forever. This is how you are to ordain Aaron and his sons.

10 Then let the ox be taken in front of the Tent of meeting: and let Aaron and his sons put their hands on its head.

Take the bull to the front of the Tent of Meeting, and Aaron and his sons are to place their hands on its head.

11 And you are to put the ox to death before the Lord at the door of the Tent of meeting.

Then slaughter the bull in the Lord's presence at the entrance to the Tent of Meeting.

12 Then take some of the blood of the ox, and put it on the horns of the altar with your finger, draining out all the rest of the blood at the base of the altar.

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

13 And take all the fat covering the inside of the ox, and the fat joining the liver and the two kidneys with the fat round them, and let them be burned on the altar;

Take all the fat that covers the intestines, the best parts of the liver, and the two kidneys with their fat, and burn them on the altar.

14 But the flesh of the ox and its skin and its waste parts are to be burned outside the circle of the tents, for it is a sin-offering.

But burn the bull's meat, its hide, and its excrement outside the camp—it is an offering for sin.

15 Then take one of the sheep, and let Aaron and his sons put their hands on its head.

Next have Aaron and his sons place their hands on the head of one of the rams.

16 Then let it be put to death, so that the sides of the altar are marked with its blood.

Slaughter the ram, take its blood, and splash it all around the altar.

17 Then the sheep is to be cut up into its parts, and after washing its legs and its inside parts, you are to put them with the parts and the head,

Cut the ram in pieces, wash the intestines and legs, and put them with the other pieces and the head.

18 And let them all be burned on the altar as a burned offering to the Lord: a sweet smell, an offering made by fire to the Lord.

Then burn all of the ram on the altar. It is a burnt offering to the Lord to be accepted by him.

19 Then take the other sheep; and after Aaron and his sons have put their hands on its head,

Then have Aaron and his sons place their hands the head of the other ram.

20 You are to put the sheep to death, and take some of its blood and put it on the point of Aaron's right ear, and of the right ears of his sons, and on the thumbs of their right hands and the great toes of their right feet, dropping the rest of the blood on the sides of the altar.

Slaughter the ram, and put some of its blood on the right earlobes of Aaron and his sons, and on the thumbs of their right hands, and on the big toes of their right feet. Splash the rest of its blood all around the altar.

21 Then take some of the blood on the altar, and the oil, and put it on Aaron and his robes and on his sons and on their robes, so that he and his robes and his sons and their robes may be made holy.

Take some of the blood from the altar and some of the anointing oil and sprinkle it on Aaron and his clothes, and on his sons and their clothes. Then he and his clothes will be made holy, likewise his sons and their clothes.

22 Then take the fat of the sheep, the fat tail, the fat covering the insides, and the fat joining the liver and the two kidneys with the fat round them, and the right leg; for by the offering of this sheep they are to be marked out as priests:

Take the fat from the ram, including the fat of its broad tail, the fat covering the intestines, the best parts of the liver, the two kidneys with their fat, as well as the right thigh (because this is a ram for ordination).

23 And take one bit of bread and one cake of oiled bread and one thin cake out of the basket of unleavened bread which is before the Lord:

Also take one loaf of bread, one cake of bread made with olive oil, and one wafer from the basket of bread made without yeast that is in the Lord's presence.

24 And put them all on the hands of Aaron and of his sons, to be waved for a wave offering before the Lord.

Give all of them to Aaron and his sons to wave before the Lord as a wave offering.

25 Then take them from their hands, and let them be burned on the burned offering on the altar, a sweet smell before the Lord, an offering made by fire to the Lord.

Then take the different breads back and burn them on the altar on top of the burnt offering to the Lord to be accepted by him.

26 Then take the breast of Aaron's sheep, waving it before the Lord; and it is to be your part of the offering.

Take the breast of the ram of Aaron's ordination and wave it before the Lord as a wave offering. This is the part you can keep.

27 So you are to make holy the breast of the sheep which is waved and the leg which is lifted up on high, that is, of the sheep which is offered for Aaron and his sons;

Set apart for Aaron and his sons the breast of the wave offering and the thigh of the offering that is lifted up, both taken from the ram of ordination.

28 And it will be their part as a right for ever from the children of Israel, it is a special offering from the children of Israel, made from their peace-offerings, a special offering lifted up to the Lord.

From now on whenever the Israelites lift up peace offerings to the Lord, these parts will belong to Aaron and his sons forever as a regular share from the Israelites.

29 And Aaron's holy robes will be used by his sons after him; they will put them on when they are made priests.

The holy garments that Aaron has will be passed down to his descendants, so they can wear them when they're anointed and ordained.

30 For seven days the son who becomes priest in his place will put them on when he comes into the Tent of meeting to do the work of the holy place.

The descendant who succeeds him as priest and enters the Tent of Meeting to serve in the Holy Place must wear them for the seven days of his ordination.

31 Then take the sheep of the wave offering and let its flesh be cooked in water in a holy place.

Take the ram of ordination and boil its meat in a holy place.

32 And let Aaron and his sons make a meal of it, with the bread in the basket, at the door of the Tent of meeting.

Aaron and his sons are to eat the ram's meat, and the bread that is in the basket, at the entrance to the Tent of Meeting,

33 All those things which were used as offerings to take away sin, and to make them holy to be priests, they may have for food: but no one who is not a priest may have them, for they are holy food.

They are to eat the meat and the bread that were part of the offerings that symbolized the forgiveness required for their ordination and dedication. No one else may eat them, because they are holy.

34 And if any of the flesh of the offering or of the bread is over till the morning, let it be burned with fire; it is not to be used for food, for it is holy.

If any of the meat of ordination or any bread remains until the morning, burn what's left. It must not be eaten, because it's holy.

35 All these things you are to do to Aaron and his sons as I have given you orders: for seven days the work of making them priests is to go on.

This is the process you are to follow for Aaron and his sons, observing all the instructions I have given you. It will take seven days to ordain them.

36 Every day an ox is to be offered as a sin-offering, to take away sins: and by this offering on it, you will make the altar clean from sin; and you are to put oil on it and make it holy.

Every day you are to sacrifice a bull as a sin offering for forgiveness. When you do this the altar needs to be purified. Anoint it to make it holy.

37 For seven days you are to make offerings for the altar and make it holy, so that it may become completely holy, and anything touching it will become holy.

For seven days you shall purify the altar and consecrate it. Then the altar will become completely holy, and everything that touches the altar will become holy.

38 Now this is the offering which you are to make on the altar: two lambs in their first year, every day regularly.

You are to offer two lambs that are a year old on the altar, daily and continually.

39 One lamb is to be offered in the morning and the other in the evening:

In the morning offer one lamb, and offer the other one in the evening before it gets dark.

40 And with the one lamb, a tenth part of an ephah of the best meal, mixed with a fourth part of a hin of clear oil; and the fourth part of a hin of wine for a drink offering.

With the first lamb also offer a tenth of an ephah of best quality flour, mixed with a quarter of a hin of olive oil, and a drink offering of a quarter of a hin of wine.

41 And the other lamb is to be offered in the evening, and with it the same meal offering and drink offering, for a sweet smell, an offering made by fire to the Lord.

Then offer the second lamb in the evening, with the same grain and drink offerings as in the morning, a burnt offering to the Lord and accepted by him.

42 This is to be a regular burned offering made from generation to generation, at the door of the Tent of meeting before the Lord, where I will come face to face with you and have talk with you.

These burnt offerings will be made continually for all generations at the entrance to the Tent of Meeting in the Lord's presence. I will meet you there to speak with you.

43 There I will come face to face with the children of Israel, and the Tent will be made holy by my glory

I will meet with the Israelites there, and that place will be made holy by my glory.

44 I will make holy the Tent of meeting and the altar: and Aaron and his sons I will make holy, to be my priests

In this way I will dedicate the Tent of Meeting and the altar, and I will dedicate Aaron and his sons to serve me as priests.

45 Among the children of Israel I will make my living-place, and I will be their God.

Then I will live with the Israelites and be their God.

46 And they will see that I am the Lord their God, who took them out of the land of Egypt, so that I might be ever with them: I am the Lord their God.

They will know that I am the Lord their God, who led them out of Egypt, so that I could live with them. I am the Lord their God.