Exodus 29

1 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.

Now this is what you must do to set them apart to me so that they may serve me as priests. Take one young bull and two rams without blemish,

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

bread without yeast, and cakes without yeast mixed with oil. Also take wafers without yeast rubbed with oil. Make the wafers using fine wheat flour.

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

You must put them into a single basket, bring them in the basket, and present them 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.

You must present Aaron and his sons at the entrance to the tent of meeting. You must wash Aaron and his sons in water.

5 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.

You must take the garments and clothe Aaron with the coat, the robe of the ephod, the ephod, and the breastpiece, fastening the finely-woven waistband of the ephod around him.

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

You must set the turban on his head and put the holy crown on the turban.

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

Then take the anointing oil and pour it on his head, and in this way anoint him.

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

You must bring his sons and put coats on them.

9 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.

You must clothe Aaron and his sons with sashes and put headbands on them. The work of the priesthood will belong to them by permanent law. In this way you must consecrate Aaron and his sons for them to serve me.

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

You must all bring the bull before the tent of meeting, and Aaron and his sons must lay their hands on its head.

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

You must kill the bull before Yahweh at the entrance to the tent of meeting.

12 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.

You must take some of the bull's blood and put it on the horns of the altar with your finger, and you must pour out the rest of the blood at the base of the altar.

13 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.

You must take all the fat that covers the inner parts, and also take the covering of the liver and the two kidneys with the fat that is on them; burn it all on the altar.

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

But as for the bull's flesh, as well as its skin and dung, you must burn it up outside the camp. It will be a sin offering.

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

You must also take the one ram, and Aaron and his sons must lay their hands on its head.

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

You must kill the ram, then take its blood and sprinkle it on all sides of the altar.

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

You must cut the ram into pieces and wash its inner parts and its legs, and you must put the inner parts, together with its pieces and with its head,

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

on the altar. Then burn the whole ram. It will be a burnt offering to Yahweh, a sweet aroma, an offering made to Yahweh by fire.

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

You must then take the other ram, and Aaron and his sons must lay their hands on its head.

20 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.

Then you must kill the ram and take some of its blood. Put it on the tip of Aaron's right ear, and on the tip of his sons' right ears, on the thumb of their right hands, and on the great toe of their right feet. Then you must sprinkle the blood against the altar on every side.

21 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.

You must take some of the blood that is on the altar and some of the anointing oil, and sprinkle it all on Aaron and on his garments, and also on his sons and on their garments. Aaron will then be set apart for me, as well as his garments, his sons and his sons' garments with him.

22 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).

You must take the ram's fat, the fat tail, the fat that covers the inner parts, the covering of the liver, the two kidneys and the fat on them, and the right thigh—for this ram is for the priests' consecration to me.

23 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.

Take one loaf of bread, one cake of bread made with oil, and one wafer out of the basket of bread without yeast that is before Yahweh.

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

You must put these in Aaron's hands and in the hands of his sons and wave them before me for a wave offering before Yahweh.

25 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.

You must then take the food from their hands and burn it on the altar with the burnt offering. It will produce a sweet aroma for me; it will be an offering made to me by fire.

26 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.

You must take the breast of Aaron's ram of dedication and wave it for a wave offering before Yahweh, and it will be your share.

27 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.

You must set apart to me the breast of the wave offering that is waved, and the thigh that is the contribution for the priests—both the breast that was waved and the thigh that was contributed for Aaron and his sons.

28 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.

This will be a perpetual ordinance for Aaron and his sons. It will be a contribution from the people of Israel to give to Yahweh from their peace offerings.

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

The holy garments of Aaron must also be reserved for his sons after him. They are to be anointed in them and ordained to me in them.

30 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.

The priest who succeeds him from among his sons, who comes into the tent of meeting to serve me in the holy place, is to wear those garments for seven days.

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

You must take the ram for the installation of the priests to me and boil its meat in a holy place.

32 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,

Aaron and his sons must eat the ram's meat and the bread that is in the basket at the entrance to the tent of meeting.

33 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.

They must eat the meat and bread that were given to atone for them and to ordain them, to be set apart to me. No one else may eat that food, because they must treat it as consecrated to me, reserved for me.

34 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.

If any of the meat of the ordination offering, or any of the bread, remains to the next morning, then you must burn it. It must not be eaten because it has been set apart to me.

35 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.

In this way, by following all that I have commanded you to do, you must treat Aaron and his sons. For seven days you must prepare them.

36 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.

Every day you must offer a bull as a sin offering for atonement. You must purify the altar by making atonement for it, and you must anoint it in order to set it apart to me.

37 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.

For seven days you must make atonement for the altar and set it apart it to Yahweh. Then the altar will be completely set apart to me. Whatever touches the altar will be set apart to Yahweh.

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

You must regularly offer on the altar every day two lambs a year old.

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

One lamb you must offer in the morning, and the other lamb you must offer about sundown.

40 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.

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

41 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.

You must offer the second lamb about sunset. You must offer the same grain offering as in the morning, and the same drink offering. These will produce a sweet aroma for me; it will be an offering made to me by fire.

42 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.

These must be regular burnt offerings throughout your generations, at the entrance to the tent of meeting before Yahweh, where I will meet with you to speak to you there.

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

That is where I will meet with the Israelites; the tent will be set apart for me by my glory.

44 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.

I will set apart the tent of meeting and the altar for these to belong to me alone. I will also set apart Aaron and his sons to serve me as priests.

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

I will live among the Israelites and will be their God.

46 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.

They will know that I am Yahweh, their God, who brought them out from the land of Egypt so that I might live among them. I am Yahweh, their God.