Exodus 29

1 "This is the thing that you shall do to them to make them holy, to minister to me in the priest's office: take one young bull and two rams without blemish,

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 unleavened bread, unleavened cakes mixed with oil, and unleavened wafers anointed with oil: you shall make them of fine wheat flour.

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

3 You shall put them into one basket, and bring them in the basket, with the bull and the two rams.

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

4 You shall bring Aaron and his sons to the door of the Tent of Meeting, and shall wash them with water.

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

5 You shall take the garments, and put on Aaron the coat, the robe of the ephod, the ephod, and the breastplate, and dress him with the skillfully woven band of the ephod;

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 you shall set the turban on his head, and put the holy crown on the turban.

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

7 Then you shall take the anointing oil, and pour it on his head, and anoint him.

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

8 You shall bring his sons, and put coats on them.

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

9 You shall wrap sashes around them, and bind headbands on them: and they shall have the priesthood by a perpetual statute: and you shall consecrate Aaron and his sons.

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 "You shall bring the bull before the Tent of Meeting: and Aaron and his sons shall lay their hands on the head of the bull.

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 You shall kill the bull before YHWH, 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 You shall take of the blood of the bull, and put it on the horns of the altar with your finger; and you shall pour out all 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 You shall take all the fat that covers the entrails, the cover of the liver, the two kidneys, and the fat that is on them, and burn them 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 bull, and its skin, and its dung, you shall burn with fire outside of the camp: 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 "You shall also take the one ram; and Aaron and his sons shall lay their hands on the head of the ram.

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

16 You shall kill the ram, and you shall take its blood, and sprinkle it around on the altar.

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

17 You shall cut the ram into its pieces, and wash its entrails, and its legs, and put them with its pieces, and with its head.

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

18 You shall burn the whole ram on the altar: it is a burnt offering to YHWH; it is a pleasant aroma, an offering made by fire to YHWH.

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

19 "You shall take the other ram; and Aaron and his sons shall lay their hands on the head of the ram.

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

20 Then you shall kill the ram, and take some of its blood, and put it on the tip of the right ear of Aaron, and on the tip of the right ear of his sons, and on the thumb of their right hand, and on the big toe of their right foot, and sprinkle the blood around on 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 You shall take of the blood that is on the altar, and of the anointing oil, and sprinkle it on Aaron, and on his garments, and on his sons, and on the garments of his sons with him: and he shall be made holy, and his garments, and his sons, and his sons' garments with him.

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 Also you shall take some of the ram's fat, the fat tail, the fat that covers the entrails, the cover of the liver, the two kidneys, the fat that is on them, and the right thigh (for it is a ram of consecration),

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 one loaf of bread, one cake of oiled bread, and one wafer out of the basket of unleavened bread that is before YHWH.

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 You shall put all of this in Aaron's hands, and in his sons' hands, and shall wave them for a wave offering before YHWH.

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

25 You shall take them from their hands, and burn them on the altar on the burnt offering, for a pleasant aroma before YHWH: it is an offering made by fire to YHWH.

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 "You shall take the breast of Aaron's ram of consecration, and wave it for a wave offering before YHWH: and it shall be your portion.

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 You shall sanctify the breast of the wave offering, and the thigh of the wave offering, which is waved, and which is heaved up, of the ram of consecration, even of that which is for Aaron, and of that which is for 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 shall be for Aaron and his sons as their portion forever from the children of Israel; for it is a wave offering: and it shall be a wave offering from the children of Israel of the sacrifices of their peace offerings, even their wave offering to YHWH.

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 "The holy garments of Aaron shall be for his sons after him, to be anointed in them, and to be consecrated in them.

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 Seven days shall the son who is priest in his place put them on, when he comes into the Tent of Meeting to minister in 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 "You shall take the ram of consecration, and boil its flesh in a holy place.

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

32 Aaron and his sons shall eat the flesh of the ram, and the bread that is 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 They shall eat those things with which atonement was made, to consecrate and sanctify them: but a stranger shall not eat of it, because they are holy.

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 If anything of the flesh of the consecration, or of the bread, remains to the morning, then you shall burn the remainder with fire: it shall not be eaten, because 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 "You shall do so to Aaron, and to his sons, according to all that I have commanded you. You shall consecrate them seven days.

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 you shall offer the bull of sin offering for atonement: and you shall cleanse the altar, when you make atonement for it; and you shall anoint it, to sanctify it.

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 Seven days you shall make atonement for the altar, and sanctify it: and the altar shall be most holy; whatever touches the altar shall be 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 that which you shall offer on the altar: two lambs a year old day by day continually, a continual burnt offering.

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

39 The one lamb you shall offer in the morning; and the other lamb you shall offer at 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 fine flour mixed with the fourth part of a hin of beaten 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 The other lamb you shall offer at evening, and shall do to it according to the meal offering of the morning, and according to its drink offering, for a pleasant aroma, an offering made by fire to YHWH.

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 It shall be a continual burnt offering throughout your generations at the door of the Tent of Meeting before YHWH, where I will meet with you, to speak there to 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 meet with the children of Israel; and the place shall be sanctified by my glory.

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

44 I will sanctify the Tent of Meeting and the altar: Aaron also and his sons I will sanctify, to minister to me in the priest's office.

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 I will dwell among the children of Israel, and will be their God.

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

46 They shall know that I am YHWH their God, who brought them forth out of the land of Egypt, that I might dwell among them: I am YHWH 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.