Chapter 29
1[“]Now this is what you are to do to consecrate [Aaron and his sons] to serve Me as priests: Take a young bull and two rams without blemish
2along with unleavened bread, unleavened cakes mixed with oil and unleavened wafers anointed with oil. Make them out of fine wheat flour,
3put them in a basket and present them in the basket along with the bull and the two rams.
4Then present Aaron and his sons at the entrance to the Tent of Meeting and wash them with water.
5Take the garments and clothe Aaron with the tunic, the robe of the ephod, the ephod itself and the breastplate. Fasten the ephod on him with its woven waistband.
6Put the turban on his head and attach the holy diadem to the turban.
7Then take the anointing oil by pouring it on his head and anoint him.
8Present his sons as well and clothe them with tunics.
9Wrap the sashes around Aaron and his sons and tie headbands on them. The priesthood shall be theirs by a permanent statute. In this way you are to ordain Aaron and his sons.
10You are to present the bull at the front of the Tent of Meeting and Aaron and his sons are to lay their hands on [its] head.
11And you shall slaughter the bull before AO at the entrance to the Tent of Meeting.
12Take some of the blood of the bull and put [it] on the horns of the altar with your finger, then pour out the rest of the blood at the base of the altar.
13Take all the fat that covers the entrails and the lobe of the liver and both kidneys with the fat and burn them on the altar.
14But the flesh of the bull and its hide and dung, burn outside the camp; it [is] a sin offering.
15Take one of the rams and Aaron and his sons shall lay their hands on [its] head.
16You are to slaughter the ram, take its blood and sprinkle it on all sides of the altar.
17Cut the ram into pieces, wash the entrails and legs and place them with its head and the other pieces.
18Then burn the entire ram on the altar. It is a burnt offering to AO, a pleasing aroma, an offering made by fire to AO.
19Take the second ram and Aaron and his sons are to lay their hands on [its] head.
20Slaughter the ram, take some of its blood and put it on the right earlobes of Aaron and his sons, on the thumbs of their right hands and on the big toes of their right feet. Sprinkle the remaining blood on all sides of the altar.
21And take some of the blood on the altar and some of the anointing oil and sprinkle [it] on Aaron and his garments as well as on his sons and their garments. Then he and his garments and their garments will be consecrated.
22Take from the ram the fat, the fat tail, the fat covering, the entrails, the lobe of the liver, both kidneys with the fat on them and the right thigh (since this is a ram for ordination),
23along with one loaf of bread, one cake of bread made with oil and one wafer from the basket of unleavened bread that is before AO.
24Put all these in the hands of Aaron and his sons and wave them as a wave offering before AO.
25Then take them from their hands and burn them on the altar atop the burn offering as a pleasing aroma before AO; it is an offering made by fire to AO.
26Take the breast of the ram of Aaron’s ordination and wave it as a wave offering before AO and it will be your portion.
27Consecrate the breast of the wave offering and the thigh of the heave offering that is waved from the ram of ordination that is lifted up for Aaron and his sons.
28This will belong to Aaron and his sons as a regular portion from the Israelites for it is the heave offering; the Israelites will make it from their peace offerings to AO.
29The holy garments that belong to Aaron will belong to his sons after him so they can be anointed in them.
30The son who succeeds him as priest and enters the Tent of Meeting to minister in the Holy [Place] must wear them for seven days.
31You are to take the ram of ordination and boil its flesh in a holy place.
32At 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.
33They must eat those things by which atonement was made for their ordination and consecration. But no outsider may eat them because these things are sacred.
34And if any of the meat of ordination or any bread is left until the morning, you are to burn up the remainder. It must not be eaten because it is sacred.
35This is what you are to do for Aaron and his sons based on all that I have commanded you, taking seven days to ordain them.
36Sacrifice a bull as a sin offering each day for atonement. Purify the altar for it by making atonement and anoint it to consecrate it.
37For seven days you shall make atonement for the altar and consecrate it. Then the altar will become most holy, whatever touches the altar will be holy.
38This is what you are to offer on the altar regularly each day: two lambs [that are] a year old.
39Offer one lamb in the morning and the other at twilight.
40With the first lamb [offer] a tenth [of an ephah] of fine flour mixed with a quarter hin of oil from pressed [olives] and a drink offering of a quarter hin of wine.
41And offer the second lamb at twilight with the same grain offering and drink offering as in the morning as a pleasing aroma, an offering made by fire to AO.
42For the generations to come this burnt offering shall be made regularly at the entrance to the Tent of the Meeting before AO where I will meet you to speak with you.
43I will also meet with the Israelites there and that place will be consecrated by My glory.
44So I will consecrate the Tent of Meeting and the altar and I will consecrate Aaron Moses and his sons to serve Me as priests.
45Then I will dwell among the Israelites and be their God.
46And they will know that I am AO their God, who brought them out of the land of Egypt so that I might dwell among them. I am AO their God.[”]