Chapter 8
1Then AO said to Moses,
2“Take Aaron and his sons, their garments, the anointing oil, the bull of the sin offering, the two rams and the basket of unleavened bread
3and assemble the whole congregation at the entrance to the Tent of Meeting.”
4So Moses did as AO had commanded him and the assembly at the entrance to the Tent of Meeting.
5And Moses said to them, “This is what AO has commanded to be done.”
6Then Moses presented Aaron and his sons and washed them with water.
7He put the tunic on Aaron, tied the sash around him, clothed him with the robe and put on him the ephod. He tied the woven band of the ephod around him and fastened it to him.
8Then he put on him the breastpiece and placed in the breastpiece the Urim and Thummim.
9[Moses] also put the turban on [Aaron’s] head and set the gold plate, the holy diadem, on the front of the turban as AO had commanded [him].
10Next, Moses took the anointing oil and anointed the tabernacle and everything in it and so he consecrated them.
11He sprinkled some of the oil on the altar seven times, anointing the altar and all its utensils and the basin with its stand to consecrate them.
12He also poured some of the anointing on Aaron’s head and anointed him to consecrate him.
13Then Moses presented Aaron’s sons, put tunics on them, wrapped sashes around them and tied headbands on them just as AO had commanded [him].
14[Moses] then brought the bull for the sin offering near and Aaron and his sons laid their hands on its head.
15Moses slaughtered [the bull], took some of the blood and applied it with his finger to all [four] horns of the altar. He poured out the rest of the blood at the base of the altar and consecrated it so that atonement could be made on it.
16Moses also took all the fat that was on the entrails, the lobe of the liver and both kidneys and their fat and burned [it all] on the altar.
17But the bull with its hide, flesh and dung he burned outside the camp as AO had commanded [him].
18Then [Moses] presented the ram for the burnt offering and Aaron and his sons laid their hands on its head,
19Moses slaughtered [the ram] and sprinkled the blood on all sides of the altar.
20[He] cut the ram into pieces and burned the head, the pieces and the fat.
21He washed the entrails and legs with water and burned the entire ram on the altar as a burnt offering, an offering made by fire, a pleasing aroma to AO just as AO had commanded Moses.
22After that, [Moses] presented the other ram, the ram of ordination, and Aaron and his sons laid their hands on [its] head.
23Moses slaughtered [the ram] and took some of its blood and put it on Aaron’s right earlobe, on the thumb of his right hand and on the big toe of his right foot.
24Moses also presented Aaron’s sons and put some of the blood on their right earlobes, on the thumbs of their right hands and on the big toes of their right feet. Then [he] sprinkled the blood on all sides of the altar.
25And [Moses] took the fat—the fat tail, all the fat that was on the entrails, the lobe of the liver and both kidneys with their fat—as well as the right thigh.
26And from the basket of unleavened bread that was before AO, he took one cake of unleavened bread, one cake of bread made with oil and one wafer and he placed them on the fat portions and on the right thigh.
27He put all [these] in the hands of Aaron and his sons and waved them as a wave offering before AO.
28Then Moses took these from their hands and burned them on the altar with the burnt offering. This was an ordination offering, a pleasing aroma, an offering made by fire to AO.
29He also took the breast—Moses’ portion of the ram of ordination—and waved it before AO as a wave offering as AO had commanded him.
30Next, Moses took some of the anointing oil and some of the blood that was on the altar and sprinkled them on Aaron and his garments and on his sons and their garments. So he consecrated Aaron and his garments as well as [Aaron’s] sons and their garments.
31And Moses said to Aaron and his sons, “Boil the meat at the entrance to the Tent of Meeting and eat it there with the bread that is in the basket of ordination offerings as I commanded saying, ‘Aaron and his sons are to eat it.’
32Then you must burn up the remainder of the meat and bread.
33You must not go outside the entrance to the Tent of Meeting for seven days until the days of your ordination are complete for it will take seven days to ordain you.
34What has been done today has been commanded by AO in order to make atonement on your behalf.
35You must remain at the entrance to the Tent of Meeting day and night for seven days and keep AO’s charge so that you will not die for this is what I have been commanded.”
36So Aaron and his sons did everything AO had commanded through Moses.