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is what you are to do for them to consecrate them so they may serve Me as priests: Take a young bull and two rams without defect, 2 and unleavened bread, unleavened cakes mixed with oil, and unleavened wafers spread with oil. Make them out of fine wheat flour, 3 put them in a basket, and present them in the basket together with the bull and two rams.
4 “Then bring Aaron and his sons to the entrance to the Tent of Meeting and wash them with water. 5 Then take the garments and dress Aaron with the tunic, the robe of the ephod, the ephod itself, and the breastpiece. Fasten the ephod on him with its skilfully woven waistband. 6 Put the turban on his head and place the sacred diadem on the turban. 7 Take the anointing oil and pour it on his head, so anointing him. 8 Bring his sons and dress them in tunics. 9 Tie the sashes on Aaron and his sons and fasten headbands on them. The priesthood shall be theirs by a lasting ordinance. This is the way you are to ordain Aaron and his sons.
10 “Bring the bull to the front of the Tent of Meeting, and Aaron and his sons shall lay their hands on the bull’s head. 11 Then slaughter the bull before the Lord at the entrance to the Tent of Meeting. 12 Take some of the bull’s blood and put it on the horns of the altar with your finger, and pour out the rest of the blood at the base of the altar. 13 Then take all the fat that covers the entrails, the covering of the liver, and the two kidneys with the fat on them, and burn them on the altar. 14 But burn the bull’s flesh, its hide, and its offal outside the camp. It is a sin offering.
15 “Take one of the rams, and Aaron and his sons shall lay their hands on the ram’s head. 16 Then slaughter the ram, and take some of its blood and sprinkle it against all sides of the altar. 17 Cut the ram into pieces and wash the entrails and the legs, and put them with the head and the other pieces. 18 Then burn the whole ram on the altar. It is a burnt offering to the Lord, a pleasing aroma, an offering made to the Lord by fire.
19 “Then take the other ram, and Aaron and his sons shall lay their hands on the ram’s head. 20 Slaughter the ram, and take some of its blood and put it on the lobe of Aaron’s right ear, and on the lobes of his sons’ right ears, on the thumb of their right hand and on the big toes of their right feet. Then sprinkle the blood against the altar on all sides. 21 And take some of the blood that is on the altar and some of the anointing oil, and sprinkle them on Aaron and his garments, and on his sons and their garments. Then he and his sons and their garments will become consecrated.
22 “Take the fat from the ram, the fat tail, the fat covering the entrails, the fatty lobe attached to the liver, the two kidneys with the fat on them, and the right thigh. (This is the ram for the ordination.) 23 Take one loaf of bread, one cake of bread made with oil, and one wafer from the basket of unleavened bread that is before the Lord, 24 and put all these in the hands of Aaron and his sons and wave them before the Lord as a wave offering. 25 Then take them from their hands and burn them on the altar along with the burnt offering, as a pleasing aroma before the Lord; it is an offering made to the Lord by fire.
26 “Take the breast of the ram of Aaron’s ordination, and wave it before the Lord as a wave offering; it will be your portion. 27 Consecrate those parts of the ram of ordination that belong to Aaron and his sons; the breast of the wave offering that is waved, and the thigh that was lifted up and presented. 28 This will always be the regular portion for Aaron and his sons from the Israelites. It is the contribution the Israelites will make from their fellowship offerings to the Lord.
29 “The sacred garments that belong to Aaron will also belong to his sons after him, and they will be anointed in them and ordained in them. 30 The son who succeeds him as priest must put them on and wear them for seven days when he enters the Tent of Meeting to minister in the Holy Place.
31 “You are to take the ram of ordination and boil its flesh in a sacred place. 32 Then Aaron and his sons are to eat the meat of the ram and the bread that is in the basket at the entrance to the Tent of Meeting. 33 They are to eat those offerings with which atonement was made for their ordination and consecration. But no one else is to eat of them, because they are consecrated. 34 And if any of the meat of ordination or any bread is left over until morning, burn the remainder with fire. It must not be eaten, because it is sacred.
35 “Do this for Aaron and his sons according to all I have commanded you, taking seven days to ordain them. 36 Sacrifice a bull each day as a sin offering to make atonement. Purify the altar when you make atonement for it, and anoint it to consecrate it. 37 For seven days make atonement for the altar and consecrate it. Then the altar will be most holy, and whatever touches the altar will also become holy.
38 “This is what you are to offer regularly on the altar every day: two lambs a year old. 39 One lamb is to be offered in the morning, and the other lamb offered at twilight. 40 With the first lamb offer a tenth of an ephah of fine flour mixed with a quarter of a hin of oil from pressed olives, and a quarter of a hin of wine as a drink offering. 41 The other lamb you are to offer at twilight. Offer a grain offering and drink offering with it, like the one in the morning, for a pleasing aroma, an offering made to the Lord by fire.
42 “This will be a regular burnt offering throughout your generations at the entrance to the Tent of Meeting before the Lord. There I will meet you to speak with you. 43 I will also meet with the Israelites there, and that place will be consecrated by My glory.
44 “I will consecrate the Tent of Meeting and the altar; I will also consecrate Aaron and his sons to serve me as priests. 45 Then I will dwell among the Israelites and be their God. 46 And they will know that I am the Lord their God, who brought them out of the land of Egypt, so that I might dwell among them. I am the Lord their God.”