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UST EXO Chapter 29

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29 Do the following things to dedicate Aaron and his sons to serve me by being priests. Select one young bull and two rams that do not have any defects. 2 Also, using finely ground wheat flour, bake these all without yeast: plain bread, soft bread with olive oil in it, and thin wafers with oil on the outside. 3 Put them in a basket. Bring the basket with the bread in it, the young bull, and the two rams to me. 4 Take Aaron and his sons to the entrance of the sacred tent and wash them with water. 5 Then put the vestments on Aaron—the long-sleeved tunic, the robe under the sacred apron, the sacred apron, and the sacred pouch. Tie the sacred apron onto him with its sash. 6 Put the turban on his head, and fasten to the turban the sacred ornament that has the words ‘Dedicated to Yahweh’ engraved on it. 7 Then take the anointing oil and pour some on his head to dedicate him. 8 Then bring his sons and put the long-sleeved tunics on them. 9 Tie the sashes around Aaron and his sons’ waists and secure the caps on their heads. This is an eternal law: they are the priests. You will authorize them for this.

10 Then bring the young bull to the front of the sacred tent. While Aaron and his sons put their hands on the head of the young bull, 11 sacrifice the young bull by slitting its throat before Yahweh outside the entrance to the sacred tent and catch the blood in a bowl. 12 Take some of that blood with your finger and smear it on the projections of the altar. Pour the rest of the blood at the bottom of the altar. 13 Take all the fat that covers the inner organs of the young bull, the fatty covering of the liver, and both kidneys with the fat on them. Burn all these on the altar until they are completely gone. 14 But you must burn the meat of the young bull and its hide and intestines on a fire outside the camp. Sacrificing the bull purifies the altar.

15 Select one of the rams. While Aaron and his sons put their hands on its head, 16 kill the ram by slitting its throat. Catch the blood and sprinkle it all over the altar. 17 Then cut the ram into pieces. Wash its inner organs and its legs, and put those with the head and the rest of the body parts 18 on the altar. Then completely burn it all. That will be a burnt offering to me, Yahweh, and the fire’s smell will please me.

19 Take the other ram. While Aaron and his sons put their hands on its head, 20 kill the ram by slitting its throat. Catch the blood. Smear some of the blood on the bottom portion of Aaron’s and his sons’ right ears, on their right thumbs, and on the big toes on their right feet. Throw the rest of the blood against the four sides of the altar. 21 Wipe up some of the blood that is on the altar, mix it with some of the oil for anointing, and sprinkle it on Aaron and his clothes, and on his sons and their clothes. By doing this, you will dedicate them and their clothes to me.

22 Also, cut off the ram’s fat: its fat tail, and the fat that covers the inner organs, the fatty covering of the liver, the two kidneys with the fat on them, and the right thigh. (This ram is for making holy Aaron and his sons, who will be my priests.) 23 Finally, from the basket of bread that they baked without yeast (the one that you brought to me), take a plain round loaf, a piece of soft bread with oil in it, and a thin wafer with oil on the outside. 24 Put all these things into the hands of Aaron and his sons. Then tell them to lift them up high to dedicate them to me. 25 Then take them from their hands and completely burn them on the altar, on top of the burnt offering. That also will be a fire offering to me, and its smell will please me. 26 Then take the breast of the ram for making Aaron holy and lift it up high to dedicate it to me. But then this part of the animal will be for you to eat. 27 Set these apart from the ram for making holy Aaron and his sons as my priests: the breast that you lifted high to dedicate to me and the thigh that you presented to me. These are for Aaron and his sons. 28 This custom will continue forever. Whenever the Israelites bring offerings to show they are friends with me, the breast and the thigh of animals that they present to me will be for Aaron and his male descendants to eat.

29 After Aaron dies, the sacred vestments that he wore will belong to his male descendants. They will wear them when a leader anoints them to authorize them to be priests. 30 Aaron’s descendant who becomes high priest after him and enters the sacred tent and performs rituals in the Holy Place must wear these vestments for seven days.

31 Take the breast and thigh of the ram that they sacrificed to make Aaron and his sons holy, and boil it in a location set aside for that. 32 After it is cooked, Aaron and his sons must eat the meat, along with the bread that is left in the basket, at the entrance to the sacred tent. 33 They will eat these things from the offering that made them holy by covering their sins when they became priests. But no one else can eat these things, because they are reserved for the priests. 34 If any of the holy meat or bread is left over in the morning, you must completely burn it. Do not eat any of it, because it is sacred.

35 Do all this to Aaron and his sons just as I have told you. You will prepare them for seven days. 36 Sacrifice a young bull to purify the altar each of those days. That will ceremonially cleanse the altar by covering the altar’s imperfections. You must also pour olive oil over the altar to dedicate it to Yahweh. 37 After you cover the altar for seven days you will have made it holy. It will be so very holy that it will make anything that touches it holy too.

38 You must also perpetually sacrifice two one-year-old lambs per day on the altar. 39 You must sacrifice one lamb in the morning and the other around twilight. 40 With the first lamb, also offer two liters of finely ground wheat flour mixed with a liter of the best kind of olive oil, and one liter of wine as a drink-offering. 41 In the evening, when you sacrifice the other lamb, offer the same amounts of flour, olive oil, and wine as you did in the morning. This will be an offering to me, Yahweh, that they will burn, and its smell will please me.

42 You and your descendants must continue making these offerings to me, Yahweh, throughout all future generations. You must offer them at the entrance to the sacred tent. That is where I will meet with you and speak to you. 43 That is where I will meet with the Israelites, and the brilliant light of my presence will cause that place to be holy. 44 I will dedicate the sacred tent and the altar. I will also dedicate Aaron and his sons to be my priests. 45 I will live with the Israelites, and I will be their God. 46 They will know that I, Yahweh their God, am the one who brought them out of Egypt in order that I might live among them. I am Yahweh, the God whom they worship.

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