Exodus 29

The ordination of the priests

1This is what you shall do to consecrate them to serve me as priests: Take one young bull and two rams without blemish, 2unleavened bread, unleavened cakes mixed with oil, and unleavened wafers spread with oil — make them of fine wheat flour. 3Put them in a single basket and bring them in the basket, together with the bull and the two rams. 4Bring Aaron and his sons to the entrance of 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, and the breastpiece, and fasten the ephod on him with its woven waistband. 6Put the turban on his head and fasten the holy crown to the turban. 7Take the anointing oil, pour it on his head, and anoint him. 8Bring his sons forward and clothe them with tunics, 9and gird them — Aaron and his sons — with sashes, and tie headbands on them. The priesthood shall be theirs by a lasting statute. In this way you shall ordain Aaron and his sons. 10Bring the bull to the front of the tent of meeting, and Aaron and his sons shall lay their hands on its head. 11Slaughter the bull before Yahweh at the entrance of the tent of meeting. 12Take 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. 13Take all the fat that covers the entrails, the layer of fat over the liver, and the two kidneys with the fat on them, and burn them on the altar. 14But burn the flesh of the bull, its hide, and its dung 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. 16Slaughter the ram, take its blood, and splash it against all sides of the altar. 17Cut the ram into pieces, wash its entrails and legs, and place them with the pieces and the head. 18Burn the whole ram on the altar; it is a burnt offering to Yahweh, a pleasing aroma — a fire offering to Yahweh.

The ram of ordination

19Take the other ram, and Aaron and his sons shall lay their hands on its head. 20Slaughter the ram, 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 thumbs of their right hands, and on the big toes of their right feet; splash the rest of the blood against all sides of the altar. 21Take some of the blood that is on the altar and some of the anointing oil, and sprinkle it on Aaron and his garments, and on his sons and their garments; then he and his garments, and his sons and their garments, will be consecrated. 22From the ram take the fat, the fat tail, the fat covering the entrails, the layer of fat over the liver, the two kidneys with their fat, and the right thigh — for it is the ram of ordination — 23and one loaf of bread, one cake made with oil, and one wafer from the basket of unleavened bread that is before Yahweh. 24Put all of it in the hands of Aaron and his sons, and wave it as a wave offering before Yahweh. 25Then take it from their hands and burn it on the altar with the burnt offering, as a pleasing aroma before Yahweh; it is a fire offering to Yahweh. 26Take the breast of the ram of Aaron’s ordination and wave it as a wave offering before Yahweh; it shall be your portion. 27Consecrate the breast that was waved and the thigh that was lifted up — the parts of the ram of ordination that belong to Aaron and his sons. 28They shall belong to Aaron and his sons as a lasting statute from the Israelites, for it is a contribution; it shall be a contribution from the Israelites, from their peace offerings, their contribution to Yahweh. 29Aaron’s holy garments shall belong to his sons after him, to be anointed and ordained in them. 30The son who succeeds him as priest and enters the tent of meeting to serve in the Holy Place shall wear them for seven days. 31Take the ram of ordination and boil its meat in a holy place. 32Aaron and his sons shall eat the meat of the ram and the bread that is in the basket, at the entrance of the tent of meeting. 33They shall eat these things by which atonement was made for their ordination and consecration; but no outsider may eat them, because they are holy. 34If any of the meat of ordination or any of the bread is left until morning, burn what is left with fire; it shall not be eaten, because it is holy. 35Do all this for Aaron and his sons, just as I have commanded you; ordain them over seven days. 36Offer a bull as a sin offering each day for atonement; purify the altar by making atonement for it, and anoint it to consecrate it. 37For seven days make atonement for the altar and consecrate it; then the altar shall be most holy, and whatever touches it shall become holy.

The daily offering

38This is what you shall offer on the altar: two lambs a year old, every day, continually. 39Offer the 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 of a hin of pressed oil, and a quarter of a hin of wine as a drink offering. 41Offer the second lamb at twilight, with a grain offering and a drink offering like the one in the morning, as a pleasing aroma, a fire offering to Yahweh. 42This shall be a regular burnt offering, generation after generation, at the entrance of the tent of meeting before Yahweh, where I will meet with you to speak with you. 43There I will meet with the Israelites, and the place shall be consecrated by my glory. 44I will consecrate the tent of meeting and the altar, and I will consecrate Aaron and his sons to serve me as priests. 45I will dwell among the Israelites and be their God. 46They shall know that I am Yahweh their God, who brought them out of the land of Egypt so that I might dwell among them. I am Yahweh their God.