Dressing and Anointing Aaron
1Yahweh spoke to Moses. He said, 2“Take Aaron and his sons with him, the garments, the anointing oil, the bull for the sin offering, the two rams, and the basket of unleavened bread, 3and assemble the whole community at the entrance to the tent of meeting.” 4Moses did just as Yahweh commanded him, and the community assembled at the entrance to the tent of meeting. 5Moses said to the community, “This is what Yahweh has commanded to be done.” 6Then Moses brought Aaron and his sons forward and washed them with water. 7He put the tunic on Aaron, tied the sash around him, clothed him with the robe, put the ephod on him, and tied it with the woven band of the ephod, fastening it to him. 8He placed the breastpiece on him and put the Urim and the Thummim into the breastpiece. 9He set the turban on his head and placed the gold plate, the holy diadem, on the front of the turban, just as Yahweh had commanded Moses. 10Then Moses took the anointing oil and anointed the tabernacle and everything in it, consecrating them. 11He sprinkled some of it on the altar seven times, anointing the altar and all its utensils, and the basin with its stand, to consecrate them. 12He poured some of the anointing oil on Aaron’s head and anointed him to consecrate him. 13Moses then brought Aaron’s sons forward, clothed them with tunics, tied sashes around them, and fastened headbands on them, just as Yahweh had commanded Moses.
The Ordination Offerings
14He brought forward the bull for the sin offering, and Aaron and his sons laid their hands on its head. 15Moses slaughtered it, took the blood, and with his finger put it on the horns of the altar all around, purifying the altar. He poured out the rest of the blood at the base of the altar and consecrated it, making atonement for it. 16He took all the fat that was on the inner parts, the long lobe of the liver, and the two kidneys with their fat, and burned it on the altar. 17But the bull itself — its hide, flesh, and dung — he burned with fire outside the camp, just as Yahweh had commanded Moses. 18He brought forward the ram for the burnt offering, and Aaron and his sons laid their hands on its head. 19Moses slaughtered it and splashed the blood against the altar on all sides. 20He cut the ram into pieces and burned the head, the pieces, and the fat. 21He washed the inner parts and the legs with water, and burned the whole ram on the altar. It was a burnt offering, a pleasing aroma, a fire offering to Yahweh, just as Yahweh had commanded Moses. 22Then he brought forward the second ram, the ram of ordination, and Aaron and his sons laid their hands on its head. 23Moses slaughtered it, took some of its blood, and put it on the lobe of Aaron’s right ear, on the thumb of his right hand, and on the big toe of his right foot. 24He also brought Aaron’s sons forward and put some of the blood on the lobes of their right ears, on the thumbs of their right hands, and on the big toes of their right feet. Then Moses splashed the rest of the blood against the altar on all sides. 25He took the fat — the fat tail, all the fat on the inner parts, the long lobe of the liver, the two kidneys with their fat, and the right thigh — 26and from the basket of unleavened bread that was before Yahweh he took one unleavened cake, one cake of bread made with oil, and one wafer, and placed them on the fat portions and the right thigh. 27He put all these in the hands of Aaron and his sons and waved them as a wave offering before Yahweh. 28Then Moses took them from their hands and burned them on the altar on top of the burnt offering. They were an ordination offering, a pleasing aroma, a fire offering to Yahweh. 29Moses also took the breast and waved it as a wave offering before Yahweh; it was Moses’s portion of the ram of ordination, just as Yahweh had commanded Moses. 30Moses took some of the anointing oil and some of the blood on the altar and sprinkled it on Aaron and his garments, and on his sons and their garments with him. In this way he consecrated Aaron and his garments, and his sons and their garments with him.
Seven Days at the Tent of Meeting
31Moses said to Aaron and his sons, “Cook the meat at the entrance to the tent of meeting and eat it there, along with the bread that is in the basket of ordination offerings, as I commanded, saying, ‘Aaron and his sons shall eat it.’ 32Whatever remains of the meat and the bread you are to burn with fire. 33You must not leave the entrance to the tent of meeting for seven days, until the days of your ordination are complete, for your ordination will take seven days. 34What has been done today Yahweh commanded to be done, to make atonement for you. 35You must stay at the entrance to the tent of meeting day and night for seven days, keeping Yahweh’s charge, so that you do not die — for that is what I have been commanded.” 36So Aaron and his sons did everything Yahweh commanded through Moses.
