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- "This is what you are to do to consecrate them, so they may serve me as priests:
- Take a young bull and two rams without defect.
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- And from fine wheat flour, without yeast, make bread, and cakes mixed with oil,
- and wafers spread with oil.
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- Put them in a basket and present them in it--
- along with the bull and the two rams.
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- Then bring Aaron and his sons to the entrance to the Tent of Meeting
- and wash them with water.
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- 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
- by its skillfully woven waistband.
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- Put the turban on his head and attach the sacred diadem to the turban.
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- Take the anointing oil and anoint him by pouring it on his head.
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- Bring his sons and dress them in tunics
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- and put headbands on them. Then tie sashes on Aaron and his sons.
- The priesthood is theirs by a lasting ordinance.
- In this way you shall ordain Aaron and his sons.
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- "Bring the bull to the front of the Tent of Meeting,
- and Aaron and his sons shall lay their hands on its head.
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- Slaughter it in the LORD's presence at the entrance to the Tent of Meeting.
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- 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 it at the base of the altar.
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- Then take all the fat around the inner parts, the covering of the liver,
- and both kidneys with the fat on them, and burn them on the altar.
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- But burn the bull's flesh and its hide and its offal outside the camp.
- It is a sin offering.
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- "Take one of the rams, and Aaron and his sons shall lay their hands on its head.
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- Slaughter it and take the blood and sprinkle it against the altar on all sides.
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- Cut the ram into pieces and wash the inner parts and the legs,
- putting them with the head and the other pieces.
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- Then burn the entire ram on the altar. It is a burnt offering to the LORD,
- a pleasing aroma, an offering made to the LORD by fire.
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- "Take the other ram, and Aaron and his sons shall lay their hands on its head.
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- Slaughter it, take some of its blood and put it on the lobes of the right ears of
- Aaron and his sons, on the thumbs of their right hands, and on the big toes
- of their right feet. Then sprinkle blood against the altar on all sides.
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- And take some of the blood 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 sons and their garments will be consecrated.
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- "Take from this ram the fat, the fat tail, the fat around the inner parts,
- the covering of the liver, both kidneys with the fat on them,
- and the right thigh. (This is the ram for the ordination.)
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- From the basket of bread made without yeast, which is before the LORD,
- take a loaf, and a cake made with oil, and a wafer.
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- Put all these in the hands of Aaron and his sons and wave them
- before the LORD as a wave offering.
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- Then take them from their hands and burn them on the altar along with
- the burnt offering for a pleasing aroma to the LORD,
- an offering made to the LORD by fire.
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- After you take the breast of the ram for Aaron's ordination,
- wave it before the LORD as a wave offering, and it will be your share.
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- "Consecrate those parts of the ordination ram that belong to Aaron and his sons:
- the breast that was waved and the thigh that was presented.
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- This is always to be the regular share from the Israelites for Aaron and his sons.
- It is the contribution the Israelites are to make to the LORD
- from their fellowship offerings.
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- "Aaron's sacred garments will belong to his descendants
- so that they can be anointed and ordained in them.
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- The son who succeeds him as priest and comes to the Tent of Meeting
- to minister in the Holy Place is to wear them seven days.
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- "Take the ram for the ordination and cook the meat in a sacred place.
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- At the entrance to the Tent of Meeting,
- Aaron and his sons are to eat the meat of the ram and the bread that is in the basket.
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- They are to eat these offerings by which atonement was made for their ordination
- and consecration. But no one else may eat them, because they are sacred.
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- And if any of the meat of the ordination ram or any bread is left over till morning,
- burn it up. It must not be eaten, because it is sacred.
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- "Do for Aaron and his sons everything I have commanded you,
- taking seven days to ordain them.
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- Sacrifice a bull each day as a sin offering to make atonement.
- Purify the altar by making atonement for it, and anoint it to consecrate it.
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- For seven days make atonement for the altar and consecrate it.
- Then the altar will be most holy, and whatever touches it will be holy.
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- "This is what you are to offer on the altar regularly each day: two lambs a year old.
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- Offer one in the morning and the other at twilight.
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- 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.
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- Sacrifice the other lamb at twilight with the same grain offering and
- its drink offering as in the morning--a pleasing aroma,
- an offering made to the LORD by fire.
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- "For the generations to come this burnt offering is to be made regularly
- at the entrance to the Tent of Meeting before the LORD.
- There I will meet you and speak to you;
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- there also I will meet with the Israelites,
- and the place will be consecrated by my glory.
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- "So I will consecrate the Tent of Meeting and
- the altar and will consecrate Aaron and his sons to serve me as priests.
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- Then I will dwell among the Israelites and be their God.
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- They will know that I am the LORD their God,
- who brought them out of Egypt so that I might dwell among them.
- I am the LORD their God.