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The In-Dept Study of the Bible
Exodus 29
1 “This is the thing that you shall do to
them to make them holy, to minister to me
in the priest’s office: take one young bull
and two rams without defect,
2 unleavened bread, unleavened cakes
mixed with oil, and unleavened wafers
anointed with oil. You shall make them of
fine wheat flour.
3 You shall put them into one basket, and
bring them in the basket, with the bull and
the two rams.
4 You shall bring Aaron and his sons to
the door of the Tent of Meeting, and shall
wash them with water.
5 You shall take the garments, and put
on Aaron the tunic, the robe of the ephod,
the ephod, and the breastplate, and clothe
him with the skillfully woven band of the
ephod.
6 You shall set the turban on his head,
and put the holy crown on the turban.
7 Then you shall take the anointing oil,
and pour it on his head, and anoint him.
8 You shall bring his sons, and put tunics
on them.
9 You shall clothe them with belts, Aaron
andhis sons, andbindheadbands onthem.
They shall have the priesthood by a perpetual statute. You shall consecrate Aaron
and his sons.
10 “You shall bring the bull before the
Tent of Meeting; and Aaron and his sons
shall lay their hands on the head of the
bull.
11 You shall killthe bull before Yahweh at
the door of the Tent of Meeting.
12 You shall take of the blood of the bull,
and put it on the horns of the altar with
your finger; and you shall pour out all the
blood at the base of the altar.You shall take all the fat that covers
the innards, the cover of the liver, the two
kidneys, and the fat that is on them, and
burn them on the altar.
13 You shall take all the fat that covers
the innards, the cover of the liver, the two
kidneys, and the fat that is on them, and
burn them on the altar.
14 But the meat of the bull, and its skin,
and its dung, you shall burn with fire outside of the camp. It is a sin offering.
15 “You shall also take the one ram, and
Aaron and his sons shall lay their hands on
the head of the ram.
16 You shall kill the ram, and you shall
take its blood, and sprinkle it around on
the altar.
17 You shall cut the ram into its pieces,
and wash its innards, and its legs, and put
them with its pieces, and with its head.
18 You shall burn the whole ram on the
altar: it is a burnt offering to Yahweh; it is
a pleasant aroma, an offering made by fire
to Yahweh.
19 “You shall take the other ram, and
Aaron and his sons shall lay their hands on
the head of the ram.
20 Then you shall kill the ram, and take
some of its blood, and put it on the tip of
the right ear of Aaron, and on the tip of the
right ear of his sons, and on the thumb of
their right hand, and on the big toe of their
right foot; and sprinkle the blood around
on the altar.
21 You shall take of the blood that is on
the altar, and of the anointing oil, and
sprinkle it on Aaron, and on his garments,
and on his sons, and on the garments of
his sons with him: and he shall be made
holy, and his garments, and his sons, and
his sons’ garments with him.
22 Also you shall take some of the ram’s
fat, the fat tail, the fat that covers the
innards, the cover of the liver, the two
kidneys, the fat that is on them, and the
right thigh (for it is a ram of consecration),
23and one loaf of bread, one cake of oiled
bread, and one wafer out of the basket of
unleavened bread that is before Yahweh.
24 You shall put all of this in Aaron’s
hands, and in his sons’ hands, and shall
wave them for a wave offering before Yahweh.
25 You shall take them from their hands,
and burn them on the altar on the burnt
offering, for a pleasant aroma before Yahweh: it
is an offering made by fire to Yahweh.
26 “You shall take the breast of Aaron’s
ram of consecration, and wave it for a
wave offering before Yahweh. It shall be
your portion.
27 You shall sanctify the breast of the
wave offering and the thigh ofthe wave offering,
which is waved, and which is raised
up, of the ram of consecration, even of that
which is for Aaron, and of that which is for
his sons.
28 It shall be for Aaron and his sons as
their portion forever from the children of
Israel; for it is a wave offering. It shall be a
wave offering fromthe childrenofIsrael of
the sacrifices of their peace offerings, even
their wave offering to Yahweh.
29 “The holy garments of Aaron shall be
for his sons after him, to be anointed in
them, and to be consecrated in them.
30 Seven days shall the son who is priest
in his place put them on, when he comes
into the Tent of Meeting to minister in the
holy place.
31 “Youshalltake the ramof consecration
and boil its meat in a holy place.
32 Aaron and his sons shall eat the meat
of the ram, and the bread that is in the
basket, at the door of the Tent of Meeting.
33 They shall eat those things with which
atonement was made, to consecrate and
sanctify them; but a stranger shall not eat
of it, because they are holy.
34 If anything of the meat of the consecration, or of the bread, remains to the
morning, then you shall burn the remainder with fire. It shall not be eaten, because
it is holy.
35 “You shall do so to Aaron and to his
sons, according to all that I have commanded you. You shall consecrate them
seven days.
36 Every day you shall offer the bull of sin
offering for atonement. You shall cleanse
the altar when you make atonement for it.
You shall anoint it, to sanctify it.
37 Seven days you shall make atonement
for the altar, and sanctify it; and the altar
shall be most holy. Whatever touches the
altar shall be holy.
38 “Now this is that which you shall offer
on the altar: two lambs a year old day by
day continually.
39 The one lamb you shall offer in the
morning; and the other lamb you shall
offer at evening;
40 and with the one lamb a tenth part
of an ephah† of fine flour mixed with the
fourth part of a hin‡ of beaten oil, and the
fourth part of a hin of wine for a drink
offering.
41 The other lamb you shall offer at
evening, and shall do to it according to
the meal offering of the morning and according to its
drink offering, for a pleasant
aroma, an offering made by fire to Yahweh.
42 It shall be a continual burnt offering
throughout your generations atthe door of
the Tent of Meeting before Yahweh, where
I will meet with you, to speak there to you.
43 There I will meet with the children of
Israel; and the place shall be sanctified by
my glory.
44 I will sanctify the Tent of Meeting and
the altar. I will also sanctify Aaron and his
sons to minister to me in the priest’s office.
45 I will dwell among the children of
Israel, and will be their God.
46 They shall know that I am Yahweh
their God, who brought them out of the
land of Egypt, that I might dwell among
them: I am Yahweh their God.
† 29:40 1 ephah is about 22 liters or about 2/3 of a bushel ‡ 29:40 A hin is about 6.5 liters or 1.7 gallons, so a fourth
of a hin is about 1.6 liters.
Word English Bible
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