Exodus 29:1-37

Consecration of the Priests

1 "Now this is what you shall do to them to consecrate them, that they may serve me as priests. b Take one bull of the herd and two rams without blemish, 2 c and unleavened bread, unleavened cakes mixed with oil, and unleavened wafers smeared with oil. You shall make them of fine wheat flour. 3 You shall put them in one basket and bring them in the basket, and bring the bull and the two rams. 4 You shall bring Aaron and his sons to the entrance of the tent of meeting and d wash them with water. 5 Then e you shall take the garments, and put on Aaron the coat and the robe of the ephod, and the ephod, and the breastpiece, and gird him with the f skillfully woven band of the ephod. 6 g And you shall set the turban on his head and put the holy crown on the turban. 7 You shall take h the anointing oil and pour it on his head and anoint him. 8 Then you i shall bring his sons and put coats on them, 9 and you shall gird Aaron and his sons with j sashes and bind caps on them. And k the priesthood shall be theirs by a statute forever. Thus you shall l ordain Aaron and his sons.

10 "Then you shall bring the bull before the tent of meeting. m Aaron and his sons shall lay their hands on the head of the bull. 11 Then you shall kill the bull before the Lord at the entrance of the tent of meeting, 12 and n shall take part of the blood of the bull and put it on the o horns of the altar with your finger, and the rest of 1 the blood you shall pour out at the base of the altar. 13 And you shall take all p the fat that covers the entrails, and the long lobe of the liver, and the two kidneys with the fat that is on them, and burn them on the altar. 14 But the flesh of the bull and its skin and its dung you shall burn with fire q outside the camp; r it is a sin offering.

15 "Then s you shall take one of the rams, and t Aaron and his sons shall lay their hands on the head of the ram, 16 and you shall kill the ram and shall take its blood and throw it against the sides of the altar. 17 Then you shall u cut the ram into pieces, and wash its entrails and its legs, and put them with its pieces and its head, 18 and burn the whole ram on the altar. It is a burnt offering to the Lord. It is a v pleasing aroma, a food offering 2 to the Lord.

19 w "You shall take the other ram, t and Aaron and his sons shall lay their hands on the head of the ram, 20 and you shall kill the ram and take part of its blood and put it on the tip of the right ear of Aaron and on the tips of the right ears of his sons, and on the thumbs of their right hands and on the great toes of their right feet, and throw the rest of the blood against the sides of the altar. 21 Then you shall take part of the blood that is on the altar, and of the x anointing oil, and sprinkle it on Aaron and his garments, and on his sons and his sons' garments with him. He and his garments shall be holy, and his sons and his sons' garments with him.

22 "You shall also take the fat from the ram and the fat tail and the y fat that covers the entrails, and the long lobe of the liver and the two kidneys with the fat that is on them, and the right thigh (for it is a ram of z ordination), 23 and a one loaf of bread and one cake of bread made with oil, and one wafer out of the basket of unleavened bread that is before the Lord. 24 You shall put all these on the palms of Aaron and on the palms of his sons, and b wave them for a wave offering before the Lord. 25 Then c you shall take them from their hands and burn them on the altar on top of the burnt offering, as a d pleasing aroma before the Lord. It is a food offering to the Lord.

26 "You shall take the e breast of the ram of Aaron's f ordination and g wave it for a wave offering before the Lord, and it shall be your portion. 27 And you shall consecrate the h breast of the wave offering that is waved and the i thigh of the priests' portion that is contributed from the ram of f ordination, from what was Aaron's and his sons'. 28 It shall be for Aaron and his sons as a j perpetual due from the people of Israel, for it is a g contribution. It shall be a g contribution from the people of Israel from their peace offerings, their contribution to the Lord.

29 "The holy garments of Aaron k shall be for his sons after him; they shall l be anointed in them and ordained in them. 30 The son who succeeds him as priest, who comes into the tent of meeting to minister in the Holy Place, shall wear them m seven days.

31 "You shall take the ram of ordination and n boil its flesh in a holy place. 32 And Aaron and his sons shall eat the flesh of the ram and the o bread that is in the basket in the entrance of the tent of meeting. 33 p They shall eat those things with which atonement was made at their ordination and consecration, but an q outsider shall not eat of them, because they are holy. 34 And if any of the flesh for the ordination or of the bread remain until the morning, then you shall r burn the remainder with fire. It shall not be eaten, because it is holy.

35 "Thus you shall do to Aaron and to his sons, according to all that I have commanded you. Through s seven days shall you ordain them, 36 and every day you shall offer a t bull as a sin offering for atonement. Also you shall purify the altar, when you make atonement for it, and shall u anoint it to consecrate it. 37 Seven days you shall make atonement for the altar and consecrate it, and the v altar shall be most holy. w Whatever touches the altar shall become holy.

  1. Cross References
    Leviticus 8:2
    Take Aaron and his sons with him, and the garments and the anointing oil and the bull of the sin offering and the two rams and the basket of unleavened bread.
  2. Cross References
    Leviticus 2:4
    When you bring a grain offering baked in the oven as an offering, it shall be unleavened loaves of fine flour mixed with oil or unleavened wafers smeared with oil.
    Leviticus 6:20 - 22
    This is the offering that Aaron and his sons shall offer to the Lord on the day when he is anointed: a tenth of an ephah of fine flour as a regular grain offering, half of it in the morning and half in the evening.
  3. Cross References
    Exodus 40:12
    Then you shall bring Aaron and his sons to the entrance of the tent of meeting and shall wash them with water
    Leviticus 8:6
    And Moses brought Aaron and his sons and washed them with water.
    Hebrews 10:22
    Let us draw near with a true heart in full assurance of faith, with our hearts sprinkled clean from an evil conscience and our bodies washed with pure water.
  4. Cross References
    Exodus 28:2 - 4
    And you shall make holy garments for Aaron your brother, for glory and for beauty.
  5. Cross References
    Exodus 28:8
    And the skillfully woven band on it shall be made like it and be of one piece with it, of gold, blue and purple and scarlet yarns, and fine twined linen.
  6. Cross References
    Exodus 28:36 - 37
    "You shall make a plate of pure gold and engrave on it, like the engraving of a signet, 'Holy to the Lord.'
    Leviticus 8:9
    And he set the turban on his head, and on the turban, in front, he set the golden plate, the holy crown, as the Lord commanded Moses.
    Numbers 6:7
    Not even for his father or for his mother, for brother or sister, if they die, shall he make himself unclean, because his separation to God is on his head.
  7. Cross References
    Exodus 29:21
    Then you shall take part of the blood that is o...
    Exodus 28:41
    And you shall put them on Aaron your brother, a...
    Exodus 30:25
    And you shall make of these a sacred anointing ...
    Leviticus 8:12
    And he poured some of the anointing oil on Aaro...
    Leviticus 8:30
    Then Moses took some of the anointing oil and o...
    Leviticus 10:7
    And do not go outside the entrance of the tent ...
    Leviticus 21:10
    The priest who is chief among his brothers, on ...
    Numbers 35:25
    And the congregation shall rescue the manslayer...
  8. Cross References
    Leviticus 8:13
    And Moses brought Aaron's sons and clothed them with coats and tied sashes around their waists and bound caps on them, as the Lord commanded Moses.
  9. Cross References
    Exodus 28:4
    These are the garments that they shall make: a breastpiece, an ephod, a robe, a coat of checker work, a turban, and a sash. They shall make holy garments for Aaron your brother and his sons to serve me as priests.
    Exodus 28:39
    You shall weave the coat in checker work of fine linen, and you shall make a turban of fine linen, and you shall make a sash embroidered with needlework.
  10. Cross References
    Exodus 27:21
    In the tent of meeting, outside the veil that is before the testimony, Aaron and his sons shall tend it from evening to morning before the Lord. It shall be a statute forever to be observed throughout their generations by the people of Israel.
    Numbers 18:7
    And you and your sons with you shall guard your priesthood for all that concerns the altar and that is within the veil; and you shall serve. I give your priesthood as a gift, and any outsider who comes near shall be put to death.
  11. Cross References
    Exodus 29:29
    The holy garments of Aaron shall be for his sons after him; they shall be anointed in them and ordained in them.
    Exodus 29:33
    They shall eat those things with which atonement was made at their ordination and consecration, but an outsider shall not eat of them, because they are holy.
    Leviticus 8:33
    And you shall not go outside the entrance of the tent of meeting for seven days, until the days of your ordination are completed, for it will take seven days to ordain you.
    Leviticus 16:32
    And the priest who is anointed and consecrated as priest in his father's place shall make atonement, wearing the holy linen garments.
    Exodus 28:41
    And you shall put them on Aaron your brother, and on his sons with him, and shall anoint them and ordain them and consecrate them, that they may serve me as priests.
  12. Cross References
    Exodus 29:15
    Then you shall take one of the rams, and Aaron and his sons shall lay their hands on the head of the ram.
    Exodus 29:19
    You shall take the other ram, and Aaron and his sons shall lay their hands on the head of the ram.
    Leviticus 1:4
    He shall lay his hand on the head of the burnt offering, and it shall be accepted for him to make atonement for him.
    Leviticus 8:14
    Then he brought the bull of the sin offering, and Aaron and his sons laid their hands on the head of the bull of the sin offering.
  13. Cross References
    Leviticus 8:15
    And he killed it, and Moses took the blood, and with his finger put it on the horns of the altar around it and purified the altar and poured out the blood at the base of the altar and consecrated it to make atonement for it.
  14. Cross References
    Exodus 27:2
    And you shall make horns for it on its four corners; its horns shall be of one piece with it, and you shall overlay it with bronze.
  15. Cross References
    Leviticus 3:3 - 4
    And from the sacrifice of the peace offering, as a food offering to the Lord, he shall offer the fat covering the entrails and all the fat that is on the entrails.
  16. Cross References
    Leviticus 4:11 - 12
    But the skin of the bull and all its flesh, with its head, its legs, its entrails, and its dung -
    Leviticus 4:21
    And he shall carry the bull outside the camp and burn it up as he burned the first bull; it is the sin offering for the assembly.
    Numbers 19:3
    And you shall give it to Eleazar the priest, and it shall be taken outside the camp and slaughtered before him.
    Numbers 19:5
    And the heifer shall be burned in his sight. Its skin, its flesh, and its blood, with its dung, shall be burned.
    Hebrews 13:11
    For the bodies of those animals whose blood is brought into the holy places by the high priest as a sacrifice for sin are burned outside the camp.
  17. Cross References
    Exodus 29:36
    And every day you shall offer a bull as a sin offering for atonement. Also you shall purify the altar, when you make atonement for it, and shall anoint it to consecrate it.
    Exodus 30:10
    Aaron shall make atonement on its horns once a year. With the blood of the sin offering of atonement he shall make atonement for it once in the year throughout your generations. It is most holy to the Lord.
  18. Cross References
    Exodus 29:1
    Now this is what you shall do to them to consecrate them, that they may serve me as priests. Take one bull of the herd and two rams without blemish.
    Leviticus 8:18
    Then he presented the ram of the burnt offering, and Aaron and his sons laid their hands on the head of the ram.
  19. Cross References
    Exodus 29:19
    You shall take the other ram, and Aaron and his sons shall lay their hands on the head of the ram.
    Leviticus 1:4
    He shall lay his hand on the head of the burnt offering, and it shall be accepted for him to make atonement for him.
    Leviticus 8:14
    Then he brought the bull of the sin offering, and Aaron and his sons laid their hands on the head of the bull of the sin offering.
  20. Cross References
    Leviticus 8:20
    He cut the ram into pieces, and Moses burned the head and the pieces and the fat.
  21. Cross References
    Exodus 29:25
    Then you shall take them from their hands and burn them on the altar on top of the burnt offering, as a pleasing aroma before the Lord. It is a food offering to the Lord.
    Exodus 29:41
    The other lamb you shall offer at twilight, and shall offer with it a grain offering and its drink offering, as in the morning, for a pleasing aroma, a food offering to the Lord.
    Genesis 8:21
    And when the Lord smelled the pleasing aroma, the Lord said in his heart, "I will never again curse the ground because of man, for the intention of man's heart is evil from his youth. Neither will I ever again strike down every living creature as I have done.
  22. Cross References
    Exodus 29:1
    Now this is what you shall do to them to consecrate them, that they may serve me as priests. Take one bull of the herd and two rams without blemish.
    Leviticus 8:22
    Then he presented the other ram, the ram of ordination, and Aaron and his sons laid their hands on the head of the ram.
  23. Cross References
    Exodus 29:15
    Then you shall take one of the rams, and Aaron and his sons shall lay their hands on the head of the ram.
  24. Cross References
    Exodus 29:7
    You shall take the anointing oil and pour it on his head and anoint him.
  25. Cross References
    Exodus 29:13
    And you shall take all the fat that covers the entrails, and the long lobe of the liver, and the two kidneys with the fat that is on them, and burn them on the altar.
  26. Cross References
    Leviticus 7:37
    This is the law of the burnt offering, of the grain offering, of the sin offering, of the guilt offering, of the ordination offering, and of the peace offering.
    Leviticus 8:28
    Then Moses took them from their hands and burned them on the altar with the burnt offering. This was an ordination offering with a pleasing aroma, a food offering to the Lord.
    Leviticus 8:31
    And Moses said to Aaron and his sons, "Boil the flesh at the entrance of the tent of meeting, and there eat it and the bread that is in the basket of ordination offerings, as I commanded, saying, 'Aaron and his sons shall eat it.
    Leviticus 8:33
    And you shall not go outside the entrance of the tent of meeting for seven days, until the days of your ordination are completed, for it will take seven days to ordain you.
  27. Cross References
    Exodus 29:2 - 3
    And unleavened bread, unleavened cakes mixed with oil, and unleavened wafers smeared with oil. You shall make them of fine wheat flour.
    Leviticus 8:26
    And out of the basket of unleavened bread that was before the Lord he took one unleavened loaf and one loaf of bread with oil and one wafer and placed them on the pieces of fat and on the right thigh.
  28. Cross References
    Leviticus 7:30
    His own hands shall bring the Lord 's food offerings. He shall bring the fat with the breast, that the breast may be waved as a wave offering before the Lord.
    Leviticus 8:27
    And he put all these in the hands of Aaron and in the hands of his sons and waved them as a wave offering before the Lord.
    Leviticus 8:29
    And Moses took the breast and waved it for a wave offering before the Lord. It was Moses' portion of the ram of ordination, as the Lord commanded Moses.
    Numbers 5:25
    And the priest shall take the grain offering of jealousy out of the woman's hand and shall wave the grain offering before the Lord and bring it to the altar.
    Numbers 6:20
    And the priest shall wave them for a wave offering before the Lord. They are a holy portion for the priest, together with the breast that is waved and the thigh that is contributed. And after that the Nazirite may drink wine.
  29. Cross References
    Leviticus 6:22
    The priest from among Aaron's sons, who is anointed to succeed him, shall offer it to the Lord as decreed forever. The whole of it shall be burned.
    Leviticus 8:28
    Then Moses took them from their hands and burned them on the altar with the burnt offering. This was an ordination offering with a pleasing aroma, a food offering to the Lord.
  30. Cross References
    Exodus 29:18
    And burn the whole ram on the altar. It is a burnt offering to the Lord. It is a pleasing aroma, a food offering to the Lord.
    Exodus 29:41
    The other lamb you shall offer at twilight, and shall offer with it a grain offering and its drink offering, as in the morning, for a pleasing aroma, a food offering to the Lord.
  31. Cross References
    Leviticus 8:29
    And Moses took the breast and waved it for a wave offering before the Lord. It was Moses' portion of the ram of ordination, as the Lord commanded Moses.
  32. Cross References
    Exodus 29:22
    You shall also take the fat from the ram and the fat tail and the fat that covers the entrails, and the long lobe of the liver and the two kidneys with the fat that is on them, and the right thigh (for it is a ram of ordination).
  33. Cross References
    Exodus 29:24
    You shall put all these on the palms of Aaron and on the palms of his sons, and wave them for a wave offering before the Lord.
  34. Cross References
    Leviticus 7:31
    The priest shall burn the fat on the altar, but the breast shall be for Aaron and his sons.
    Leviticus 7:34
    For the breast that is waved and the thigh that is contributed I have taken from the people of Israel, out of the sacrifices of their peace offerings, and have given them to Aaron the priest and to his sons, as a perpetual due from the people of Israel.
    Leviticus 10:14 - 15
    But the breast that is waved and the thigh that is contributed you shall eat in a clean place, you and your sons and your daughters with you, for they are given as your due and your sons' due from the sacrifices of the peace offerings of the people of Israel.
    Numbers 18:11
    This also is yours: the contribution of their gift, all the wave offerings of the people of Israel. I have given them to you, and to your sons and daughters with you, as a perpetual due. Everyone who is clean in your house may eat it.
    Numbers 18:18
    But their flesh shall be yours, as the breast that is waved and as the right thigh are yours.
  35. Cross References
    Leviticus 7:32
    And the right thigh you shall give to the priest as a contribution from the sacrifice of your peace offerings.
    Leviticus 7:34
    For the breast that is waved and the thigh that is contributed I have taken from the people of Israel, out of the sacrifices of their peace offerings, and have given them to Aaron the priest and to his sons, as a perpetual due from the people of Israel.
    Leviticus 10:15
    The thigh that is contributed and the breast that is waved they shall bring with the food offerings of the fat pieces to wave for a wave offering before the Lord, and it shall be yours and your sons' with you as a due forever, as the Lord has commanded.
    Numbers 18:11
    This also is yours: the contribution of their gift, all the wave offerings of the people of Israel. I have given them to you, and to your sons and daughters with you, as a perpetual due. Everyone who is clean in your house may eat it.
  36. Cross References
    Exodus 29:26
    You shall take the breast of the ram of Aaron's ordination and wave it for a wave offering before the Lord, and it shall be your portion.
  37. Cross References
    Leviticus 10:15
    The thigh that is contributed and the breast that is waved they shall bring with the food offerings of the fat pieces to wave for a wave offering before the Lord, and it shall be yours and your sons' with you as a due forever, as the Lord has commanded.
  38. Cross References
    Exodus 29:26
    You shall take the breast of the ram of Aaron's ordination and wave it for a wave offering before the Lord, and it shall be your portion.
  39. Cross References
    Exodus 29:26
    You shall take the breast of the ram of Aaron's ordination and wave it for a wave offering before the Lord, and it shall be your portion.
  40. Cross References
    Numbers 18:8
    Then the Lord spoke to Aaron, "Behold, I have given you charge of the contributions made to me, all the consecrated things of the people of Israel. I have given them to you as a portion and to your sons as a perpetual due.
    Numbers 20:26
    And strip Aaron of his garments and put them on Eleazar his son. And Aaron shall be gathered to his people and shall die there.
    Numbers 20:28
    And Moses stripped Aaron of his garments and put them on Eleazar his son. And Aaron died there on the top of the mountain. Then Moses and Eleazar came down from the mountain.
  41. Cross References
    Exodus 29:9
    And you shall gird Aaron and his sons with sashes and bind caps on them. And the priesthood shall be theirs by a statute forever. Thus you shall ordain Aaron and his sons.
  42. Cross References
    Leviticus 8:33
    And you shall not go outside the entrance of the tent of meeting for seven days, until the days of your ordination are completed, for it will take seven days to ordain you.
    Leviticus 8:35
    At the entrance of the tent of meeting you shall remain day and night for seven days, performing what the Lord has charged, so that you do not die, for so I have been commanded.
  43. Cross References
    Leviticus 8:31
    And Moses said to Aaron and his sons, "Boil the flesh at the entrance of the tent of meeting, and there eat it and the bread that is in the basket of ordination offerings, as I commanded, saying, 'Aaron and his sons shall eat it.
  44. Cross References
    Matthew 12:4
    How he entered the house of God and ate the bread of the Presence, which it was not lawful for him to eat nor for those who were with him, but only for the priests?
  45. Cross References
    Leviticus 10:14 - 15
    But the breast that is waved and the thigh that is contributed you shall eat in a clean place, you and your sons and your daughters with you, for they are given as your due and your sons' due from the sacrifices of the peace offerings of the people of Israel.
    Leviticus 10:17
    Why have you not eaten the sin offering in the place of the sanctuary, since it is a thing most holy and has been given to you that you may bear the iniquity of the congregation, to make atonement for them before the Lord ?
  46. Cross References
    Leviticus 22:10
    A lay person shall not eat of a holy thing; no foreign guest of the priest or hired servant shall eat of a holy thing.
  47. Cross References
    Leviticus 8:32
    And what remains of the flesh and the bread you shall burn up with fire.
  48. Cross References
    Leviticus 8:33 - 35
    And you shall not go outside the entrance of the tent of meeting for seven days, until the days of your ordination are completed, for it will take seven days to ordain you.
  49. Cross References
    Exodus 29:14
    But the flesh of the bull and its skin and its dung you shall burn with fire outside the camp; it is a sin offering.
    Exodus 30:10
    Aaron shall make atonement on its horns once a year. With the blood of the sin offering of atonement he shall make atonement for it once in the year throughout your generations. It is most holy to the Lord.
  50. Cross References
    Exodus 30:26
    With it you shall anoint the tent of meeting and the ark of the testimony.
    Exodus 30:28 - 29
    And the altar of burnt offering with all its utensils and the basin and its stand.
    Exodus 40:10
    You shall also anoint the altar of burnt offering and all its utensils, and consecrate the altar, so that the altar may become most holy.
  51. Cross References
    Exodus 40:10
    You shall also anoint the altar of burnt offering and all its utensils, and consecrate the altar, so that the altar may become most holy.
  52. Cross References
    Exodus 30:29
    You shall consecrate them, that they may be most holy. Whatever touches them will become holy.
    Matthew 23:19
    You blind men! For which is greater, the gift or the altar that makes the gift sacred?
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