CHAPTER 29

¹“And this is the thing you shall do for them to consecrate them to be priests to Me: take one bull of the herd and two unblemished rams, ²and flatbread and flatcakes mixed with oil and flatcake wafers brushed with oil, fine wheat flour you shall make them. ³And you shall place them in one basket and bring them forward in the basket, with the bull and with the two rams. ⁴And Aaron and his sons you shall bring forward at the entrance to the Tent of Meeting, and you shall bathe them in water. ⁵And you shall take the garments and dress Aaron in the tunic and the robe of the ephod and the ephod and the breastplate, and you shall gird him with the band of the ephod. ⁶And you shall put the turban on his head and you shall set the holy diadem on the turban. ⁷And you shall take the anointing oil and pour it over his head and you shall anoint him. ⁸And his sons you shall bring forward and dress them in tunics. ⁹And you shall belt them with sashes, Aaron and his sons, and set headgear on them, and the priesthood shall be for them a perpetual statute, and you shall install Aaron and his sons. ¹⁰And you shall bring forward the bull before the Tent of Meeting, and Aaron, and his sons, shall lay their hands on the bull’s head. ¹¹And you shall slaughter the bull before the LORD at the entrance to the Tent of Meeting. ¹²And you shall take of the bull’s blood and place it on the horns of the altar with your finger, and all the blood you shall spill upon the base of the altar. ¹³And you shall take all the fats that cover the entrails and the lobe on the liver and the two kidneys and the fat that is on them and turn them to smoke on the altar. ¹⁴And the bull’s flesh and its hide and its dung you shall burn in fire outside the camp, it is an offense. ¹⁵And the one ram you shall take, and Aaron and his sons shall lay their hands on the ram’s head. ¹⁶And you shall slaughter the ram and take its blood and throw it upon the altar all around. ¹⁷And the ram you shall cut up by its parts and wash its entrails and its limbs and put them on its cut parts and its head. ¹⁸And you shall turn the ram to smoke on the altar, it is a burnt offering to the LORD, a pleasing fragrance, a fire offering to the LORD. ¹⁹And you shall take the second ram, and Aaron, and his sons, shall lay their hands on the ram’s head. ²⁰And you shall slaughter the ram and take of its blood and put it on the right earlobe of Aaron and on the right earlobe of his sons and on their right thumb and on their right big toe, and you shall throw the blood on the altar all around. ²¹And you shall take of the blood that is on the altar and of the anointing oil and sprinkle them on Aaron and on his garments and on his sons’ garments and on his face together with them, and he shall be consecrated, he and his garments and his sons and his sons’ garments together with him. ²²And you shall take from the ram the fat, and the broad tail and the fat that covers the entrails and the lobe on the liver and the two kidneys and the fat that is on them, and the right thigh, for it is the installation ram, ²³and one loaf of bread and one cake of bread made with oil and one wafer from the basket of flatbread that is before the LORD. ²⁴And you shall put it all on the palms of Aaron and on the palms of his sons and elevate it as an elevation offering before the LORD. ²⁵And you shall take them from their hands and turn them to smoke on the altar, together with the burnt offering, as a pleasing fragrance before the LORD, it is a fire offering to the LORD. ²⁶And you shall take the breast from the installation ram which is Aaron’s and elevate it as an elevation offering before the LORD, and it shall be your portion. ²⁷And you shall consecrate the breast of the elevation offering and the thigh of the donation, which were elevated and which were donated, from the installation ram that is Aaron’s and that is his sons’. ²⁸And it shall be a perpetual statute for Aaron and for his sons from the Israelites, for it is a donation, and a donation shall it be from the Israelites, from their communion sacrifices, their donation to the LORD.

²⁹“And the sacral garments that are Aaron’s shall belong to his sons after him, to be anointed in them and to be installed in them. ³⁰Seven days the priest in his stead among his sons shall wear them, who comes into the Tent of Meeting to serve in the sanctum. ³¹And the installation ram you shall take and you shall cook its flesh in a sacred place. ³²And Aaron, and his sons with him, shall eat the ram’s flesh and the bread that is in the basket at the entrance of the Tent of Meeting. ³³And they for whom atonement is made shall eat them, to install them, to consecrate them, and no stranger shall eat them, for they are holy. ³⁴And if something is left over from the flesh of installation and from the bread until morning, you shall burn what is left in fire, it shall not be eaten, for it is holy. ³⁵And you shall do thus for Aaron and for his sons, as all that I have charged you, seven days you shall install them. ³⁶And an offense-offering bull you shall prepare for each day, and you shall purge the altar as you atone over it, and you shall anoint it to consecrate it. ³⁷Seven days you shall atone on the altar and consecrate it, and the altar shall be a holy of holies, whoever touches it shall be consecrated. ³⁸And this shall you do on the altar: two yearling lambs each day, perpetually. ³⁹The one lamb you shall do in the morning and the other lamb you shall do at twilight. ⁴⁰And a tenth of a measure of fine flour mixed with a quarter-hin of beaten oil, and a quarter-hin libation of wine for the one lamb. ⁴¹And the other lamb you shall do at twilight, like the morning’s grain offering and its libation you shall do it, as a pleasing fragrance to the LORD, ⁴²a perpetual burnt offering for your generations at the entrance to the Tent of Meeting before the LORD, where I shall meet with you there to speak to you. ⁴³And I shall meet there with the Israelites and it shall be consecrated through My glory. ⁴⁴And I shall consecrate the Tent of Meeting and the altar, and Aaron and his sons I shall consecrate to be priests to Me. ⁴⁵And I shall abide in the midst of the Israelites and I shall be God to them. ⁴⁶And they shall know that I am the LORD their God Who brought them out from the land of Egypt for Me to abide in their midst. I am the LORD their God.”