CHAPTER 8

¹And the LORD spoke to Moses, saying, ²“Take Aaron and his sons with him, and the garments and the anointing oil and the offense-offering bull and the two rams and the basket of flatbread. ³And assemble all the community at the entrance of the Tent of Meeting.” ⁴And Moses did as the LORD had charged him, and the community assembled at the entrance of the Tent of Meeting. ⁵And Moses said to the community, “This is the thing that the LORD charged to do.” ⁶And Moses brought forward Aaron and his sons and bathed them in water. ⁷And he placed the tunics on them and girded them with the sash and dressed them in the robe and put the ephod over it and girded it with the ornamental band of the ephod, and tied it to him with it. ⁸And he put the breastplate on him and placed in the breastplate the Urim and the Thummim. ⁹And he put the turban on his head, and he put upon the turban at the front the golden diadem, the holy crown, as the LORD had charged Moses. ¹⁰And Moses took the anointing oil and anointed the Tabernacle and everything in it and consecrated them. ¹¹And he sprinkled from it on the altar seven times and anointed the altar and all its implements and the laver and its stand to consecrate them. ¹²And he poured from the anointing oil on Aaron’s head and anointed him to consecrate him. ¹³And Moses brought forward the sons of Aaron and dressed them in tunics and girded them with sashes and bound headdresses on them as the LORD had charged Moses. ¹⁴And he brought close the offense-offering bull, and Aaron and his sons laid their hands on the head of the offense-offering bull, ¹⁵and it was slaughtered. And Moses took the blood and put it on the horns of the altar all around with his finger and rid the altar of offense, and the blood he poured out at the base of the altar and consecrated it to atone over it. ¹⁶And he took all the fat that was on the innards and the lobe on the liver and the two kidneys and their fat, and Moses turned them to smoke on the altar. ¹⁷And the bull and its hide and its flesh and its dung he burned in fire outside the camp, as the LORD had charged Moses. ¹⁸And he brought forward the burnt-offering ram, and Aaron and his sons laid their hands on the head of the ram. ¹⁹And it was slaughtered, and Moses cast the blood on the altar all around. ²⁰And the ram he cut up into its parts, and Moses turned the head and the cut parts and the fat into smoke. ²¹And the innards and the legs he washed in water. And Moses turned the whole ram to smoke on the altar—a burnt offering it was—as a fragrant odor to the LORD, a fire offering to the LORD it was, as the LORD had charged Moses. ²²And he brought forward the second ram, the installation ram, and Aaron and his sons laid their hands on the head of the ram. ²³And it was slaughtered, and Moses took from its blood and put it on the right earlobe of Aaron and on the thumb of his right hand and on the big toe of his right foot. ²⁴And he brought forward the sons of Aaron, and Moses put from the blood on their right earlobe and on the thumb of their right hand and on the big toe of their right foot, and Moses cast the blood on the altar all around. ²⁵And he took the fat and the broad tail and all the fat that is on the innards and the lobe on the liver and the two kidneys and their fat and the right thigh. ²⁶And from the basket of flatbread that is before the LORD he took one loaf of flatbread and one loaf of oil bread and one wafer and placed them on the fat and on the right thigh. ²⁷And he put everything on the palms of Aaron and on the palms of his sons, and elevated them as an elevation offering before the LORD. ²⁸And Moses took them from their palms and turned them to smoke on the altar together with the burnt offering—they were an installation offering for a fragrant odor, a fire offering they were to the LORD. ²⁹And Moses took the breast and elevated it as an elevation offering before the LORD from the ram of installation. For Moses it was for a portion, as the LORD had charged Moses. ³⁰And Moses took from the anointing oil and from the blood that was on the altar and sprinkled it on Aaron, on his garments, and on his sons and on the garments of his sons, with him, and he consecrated Aaron with his garments and his sons and the garments of his sons, with him. ³¹And Moses said to Aaron and to his sons, “Boil the flesh at the entrance to the Tent of Meeting, and there you shall eat it and the bread that is in the installation basket, as I have charged, saying ‘Aaron and his sons shall eat it.’ ³²And what is left of the flesh and of the bread you shall burn in fire. ³³And from the entrance of the Tent of Meeting you shall not go out seven days, until the day of completion of the days of your installation, for seven days shall your installation be. ³⁴As was done on this day, the LORD charged to do to atone for you. ³⁵And at the entrance of the Tent of Meeting you shall sit day and night seven days, and you shall keep the LORD’s watch and shall not die, for thus I have been charged.” ³⁶And Aaron, and his sons with him, did all the things that the LORD had charged by the hand of Moses.