Exodus 29:38-46

Listen to Exodus 29:38-46
38 “Now this is what you shall offer on the altar: 1two lambs a year old 2day by day regularly.
39 One lamb you shall offer 3in the morning, and the other lamb you shall offer 4at twilight.
40 And with the first lamb a tenth measure[a] of fine flour mingled with a fourth of a hin[b] of beaten oil, and a fourth of a hin of wine for a drink offering.
41 The other lamb you shall offer 5at twilight, and shall offer with it a grain offering and its drink offering, as 6in the morning, for a 7pleasing aroma, a food offering to the Lord.
42 It shall be a 8regular burnt offering throughout your generations at the entrance of the tent of meeting before the Lord, 9where I will meet with you, to speak to you there.
43 There I will meet with the people of Israel, and it shall be 10sanctified by my glory.
44 I will consecrate the tent of meeting and the altar. 11Aaron also and his sons I will consecrate to serve me as priests.
45 12I will dwell among the people of Israel and will be their God.
46 And they shall know that 13I am the Lord their God, who brought them out of the land of Egypt that I might dwell among them. I am the Lord their God.

Exodus 29:38-46 Meaning and Commentary

INTRODUCTION TO EXODUS 29

This chapter gives an account of the form and order of the consecration of Aaron and his sons to the priestly office; preparatory to which Moses is ordered to take a young bullock, two rams, bread, cakes, and wafers unleavened, and bring them and Aaron and his sons to the door of the congregation, where the ceremony was to be publicly performed, and which began with washing them, Ex 29:1-4 and then proceeded by putting on the priestly garments directed to be made in the preceding chapter, first on Aaron, who also was anointed, Ex 29:5-7 and then upon his sons, Ex 29:8,9 after which the bullock and the two rams were to be slain, and orders are given what was to be done with their blood, and the several parts of them, as well as with the cakes and wafers, Ex 29:10-23 and directions are given to make these wave and heave offerings, Ex 29:24-28 and that the garments of Aaron's should be his son's that succeeded him, Ex 29:29,30, and that the flesh of the ram of consecration with the bread should be eaten by Aaron and his sons and no other, Ex 29:31-35, the altar also where they were to officiate was to be cleansed, sanctified, and an atonement made for it, Ex 29:36,37 after which two lambs every day, morning and evening, were to be offered on it in all succeeding generations, Ex 29:38-42, and the chapter is closed with a promise that the Lord would meet with the children of Israel at the door of the tabernacle of the congregation, and would sanctify the tabernacle, and dwell among them, and be their God, Ex 29:43-46.

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Cross References 13

  • 1. 29:38 Num. 28:3; 1 Chr. 16:40; 2 Chr. 2:4; 13:11; 31:3; Ezra 3:3
  • 2. 29:38 [Dan. 8:11-13; 9:27; 12:11]; Heb. 10:11
  • 3. 29:39 2 Kgs. 16:15; Ezek. 46:13-15
  • 4. 29:39 1 Kgs. 18:29, 36; Ezra 9:4, 5; Ps. 141:2; Dan. 9:21
  • 5. 29:41 [See ver. 39 above]
  • 6. 29:41 ch. 30:9; 40:29
  • 7. 29:41 ver. 18, 25
  • 8. 29:42 Num. 28:6
  • 9. 29:42 See ch. 25:22
  • 10. 29:43 ch. 40:34; [1 Kgs. 8:11; 2 Chr. 5:14; 7:1-3; Ezek. 43:5; Hag. 2:7, 9; Mal. 3:1]
  • 11. 29:44 Lev. 21:15; 22:9, 16
  • 12. 29:45 ch. 25:8; Lev. 26:12; Zech. 2:10; 2 Cor. 6:16; Rev. 21:3
  • 13. 29:46 ch. 20:2

Footnotes 2

  • [a] 29:40 Possibly an ephah (about 3/5 bushel or 22 liters)
  • [b] 29:40 A 'hin' was about 4 quarts or 3.5 liters
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