Exodus 29:38-46

38 “This is what you are to offer on the altar regularly each day: two lambs a year old.
39 Offer one in the morning and the other at twilight.
40 With the first lamb offer a tenth of an ephah[a] of the finest flour mixed with a quarter of a hin[b] of oil from pressed olives, and a quarter of a hin of wine as a drink offering.
41 Sacrifice the other lamb at twilight with the same grain offering and its drink offering as in the morning—a pleasing aroma, a food offering presented to the LORD.
42 “For the generations to come this burnt offering is to be made regularly at the entrance to the tent of meeting, before the LORD. There I will meet you and speak to you;
43 there also I will meet with the Israelites, and the place will be consecrated by my glory.
44 “So I will consecrate the tent of meeting and the altar and will consecrate Aaron and his sons to serve me as priests.
45 Then I will dwell among the Israelites and be their God.
46 They will know that I am the LORD their God, who brought them out of Egypt so 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.

Cross References 16

  • 1. Leviticus 23:2; Numbers 28:3-8; 1 Chronicles 16:40; 2 Chronicles 8:13; Ezekiel 46:13-15; Daniel 12:11
  • 2. Numbers 28:4,8; 1 Kings 18:36; 2 Chronicles 13:11; Ezra 3:3; Psalms 141:2; Daniel 9:21; Ezekiel 46:13-15
  • 3. Exodus 30:24; Numbers 15:4; Numbers 28:5
  • 4. S Genesis 35:14; Leviticus 23:37; 2 Kings 16:13
  • 5. 1 Kings 18:29,36; 2 Kings 3:20; 2 Kings 16:15; Ezra 9:4,5; Psalms 141:2; Daniel 9:21
  • 6. Leviticus 2:1; Leviticus 5:13; Leviticus 10:12; Numbers 4:16; Numbers 6:17; 1 Kings 8:64; Isaiah 43:23
  • 7. Exodus 30:8,10,21,31">Exodus 30:8,10,21,31; Exodus 31:13; Exodus 30:8
  • 8. Ezekiel 46:15
  • 9. S Exodus 26:1; S Exodus 27:21
  • 10. ver 43; Exodus 25:22; Exodus 33:9,11; Numbers 7:89
  • 11. Exodus 33:18; Exodus 40:34; Leviticus 9:6; 1 Kings 8:11; 2 Chronicles 5:14; 2 Chronicles 7:2; Psalms 26:8; Psalms 85:9; Ezekiel 1:28; Ezekiel 43:5; Haggai 1:8; Haggai 2:7
  • 12. S ver 1; Leviticus 21:15
  • 13. S Exodus 25:8; Leviticus 26:12; Numbers 35:34; Zechariah 2:10; John 14:17; S Romans 8:10
  • 14. S Genesis 17:7; 2 Corinthians 6:16; Revelation 21:3
  • 15. S Exodus 6:6; Exodus 19:4-6; Deuteronomy 5:6; Psalms 114:1; Haggai 2:5
  • 16. S Genesis 17:7; Exodus 20:2

Footnotes 2

  • [a]. That is, probably about 3 1/2 pounds or about 1.6 kilograms
  • [b]. That is, probably about 1 quart or about 1 liter
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