1 "1Now this is what* you shall do to them to consecrate them to minister as priests to Me: takeoneyoungbull and tworamswithoutblemish,
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and 2unleavenedbread and unleavenedcakesmixed with oil, and unleavenedwafersspread with oil; you shall make them of finewheatflour.
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"You shall put them in onebasket, and present them in the basket along with the bull and the tworams.
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"Then 3you shall bringAaron and his sons to the doorway of the tent of meeting and wash them with water.
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"You shall take the garments, and put on Aaron the 4tunic and 5the robe of the ephod and 6the ephod and 7the breastpiece, and gird him with the skillfully8wovenband of the ephod;
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and you shall set the 9turban on his head and put10the holycrown on the turban.
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"Then you shall take11the anointingoil and pour it on his head and anoint him.
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"You shall bring his sons and put12tunics on them.
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"You shall gird them with 13sashes, Aaron and his sons, and bindcaps on them, and they shall have14the priesthood by a perpetualstatute. So you shall 15ordain*Aaron and his sons.
The Sacrifices
10 "Then you shall bring the bullbefore the tent of meeting, and Aaron and his sons shall 16lay their hands on the head of the bull.
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"You shall slaughter the bullbefore the LORD at the doorway of the tent of meeting.
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"You shall 17takesome of the blood of the bull and put it on 18the horns of the altar with your finger; and you shall pour out all the blood at the base of the altar.
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"You shall 19takeall the fat that covers the entrails and the lobe of the liver, and the twokidneys and the fat that is on them, and offer them up in smoke on the altar.
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"But 20the flesh of the bull and its hide and its refuse, you shall burn with fireoutside* the camp; it is a sinoffering.
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"21You shall also take the oneram, and Aaron and his sons shall lay their hands on the head of the ram;
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and you shall slaughter the ram and shall take its blood and sprinkle it around on the altar.
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"Then you shall cut the ram into its pieces, and wash its entrails and its legs, and put them with its pieces and its head.
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"You shall offer up in smoke the wholeram on the altar; it is a burntoffering to the LORD: 22it is a soothingaroma, an offering by fire to the LORD.
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"Then 23you shall take the otherram, and Aaron and his sons shall lay their hands on the head of the ram.
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"You shall slaughter the ram, and takesome of its blood and put it on the lobe of Aaron's right ear and on the lobes of his sons'rightears and on the thumbs of their righthands and on the bigtoes of their rightfeet, and sprinkle the rest of the bloodaround on the altar.
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"Then you shall takesome of the blood that is on the altar and some of the 24anointingoil, and sprinkle it on Aaron and on his garments and on his sons and on his sons'garments with him; so he and his garments shall be consecrated, as well as his sons and his sons'garments with him.
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"You shall also take the fat from the ram and the fattail, and the fat that covers the entrails and the lobe of the liver, and the twokidneys and the fat that is on them and the rightthigh (for it is a ram of ordination ),
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and onecake of bread and 25onecake of bread mixed with oil and onewafer from the basket of unleavenedbreadwhich is set before the LORD;
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and you shall putallthese in the hands of Aaron and in the hands of his sons, and shall wave them as a waveofferingbefore the LORD.
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"26You shall take them from their hands, and offer them up in smoke on the altar on the burntoffering for a soothingaromabefore the LORD; it is an offering by fire to the LORD.
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"Then you shall take27the breast of Aaron'sram of ordination, and wave it as a waveofferingbefore the LORD; and it shall be your portion.
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"You shall consecrate the breast of the waveoffering and the thigh of the heaveofferingwhich was waved and which was offered from the ram of ordination, from the one which was for Aaron and from the one which was for his sons.
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"It shall be for Aaron and his sons as their portionforever from the sons of Israel, for it is a heaveoffering; and it shall be a heaveoffering from the sons of Israel from the sacrifices of their peaceofferings, even their heaveoffering to the LORD.
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"28The holygarments of Aaron shall be for his sonsafter him, that in them they may be anointed and ordained*.
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"For sevendays the one of his sons who is priest in his stead shall put them on when he enters the tent of meeting to minister in the holy place.
Food of the Priests
31 "You shall take the ram of ordination and 29boil its flesh in a holyplace.
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"Aaron and his sons shall eat the flesh of the ram and the bread that is in the basket, at the doorway of the tent of meeting.
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"Thus 30they shall eat those things by whichatonement was made at their ordination* and consecration; but a 31layman shall not eat them, because they are holy.
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"32Ifany of the flesh of ordination or any of the breadremainsuntilmorning, then you shall burn the remainder with fire; it shall not be eaten, because it is holy.
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"Thus you shall do to Aaron and to his sons, according to all that I have commanded you; you shall ordain* them through 33sevendays.
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"34Each day you shall offer a bull as a sinoffering for atonement, and you shall purify the altar when you makeatonement for it, and 35you shall anoint it to consecrate it.
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"For sevendays you shall makeatonement for the altar and consecrate it; then 36the altar shall be mostholy, and whatevertouches the altar shall be holy.
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"Now 37this is what you shall offer on the altar: two one yearoldlambs each day, continuously.
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"The 38onelamb you shall offer in the morning and the otherlamb you shall offer at twilight;
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and there shall be one-tenth of an ephah of fineflourmixed with one-fourth of a hin of beatenoil, and one-fourth of a hin of wine for a drinkoffering with onelamb.
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"The otherlamb you shall offer at twilight, and shall offer with it the same grain offering and the same drinkoffering as in the morning, for a soothingaroma, an offering by fire to the LORD.
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"It shall be a continualburntoffering throughout your generations at the doorway of the tent of meetingbefore the LORD, 39where* I will meet with you, to speak to you there.
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"I will meetthere with the sons of Israel, and it shall be consecrated by My glory.
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"I will consecrate the tent of meeting and the altar; I will also consecrateAaron and his sons to minister as priests to Me.
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"40I will dwellamong the sons of Israel and will be their God.
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"They shall know that 41I am the LORD their Godwhobrought them out of the land of Egypt, that I might dwellamong them; I am the LORD their God.