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1 “This is the ceremony you must follow when you consecrate Aaron and his sons to serve me as priests: Take a young bull and two rams with no defects.
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Now this is what you should do to make them holy in order to serve me as priests. Take a young bull and two flawless rams.
2 Then, using choice wheat flour and no yeast, make loaves of bread, thin cakes mixed with olive oil, and wafers spread with oil.
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Take unleavened bread, unleavened flatbread made with oil, and unleavened wafers spread with oil. Make them out of high-quality wheat flour.
3 Place them all in a single basket, and present them at the entrance of the Tabernacle, along with the young bull and the two rams.
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Put them all in one basket and present them in the basket along with the bull and the two rams.
4 “Present Aaron and his sons at the entrance of the Tabernacle, and wash them with water.
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Present Aaron and his sons at the entrance to the meeting tent and wash them with water.
5 Dress Aaron in his priestly garments—the tunic, the robe worn with the ephod, the ephod itself, and the chestpiece. Then wrap the decorative sash of the ephod around him.
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Then take the priestly clothes and put them on Aaron: the tunic, the vest's robe, the vest itself, and the chest pendant. Put the vest on him with the vest's belt.
6 Place the turban on his head, and fasten the sacred medallion to the turban.
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Set the turban on his head and place the holy crown on the turban.
7 Then anoint him by pouring the anointing oil over his head.
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Take the anointing oil and pour it on his head to anoint him.
8 Next present his sons, and dress them in their tunics.
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Then present his sons and put the tunics on them.
9 Wrap the sashes around the waists of Aaron and his sons, and put their special head coverings on them. Then the right to the priesthood will be theirs by law forever. In this way, you will ordain Aaron and his sons.
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Tighten the sashes on them, on both Aaron and his sons. Wrap the turbans on their heads. It will be a permanent regulation that the duties of priesthood belong to them. In this way, you will ordain Aaron and his sons.
10 “Bring the young bull to the entrance of the Tabernacle, where Aaron and his sons will lay their hands on its head.
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Present the bull at the front of the meeting tent. Aaron and his sons will lay their hands on the bull's head.
11 Then slaughter the bull in the LORD ’s presence at the entrance of the Tabernacle.
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Then slaughter the bull in the LORD's presence at the meeting tent's entrance.
12 Put some of its blood on the horns of the altar with your finger, and pour out the rest at the base of the altar.
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Take some of the bull's blood and smear it on the altar's horns with your finger. Pour out the rest of the blood at the altar's base.
13 Take all the fat around the internal organs, the long lobe of the liver, and the two kidneys and the fat around them, and burn it all on the altar.
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Then take all the fat that covers the inner organs, the lobe of the liver, and the two kidneys along with the fat that is on them, and burn them up in smoke on the altar.
14 Then take the rest of the bull, including its hide, meat, and dung, and burn it outside the camp as a sin offering.
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Burn the rest of the meat of the bull, its hide, and the intestines with their contents with a fire outside the camp. It is a purification offering.
15 “Next Aaron and his sons must lay their hands on the head of one of the rams.
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Choose one of the rams, and have Aaron and his sons lay their hands on the ram's head.
16 Then slaughter the ram, and splatter its blood against all sides of the altar.
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Then slaughter the ram. Take its blood and throw it against all the altar's sides.
17 Cut the ram into pieces, and wash off the internal organs and the legs. Set them alongside the head and the other pieces of the body,
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Cut up the ram into parts. Wash its inner organs and legs, and put them together with its parts and its head.
18 then burn the entire animal on the altar. This is a burnt offering to the LORD ; it is a pleasing aroma, a special gift presented to the LORD .
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Then turn the entire ram into smoke by burning it on the altar. It is an entirely burned offering for the LORD, a soothing smell, a food gift for the LORD.
19 “Now take the other ram, and have Aaron and his sons lay their hands on its head.
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Take the second ram, and have Aaron and his sons lay their hands on the ram's head.
20 Then slaughter it, and apply some of its blood to the right earlobes of Aaron and his sons. Also put it on the thumbs of their right hands and the big toes of their right feet. Splatter the rest of the blood against all sides of the altar.
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Slaughter the ram. Take some of its blood and smear it on the right earlobes of Aaron and his sons, on the thumbs of their right hands, and on the big toes of their right feet. Throw the rest of the blood against all the altar's sides.
21 Then take some of the blood from the altar and some of the anointing oil, and sprinkle it on Aaron and his sons and on their garments. In this way, they and their garments will be set apart as holy.
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Then take some of the blood on the altar and some of the anointing oil and sprinkle them on Aaron and on his clothes and on his sons and on his sons' clothes. In this way, Aaron, his sons, and all their priestly garments will be holy.
22 “Since this is the ram for the ordination of Aaron and his sons, take the fat of the ram, including the fat of the broad tail, the fat around the internal organs, the long lobe of the liver, and the two kidneys and the fat around them, along with the right thigh.
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Take the fatty parts of the ram: the fat tail, the fat around the inner organs, the lobe of the liver, the two kidneys with the fat around them, and the right thigh (because it is a ram for ordination).
23 Then take one round loaf of bread, one thin cake mixed with olive oil, and one wafer from the basket of bread without yeast that was placed in the LORD ’s presence.
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Add one loaf of bread, one flatbread made with oil, and one wafer from the basket of unleavened bread that was presented to the LORD.
24 Put all these in the hands of Aaron and his sons to be lifted up as a special offering to the LORD .
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Place all of these in the hands of Aaron and his sons, and lift them as an uplifted offering in the LORD's presence.
25 Afterward take the various breads from their hands, and burn them on the altar along with the burnt offering. It is a pleasing aroma to the LORD, a special gift for him.
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Then take them from their hands and turn them into smoke by burning them on the altar with the entirely burned offering as a soothing smell in the LORD's presence. It is a food gift for the LORD.
26 Then take the breast of Aaron’s ordination ram, and lift it up in the LORD ’s presence as a special offering to him. Then keep it as your own portion.
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Take the breast of the ram for Aaron's ordination and lift it as an uplifted offering in the LORD's presence. It will be your portion.
27 “Set aside the portions of the ordination ram that belong to Aaron and his sons. This includes the breast and the thigh that were lifted up before the LORD as a special offering.
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Make holy the breast that was lifted for the uplifted offering and the thigh that was raised for the gift offering from the ram for the ordination. They belong to Aaron and his sons.
28 In the future, whenever the people of Israel lift up a peace offering, a portion of it must be set aside for Aaron and his descendants. This is their permanent right, and it is a sacred offering from the Israelites to the LORD .
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Those parts will be given to Aaron and his sons from the Israelites as a permanent provision, because they are a gift offering. They will be a gift offering from the Israelites, their gift offering to the LORD from their well-being sacrifices.
29 “Aaron’s sacred garments must be preserved for his descendants who succeed him, and they will wear them when they are anointed and ordained.
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Aaron's holy clothes should be passed on to his sons after him. His sons should be anointed in them and ordained in them.
30 The descendant who succeeds him as high priest will wear these clothes for seven days as he ministers in the Tabernacle and the Holy Place.
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The son who is priest in his place should wear them seven days when he comes into the meeting tent to minister in the sanctuary.
31 “Take the ram used in the ordination ceremony, and boil its meat in a sacred place.
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Take the ram for the ordination and boil its meat in a holy place.
32 Then Aaron and his sons will eat this meat, along with the bread in the basket, at the Tabernacle entrance.
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Aaron and his sons will eat the ram's meat and the bread that is in the basket at the meeting tent's entrance.
33 They alone may eat the meat and bread used for their purification in the ordination ceremony. No one else may eat them, for these things are set apart and holy.
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They alone should eat the food that was used to purify them, to ordain them, and to make them holy. No one else should eat it because it is holy.
34 If any of the ordination meat or bread remains until the morning, it must be burned. It may not be eaten, for it is holy.
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If any meat for the ordination or any of the bread is left over until morning, then you should burn the leftovers with fire. It shouldn't be eaten because it's holy.
35 “This is how you will ordain Aaron and his sons to their offices, just as I have commanded you. The ordination ceremony will go on for seven days.
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Treat Aaron and his sons just as I have commanded you. Ordain them for seven days.
36 Each day you must sacrifice a young bull as a sin offering to purify them, making them right with the LORD . Afterward, cleanse the altar by purifying it ; make it holy by anointing it with oil.
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Every day you should offer a bull as a purification offering for reconciliation. You should remove the sin from the altar through a ritual of reconciliation, and you should anoint the altar to make it holy.
37 Purify the altar, and consecrate it every day for seven days. After that, the altar will be absolutely holy, and whatever touches it will become holy.
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Seven days you should perform the ritual of reconciliation for the altar and make it holy. In this way, the altar will become most holy, and whatever touches the altar will also become holy.
38 “These are the sacrifices you are to offer regularly on the altar. Each day, offer two lambs that are a year old,
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Now this is what you should offer on the altar: two one-year-old lambs regularly every day.
39 one in the morning and the other in the evening.
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Offer one lamb in the morning and offer the other lamb at twilight.
40 With one of them, offer two quarts of choice flour mixed with one quart of pure oil of pressed olives; also, offer one quart of wine as a liquid offering.
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With the first lamb, add one-tenth of a measure of the high-quality flour mixed with a quarter of a hin of oil from crushed olives and a quarter of a hin of wine for a drink offering.
41 Offer the other lamb in the evening, along with the same offerings of flour and wine as in the morning. It will be a pleasing aroma, a special gift presented to the LORD .
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With the second lamb offered at twilight, again include a grain offering and its drink offering as in the morning as a soothing smell, a gift offering for the LORD.
42 “These burnt offerings are to be made each day from generation to generation. Offer them in the LORD ’s presence at the Tabernacle entrance; there I will meet with you and speak with you.
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This should be the regular entirely burned offering in every generation at the meeting tent's entrance in the LORD's presence. There I will meet with you, and there I will speak to you.
43 I will meet the people of Israel there, in the place made holy by my glorious presence.
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I will meet with the Israelites there, and it will be made holy by my glorious presence.
44 Yes, I will consecrate the Tabernacle and the altar, and I will consecrate Aaron and his sons to serve me as priests.
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I will make the meeting tent and the altar holy. Likewise, I will make Aaron and his sons holy to serve me as priests.
45 Then I will live among the people of Israel and be their God,
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I will be at home among the Israelites, and I will be their God.
46 and they will know that I am the LORD their God. I am the one who brought them out of the land of Egypt so that I could live among them. I am the LORD their God.
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They will know that I am the LORD their God, who brought them out of the land of Egypt so that I could make a home among them. I am the LORD their God.
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