“Now this is what you shall do to them to consecrate them, that
they may serve me as priests. Take one bull of the herd and two
rams without blemish, and unleavened bread, unleavened cakes mixed
with oil, and unleavened wafers smeared with oil. You shall make
them of fine wheat flour. You shall put them in one basket and
bring them in the basket, and bring the bull and the two rams. You
shall bring Aaron and his sons to the entrance of the tent of
meeting and wash them with water. Then you shall take the garments,
and put on Aaron the coat and the robe of the ephod, and the ephod,
and the breastpiece, and gird him with the skillfully woven band of
the ephod. And you shall set the turban on his head and put the
holy crown on the turban. You shall take the anointing oil and pour
it on his head and anoint him. Then you shall bring his sons and
put coats on them, and you shall gird Aaron and his sons with
sashes and bind caps on them. And the priesthood shall be theirs by
a statute forever. Thus you shall ordain Aaron and his sons.
“Then you shall bring the bull before the tent of meeting. Aaron
and his sons shall lay their hands on the head of the bull. Then
you shall kill the bull before the LORD at the entrance of the tent
of meeting, and shall take part of the blood of the bull and put it
on the horns of the altar with your finger, and the rest of the
blood you shall pour out at the base of the altar. And you shall
take all the fat that covers the entrails, and the long lobe of the
liver, and the two kidneys with the fat that is on them, and burn
them on the altar. But the flesh of the bull and its skin and its
dung you shall burn with fire outside the camp; it is a sin
offering.
“Then you shall take one of the rams, and Aaron and his sons
shall lay their hands on the head of the ram, and you shall kill
the ram and shall take its blood and throw it against the sides of
the altar. Then you shall cut the ram into pieces, and wash its
entrails and its legs, and put them with its pieces and its head,
and burn the whole ram on the altar. It is a burnt offering to the
LORD. It is a pleasing aroma, a food offering to the LORD.
“You shall take the other ram, and Aaron and his sons shall lay
their hands on the head of the ram, and you shall kill the ram and
take part of its blood and put it on the tip of the right ear of
Aaron and on the tips of the right ears of his sons, and on the
thumbs of their right hands and on the great toes of their right
feet, and throw the rest of the blood against the sides of the
altar. Then you shall take part of the blood that is on the altar,
and of the anointing oil, and sprinkle it on Aaron and his
garments, and on his sons and his sons' garments with him. He and
his garments shall be holy, and his sons and his sons' garments
with him.
“You shall also take the fat from the ram and the fat tail and
the fat that covers the entrails, and the long lobe of the liver
and the two kidneys with the fat that is on them, and the right
thigh (for it is a ram of ordination), and one loaf of bread and
one cake of bread made with oil, and one wafer out of the basket of
unleavened bread that is before the LORD. You shall put all these
on the palms of Aaron and on the palms of his sons, and wave them
for a wave offering before the LORD. Then you shall take them from
their hands and burn them on the altar on top of the burnt
offering, as a pleasing aroma before the LORD. It is a food
offering to the LORD.
“You shall take the breast of the ram of Aaron's ordination and
wave it for a wave offering before the LORD, and it shall be your
portion. And you shall consecrate the breast of the wave offering
that is waved and the thigh of the priests' portion that is
contributed from the ram of ordination, from what was Aaron's and
his sons'. It shall be for Aaron and his sons as a perpetual due
from the people of Israel, for it is a contribution. It shall be a
contribution from the people of Israel from their peace offerings,
their contribution to the LORD.
“The holy garments of Aaron shall be for his sons after him; they
shall be anointed in them and ordained in them. The son who
succeeds him as priest, who comes into the tent of meeting to
minister in the Holy Place, shall wear them seven days.
“You shall take the ram of ordination and boil its flesh in a
holy place. And Aaron and his sons shall eat the flesh of the ram
and the bread that is in the basket in the entrance of the tent of
meeting. They shall eat those things with which atonement was made
at their ordination and consecration, but an outsider shall not eat
of them, because they are holy. And if any of the flesh for the
ordination or of the bread remain until the morning, then you shall
burn the remainder with fire. It shall not be eaten, because it is
holy.
“Thus you shall do to Aaron and to his sons, according to all
that I have commanded you. Through seven days shall you ordain
them, and every day you shall offer a bull as a sin offering for
atonement. Also you shall purify the altar, when you make atonement
for it, and shall anoint it to consecrate it. Seven days you shall
make atonement for the altar and consecrate it, and the altar shall
be most holy. Whatever touches the altar shall become holy.
“Now this is what you shall offer on the altar: two lambs a year
old day by day regularly. One lamb you shall offer in the morning,
and the other lamb you shall offer at twilight. And with the first
lamb a tenth measure of fine flour mingled with a fourth of a hin
of beaten oil, and a fourth of a hin of wine for a drink offering.
The other lamb you shall offer at twilight, and shall offer with it
a grain offering and its drink offering, as in the morning, for a
pleasing aroma, a food offering to the LORD. It shall be a regular
burnt offering throughout your generations at the entrance of the
tent of meeting before the LORD, where I will meet with you, to
speak to you there. There I will meet with the people of Israel,
and it shall be sanctified by my glory. I will consecrate the tent
of meeting and the altar. Aaron also and his sons I will consecrate
to serve me as priests. I will dwell among the people of Israel and
will be their God. And they shall know that I 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.
