Exodus 29

1 And this is the thing that thou shalt do to them to hallow them, to minister to me in the priest’s office: Take one young bull, and two rams without blemish,

Now this is how you are to proceed to dedicate them to serve me as priests. Take a young bull and two rams with no defects.

2 And unleavened bread, and cakes unleavened tempered with oil, and wafers unleavened anointed with oil: of wheat flour shalt thou make them.

Then using the best wheat flour, make the following without yeast: bread, cakes mixed with olive oil, and wafers sprinkled with olive oil.

3 And thou shalt put them into one basket, and bring them in the basket, with the bull and the two rams.

Put them all in a basket, and bring them as an offering, along with the bull and the two rams.

4 And Aaron and his sons thou shalt bring to the door of the tabernacle of the congregation, and shalt wash them with water.

Then bring Aaron and his sons to the entrance of the Tent of Meeting, and wash them with water.

5 And thou shalt take the garments, and put upon Aaron the coat, and the robe of the ephod, and the ephod, and the breastplate, and gird him with the beautifully woven band of the ephod:

Take the clothes and put them on Aaron: the tunic, the robe of the ephod, the ephod itself, and the breastpiece. Tie the ephod on him with its waistband.

6 And thou shalt put the mitre upon his head, and put the holy crown upon the mitre.

Wrap the turban on his head and attach the holy crown to the turban.

7 Then shalt thou take the anointing oil, and pour it upon his head, and anoint him.

Then use the anointing oil to anoint him by pouring it over his head.

8 And thou shalt bring his sons, and put coats upon them.

Then have his sons come and put the tunics on them.

9 And thou shalt gird them with waistbands, Aaron and his sons, and put the headdresses on them: and the priest’s office shall be theirs for a perpetual statute: and thou shalt consecrate Aaron and his sons.

Tie the sashes around Aaron and his sons and put headdresses on them. The priesthood belongs to them forever. This is how you are to ordain Aaron and his sons.

10 And thou shalt cause a bull to be brought before the tabernacle of the congregation: and Aaron and his sons shall put their hands upon the head of the bull.

Take the bull to the front of the Tent of Meeting, and Aaron and his sons are to place their hands on its head.

11 And thou shalt kill the bull before the LORD, by the door of the tabernacle of the congregation.

Then slaughter the bull in the Lord's presence at the entrance to the Tent of Meeting.

12 And thou shalt take of the blood of the bull, and put it upon the horns of the altar with thy finger, and pour all the blood beside the bottom of the altar.

Take some of the bull's blood and smear it on the horns of the altar with your finger. Then pour out the rest of the blood at the base of the altar.

13 And thou shalt take all the fat that covereth the inwards, and the fat that is above the liver, and the two kidneys, and the fat that is upon them, and burn them upon the altar.

Take all the fat that covers the intestines, the best parts of the liver, and the two kidneys with their fat, and burn them on the altar.

14 But the flesh of the bull, and his skin, and his dung, shalt thou burn with fire outside the camp: it is a sin offering.

But burn the bull's meat, its hide, and its excrement outside the camp—it is an offering for sin.

15 Thou shalt also take one ram; and Aaron and his sons shall put their hands upon the head of the ram.

Next have Aaron and his sons place their hands on the head of one of the rams.

16 And thou shalt slay the ram, and thou shalt take his blood, and sprinkle it around upon the altar.

Slaughter the ram, take its blood, and splash it all around the altar.

17 And thou shalt cut the ram in pieces, and wash the inwards of him, and his legs, and put them with his pieces, and with his head.

Cut the ram in pieces, wash the intestines and legs, and put them with the other pieces and the head.

18 And thou shalt burn the whole ram upon the altar: it is a burnt offering to the LORD: it is a sweet savour, an offering made by fire to the LORD.

Then burn all of the ram on the altar. It is a burnt offering to the Lord to be accepted by him.

19 And thou shalt take the other ram; and Aaron and his sons shall put their hands upon the head of the ram.

Then have Aaron and his sons place their hands the head of the other ram.

20 Then shalt thou kill the ram, and take of his blood, and put it upon the tip of the right ear of Aaron, and upon the tip of the right ear of his sons, and upon the thumb of their right hand, and upon the great toe of their right foot, and sprinkle the blood around upon the altar.

Slaughter the ram, and put some of its blood on the right earlobes of Aaron and his sons, and on the thumbs of their right hands, and on the big toes of their right feet. Splash the rest of its blood all around the altar.

21 And thou shalt take of the blood that is upon the altar, and of the anointing oil, and sprinkle it upon Aaron, and upon his garments, and upon his sons, and upon the garments of his sons with him: and he shall be hallowed, and his garments, and his sons, and his sons’ garments with him.

Take some of the blood from the altar and some of the anointing oil and sprinkle it on Aaron and his clothes, and on his sons and their clothes. Then he and his clothes will be made holy, likewise his sons and their clothes.

22 Also thou shalt take of the ram the fat and the rump, and the fat that covereth the inwards, and the fat above the liver, and the two kidneys, and the fat that is upon them, and the right shoulder; for it is a ram of consecration:

Take the fat from the ram, including the fat of its broad tail, the fat covering the intestines, the best parts of the liver, the two kidneys with their fat, as well as the right thigh (because this is a ram for ordination).

23 And one loaf of bread, and one cake of oiled bread, and one wafer out of the basket of the unleavened bread that is before the LORD:

Also take one loaf of bread, one cake of bread made with olive oil, and one wafer from the basket of bread made without yeast that is in the Lord's presence.

24 And thou shalt put all in the hands of Aaron, and in the hands of his sons; and shalt wave them for a wave offering before the LORD.

Give all of them to Aaron and his sons to wave before the Lord as a wave offering.

25 And thou shalt receive them from their hands, and burn them upon the altar for a burnt offering, for a sweet savour before the LORD: it is an offering made by fire to the LORD.

Then take the different breads back and burn them on the altar on top of the burnt offering to the Lord to be accepted by him.

26 And thou shalt take the breast of the ram of Aaron’s consecration, and wave it for a wave offering before the LORD: and it shall be thy part.

Take the breast of the ram of Aaron's ordination and wave it before the Lord as a wave offering. This is the part you can keep.

27 And thou shalt sanctify the breast of the wave offering, and the shoulder of the heave offering, which is waved, and which is offered, from the ram of the consecration, even of that which is for Aaron, and of that which is for his sons:

Set apart for Aaron and his sons the breast of the wave offering and the thigh of the offering that is lifted up, both taken from the ram of ordination.

28 And it shall be Aaron’s and his sons’ by a statute for ever from the children of Israel: for it is an heave offering: and it shall be an heave offering from the children of Israel of the sacrifice of their peace offerings, even their heave offering to the LORD.

From now on whenever the Israelites lift up peace offerings to the Lord, these parts will belong to Aaron and his sons forever as a regular share from the Israelites.

29 And the holy garments of Aaron shall be his sons’ after him, to be anointed in it, and to be consecrated in them.

The holy garments that Aaron has will be passed down to his descendants, so they can wear them when they're anointed and ordained.

30 And that son that is priest in his stead shall put them on seven days, when he cometh into the tabernacle of the congregation to minister in the holy place.

The descendant who succeeds him as priest and enters the Tent of Meeting to serve in the Holy Place must wear them for the seven days of his ordination.

31 And thou shalt take the ram of the consecration, and boil his flesh in the holy place.

Take the ram of ordination and boil its meat in a holy place.

32 And Aaron and his sons shall eat the flesh of the ram, and the bread that is in the basket, by the door of the tabernacle of the congregation.

Aaron and his sons are to eat the ram's meat, and the bread that is in the basket, at the entrance to the Tent of Meeting,

33 And they shall eat those things by which the atonement was made, to consecrate and to sanctify them: but a stranger shall not eat of them, because they are holy.

They are to eat the meat and the bread that were part of the offerings that symbolized the forgiveness required for their ordination and dedication. No one else may eat them, because they are holy.

34 And if any of the flesh of the consecration, or of the bread, shall remain till the morning, then thou shalt burn the remainder with fire: it shall not be eaten, because it is holy.

If any of the meat of ordination or any bread remains until the morning, burn what's left. It must not be eaten, because it's holy.

35 And thus shalt thou do to Aaron, and to his sons, according to all things which I have commanded thee: seven days shalt thou consecrate them.

This is the process you are to follow for Aaron and his sons, observing all the instructions I have given you. It will take seven days to ordain them.

36 And thou shalt offer every day a bull for a sin offering for atonement: and thou shalt cleanse the altar, when thou hast made an atonement for it, and thou shalt anoint it, to sanctify it.

Every day you are to sacrifice a bull as a sin offering for forgiveness. When you do this the altar needs to be purified. Anoint it to make it holy.

37 Seven days thou shalt make an atonement for the altar, and sanctify it; and it shall be an altar most holy: whatever toucheth the altar shall be holy.

For seven days you shall purify the altar and consecrate it. Then the altar will become completely holy, and everything that touches the altar will become holy.

38 Now this is that which thou shalt offer upon the altar; two lambs of the first year day by day continually.

You are to offer two lambs that are a year old on the altar, daily and continually.

39 The one lamb thou shalt offer in the morning; and the other lamb thou shalt offer at evening:

In the morning offer one lamb, and offer the other one in the evening before it gets dark.

40 And with the one lamb a tenth portion of flour mixed with the fourth part of an hin of beaten oil; and the fourth part of an hin of wine for a drink offering.

With the first lamb also offer a tenth of an ephah of best quality flour, mixed with a quarter of a hin of olive oil, and a drink offering of a quarter of a hin of wine.

41 And the other lamb thou shalt offer at evening, and shalt do to it according to the meat offering of the morning, and according to its drink offering, for a sweet savour, an offering made by fire to the LORD.

Then offer the second lamb in the evening, with the same grain and drink offerings as in the morning, a burnt offering to the Lord and accepted by him.

42 This shall be a continual burnt offering throughout your generations at the door of the tabernacle of the congregation before the LORD: where I will meet you, to speak there to thee.

These burnt offerings will be made continually for all generations at the entrance to the Tent of Meeting in the Lord's presence. I will meet you there to speak with you.

43 And there I will meet with the children of Israel, and the tabernacle shall be sanctified by my glory.

I will meet with the Israelites there, and that place will be made holy by my glory.

44 And I will sanctify the tabernacle of the congregation, and the altar: I will sanctify also both Aaron and his sons, to minister to me in the priest’s office.

In this way I will dedicate the Tent of Meeting and the altar, and I will dedicate Aaron and his sons to serve me as priests.

45 And I will dwell among the children of Israel, and will be their God.

Then I will live with the Israelites and be their God.

46 And they shall know that I am the LORD their God, that brought them forth out of the land of Egypt, that I may dwell among them: I am the LORD their God.

They will know that I am the Lord their God, who led them out of Egypt, so that I could live with them. I am the Lord their God.