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| | Exd 29:1 | "This is the ceremony for the dedication of Aaron and his sons as priests: Take a young bull and two rams with no physical defects.
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| | Exd 29:2 | Then using fine wheat flour and no yeast, make loaves of bread, thin cakes mixed with olive oil, and wafers with oil poured over them.
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| | Exd 29:3 | Place these various kinds of bread 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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| | Exd 29:4 | "Present Aaron and his sons at the entrance of the Tabernacle, and wash them with water.
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| | Exd 29:5 | Then put Aaron's tunic on him, along with the embroidered robe of the ephod, the ephod itself, the chestpiece, and the sash.
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| | Exd 29:6 | And place on his head the turban with the gold medallion.
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| | Exd 29:7 | Then take the anointing oil and pour it over his head.
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| | Exd 29:8 | Next present his sons, and dress them in their tunics
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| | Exd 29:9 | with their woven sashes and their headdresses. They will then be priests forever. In this way, you will ordain Aaron and his sons.
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| | Exd 29:10 | "Then bring the young bull to the entrance of the Tabernacle, and Aaron and his sons will lay their hands on its head.
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| | Exd 29:11 | You will then slaughter it in the LORD's presence at the entrance of the Tabernacle.
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| | Exd 29:12 | Smear 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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| | Exd 29:13 | Take all the fat that covers the internal organs, also the long lobe of the liver and the two kidneys with their fat, and burn them on the altar.
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| | Exd 29:14 | Then take the carcass (including the skin and the dung) outside the camp, and burn it as a sin offering.
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| | Exd 29:15 | "Next Aaron and his sons must lay their hands on the head of one of the rams
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| | Exd 29:16 | as it is slaughtered. Its blood will be collected and sprinkled on the sides of the altar.
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| | Exd 29:17 | Cut up the ram 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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| | Exd 29:18 | and burn them all on the altar. This is a burnt offering to the LORD, which is very pleasing to him.
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| | Exd 29:19 | "Now take the other ram and have Aaron and his sons lay their hands on its head
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| | Exd 29:20 | as it is slaughtered. Collect the blood and place some of it on the tip of the right earlobes of Aaron and his sons. Also put it on their right thumbs and the big toes of their right feet. Sprinkle the rest of the blood on the sides of the altar.
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| | Exd 29:21 | Then take some of the blood from the altar and mix it with some of the anointing oil. Sprinkle it on Aaron and his sons and on their clothes. In this way, they and their clothing will be set apart as holy to the LORD.
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| | Exd 29:22 | "Since this is the ram for the ordination of Aaron and his sons, take the fat of the ram, including the fat tail and the fat that covers the internal organs. Also, take the long lobe of the liver, the two kidneys with their fat, and the right thigh.
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| | Exd 29:23 | Then take one loaf of bread, one cake mixed with olive oil, and one wafer from the basket of yeastless bread that was placed before the LORD.
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| | Exd 29:24 | Put all these in the hands of Aaron and his sons to be lifted up as a special gift to the LORD.
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| | Exd 29:25 | Afterward take the bread from their hands, and burn it on the altar as a burnt offering that will be pleasing to the LORD.
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| | Exd 29:26 | Then take the breast of Aaron's ordination ram, and lift it up in the LORD's presence as a special gift to him. Afterward keep it for yourself.
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| | Exd 29:27 | "Set aside as holy the parts 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 in the ordination ceremony.
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| | Exd 29:28 | In the future, whenever the people of Israel offer up peace offerings or thanksgiving offerings to the LORD, these parts will be the regular share of Aaron and his descendants.
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| | Exd 29:29 | "Aaron's sacred garments must be preserved for his descendants who will succeed him, so they can be anointed and ordained in them.
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| | Exd 29:30 | Whoever is the next high priest after Aaron will wear these clothes for seven days before beginning to minister in the Tabernacle and the Holy Place.
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| | Exd 29:31 | "Take the ram used in the ordination ceremony, and boil its meat in a sacred place.
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| | Exd 29:32 | Aaron and his sons are to eat this meat, along with the bread in the basket, at the Tabernacle entrance.
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| | Exd 29:33 | They alone may eat the meat and bread used for their atonement in the ordination ceremony. The ordinary people may not eat them, for these things are set apart and holy.
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| | Exd 29:34 | 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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| | Exd 29:35 | "This is how you will ordain Aaron and his sons to their offices. The ordination ceremony will go on for seven days.
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| | Exd 29:36 | Each day you must sacrifice a young bull as an offering for the atonement of sin. Afterward make an offering to cleanse the altar. Purify the altar by making atonement for it; make it holy by anointing it with oil.
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| | Exd 29:37 | Make atonement for the altar every day for seven days. After that, the altar will be exceedingly holy, and whatever touches it will become holy.
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| | Exd 29:38 | "This is what you are to offer on the altar. Offer two one-year-old lambs each day,
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| | Exd 29:39 | one in the morning and the other in the evening.
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| | Exd 29:40 | With one of them, offer two quarts of fine flour mixed with one quart of olive oil; also, offer one quart of wine as a drink offering.
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| | Exd 29:41 | Offer the other lamb in the evening, along with the same offerings of flour and wine as in the morning. It will be a fragrant offering to the LORD, an offering made by fire.
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| | Exd 29:42 | "This is to be a daily burnt offering given from generation to generation. Offer it in the LORD's presence at the Tabernacle entrance, where I will meet you and speak with you.
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| | Exd 29:43 | I will meet the people of Israel there, and the Tabernacle will be sanctified by my glorious presence.
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| | Exd 29:44 | Yes, I will make the Tabernacle and the altar most holy, and I will set apart Aaron and his sons as holy, that they may be my priests.
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| | Exd 29:45 | I will live among the people of Israel and be their God,
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| | Exd 29:46 | and they will know that I am the LORD their God. I am the one who brought them out of Egypt so that I could live among them. I am the LORD their God.
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