Exodus 29:1

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Exodus 29:1–3 · Berean Standard Bible

1 “Now this is what you are to do to consecrate Aaron and his sons to serve Me as priests: Take a young bull and two rams without blemish,

2 along with unleavened bread, unleavened cakes mixed with oil, and unleavened wafers anointed with oil. Make them out of fine wheat flour,

3 put them in a basket, and present them in the basket, along with the bull and the two rams.

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Exodus 29:21

And take some of the blood on the altar and some of the anointing oil and sprinkle it on Aaron and his garments, as well as on his sons and their garments. Then he and his garments will be consecrated, as well as his sons and their garments.

Exodus 20:11

For in six days the LORD made the heavens and the earth and the sea and all that is in them, but on the seventh day He rested. Therefore the LORD blessed the Sabbath day and set it apart as holy.

Exodus 28:41

After you put these garments on your brother Aaron and his sons, anoint them, ordain them, and consecrate them so that they may serve Me as priests.

Leviticus 8:2

“Take Aaron and his sons, their garments, the anointing oil, the bull of the sin offering, the two rams, and the basket of unleavened bread,

Leviticus 8:3

and assemble the whole congregation at the entrance to the Tent of Meeting.”

Leviticus 8:4

So Moses did as the LORD had commanded him, and the assembly gathered at the entrance to the Tent of Meeting.

Leviticus 8:5

And Moses said to them, “This is what the LORD has commanded to be done.”

Leviticus 8:6

Then Moses presented Aaron and his sons and washed them with water.

Leviticus 8:7

He put the tunic on Aaron, tied the sash around him, clothed him with the robe, and put the ephod on him. He tied the woven band of the ephod around him and fastened it to him.

Leviticus 8:8

Then he put the breastpiece on him and placed the Urim and Thummim in the breastpiece.

Leviticus 8:9

Moses also put the turban on Aaron’s head and set the gold plate, the holy diadem, on the front of the turban, as the LORD had commanded him.

Leviticus 8:10

Next, Moses took the anointing oil and anointed the tabernacle and everything in it; and so he consecrated them.

Leviticus 8:11

He sprinkled some of the oil on the altar seven times, anointing the altar and all its utensils, and the basin with its stand, to consecrate them.

Leviticus 8:12

He also poured some of the anointing oil on Aaron’s head and anointed him to consecrate him.

Leviticus 8:13

Then Moses presented Aaron’s sons, put tunics on them, wrapped sashes around them, and tied headbands on them, just as the LORD had commanded him.

Leviticus 8:14

Moses then brought the bull near for the sin offering, and Aaron and his sons laid their hands on its head.

Leviticus 8:15

Moses slaughtered the bull, took some of the blood, and applied it with his finger to all four horns of the altar, purifying the altar. He poured out the rest of the blood at the base of the altar and consecrated it so that atonement could be made on it.

Leviticus 8:16

Moses also took all the fat that was on the entrails, the lobe of the liver, and both kidneys and their fat, and burned it all on the altar.

Leviticus 8:17

But the bull with its hide, flesh, and dung he burned outside the camp, as the LORD had commanded him.

Leviticus 8:18

Then Moses presented the ram for the burnt offering, and Aaron and his sons laid their hands on its head.

Leviticus 8:19

Moses slaughtered the ram and sprinkled the blood on all sides of the altar.

Leviticus 8:20

He cut the ram into pieces and burned the head, the pieces, and the fat.

Leviticus 8:21

He washed the entrails and legs with water and burned the entire ram on the altar as a burnt offering, a pleasing aroma, an offering made by fire to the LORD, just as the LORD had commanded Moses.

Leviticus 8:22

After that, Moses presented the other ram, the ram of ordination, and Aaron and his sons laid their hands on its head.

Leviticus 8:23

Moses slaughtered the ram and took some of its blood and put it on Aaron’s right earlobe, on the thumb of his right hand, and on the big toe of his right foot.

Leviticus 8:24

Moses also presented Aaron’s sons and put some of the blood on their right earlobes, on the thumbs of their right hands, and on the big toes of their right feet. Then he sprinkled the blood on all sides of the altar.

Leviticus 8:25

And Moses took the fat—the fat tail, all the fat that was on the entrails, the lobe of the liver, and both kidneys with their fat—as well as the right thigh.

Leviticus 8:26

And from the basket of unleavened bread that was before the LORD, he took one cake of unleavened bread, one cake of bread made with oil, and one wafer, and he placed them on the fat portions and on the right thigh.

Leviticus 8:27

He put all these in the hands of Aaron and his sons and waved them before the LORD as a wave offering.

Leviticus 8:28

Then Moses took these from their hands and burned them on the altar with the burnt offering. This was an ordination offering, a pleasing aroma, an offering made by fire to the LORD.

Leviticus 8:29

He also took the breast—Moses’ portion of the ram of ordination—and waved it before the LORD as a wave offering, as the LORD had commanded him.

Leviticus 8:30

Next, Moses took some of the anointing oil and some of the blood that was on the altar and sprinkled them on Aaron and his garments, and on his sons and their garments. So he consecrated Aaron and his garments, as well as Aaron’s sons and their garments.

Leviticus 8:31

And Moses said to Aaron and his sons, “Boil the meat at the entrance to the Tent of Meeting and eat it there with the bread that is in the basket of ordination offerings, as I commanded, saying, ‘Aaron and his sons are to eat it.’

Leviticus 8:32

Then you must burn up the remainder of the meat and bread.

Leviticus 8:33

You must not go outside the entrance to the Tent of Meeting for seven days, until the days of your ordination are complete; for it will take seven days to ordain you.

Leviticus 8:34

What has been done today has been commanded by the LORD in order to make atonement on your behalf.

Leviticus 8:35

You must remain at the entrance to the Tent of Meeting day and night for seven days and keep the LORD’s charge so that you will not die, for this is what I have been commanded.”

Leviticus 8:36

So Aaron and his sons did everything the LORD had commanded through Moses.

Matthew 6:9

So then, this is how you should pray: ‘Our Father in heaven, hallowed be Your name.

Exodus 28:3

You are to instruct all the skilled craftsmen, whom I have filled with a spirit of wisdom, to make garments for Aaron’s consecration, so that he may serve Me as priest.

Leviticus 9:2

He said to Aaron, “Take for yourself a young bull for a sin offering and a ram for a burnt offering, both without blemish, and present them before the LORD.

Leviticus 16:3

This is how Aaron is to enter the Holy Place: with a young bull for a sin offering and a ram for a burnt offering.

2 Chronicles 13:9

But did you not drive out the priests of the LORD, the sons of Aaron, and the Levites? And did you not make priests for yourselves as do the peoples of other lands? Now whoever comes to consecrate himself with a young bull and seven rams can become a priest of things that are not gods.

Exodus 12:5

Your lamb must be an unblemished year-old male, and you may take it from the sheep or the goats.

Leviticus 4:3

If the anointed priest sins, bringing guilt on the people, he must bring to the LORD a young bull without blemish as a sin offering for the sin he has committed.

Leviticus 5:15

“If someone acts unfaithfully and sins unintentionally against any of the LORD’s holy things, he must bring his guilt offering to the LORD: an unblemished ram from the flock, of proper value in silver shekels according to the sanctuary shekel; it is a guilt offering.

Leviticus 5:16

Regarding any holy thing he has harmed, he must make restitution by adding a fifth of its value to it and giving it to the priest, who will make atonement on his behalf with the ram as a guilt offering, and he will be forgiven.

Leviticus 6:6

Then he must bring to the priest his guilt offering to the LORD: an unblemished ram of proper value from the flock.

Leviticus 22:20

You must not present anything with a defect, because it will not be accepted on your behalf.

Malachi 1:13

You also say: ‘Oh, what a nuisance!’ And you turn up your nose at it,” says the LORD of Hosts. “You bring offerings that are stolen, lame, or sick! Should I accept these from your hands?” asks the LORD.

Malachi 1:14

“But cursed is the deceiver who has an acceptable male in his flock and vows to give it, but sacrifices a defective animal to the Lord. For I am a great King,” says the LORD of Hosts, “and My name is to be feared among the nations.

Hebrews 7:26

Such a high priest truly befits us—One who is holy, innocent, undefiled, set apart from sinners, and exalted above the heavens.

1 Peter 1:19

but with the precious blood of Christ, a lamb without blemish or spot.