The Consecration of Aaron and His Sons

1 And this is what you shall do to them to consecrate them to minister before Me: take one young bull and two rams without blemish, 2 and unleavened bread, and unleavened cakes mixed with oil, and unleavened wafers spread with oil; you shall make them of wheat flour. 3 And you shall put them in one basket and bring them in the basket, with the bull and the two rams. 4 And you shall bring Aaron and his sons to the door of the Tent of Meeting, and wash them with water. 5 And you shall take the garments and dress Aaron in the tunic, and the robe of the ephod, and the ephod and the breastplate, and fasten the band of the ephod on him. 6 And you shall set the turban on his head, and put the holy diadem on the turban. 7 And you shall take the anointing oil and pour it on his head, and anoint him. 8 And you shall bring his sons near and dress them in tunics, 9 and fasten sashes on them, Aaron and his sons, and put the caps on them; and the priesthood shall be theirs by a perpetual statute. And you shall offer the offering of Aaron and the offering of his sons. 10 And you shall bring the bull before the Tent of Meeting, and Aaron and his sons shall lay their hands on the head of the bull. 11 And you shall slaughter the bull before the Lord at the door of the Tent of Meeting. 12 And you shall take some of the blood of the bull and put it on the horns of the altar with your finger, and you shall pour out all the blood that remains at the base of the altar. 13 And you shall take all the fat that covers the inner parts, and the lobe that is on the liver, and the two kidneys and the fat that is on them, and burn them on the altar. 14 But the meat of the bull, its skin, and its dung you shall burn with fire outside the camp; it is a sin offering. 15 And you shall take one ram, and Aaron and his sons shall lay their hands on the head of the ram. 16 And you shall slaughter the ram, and take its blood and sprinkle it all around on the altar. 17 And you shall cut the ram into its pieces, and wash its inner parts and its legs, and put them with its pieces and its head. 18 And you shall burn the whole ram on the altar; it is a burnt offering before the Lord, to be accepted with favor,⁠a an offering before the Lord. 19 And you shall take the second ram, and Aaron and his sons shall lay their hands on the head of the ram. 20 And you shall slaughter the ram, and take some of its blood and put it on the lobe of Aaron's ear and on the lobe of the right ear of his sons, and on the thumb of their right hand, and on the big toe of their right foot; and you shall sprinkle the blood all around on the altar. 21 And you shall take some of the blood that is on the altar and some of the anointing oil, and sprinkle it on Aaron and on his garments, and on his sons and on his sons' garments with him; and he shall be consecrated, he and his garments, and his sons and his sons' garments with him. 22 And you shall take from the ram the fat, and the fat tail, and the fat that covers the inner parts, and the lobe of the liver, and the two kidneys and the fat that is on them, and the right thigh, for it is a ram of offering; 23 and one loaf of bread, and one cake of bread with oil, and one wafer from the basket of unleavened bread that is before the Lord; 24 and you shall put all of them in the hands of Aaron and in the hands of his sons, and lift them up as a lifted offering before the Lord. 25 And you shall take them from their hands and burn them on the altar on top of the burnt offering, so that they may be received with favor before the Lord; it is an offering before the Lord. 26 And you shall take the breast of the ram of Aaron's offerings, and lift it up as a lifted offering before the Lord; and it shall be your portion. 27 And you shall consecrate the breast of the lifted offering and the thigh of the contribution, which is lifted up and which is set apart from the ram of offering, from what is Aaron's and from what is his sons'; 28 and it shall belong to Aaron and to his sons as a perpetual statute from the sons of Israel, for it is a contribution; and it shall be a contribution from the sons of Israel from their holy sacrifices, their contribution before the Lord. 29 And the holy garments of Aaron shall belong to his sons after him, to be anointed in them, and to offer their offerings in them. 30 The son who is anointed priest in his place, and who goes into the Tent of Meeting to minister in the sanctuary, shall wear them for seven days. 31 And you shall take the ram of offering and boil its meat in a holy place. 32 And Aaron and his sons shall eat the meat of the ram and the bread that is in the basket at the door of the Tent of Meeting. 33 And they shall eat those things by which atonement was made when they were offered, to consecrate them; but an outsider shall not eat them, because they are holy. 34 And if any part of the meat of the offerings or of the bread remains until morning, you shall burn what remains with fire; it shall not be eaten, because it is holy. 35 And you shall do this to Aaron and to his sons, according to all that I have commanded you; for seven days you shall offer their offerings. 36 And every day you shall offer a bull as a sin offering for atonement, and you shall purify the altar when you make atonement on it, and you shall anoint it to consecrate it. 37 For seven days you shall make atonement on the altar and consecrate it, and the altar shall be most holy; whoever touches the altar shall be consecrated.

Daily Offerings and the Divine Presence

38 And this is what you shall offer on the altar: two lambs a year old, every day, continually. 39 One lamb you shall offer in the morning, and the other lamb you shall offer at twilight. 40 And with the first lamb you shall offer a tenth of fine flour mixed with a quarter of a hin of beaten oil, and a quarter of a hin of wine as a drink offering. 41 And the other lamb you shall offer at twilight; you shall offer it with the same grain offering and drink offering as in the morning, to be received with favor, an offering before the Lord. 42 It shall be a continual burnt offering throughout your generations at the door of the Tent of Meeting before the Lord, where I will appoint My Memra to meet you, to speak with you there. 43 And I will appoint My Memra there for the sons of Israel, and I will be sanctified by My glory. 44 And I will sanctify the Tent of Meeting and the altar, and I will sanctify Aaron and his sons to minister before Me. 45 And I will cause My Shekinah to dwell among the sons of Israel, and I will be their God.⁠b 46 And they shall know that I am the Lord their God, who brought them out of the land of Egypt so that I might cause My Shekinah to dwell among them. I am the Lord their God.