Exodus
Chapter 29
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1This is what you shall do to them, to set them apart to serve me as priests. Take one bull, a son of the herd, and two rams without blemish,
2and Made without yeast, so the bread stays flat. bread, and Made without yeast, so the bread stays flat. cakes mixed with oil, and Made without yeast, so the bread stays flat. wafers smeared with oil. You shall make them of fine wheat flour.
3You shall put them in one basket and bring them near in the basket, with the bull and the two rams.
4Aaron and his sons you shall bring near to the entrance of the tent of meeting, and you shall wash them with water.
5You shall take the garments and clothe Aaron with the tunic, the robe of the A special vest the priest wore., the A special vest the priest wore., and the breast-piece, and you shall bind the A special vest the priest wore. on him with the designed band of the A special vest the priest wore..
6You shall set the turban on his head and put the holy diadem on the turban.
7You shall take the Pouring oil to set someone apart for God. oil and pour it on his head and To pour oil on someone or something to set them apart for God. him.
8You shall bring his sons near and clothe them with tunics.
9You shall gird them with a sash, Aaron and his sons, and bind caps on them. The priesthood shall be theirs by a lasting A rule that is meant to last., and you shall fill the hand of Aaron and the hand of his sons.
10You shall bring the bull near before the tent of meeting, and Aaron and his sons shall lay their hands on the bull’s head.
11You shall slaughter the bull before God’s own name. The Hebrew writes YHWH. See the glossary., at the entrance of the tent of meeting.
12You shall take some of the bull’s blood and put it on the horns of the altar with your finger, and you shall pour out all the blood at the base of the altar.
13You shall take all the fat that covers the innards, the lobe on the liver, the two kidneys and the fat that is on them, and turn them into smoke on the altar.
14The bull’s meat, its hide, and its dung you shall burn in fire outside the camp. It is an offense offering.
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Chatat is an offense offering, for a wrong. “Sin offering” is the older English, and it is not printed.
15You shall take the one ram, and Aaron and his sons shall lay their hands on the ram’s head.
16You shall slaughter the ram, take its blood, and dash it on the altar all around.
17You shall cut the ram into its pieces, wash its innards and its legs, and put them on its pieces and on its head.
18You shall turn the whole ram into smoke on the altar. It is a whole offering to God’s own name. The Hebrew writes YHWH. See the glossary., a soothing scent, a food gift to God’s own name. The Hebrew writes YHWH. See the glossary..
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Olah is a whole offering. Reach nichoach is a soothing scent. Isheh is a food gift, what is given by fire. All three are printed.
19You shall take the second ram, and Aaron and his sons shall lay their hands on the ram’s head.
20You shall slaughter the ram, take some of its blood, and put it on the lobe of Aaron’s right ear, on the lobe of his sons’ right ears, on the thumb of their right hands, and on the big toe of their right feet, and you shall dash the blood on the altar all around.
21You shall take some of the blood that is on the altar, and some of the Pouring oil to set someone apart for God. oil, and sprinkle it on Aaron and on his garments, and on his sons and on his sons’ garments with him. He and his garments shall be holy, and his sons and his sons’ garments with him.
22You shall take from the ram the fat, the fat tail, the fat that covers the innards, the lobe of the liver, the two kidneys and the fat on them, and the right thigh, because it is a ram of The ceremony that puts a priest into his work..
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Eil millu’im is the ram of filling the hand, the ram of installation.
23And one loaf of bread, one cake of oiled bread, and one wafer from the basket of Made without yeast, so the bread stays flat. bread that is before God’s own name. The Hebrew writes YHWH. See the glossary..
24You shall put all of it on Aaron’s palms and on his sons’ palms, and you shall raise them as a raised offering before God’s own name. The Hebrew writes YHWH. See the glossary..
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Tenufah is a raised offering, lifted up and shown. It is not waved in a circle unless the Hebrew said so. It does not.
25You shall take them from their hands and turn them into smoke on the altar, on top of the whole offering, as a soothing scent before God’s own name. The Hebrew writes YHWH. See the glossary.. It is a food gift to God’s own name. The Hebrew writes YHWH. See the glossary..
26You shall take the breast of the ram of The ceremony that puts a priest into his work. that is for Aaron, and raise it as a raised offering before God’s own name. The Hebrew writes YHWH. See the glossary., and it shall be your portion.
27You shall set apart the breast of the raised offering and the thigh of the contribution, which was raised and which was lifted, from the ram of The ceremony that puts a priest into his work., from what is for Aaron and from what is for his sons.
28It shall be for Aaron and for his sons as a lasting due from the sons of Israel, because it is a contribution. It shall be a contribution from the sons of Israel, from their sacrifices of well-being, their contribution to God’s own name. The Hebrew writes YHWH. See the glossary..
29The holy garments that are Aaron’s shall be for his sons after him, to be Set apart for God by having oil poured on. in them and to fill their hand in them.
30Seven days the priest who comes after him from his sons shall wear them, the one who goes into the tent of meeting to serve in the holy place.
31You shall take the ram of The ceremony that puts a priest into his work. and boil its meat in a holy place.
32Aaron and his sons shall eat the ram’s meat and the bread that is in the basket, at the entrance of the tent of meeting.
33They shall eat those things with which Making someone right with God after a wrong. was made, to fill their hand, to set them apart. A stranger shall not eat them, because they are holy.
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Kipper is to cover, to make atonement. “Atonement” is printed. Zar is an outsider, not one of the priests.
34If any of the meat of The ceremony that puts a priest into his work., or of the bread, is left until morning, you shall burn what is left in fire. It shall not be eaten, because it is holy.
35You shall do thus for Aaron and for his sons, according to everything I commanded you. Seven days you shall fill their hand.
36Each day you shall offer a bull as an offense offering for Making someone right with God after a wrong.. You shall purify the altar when you make Making someone right with God after a wrong. for it, and you shall To pour oil on someone or something to set them apart for God. it to set it apart.
37Seven days you shall make Making someone right with God after a wrong. for the altar and set it apart, and the altar shall be a most holy thing. Whatever touches the altar shall be holy.
38This is what you shall offer on the altar: two lambs a year old, regularly, each day.
39One lamb you shall offer in the morning, and the second lamb you shall offer between the evenings.
40A tenth of fine flour mixed with a quarter of a A measure for liquids such as oil and wine. of beaten oil, and a drink offering of a quarter of a A measure for liquids such as oil and wine. of wine, for the one lamb.
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A hin is a liquid measure. A tenth is a tenth of an ephah. No modern volume is added.
41The second lamb you shall offer between the evenings. You shall offer it with the morning’s grain gift and its drink offering, as a soothing scent, a food gift to God’s own name. The Hebrew writes YHWH. See the glossary..
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Minchah is a grain gift. It is not an animal sacrifice.
42A regular whole offering through your generations, at the entrance of the tent of meeting before God’s own name. The Hebrew writes YHWH. See the glossary., where I will meet with you, to speak to you there.
43I will meet there with the sons of Israel, and it shall be set apart by my glory.
44I will set apart the tent of meeting and the altar, and Aaron and his sons I will set apart to serve me as priests.
45I will dwell among the sons of Israel, and I will be God for them.
46They will know that I am God’s own name. The Hebrew writes YHWH. See the glossary. their God, who brought them out of the land of Egypt so that I might dwell among them. I am God’s own name. The Hebrew writes YHWH. See the glossary. their God.