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Leviticus 8:1-36 — Ordination of Aaron and His Sons

Lev.8.1-36

¹Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying, ²"Take Aaron and his sons with him, and the garments, and the anointing oil, and the bull for the sin offering, and the two rams, and the basket of unleavened bread, ³and assemble the whole congregation at the entrance to the Tent of Meeting." ⁴So Moses did just as Yahweh had commanded him, and the congregation assembled at the entrance to the Tent of Meeting. ⁵And Moses said to the congregation, “This is the thing that Yahweh has commanded to be done.” ⁶Then Moses brought Aaron and his sons forward and washed them with water. ⁷He put the tunic on him, tied the sash around him, clothed him with the robe, put the ephod on him, tied the skillfully woven band of the ephod around him, and secured the ephod to him with it. ⁸He placed the breastpiece on him, and in the breastpiece he put the Urim and the Thummim . ⁹He set the turban on his head, and on the front of the turban he placed the gold plate, the holy diadem, just as Yahweh had commanded Moses. ¹⁰Then Moses took the anointing oil and anointed the tabernacle and everything in it, and consecrated them. ¹¹He sprinkled some of it on the altar seven times and anointed the altar and all its utensils, and the basin and its stand, to consecrate them. ¹²He poured some of the anointing oil on Aaron's head and anointed him to consecrate him. ¹³Then Moses brought Aaron's sons forward and clothed them with tunics, tied sashes around them, and bound caps on them, just as Yahweh had commanded Moses. ¹⁴Then he brought forward the bull for the sin offering, and Aaron and his sons laid their hands on the head of the bull for the sin offering. ¹⁵He slaughtered it, and Moses took the blood and put it with his finger on the horns of the altar all around and purified the altar. He poured out the blood at the base of the altar and consecrated it to make atonement on it. ¹⁶He took all the fat that was on the entrails, the lobe of the liver, and the two kidneys with their fat, and Moses burned them on the altar. ¹⁷But the bull, with its hide, its flesh, and its dung, he burned with fire outside the camp, just as Yahweh had commanded Moses. ¹⁸Then he brought forward the ram of the burnt offering, and Aaron and his sons laid their hands on the head of the ram. ¹⁹He slaughtered it , and Moses threw the blood against the altar all around. ²⁰He cut the ram into its pieces, and Moses burned the head, the pieces, and the fat. ²¹He washed the entrails and the legs with water, and Moses burned the whole ram on the altar. It was a burnt offering for a pleasing aroma, an offering by fire to Yahweh, just as Yahweh had commanded Moses. ²²Then he brought forward the second ram, the ram of ordination, and Aaron and his sons laid their hands on the head of the ram. ²³He slaughtered it, and Moses took some of its blood and put it on the lobe of Aaron's right ear, on the thumb of his right hand, and on the big toe of his right foot. ²⁴Then he brought Aaron's sons forward, and Moses put some of the blood on the lobes of their right ears, on the thumbs of their right hands, and on the big toes of their right feet. Then Moses threw the blood against the altar all around. ²⁵He took the fat, the fat tail, all the fat that was on the entrails, the lobe of the liver, the two kidneys with their fat, and the right thigh. ²⁶And from the basket of unleavened bread that was before Yahweh, he took one unleavened cake, one cake of bread with oil, and one wafer, and placed them on the fat portions and on the right thigh. ²⁷He put all these on the palms of Aaron and on the palms of his sons, and waved them as a wave offering before Yahweh. ²⁸Then Moses took them from their palms and burned them on the altar on top of the burnt offering. They were ordination portions for a pleasing aroma; they were an offering by fire to Yahweh. ²⁹And Moses took the breast and waved it as a wave offering before Yahweh. It was Moses' portion from the ram of ordination, just as Yahweh had commanded Moses. ³⁰Then Moses took some of the anointing oil and some of the blood that was on the altar and sprinkled it on Aaron, on his garments, on his sons, and on his sons' garments with him. So he consecrated Aaron, his garments, his sons, and his sons' garments with him. ³¹And Moses said to Aaron and to his sons, “Boil the meat at the entrance to the Tent of Meeting, and eat it there, along with the bread that is in the basket of ordination offerings, just as I commanded, saying, 'Aaron and his sons shall eat it.'” ³²And what remains of the meat and of the bread you shall burn with fire. ³³And you shall not go out from the entrance to the Tent of Meeting for seven days, until the days of your ordination are completed, for he will ordain you through seven days . ³⁴Just as has been done this day, Yahweh has commanded to be done, to make atonement for you. ³⁵And you shall remain at the entrance to the Tent of Meeting day and night for seven days, and keep Yahweh's charge, so that you do not die, for thus I have been commanded." ³⁶And Aaron and his sons did all the things that Yahweh had commanded through Moses.

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4/11/2026

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