Leviticus 8:1-35 ▼

1 And YHWH spoke to Moses, saying,

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

3 and assemble all the congregation at the door of the Tent of Meeting.”

4 And Moses did as YHWH commanded him, and the congregation assembled at the door of the Tent of Meeting.

5 And Moses said to the congregation, “This is the word that YHWH commanded to do.”

6 And Moses brought near Aaron and his sons, and he washed them with the water,

7 and he put the tunic on him, and he girded him with the sash, and he clothed him with the robe, and he put the ephod on him, and he girded him with the skillfully woven waistband of the ephod, and he bound it on him with it.

8 And he put on him the breastplate, and he put in the breastplate the Urim and the Thummim.

9 And he put the turban on his head, and he put on the turban, toward the front of its face, the golden plate, the holy diadem, as YHWH had commanded Moses.

10 And Moses took the anointing oil, and he anointed the tabernacle and all that was in it, and he sanctified them.

11 And he sprinkled from it on the altar seven times, and he anointed the altar and all its vessels, and the basin and its stand, to sanctify them.

12 And he poured from the anointing oil on the head of Aaron, and he anointed him, to sanctify him.

13 And Moses brought near the sons of Aaron, and he clothed them with tunics, and he girded them with sashes, and he bound headbands, to them, as YHWH had commanded Moses.

14 And he brought near the bull of the sin offering, and Aaron and his sons laid their hands on the head of the bull of the sin offering.

15 And he slaughtered it, and Moses took the blood, and he put it on the horns of the altar all around with his finger, and he cleansed from sin the altar, and he poured the blood at the base of the altar, and he sanctified it, to make atonement upon it.

16 And he took all the fat that was on the entrails, and the lobe of the liver, and the two kidneys and their fat, and Moses burned them on the altar.

17 And the bull and its skin and its flesh and its dung, he burned in the fire outside of the camp, as YHWH had commanded Moses.

18 And he brought near the ram of the burnt offering, and Aaron and his sons laid their hands on the head of the ram.

19 And he slaughtered it, and Moses sprinkled the blood on the altar all around.

20 And he cut the ram into its pieces, and Moses burned the head, and the pieces, and the fat.

21 And the entrails and the legs he washed in the water, and Moses burned the whole ram on the altar. It was a burnt offering for a pleasing aroma; it was a fire offering to YHWH, as YHWH had commanded Moses.

22 And he brought near the second ram, the ram of the ordination, and Aaron and his sons laid their hands on the head of the ram.

23 And he slaughtered it, and Moses took from its blood, and he put it on the tip of the right ear of Aaron, and on the thumb of his right hand, and on the big toe of his right foot.

24 And he brought near the sons of Aaron, and Moses put from the blood on the tips of their right ears, and on the thumbs of their right hands, and on the big toes of their right feet. And Moses sprinkled the blood on the altar all around.

25 And he took the fat, and the fat tail, and all the fat that was on the entrails, and the lobe of the liver, and the two kidneys and their fat, and the right thigh.

26 And from the basket of the unleavened bread that was before the face of YHWH he took one unleavened cake, and one cake of oiled bread, and one wafer, and he put them on the fat and on the right thigh.

27 And he set all these on the palms of Aaron and on the palms of his sons, and he waved them as a wave offering before the face of YHWH.

28 And Moses took them from their palms, and he burned them on the altar, on the burnt offering. They were ordination offerings for a pleasing aroma; it was a fire offering to YHWH.

29 And Moses took the breast, and he waved it as a wave offering before the face of YHWH. From the ram of the ordination it was for Moses, for a portion, as YHWH had commanded Moses.

30 And Moses took from the anointing oil and from the blood that was on the altar, and he sprinkled it on Aaron, on his garments, and on his sons, and on the garments of his sons with him. And he sanctified Aaron, his garments, and his sons, and the garments of his sons with him.

31 And Moses said to Aaron and to his sons, “Boil the flesh at the door of the Tent of Meeting, and there you? shall eat it, and the bread that is in the basket of ordination offerings, as I commanded, saying, ‘Aaron and his sons shall eat it.’

32 And the remainder among the flesh and among the bread you? shall burn in the fire.

33 And you? shall not go from the door of the Tent of Meeting for seven days, until the day of the fullness, the days of your? ordination—for seven days he will fill your? hand.

34 As he has done in this day, YHWH has commanded to do, to make atonement upon you?.

35 And you? shall stay at the door of the Tent of Meeting, day and night for seven days, and you? shall keep the charge of YHWH, and you? shall not die; for so I have been commanded.”