1   In consecrating them to be my priests this is the rite to be observed. 2   Take a young bull and two rams without blemish. Take unleavened loaves, unleavened cakes mixed with oil, and unleavened wafers smeared with oil, all made of wheaten flour; 3   put them in a single basket and bring them in it. Bring also the bull and the two rams. 4   Bring Aaron and his sons to the entrance of the Tent of the Presence, and wash them with water. 5   Take the vestments and invest Aaron with the tunic, the mantle of the ephod, the ephod itself and the breast-piece,

Israel at Mount Sinai and fasten the ephod to him with its waist-band. 6   Set the turban on his head, and the symbol of holy dedication on the turban. 7   Take the anointing oil, pour it on his head and anoint him. 8   Then bring his sons forward, 9   invest them with tunics, gird them ^note with the sashes and tie their tall head-dresses on them. They shall hold the priesthood by a rule binding for all time.

10   Next you shall install Aaron and his sons. Bring the bull to the front of the Tent of the Presence, and they shall lay their hands on its head. 11   Slaughter the bull before the Lord at the entrance to the Tent of the Presence. 12   Take some of its blood, and put it with your finger on the horns of the altar. Pour all the rest ^note of it at the base of the altar. 13   Then take the fat covering the entrails, the long lobe of the liver, and the two kidneys with the fat upon them, and burn it on the altar; 14   but the flesh of the bull, and its skin and offal, you shall destroy by fire outside the camp. It is a sin-offering.

15   Take one of the rams, and Aaron and his sons shall lay their hands on its head. 16   Then slaughter it, take its blood and fling it against the sides of the altar. 17   Cut the ram up; wash its entrails and its shins, lay them with the pieces and the head, 18   and burn the whole ram on the altar: it is a whole-offering to the Lord; it is a soothing odour, a food-offering to the Lord.

19   Take the second ram, and let Aaron and his sons lay their hands on its head. 20   Then slaughter it, take some of its blood, and put it on the lobes of the right ears of Aaron and his sons, and on their right thumbs and big toes. Fling the rest of the blood against the sides of the altar. 21   Take some of the blood which is on the altar and some of the anointing oil, and sprinkle it on Aaron and his vestments, and on his sons and their vestments. So shall he and his vestments, and his sons and their vestments become holy. 22   Take the fat from the ram, the fat-tail, the fat covering the entrails, the long lobe of the liver, the two kidneys with the fat upon them, and the right leg: for it is a ram of installation. 23   Take also one round loaf of bread, one cake cooked with oil, and one wafer from the basket of unleavened bread that is before the Lord. 24   Set all these on the hands of Aaron and of his sons and present them as a special gift before the Lord. 25   Then take them out of their hands, and burn them on the altar with the whole-offering for a soothing odour to the Lord: it is a food-offering to the Lord. 26   Take the breast of Aaron's ram of installation, present it as a special gift before the Lord, and it shall be your perquisite.

27   Hallow the breast of the special gift and the leg of the contribution, that which is presented and that which is set aside from the ram of installation, that which is for Aaron and that which is for his sons; 28   and

Israel at Mount Sinai they shall belong to Aaron and his sons, by a rule binding for all time, as a gift from the Israelites, for it is a contribution, set aside from their shared-offerings, their contribution to the Lord.

29   Aaron's sacred vestments shall be kept for the anointing and installation of his sons after him. 30   The priest appointed in his stead from among his sons, the one who enters ^note the Tent of the Presence to minister in the Holy Place, shall wear them for seven days.

31   Take the ram of installation, and boil its flesh in a sacred place; 32   Aaron and his sons shall eat the ram's flesh and the bread left in the basket, at the entrance to the Tent of the Presence. 33   They shall eat the things with which expiation was made at their installation and their consecration. 34   No unqualified person may eat them, for they are holy. If any of the flesh of the installation, or any of the bread, is left over till morning, you shall destroy it by fire; it shall not be eaten, for it is holy.

35   Do this with Aaron and his sons as I have commanded you, spending seven days over their installation.

36   Offer a bull daily, a sin-offering as expiation for sin; offer the sin-offering on the altar when you make expiation for it, and consecrate it by anointing. 37   For seven days you shall make expiation for the altar, and consecrate it, and it shall be most holy. Whatever touches the altar shall be forfeit as sacred.

38   This is what you shall offer on the altar: two yearling rams regularly every day. 39   You shall offer the one ram at dawn, and the second between dusk and dark, 40   a tenth of an ephah of flour mixed with a quarter of a hin of pure oil of pounded olives, and a drink-offering of a quarter of a hin of wine for the first ram. 41   You shall offer the second ram between dusk and dark, and with it the same grain-offering and drink-offering as at dawn, for a soothing odour: 42   it is a food-offering to the Lord, a regular whole-offering in every generation; you shall make the offering at the entrance to the Tent of the Presence before the Lord, where I meet you and speak to you. 43   I shall meet the Israelites there, and the place will be hallowed by my glory. 44   I shall hallow the Tent of the Presence and the altar; and Aaron and his sons I shall consecrate to serve me as priests. 45   I shall dwell in the midst of the Israelites, I shall become their God, 46   and by my dwelling among them they will know that I am the Lord their God who brought them out of Egypt. I am the Lord their God.

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