1 "This is how you are to consecrate them to serve me as priests. Take a young bull and two rams with no defect,
2 along with unleavened bread, unleavened cakes mixed with oil and unleavened wafers smeared with oil, all made from fine wheat flour.
3 Put them in a single basket and present them in the basket, together with the bull and the two rams.
4 Then bring Aaron and his sons to the entrance of the tent of meeting and wash them with water.
5 Take the garments and clothe Aaron with the tunic, the robe of the ephod, the ephod itself and the breastpiece, and tie the woven waistband of the ephod around him.
6 Set the turban on his head and attach the holy crown to the turban.
7 Take the anointing oil and anoint him by pouring it on his head.
8 Next bring his sons and clothe them with tunics.
9 Tie sashes around Aaron and his sons and fit the caps on them. The priesthood is to be theirs by a lasting ordinance. In this way you are to ordain Aaron and his sons.
10 "Bring the bull to the front of the tent of meeting, and have Aaron and his sons lay their hands on its head.
11 Slaughter the bull in the LORD's presence at the entrance of the tent of meeting.
12 Take some of the bull's blood and put it on the horns of the altar with your finger; pour out all the rest of the blood at the base of the altar.
13 Then take all the fat around the inner organs, the long lobe of the liver, and both kidneys with the fat on them, and burn them on the altar.
14 But burn the bull's flesh, its hide and its dung outside the camp. It is a sin offering.
15 "Take one of the rams, and have Aaron and his sons lay their hands on its head.
16 Slaughter the ram, take its blood and splash it against all sides of the altar.
17 Cut the ram into pieces, wash the inner organs and the legs, and place them with the pieces and the head.
18 Then burn the entire ram on the altar. It is a burnt offering to the LORD, a soothing aroma, a food offering to the LORD.
19 "Take the other ram, and have Aaron and his sons lay their hands on its head.
20 Slaughter it, take some of its blood and put it on the lobe of Aaron's right ear and on the lobes of his sons' right ears, on the thumbs of their right hands and on the big toes of their right feet. Splash the rest of the blood against all sides of the altar.
21 Then take some of the blood on the altar and some of the anointing oil and sprinkle it on Aaron and his garments and on his sons and their garments. So he and his garments will be made holy, and his sons and their garments with him.
22 "From this ram take the fat, the fat tail, the fat around the inner organs, the long lobe of the liver, both kidneys with the fat on them, and the right thigh, since this is the ram of ordination.
23 From the basket of unleavened bread set before the LORD take one loaf of bread, one cake made with oil and one wafer.
24 Place all these in the hands of Aaron and his sons, and have them wave them before the LORD as a wave offering.
25 Then take them back from their hands and burn them on the altar on top of the burnt offering, as a soothing aroma before the LORD. It is a food offering to the LORD.
26 Take the breast of the ram for Aaron's ordination and wave it before the LORD as a wave offering; it will be your share.
27 Set apart the breast that was waved and the thigh that was presented as a contribution, the parts of the ram of ordination that belong to Aaron and his sons.
28 This is always to be the share of Aaron and his sons from the children of Israel, because it is a contribution. It is to be the contribution the children of Israel make from their sacrifices of peace offerings, their contribution to the LORD.
29 "Aaron's sacred garments will pass to his sons after him, so that they can be anointed and ordained in them.
30 The son who succeeds him as priest and enters the tent of meeting to minister in the holy place is to wear them for seven days.
31 "Take the ram of ordination and cook its meat in a holy place.
32 At the entrance of the tent of meeting Aaron and his sons are to eat the meat of the ram and the bread in the basket.
33 They are to eat the things by which atonement was made for them at their ordination and consecration. No outsider may eat them, because they are holy.
34 If any of the ordination meat or any of the bread is left until morning, burn up what is left. It must not be eaten, because it is holy.
35 "Do all this for Aaron and his sons, just as I have commanded you, taking seven days to ordain them.
36 Each day offer a bull as a sin offering to make atonement. Purify the altar by making atonement for it, and anoint it to consecrate it.
37 For seven days make atonement for the altar and consecrate it. Then the altar will be most holy, and whatever touches it will become holy.
38 "This is what you are to offer on the altar regularly each day: two lambs a year old.
39 Offer one lamb in the morning and the other at twilight.
40 With the first lamb offer a tenth of an ephah of fine flour mixed with a quarter of a hin of oil from pressed olives, and a quarter of a hin of wine as a drink offering.
41 Offer the other lamb at twilight with the same grain offering and drink offering as in the morning, as a soothing aroma, a food offering to the LORD.
42 For all your generations to come this is to be the regular burnt offering at the entrance of the tent of meeting before the LORD. There I will meet you and speak to you.
43 There too I will meet with the children of Israel, and the place will be made holy by my glory.
44 So I will consecrate the tent of meeting and the altar, and I will consecrate Aaron and his sons to serve me as priests.
45 Then I will dwell in the midst of the children of Israel and be their God.
46 They will know that I am the LORD their God, who brought them out of the land of Egypt so that I might dwell among them. I am the LORD their God.