Leviticus 8:1–34

Aaron and His Sons Consecrated

8And the Lord spoke to Moses, saying: ^2a“Take Aaron and his sons with him, and ^bthe garments, ^cthe anointing oil, a ^dbull as the sin offering, two ^erams, and a basket of unleavened bread; ³and gather all the congregation together at the door of the tabernacle of meeting.”

⁴So Moses did as the Lord commanded him. And the congregation was gathered together at the door of the tabernacle of meeting. ⁵And Moses said to the congregation, “This is what the Lord commanded to be done.”

⁶Then Moses brought Aaron and his sons and ^fwashed them with water. ⁷And he ^gput the tunic on him, girded him with the sash, clothed him with the robe, and put the ephod on him; and he girded him with the intricately woven band of the ephod, and with it tied the ephod on him. ⁸Then he put the breastplate on him, and he ^hput the ¹Urim and the Thummim in the breastplate. ⁹ⁱAnd he put the turban on his head. Also on the turban, on its front, he put the golden plate, the holy crown, as the Lord had commanded Moses.

^10jAlso Moses took the anointing oil, and anointed the tabernacle and all that was in it, and consecrated them. ¹¹He sprinkled some of it on the altar seven times, anointed the altar and all its utensils, and the laver and its base, to ²consecrate them. ¹²And he ^kpoured some of the anointing oil on Aaron’s head and anointed him, to consecrate him.

^13lThen Moses brought Aaron’s sons and put tunics on them, girded them with sashes, and put ³hats on them, as the Lord had commanded Moses.

^14mAnd he brought the bull for the sin offering. Then Aaron and his sons ⁿlaid their hands on the head of the bull for the sin offering, ¹⁵and Moses killed it. ^oThen he took the blood, and put some on the horns of the altar all around with his finger, and purified the altar. And he poured the blood at the base of the altar, and consecrated it, to make ⁴atonement for it. ^16pThen he took all the fat that was on the entrails, the fatty lobe attached to the liver, and the two kidneys with their fat, and Moses burned them on the altar. ¹⁷But the bull, its hide, its flesh, and its offal, he burned with fire outside the camp, as the Lord ^qhad commanded Moses.

^18rThen he brought the ram as the burnt offering. And Aaron and his sons laid their hands on the head of the ram, ¹⁹and Moses killed it. Then he sprinkled the blood all around on the altar. ²⁰And he cut the ram into pieces; and Moses ^sburned the head, the pieces, and the fat. ²¹Then he washed the entrails and the legs in water. And Moses burned the whole ram on the altar. It was a burnt sacrifice for a ⁵sweet aroma, an offering made by fire to the Lord, ^tas the Lord had commanded Moses.

²²And ^uhe brought the second ram, the ram of consecration. Then Aaron and his sons laid their hands on the head of the ram, ²³and Moses killed it. Also he took some of ^vits blood and put it on the tip 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. And Moses put some of the ^wblood on the tips of their right ears, on the thumbs of their right hands, and on the big toes of their right feet. And Moses sprinkled the blood all around on the altar. ^25xThen he took the fat and the fat tail, all the fat that was on the entrails, the fatty lobe attached to the liver, the two kidneys and their fat, and the right thigh; ^26yand from the basket of unleavened bread that was before the Lord he took one unleavened cake, a cake of bread anointed with oil, and one wafer, and put them on the fat and on the right thigh; ²⁷and he put all these ^zin Aaron’s hands and in his sons’ hands, and waved them as a wave offering before the Lord. ^28aThen Moses took them from their hands and burned them on the altar, on the burnt offering. They were consecration offerings for a sweet aroma. That was an offering made by fire to the Lord. ²⁹And ^bMoses took the ^cbreast and waved it as a wave offering before the Lord. It was Moses’ ^dpart of the ram of consecration, as the Lord had commanded Moses.

³⁰Then ^eMoses took some of the anointing oil and some of the blood which was on the altar, and sprinkled it on Aaron, on his garments, on his sons, and on the garments of his sons with him; and he consecrated Aaron, his garments, his sons, and the garments of his sons with him.

³¹And Moses said to Aaron and his sons, ^f“Boil the flesh at the door of the tabernacle of meeting, and eat it there with the bread that is in the basket of consecration offerings, as I commanded, saying, ‘Aaron and his sons shall eat it.’ ^32gWhat remains of the flesh and of the bread you shall burn with fire. ³³And you shall not go outside the door of the tabernacle of meeting for seven days, until the days of your consecration are ended. For ^hseven days he shall consecrate you. ³⁴ⁱAs he has done this day, so the Lord has commanded to do, to make atonement for you.