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his garments, on his sons and on the gar- shall make atonement for the altar and sancti-
ments of his sons with him; and he and his fy it. And the altar shall be most holy. What-
garments shall be hallowed, and his sons and ever touches the altar must be holy.
his sons’ garments with him. 38 “Now this is what you shall offer on the
22 “Also you shall take the fat of the ram, the altar: two lambs of the first year, day by day
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fat tail, the fat that covers the entrails, the fatty continually. One lamb you shall offer in the
lobe attached to the liver, the two kidneys and morning, and the other lamb you shall offer at
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the fat on them, the right thigh (for it is a ram twilight. With the one lamb shall be one-
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of consecration), one loaf of bread, one cake tenth of an ephah of flour mixed with one-
made with oil, and one wafer from the basket fourth of a hin of pressed oil, and one-fourth of
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of the unleavened bread that is before the a hin of wine as a drink offering. And the
LORD; and you shall put all these in the hands other lamb you shall offer at twilight; and you
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of Aaron and in the hands of his sons, and you shall offer with it the grain offering and the
shall wave them as a wave offering before the drink offering, as in the morning, for a sweet
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LORD. You shall receive them back from their aroma, an offering made by fire to the LORD.
hands and burn them on the altar as a burnt 42 This shall be a continual burnt offering
offering, as a sweet aroma before the LORD. It throughout your generations at the door of
is an offering made by fire to the LORD. the tabernacle of meeting before the LORD,
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26 “Then you shall take the breast of the ram where I will meet you to speak with you. And
of Aaron’s consecration and wave it as a wave there I will meet with the children of Israel,
offering before the LORD; and it shall be your and the tabernacle shall be sanctified by My
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portion. And from the ram of the consecra- glory. So I will consecrate the tabernacle of
tion you shall consecrate the breast of the meeting and the altar. I will also consecrate both
wave offering which is waved, and the thigh of Aaron and his sons to minister to Me as priests.
the heave offering which is raised, of that 45 I will dwell among the children of Israel and
which is for Aaron and of that which is for his will be their God. And they shall know that I
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sons. It shall be from the children of Israel for am the LORD their God, who brought them up
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Aaron and his sons by a statute forever. For it out of the land of Egypt, that I may dwell
is a heave offering; it shall be a heave offering among them. I am the LORD their God.
from the children of Israel from the sacrifices
of their peace offerings, that is, their heave
offering to the LORD.
29 “And the holy garments of Aaron shall be
his sons’ after him, to be anointed in them and 29:45 I will dwell. That He would be God of
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to be consecrated in them. That son who the children of Israel and they would be His
becomes priest in his place shall put them on people was one thing, but that He would also
for seven days, when he enters the tabernacle dwell or tabernacle with them was a very
of meeting to minister in the holy place. important reality in the experience of the new
31 “And you shall take the ram of the conse- nation. They were to understand not only the
cration and boil its flesh in the holy place. transcendence of their God, whose dwelling
32 Then Aaron and his sons shall eat the flesh of place was in the heaven of heavens, but also
the ram, and the bread that is in the basket, by the immanence of their God, whose dwelling
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the door of the tabernacle of meeting. They place was with them. Their redemption from
shall eat those things with which the atone- Egypt was for this purpose (v. 46).
ment was made, to consecrate and to sanctify
them; but an outsider shall not eat them,
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because they are holy. And if any of the flesh “You shall make an altar to burn
of the consecration offerings, or of the bread, 30 incense on; you shall make it of acacia
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remains until the morning, then you shall wood. A cubit shall be its length and a cubit its
burn the remainder with fire. It shall not be width—it shall be square—and two cubits
eaten, because it is holy. shall be its height. Its horns shall be of one
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35 “Thus you shall do to Aaron and his sons, piece with it. And you shall overlay its top, its
according to all that I have commanded you. sides all around, and its horns with pure gold;
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Seven days you shall consecrate them. And and you shall make for it a molding of gold all
you shall offer a bull every day as a sin offer- around. Two gold rings you shall make for it,
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ing for atonement. You shall cleanse the altar under the molding on both its sides. You shall
when you make atonement for it, and you place them on its two sides, and they will be
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shall anoint it to sanctify it. Seven days you holders for the poles with which to bear it.
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