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FEBRUARY 18
shall consecrate you. As he has done this
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day, so the LORD has commanded to do, to
make atonement for you. Therefore you shall
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8:23,24 right ear…right hand…right foot. stay at the door of the tabernacle of meeting
Using a part to represent the whole,Aaron and day and night for seven days, and keep the
his sons were consecrated to listen to God’s charge of the LORD, so that you may not die;
holy Word, to carry out His holy assignments, for so I have been commanded.” So Aaron
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and to live holy lives. and his sons did all the things that the LORD
had commanded by the hand of Moses.
Psalm 24:7–10
made by fire to the LORD, as the LORD had
commanded Moses. 7 Lift up your heads, O you gates!
22 And he brought the second ram, the ram And be lifted up, you
of consecration. Then Aaron and his sons laid everlasting doors!
their hands on the head of the ram, and Mo- And the King of glory shall come in.
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ses killed it. Also he took some of its blood and 8 Who is this King of glory?
put it on the tip of Aaron’s right ear, on the The LORD strong and mighty,
thumb of his right hand, and on the big toe of The LORD mighty in battle.
his right foot. Then he brought Aaron’s sons. 9 Lift up your heads, O you gates!
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And Moses put some of the blood on the tips of Lift up, you everlasting doors!
their right ears, on the thumbs of their right And the King of glory shall come in.
hands, and on the big toes of their right feet. 10 Who is this King of glory?
And Moses sprinkled the blood all around on The LORD of hosts,
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the altar. Then he took the fat and the fat tail, He is the King of glory. Selah
all the fat that was on the entrails, the fatty Proverbs 9:10–12
lobe attached to the liver, the two kidneys and
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their fat, and the right thigh; and from the 10 “The fear of the LORD is the beginning
basket of unleavened bread that was before of wisdom,
the LORD he took one unleavened cake, a cake And the knowledge of the Holy One is
of bread anointed with oil, and one wafer, and understanding.
put them on the fat and on the right thigh; 11 For by me your days will be multiplied,
27 and he put all these in Aaron’s hands and in And years of life will be added to you.
his sons’ hands, and waved them as a wave 12 If you are wise, you are wise
offering before the LORD. Then Moses took for yourself,
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them from their hands and burned them on And if you scoff, you will bear
the altar, on the burnt offering. They were con- it alone.”
secration offerings for a sweet aroma. That Mark 1:1–22
was an offering made by fire to the LORD.
29 And Moses took the breast and waved it as a The beginning of the gospel of Jesus Christ,
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wave offering before the LORD. It was Moses’ 1 the Son of God. As it is written in the
part of the ram of consecration, as the LORD Prophets:
had commanded Moses.
30 Then Moses took some of the anointing oil “Behold, I send My messenger before
Your face,
and some of the blood which was on the altar, Who will prepare Your way before
and sprinkled it on Aaron, on his garments, on You.”
his sons, and on the garments of his sons with 3 The voice of one crying in the
him; and he consecrated Aaron, his garments, wilderness:
his sons, and the garments of his sons with him.
31 And Moses said to Aaron and his sons, ‘Prepare the way of the LORD;
“Boil the flesh at the door of the tabernacle of Make His paths straight.’ ”
meeting, and eat it there with the bread that is 4 John came baptizing in the wilderness and
in the basket of consecration offerings, as I preaching a baptism of repentance for the
commanded, saying, ‘Aaron and his sons shall remission of sins. Then all the land of Judea,
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eat it.’ What remains of the flesh and of the and those from Jerusalem, went out to him
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bread you shall burn with fire. And you shall and were all baptized by him in the Jordan
not go outside the door of the tabernacle of River, confessing their sins.
meeting for seven days, until the days of your 6 Now John was clothed with camel’s hair
consecration are ended. For seven days he and with a leather belt around his waist, and
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