Exodus 29:1-46
“ This is the thing that you shall do to them to make them holy, to minister to me in the priest’s office: take one young bull and two rams without defect,unleavened bread, unleavened cakes mixed with oil, and unleavened wafers anointed with oil. You shall make them of fine wheat flour.You shall put them into one basket, and bring them in the basket, with the bull and the two rams.You shall bring Aaron and his sons to the door of the Tent of Meeting, and shall wash them with water.You shall take the garments, and put on Aaron the tunic, the robe of the ephod, the ephod, and the breastplate, and clothe him with the skillfully woven band of the ephod.You shall set the turban on his head, and put the holy crown on the turban.Then you shall take the anointing oil, and pour it on his head, and anoint him.You shall bring his sons, and put tunics on them.You shall clothe them with belts, Aaron and his sons, and bind headbands on them. They shall have the priesthood by a perpetual statute. You shall consecrate Aaron and his sons.“ You shall bring the bull before the Tent of Meeting; and Aaron and his sons shall lay their hands on the head of the bull.You shall kill the bull before Yahweh at the door of the Tent of Meeting.You shall take of the blood of the bull, and put it on the horns of the altar with your finger; and you shall pour out all the blood at the base of the altar.You shall take all the fat that covers the innards, the cover of the liver, the two kidneys, and the fat that is on them, and burn them on the altar.But the meat of the bull, and its skin, and its dung, you shall burn with fire outside of the camp. It is a sin offering.“ You shall also take the one ram, and Aaron and his sons shall lay their hands on the head of the ram.You shall kill the ram, and you shall take its blood, and sprinkle it around on the altar.You shall cut the ram into its pieces, and wash its innards, and its legs, and put them with its pieces, and with its head.You shall burn the whole ram on the altar: it is a burnt offering to Yahweh; it is a pleasant aroma, an offering made by fire to Yahweh.“ You shall take the other ram, and Aaron and his sons shall lay their hands on the head of the ram.Then you shall kill the ram, and take some of its blood, and put it on the tip of the right ear of Aaron, and on the tip of the right ear of his sons, and on the thumb of their right hand, and on the big toe of their right foot; and sprinkle the blood around on the altar.You shall take of the blood that is on the altar, and of the anointing oil, and sprinkle it on Aaron, and on his garments, and on his sons, and on the garments of his sons with him: and he shall be made holy, and his garments, and his sons, and his sons’ garments with him.Also you shall take some of the ram’s fat, the fat tail, the fat that covers the innards, the cover of the liver, the two kidneys, the fat that is on them, and the right thigh( for it is a ram of consecration),and one loaf of bread, one cake of oiled bread, and one wafer out of the basket of unleavened bread that is before Yahweh.You shall put all of this in Aaron’s hands, and in his sons’ hands, and shall wave them for a wave offering before Yahweh.You shall take them from their hands, and burn them on the altar on the burnt offering, for a pleasant aroma before Yahweh: it is an offering made by fire to Yahweh.“ You shall take the breast of Aaron’s ram of consecration, and wave it for a wave offering before Yahweh. It shall be your portion.You shall sanctify the breast of the wave offering and the thigh of the wave offering, which is waved, and which is raised up, of the ram of consecration, even of that which is for Aaron, and of that which is for his sons.It shall be for Aaron and his sons as their portion forever from the children of Israel; for it is a wave offering. It shall be a wave offering from the children of Israel of the sacrifices of their peace offerings, even their wave offering to Yahweh.“ The holy garments of Aaron shall be for his sons after him, to be anointed in them, and to be consecrated in them.Seven days shall the son who is priest in his place put them on, when he comes into the Tent of Meeting to minister in the holy place.“ You shall take the ram of consecration and boil its meat in a holy place.Aaron and his sons shall eat the meat of the ram, and the bread that is in the basket, at the door of the Tent of Meeting.They shall eat those things with which atonement was made, to consecrate and sanctify them; but a stranger shall not eat of it, because they are holy.If anything of the meat of the consecration, or of the bread, remains to the morning, then you shall burn the remainder with fire. It shall not be eaten, because it is holy.“ You shall do so to Aaron and to his sons, according to all that I have commanded you. You shall consecrate them seven days.Every day you shall offer the bull of sin offering for atonement. You shall cleanse the altar when you make atonement for it. You shall anoint it, to sanctify it.Seven days you shall make atonement for the altar, and sanctify it; and the altar shall be most holy. Whatever touches the altar shall be holy.“ Now this is that which you shall offer on the altar: two lambs a year old day by day continually.The one lamb you shall offer in the morning; and the other lamb you shall offer at evening;and with the one lamb a tenth part of an ephah of fine flour mixed with the fourth part of a hin of beaten oil, and the fourth part of a hin of wine for a drink offering.The other lamb you shall offer at evening, and shall do to it according to the meal offering of the morning and according to its drink offering, for a pleasant aroma, an offering made by fire to Yahweh.It shall be a continual burnt offering throughout your generations at the door of the Tent of Meeting before Yahweh, where I will meet with you, to speak there to you.There I will meet with the children of Israel; and the place shall be sanctified by my glory.I will sanctify the Tent of Meeting and the altar. I will also sanctify Aaron and his sons to minister to me in the priest’s office.I will dwell among the children of Israel, and will be their God.They shall know that I am Yahweh their God, who brought them out of the land of Egypt, that I might dwell among them: I am Yahweh their God.
Exodus 36:1-38
“ Bezalel and Oholiab shall work with every wise- hearted man, in whom Yahweh has put wisdom and understanding to know how to do all the work for the service of the sanctuary, according to all that Yahweh has commanded.”Moses called Bezalel and Oholiab, and every wise- hearted man, in whose heart Yahweh had put wisdom, even everyone whose heart stirred him up to come to the work to do it.They received from Moses all the offering which the children of Israel had brought for the work of the service of the sanctuary, with which to make it. They kept bringing free will offerings to him every morning.All the wise men, who performed all the work of the sanctuary, each came from his work which he did.They spoke to Moses, saying,“ The people have brought much more than enough for the service of the work which Yahweh commanded to make.”Moses gave a commandment, and they caused it to be proclaimed throughout the camp, saying,“ Let neither man nor woman make anything else for the offering for the sanctuary.” So the people were restrained from bringing.For the stuff they had was sufficient to do all the work, and too much.All the wise- hearted men among those who did the work made the tabernacle with ten curtains of fine twined linen, blue, purple, and scarlet. They made them with cherubim, the work of a skillful workman.The length of each curtain was twenty- eight cubits, and the width of each curtain four cubits. All the curtains had one measure.He coupled five curtains to one another, and the other five curtains he coupled to one another.He made loops of blue on the edge of the one curtain from the edge in the coupling. Likewise he made in the edge of the curtain that was outermost in the second coupling.He made fifty loops in the one curtain, and he made fifty loops in the edge of the curtain that was in the second coupling. The loops were opposite to one another.He made fifty clasps of gold, and coupled the curtains to one another with the clasps: so the tabernacle was a unit.He made curtains of goats’ hair for a covering over the tabernacle. He made them eleven curtains.The length of each curtain was thirty cubits, and four cubits the width of each curtain. The eleven curtains had one measure.He coupled five curtains by themselves, and six curtains by themselves.He made fifty loops on the edge of the curtain that was outermost in the coupling, and he made fifty loops on the edge of the curtain which was outermost in the second coupling.He made fifty clasps of bronze to couple the tent together, that it might be a unit.He made a covering for the tent of rams’ skins dyed red, and a covering of sea cow hides above.He made the boards for the tabernacle of acacia wood, standing up.Ten cubits was the length of a board, and a cubit and a half the width of each board.Each board had two tenons, joined to one another. He made all the boards of the tabernacle this way.He made the boards for the tabernacle, twenty boards for the south side southward.He made forty sockets of silver under the twenty boards: two sockets under one board for its two tenons, and two sockets under another board for its two tenons.For the second side of the tabernacle, on the north side, he made twenty boardsand their forty sockets of silver: two sockets under one board, and two sockets under another board.For the far part of the tabernacle westward he made six boards.He made two boards for the corners of the tabernacle in the far part.They were double beneath, and in the same way they were all the way to its top to one ring. He did this to both of them in the two corners.There were eight boards and their sockets of silver, sixteen sockets— under every board two sockets.He made bars of acacia wood: five for the boards of the one side of the tabernacle,and five bars for the boards of the other side of the tabernacle, and five bars for the boards of the tabernacle for the hinder part westward.He made the middle bar to pass through in the middle of the boards from the one end to the other.He overlaid the boards with gold, and made their rings of gold as places for the bars, and overlaid the bars with gold.He made the veil of blue, purple, scarlet, and fine twined linen, with cherubim. He made it the work of a skillful workman.He made four pillars of acacia for it, and overlaid them with gold. Their hooks were of gold. He cast four sockets of silver for them.He made a screen for the door of the tent, of blue, purple, scarlet, and fine twined linen, the work of an embroiderer;and the five pillars of it with their hooks. He overlaid their capitals and their fillets with gold, and their five sockets were of bronze.
