Consecration of the Priests
(Leviticus 8:1–13)
“Now this is what you are to do to consecrate Aaron and his sons to serve Me as priests: Take a young bull and two rams without blemish, 1Pe 1:19Exo 12:5Exo 29:21Heb 7:26Lev 4:3Lev 5:15-16Lev 6:6Mal 1:13-14 along with unleavened bread, unleavened cakes mixed with oil, and unleavened wafers anointed with oil. Make them out of fine wheat flour, Num 6:151Co 5:7Exo 12:8Exo 29:23Lev 2:15Lev 2:4-5Lev 6:19-23Lev 7:10 put them in a basket, and present them in the basket, along with the bull and the two rams. Lev 8:2Lev 8:26Lev 8:31Num 6:17
Then present Aaron and his sons at the entrance to the Tent of Meeting and wash them with water. Exo 40:12Heb 10:221Pe 3:21Deu 23:11Eph 5:26Exo 26:36Exo 30:18-21Exo 40:28 Take the garments and clothe Aaron with the tunic, the robe of the ephod, the ephod itself, and the breastplate. Fasten the ephod on him with its woven waistband. Exo 28:2-8Lev 8:7-8 Put the turban on his head and attach the holy diadem to the turban. Lev 8:9Exo 28:36-39 Then take the anointing oil and anoint him by pouring it on his head. Lev 21:10Num 35:25Exo 28:41Isa 61:1Jhn 3:34Lev 10:7Psa 133:2Psa 89:20
Present his sons as well and clothe them with tunics. Lev 8:13Exo 28:40 Wrap the sashes around Aaron and his sons and tie headbands on them. The priesthood shall be theirs by a permanent statute. In this way you are to ordain Aaron and his sons. Num 18:7Lev 8:22-28Deu 18:5Exo 40:15Heb 5:4-5Lev 8:33Num 16:10Num 16:35
The Order of the Sacrifices
(Leviticus 8:22–36)
You are to present the bull at the front of the Tent of Meeting, and Aaron and his sons are to lay their hands on its head. Lev 1:4Lev 8:14Exo 29:15Exo 29:192Co 5:21Isa 53:6Lev 16:21Lev 3:2 And you shall slaughter the bull before the LORD at the entrance to the Tent of Meeting. Exo 29:4Lev 1:3-5Lev 8:15Lev 9:12Lev 9:8 Take some of the blood of the bull and put it on the horns of the altar with your finger; then pour out the rest of the blood at the base of the altar. Exo 27:2Lev 8:15Lev 9:9Exo 30:2Exo 38:2Heb 10:4Heb 9:13-14Heb 9:22 Take all the fat that covers the entrails and the lobe of the liver, and both kidneys with the fat on them, and burn them on the altar. Lev 3:3-41Sa 2:16Exo 29:18Exo 29:22Exo 29:25Isa 1:11Isa 34:6Isa 43:24 But burn the flesh of the bull and its hide and dung outside the camp; it is a sin offering. 1 Lev 4:11-12Lev 4:212Ch 29:24Exo 30:10Ezr 8:35Heb 13:11-13Lev 16:11Lev 16:27
Take one of the rams, and Aaron and his sons shall lay their hands on its head. Exo 29:19Exo 29:10Exo 29:3Lev 1:4-9Lev 8:18-21 You are to slaughter the ram, take its blood, and sprinkle it on all sides of the altar. Exo 29:11-12 Cut the ram into pieces, wash the entrails and legs, and place them with its head and other pieces. Jer 4:14Lev 1:13Lev 1:9Lev 8:21Lev 9:14Mat 23:26 Then burn the entire ram on the altar; it is a burnt offering to the LORD, a pleasing aroma, an offering made by fire to the LORD. Gen 8:211Ki 18:381Ki 3:41Sa 7:9Eph 5:2Exo 29:25Gen 22:13Gen 22:2
Take the second ram, and Aaron and his sons are to lay their hands on its head. Exo 29:3Lev 8:22-29 Slaughter the ram, take some of its blood, and put it on the right earlobes of Aaron and his sons, on the thumbs of their right hands, and on the big toes of their right feet. Sprinkle the remaining blood on all sides of the altar. Isa 50:51Pe 1:2Heb 10:22Heb 12:24Heb 9:19-23Isa 52:15Lev 14:14Lev 14:16 And take some of the blood on the altar and some of the anointing oil and sprinkle it on Aaron and his garments, as well as on his sons and their garments. Then he and his garments will be consecrated, as well as his sons and their garments. Heb 9:22Exo 29:1Exo 29:7Lev 8:30Exo 30:25-31Heb 10:29Isa 11:2-5Isa 61:1-3
Take the fat from the ram, the fat tail, the fat covering the entrails, the lobe of the liver, both kidneys with the fat on them, and the right thigh (since this is a ram for ordination), Exo 29:13Lev 10:14Lev 3:9Lev 7:3Lev 7:32-33Lev 8:25-27Lev 9:19Lev 9:21 along with one loaf of bread, one cake of bread made with oil, and one wafer from the basket of unleavened bread that is before the LORD. Exo 29:2-3Lev 8:26 Put all these in the hands of Aaron and his sons and wave them before the LORD as a wave offering. Lev 7:30Lev 8:27Exo 29:26-27Lev 10:14Lev 9:21 Then take them from their hands and burn them on the altar atop the burnt offering as a pleasing aroma before the LORD; it is an offering made by fire to the LORD. Lev 8:28Exo 29:411Sa 2:28Lev 1:13Lev 1:9Lev 10:13Lev 2:16Lev 2:2
Take the breast of the ram of Aaron’s ordination and wave it before the LORD as a wave offering, and it will be your portion. Lev 8:29Lev 7:31Psa 99:6Lev 7:34 Consecrate for Aaron and his sons the breast of the wave offering that is waved and the thigh of the heave offering that is lifted up from the ram of ordination. Lev 10:15Num 18:11Deu 18:3Heb 7:28Lev 7:31-34Lev 7:37Lev 8:28-31Lev 9:21 This will belong to Aaron and his sons as a regular portion from the Israelites, for it is the heave offering the Israelites will make to the LORD from their peace offerings. Deu 18:3Exo 29:27Lev 10:14-15Lev 3:1Lev 7:11-38Num 15:19-20Num 18:24Num 18:29
The holy garments that belong to Aaron will belong to his sons after him, so they can be anointed and ordained in them. Num 18:8Exo 28:3-4Exo 29:5-7Exo 30:30Exo 40:15Lev 8:7-12Num 20:26-28Num 35:25 The son who succeeds him as priest and enters the Tent of Meeting to minister in the Holy Place must wear them for seven days. Num 20:28Act 20:6-7Exo 12:15Exo 29:35Ezk 43:26Gen 8:10Gen 8:12Heb 7:26
Food for the Priests
You are to take the ram of ordination and boil its flesh in a holy place. Lev 8:311Sa 2:131Sa 2:15Ezk 46:20-24 At the entrance to the Tent of Meeting, Aaron and his sons are to eat the meat of the ram and the bread that is in the basket. Mat 12:4Exo 24:9-11Exo 29:2-3Exo 29:23Lev 10:12-14 They must eat those things by which atonement was made for their ordination and consecration. But no outsider may eat them, because these things are sacred. Num 18:41Co 11:241Co 11:26Jhn 6:53-55Lev 10:13-18Lev 22:10-13Num 1:51Num 16:40 And if any of the meat of ordination or any bread is left until the morning, you are to burn up the remainder. It must not be eaten, because it is sacred. Exo 12:10Lev 8:32Exo 16:19Exo 29:22Exo 29:26Exo 29:28Lev 10:16Lev 7:18-19
This is what you are to do for Aaron and his sons based on all that I have commanded you, taking seven days to ordain them. Exo 29:30Exo 29:37Exo 39:42-43Exo 40:12-16Jhn 16:14Lev 14:8-11Lev 8:4-36 Sacrifice a bull as a sin offering each day for atonement. Purify the altar by making atonement for it, and anoint it to consecrate it. Heb 10:11Exo 30:28-29Heb 9:22-23Exo 30:26Exo 40:9-11Ezk 48:18-20Exo 29:10-14Ezk 43:25 For seven days you shall make atonement for the altar and consecrate it. Then the altar will become most holy; whatever touches the altar will be holy. Exo 40:10Mat 23:19Dan 9:24Exo 30:28-29Mat 23:17
The Daily Offerings
(Numbers 28:1–8)
This is what you are to offer regularly on the altar, each day: two lambs that are a year old. 1Ch 16:40Num 28:3-82Ch 2:4Dan 12:112Ch 13:112Ch 31:3Ezr 3:3Dan 9:27 Offer one lamb in the morning and the other at twilight. 2 Ezk 46:13-152Ki 16:152Ch 13:11Act 26:7Luk 1:10Psa 5:3Psa 55:16-17 With the first lamb offer a tenth of an ephah of fine flour, 3 mixed with a quarter hin of oil from pressed olives, 4 and a drink offering of a quarter hin of wine. Php 2:17Ezk 45:17Ezk 46:14Isa 57:6Jol 2:14Lev 23:13Deu 32:38Exo 16:36 And offer the second lamb at twilight with the same grain offering and drink offering as in the morning, as a pleasing aroma, an offering made by fire to the LORD. 1Ki 18:291Ki 18:362Ki 16:15Ezk 46:13-15Ezr 9:4-5Psa 141:2Dan 9:21
For the generations to come, this burnt offering shall be made regularly at the entrance to the Tent of Meeting before the LORD, where I will meet you to speak with you. Exo 25:22 I will also meet with the Israelites there, and that place will be consecrated by My glory. 1Ki 8:112Ch 5:142Ch 7:1-3Exo 40:34Ezk 43:5Mal 3:11Jn 3:22Co 3:18 So I will consecrate the Tent of Meeting and the altar, and I will consecrate Aaron and his sons to serve Me as priests. Lev 21:15Jhn 10:36Lev 22:16Lev 22:9Rev 1:5-6
God Will Dwell among the People
Then I will dwell among the Israelites and be their God. Lev 26:122Co 6:16Exo 25:8Rev 21:3Zec 2:10Jhn 14:17Exo 15:17Jhn 14:23 And 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. Exo 20:2Jer 31:33Ezk 20:5Lev 11:44Lev 18:30Lev 19:2
I am the LORD their God.