God told Moses to hallow (honor as holy) Aaron and his sons for ministering to Him as priests by getting one young bull and two rams without blemish, unleavened bread, unleavened cakes mixed with oil and unleavened wafers anointed with oil (made of wheat flour). He was to put the unleavened goods in one basket and take them along with the bull and two rams to the door of the tabernacle of meeting. Aaron and his sons were to be at the door of the tabernacle of meeting also, and Moses was to wash them with water. Moses was to take the garments (the tunic, the robe of the ephod, the ephod, and the breastplate) and put them on Aaron and gird him with the intricately woven ephod band. He was to put the turban on Aaron’s head and put the holy crown on the turban. Then Moses was to anoint Aaron by pouring the anointing oil on his head. Afterwards, he was to put tunics on Aaron’s sons and gird them all with sashes and put hats on them. The priesthood would be theirs for a perpetual statute. This is how Moses was to consecrate Aaron and his sons. What have you been consecrated for or anointed to do for God?

As for the bull that was taken to the tabernacle of meeting, Aaron and his sons were to put their hands on the head of the bull. One Google source stated that this was to symbolize the transferring of their sins onto the bull. They were to slaughter the bull before the Lord, by the door of the tabernacle of meeting. Since animals have that instinct of feeling danger, I wonder if another part of the reason for putting their hands on the bull’s head (as well as other sacrificial animals) was also to help hold it down for the upcoming slaughter. Then, Moses was to take some of the bull’s blood and put it on the horns of the altar with his finger and pour all the blood beside the base of the altar. The fat that covers the entrails, the fatty lobe attached to the liver and the two kidneys with their fat was to be burned on the altar. The flesh of the bull, with its skin and offal was to be burned with fire outside the camp. It is a sin offering. Aaron and his sons were to put their hands on the head of one of the rams and then it was to be killed. Then its blood was to be sprinkled all around on the altar. The ram was to be cut in pieces. Its entrails and legs were to be washed then placed with the head and its pieces. The whole ram was to be burned on the altar as a burnt offering to the Lord with a sweet aroma, an offering made by fire to the Lord. Aaron and his sons were to put their hands on the head of the second ram and then it was to be killed. Some of its blood was to be put on the tip of Aaron and his sons’ right ear, on the thumb of their right hand and on the big toe of their right foot and sprinkled all around the altar. Some of the blood on the altar along with some of the anointing oil was to be sprinkled on Aaron and his garments, on his sons and their garments to hallow them. Then the fat of the ram (which is a ram of consecration), the fat tail, the fat covering the entrails, the fatty lobe attached to the liver, the two kidneys and their fat, one loaf of bread, one cake made with oil and one wafer from the basket of unleavened bread that is before the Lord should be given to Aaron and his sons to wave as a wave offering before the Lord.

Next week we continue with Part 2 of Concentration on Consecration (Exodus 29:25-43).

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