Exodus 29 · Parashat Tetzaveh

And this is the thing that thou shalt do to them to hallow them, to minister to me in the priest’s office: Take one young bullock, and two rams without blemish,

and unleavened bread, and cakes unleavened mingled with oil, and wafers unleavened anointed with oil: of wheaten flour shalt thou make them.

And thou shalt put them into one basket, and bring them in the basket, with the bullock and the two rams.

And Aharon and his sons thou shalt bring to the door of the Tent of Meeting, and shalt wash them with water.

And thou shalt take the garments, and put upon Aharon the coat, and the robe of the efod, and the efod, and the breastplate, and gird him with the finely wrought girdle of the efod:

and thou shalt put the mitre on his head, and put the holy crown upon the mitre.

Then shalt thou take the anointing oil, and pour it on his head, and anoint him.

And thou shalt bring his sons, and put coats upon them.

And thou shalt gird them with girdles, Aharon and his sons, and put the turbans on them: and the priest’s office shall be theirs for a perpetual statute: and thou shalt consecrate Aharon and his sons.

And thou shalt cause a bullock to be brought before the Tent of Meeting: and Aharon and his sons shall put their hands on the head of the bullock.

And thou shalt kill the bullock before the Lord, by the door of the Tent of Meeting.

And thou shalt take of the blood of the bullock, and put it on the horns of the altar with thy finger, and pour all the blood beside the bottom of the altar.

And thou shalt take all the fat that covers the inwards, and the appendage that is above the liver, and the two kidneys, and the fat that is upon them, and burn them upon the altar.

But the flesh of the bullock, and its skin, and its dung, shalt thou burn with fire outside the camp: it is a sin offering.

And thou shalt take one ram; and Aharon and his sons shall put their hands upon the head of the ram.

And thou shalt slay the ram, and thou shalt take its blood, and sprinkle it round about upon the altar.

And thou shalt cut the ram in pieces, and wash its inward parts and its legs, and put them with its pieces, and with its head.

And thou shalt burn the whole ram upon the altar: it is a burnt offering to the Lord: it is a sweet savour, an offering made by fire to the Lord.

And thou shalt take the other ram; and Aharon and his sons shall put their hands on the head of the ram.

Then shalt thou kill the ram, and take of its blood, and put it upon the tip of Aharon’s right ear, and upon the tip of the right ear of his sons, and upon the thumb of their right hand, and upon the great toe of their right foot, and sprinkle the blood upon the altar round about.

And thou shalt take of the blood that is upon the altar, and of the anointing oil, and sprinkle it upon Aharon, and upon his garments, and upon his sons, and upon the garments of his sons with him: and he shall be hallowed, and his garments, and his sons, and his sons’ garments with him.

Also thou shalt take of the ram the fat and the fat tail, and the fat that covers the inwards, and the appendage of the liver, and the two kidneys, and the fat that is upon them, and the right shoulder; for it is a ram of consecration:

and one loaf of bread, and one cake of oiled bread, and one wafer out of the basket of the unleavened bread that is before the Lord:

and thou shalt put all in the hands of Aharon, and in the hands of his sons; and shalt wave them for a wave offering before the Lord.

And thou shalt receive them of their hands, and burn them upon the altar for a burnt offering, for a sweet savour before the Lord: it is an offering made by fire to the Lord.

And thou shalt take the breast of the ram of Aharon’s consecration, and wave it for a wave offering before the Lord: and it shall be thy part.

And thou shalt sanctify the breast of the wave offering, and the shoulder of the heave offering, which is waved, and which is heaved up of the ram of the consecration, of that which is for Aharon, and of that which is for his sons:

and it shall be Aharon’s and his sons’ by a statute for ever from the children of Yisra᾽el: for it is a heave offering: and it shall be a heave offering from the children of Yisra᾽el of the sacrifice of their peace offerings, their heave offering to the Lord.

And the holy garments of Aharon shall be his sons’ after him, to be anointed in them, and to be consecrated in them.

And that son that is priest in his place shall put them on seven days, when he enters the Tent of Meeting to minister in the holy place.

And thou shalt take the ram of the consecration, and boil its flesh in the holy place.

And Aharon and his sons shall eat the flesh of the ram, and the bread that is in the basket, by the door of the Tent of Meeting.

And they shall eat those things with which atonement was made to consecrate and to sanctify them: but a stranger shall not eat of them, because they are holy.

And if aught of the flesh of the consecrations, or of the bread, remain to the morning, then thou shalt burn the remainder with fire: it shall not be eaten, because it is holy.

And thus shalt thou do to Aharon, and to his sons, according to all which I have commanded thee: seven days shalt thou consecrate them.

And thou shalt offer every day a bullock for a sin offering for atonement: and thou shalt cleanse the altar, when thou hast made atonement for it, and thou shalt anoint it, to sanctify it.

Seven days thou shalt make an atonement for the altar, and sanctify it; and it shall be an altar most holy: whatever touches the altar shall be holy.

Now this is what thou shalt offer on the altar; two lambs of the first year day by day continually.

The one lamb thou shalt offer in the morning; and the other lamb thou shalt offer towards evening.

And with the one lamb thou shalt bring a tenth measure of flour mingled with the fourth part of a hin of beaten oil; and the fourth part of a hin of wine for a drink offering.

And the other lamb thou shalt offer towards evening, and shalt do to it according the meal offering of the morning, and according to the drink offering of it, for a sweet savour, an offering made by fire to the Lord.

This shall be a continual burnt offering throughout your generations at the door of the Tent of Meeting before the Lord: where I will meet you, to speak there to thee.

And there I will meet with the children of Yisra᾽el, and it shall be sanctified by my glory.

And I will sanctify the Tent of Meeting, and the altar: I will sanctify also both Aharon and his sons, to minister to me in the priest’s office.

And I will dwell among the children of Yisra᾽el, and will be their God.

And they shall know that I am the Lord their God, that brought them out of the land of Miżrayim, that I may dwell among them: I am the Lord their God.