New American Bible, Revised Edition

Exodus 29:6-24 New American Bible, Revised Edition (NABRE)

6. Put the turban on his head, the sacred diadem on the turban.

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

8. Bring forward his sons also and clothe them with the tunics,

9. gird them with the sashes, and tie the skullcaps on them. Thus shall the priesthood be theirs by a perpetual statute, and thus shall you install Aaron and his sons.

10. Now bring forward the bull in front of the tent of meeting. There Aaron and his sons shall lay their hands on its head.

11. Then slaughter the bull before the Lord, at the entrance of the tent of meeting.

12. Take some of its blood and with your finger put it on the horns of the altar. All the rest of the blood you shall pour out at the base of the altar.

13. All the fat that covers its inner organs, as well as the lobe of its liver and its two kidneys, together with the fat that is on them, you shall take and burn on the altar.

14. But the meat and hide and dung of the bull you must burn up outside the camp, since this is a purification offering.

15. Then take one of the rams, and after Aaron and his sons have laid their hands on its head,

16. slaughter it. The blood you shall take and splash on all the sides of the altar.

17. Cut the ram into pieces; you shall wash its inner organs and shanks and put them with the pieces and with the head.

18. Then you shall burn the entire ram on the altar, since it is a burnt offering, a sweet-smelling oblation to the Lord.

19. After this take the other ram, and when Aaron and his sons have laid their hands on its head,

20. slaughter it. Some of its blood you shall take and put on the tip of Aaron’s right ear and on the tips of his sons’ right ears and on the thumbs of their right hands and the great toes of their right feet. Splash the rest of the blood on all the sides of the altar.

21. Then take some of the blood that is on the altar, together with some of the anointing oil, and sprinkle this on Aaron and his vestments, as well as on his sons and their vestments, that he and his sons and their vestments may be sacred.

22. Now, from this ram you shall take its fat: its fatty tail, the fat that covers its inner organs, the lobe of its liver, its two kidneys with the fat that is on them, and its right thigh, since this is the ram for installation;

23. then, out of the basket of unleavened food that you have set before the Lord, you shall take one of the loaves of bread, one of the cakes made with oil, and one of the wafers.

24. All these things you shall put into the hands of Aaron and his sons, so that they may raise them as an elevated offering before the Lord.