1. ‘This is what you are to do to consecrate them, so that they may serve me as priests: take a young bull and two rams without defect.
2. And from the finest wheat flour make round loaves without yeast, thick loaves without yeast and with olive oil mixed in, and thin loaves without yeast and brushed with olive oil.
3. Put them in a basket and present them in it – along with the bull and the two rams.
4. Then bring Aaron and his sons to the entrance to the tent of meeting and wash them with water.
5. Take the garments and dress Aaron with the tunic, the robe of the ephod, the ephod itself and the breastpiece. Fasten the ephod on him by its skilfully woven waistband.
6. Put the turban on his head and attach the sacred emblem to the turban.
7. Take the anointing oil and anoint him by pouring it on his head.
8. Bring his sons and dress them in tunics
9. and fasten caps on them. Then tie sashes on Aaron and his sons. The priesthood is theirs by a lasting ordinance.‘Then you shall ordain Aaron and his sons.
10. ‘Bring the bull to the front of the tent of meeting, and Aaron and his sons shall lay their hands on its head.
11. Slaughter it in the Lord’s presence at the entrance to the tent of meeting.