New International Version

Exodus 29:1-13 New International Version (NIV)

1. “This is what you are to do to consecrate them, so 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 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 skillfully 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.

12. Take some of the bull’s blood and put it on the horns of the altar with your finger, and pour out the rest of it at the base of the altar.

13. Then take all the fat on the internal organs, the long lobe of the liver, and both kidneys with the fat on them, and burn them on the altar.