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Exodus 29:2-21 Good News Bible Catholic Edition (GNBDK)

2. Use the best wheat flour, but no yeast, and make some bread with olive oil, some without it, and some in the form of biscuits brushed with oil.

3. Put them in a basket and offer them to me when you sacrifice the bull and the two rams.

4. “Bring Aaron and his sons to the entrance of the Tent of my presence, and tell them to take a ritual bath.

5. Then dress Aaron in the priestly garments — the shirt, the robe that goes under the ephod, the ephod, the breastpiece, and the belt.

6. Put the turban on him and tie on it the sacred sign of dedication engraved ‘Dedicated to the Lord’.

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

8. “Bring his sons and put shirts on them;

9. put sashes round their waists and tie caps on their heads. That is how you are to ordain Aaron and his sons. They and their descendants are to serve me as priests for ever.

10. “Bring the bull to the front of the Tent of my presence and tell Aaron and his sons to put their hands on its head.

11. Kill the bull there in my holy presence at the entrance of the Tent.

12. Take some of the bull's blood and with your finger put it on the projections of the altar. Then pour out the rest of the blood at the base of the altar.

13. Next, take all the fat which covers the internal organs, the best part of the liver, and the two kidneys with the fat on them and burn them on the altar as an offering to me.

14. But burn the bull's flesh, its skin, and its intestines outside the camp. This is an offering to take away the sins of the priests.

15. “Take one of the rams and tell Aaron and his sons to put their hands on its head.

16. Kill it, and take its blood and throw it against all four sides of the altar.

17. Cut the ram in pieces; wash its internal organs and its hind legs, and put them on top of the head and the other pieces.

18. Burn the whole ram on the altar as a food offering. The odour of this offering pleases me.

19. “Take the other ram — the ram used for dedication — and tell Aaron and his sons to put their hands on its head.

20. Kill it, and take some of its blood and put it on the lobes of the right ears of Aaron and his sons, on the thumbs of their right-hands and on the big toes of their right feet. Throw the rest of the blood against all four sides of the altar.

21. Take some of the blood that is on the altar and some of the anointing oil, and sprinkle it on Aaron and his clothes and on his sons and their clothes. He, his sons, and their clothes will then be dedicated to me.

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