EXODUS 28
1 Then bring near to you your brother Aaron, and his sons with him,
from among the Israelites, to serve me as priests—Aaron and Aaron's sons, Nadab
and Abihu, Eleazar and Ithamar.
2 You shall make sacred vestments for the glorious adornment of your
brother Aaron.
3 And you shall speak to all who have ability, whom I have endowed
with skill, that they make Aaron's vestments to consecrate him for my
priesthood.
4 These are the vestments that they shall make: a breastpiece, an
ephod, a robe, a checkered tunic, a turban, and a sash. When they make these
sacred vestments for your brother Aaron and his sons to serve me as
priests,
5 they shall use gold, blue, purple, and crimson yarns, and fine
linen.
6 They shall make the ephod of gold, of blue, purple, and crimson
yarns, and of fine twisted linen, skill-fully worked.
7 It shall have two shoulder-pieces attached to its two edges, so
that it may be joined together.
8 The decorated band on it shall be of the same workmanship and materials,
of gold, of blue, purple, and crimson yarns, and of fine twisted linen.
9 You shall take two onyx stones, and engrave on them the names of
the sons of Israel,
10 six of their names on the one stone, and the names of the
remaining six on the other stone, in the order of their birth.
11 As a gem-cutter engraves signets, so you shall engrave the two
stones with the names of the sons of Israel; you shall mount them in settings
of gold filigree.
12 You shall set the two stones on the shoulder-pieces of the ephod,
as stones of remembrance for the sons of Israel; and Aaron shall bear their
names before the Lord on his two shoulders for remembrance.
13 You shall make settings of gold filigree,
14 and two chains of pure gold, twisted like cords; and you shall attach
the corded chains to the settings.
15 You shall make a breastpiece of judgment, in skilled work; you
shall make it in the style of the ephod; of gold, of blue and purple and
crimson yarns, and of fine twisted linen you shall make it.
16 It shall be square and doubled, a span in length and a span in
width.
17 You shall set in it four rows of stones. A row of carnelian,
chrysolite, and emerald shall be the first row;
18 and the second row a turquoise, a sapphire and a moonstone;
19 and the third row a jacinth, an agate, and an amethyst;
20 and the fourth row a beryl, an onyx, and a jasper; they shall be
set in gold filigree.
21 There shall be twelve stones with names corresponding to the names
of the sons of Israel; they shall be like signets, each engraved with its name,
for the twelve tribes.
22 You shall make for the breastpiece chains of pure gold, twisted
like cords;
23 and you shall make for the breastpiece two rings of gold, and put
the two rings on the two edges of the breastpiece.
24 You shall put the two cords of gold in the two rings at the edges
of the breastpiece;
25 the two ends of the two cords you shall attach to the two
settings, and so attach it in front to the shoulder-pieces of the ephod.
26 You shall make two rings of gold, and put them at the two ends of
the breastpiece, on its inside edge next to the ephod.
27 You shall make two rings of gold, and attach them in front to the
lower part of the two shoulder-pieces of the ephod, at its joining above the
decorated band of the ephod.
28 The breastpiece shall be bound by its rings to the rings of the
ephod with a blue cord, so that it may lie on the decorated band of the ephod,
and so that the breastpiece shall not come loose from the ephod.
29 So Aaron shall bear the names of the sons of Israel in the breastpiece
of judgment on his heart when he goes into the holy place, for a continual
remembrance before the Lord.
30 In the breastpiece of judgment you shall put the Urim and the
Thummim, and they shall be on Aaron's heart when he goes in before the Lord;
thus Aaron shall bear the judgment of the Israelites on his heart before the
Lord continually.
31 You shall make the robe of the ephod all of blue.
32 It shall have an opening for the head in the middle of it, with a
woven binding around the opening, like the opening in a coat of mail, so that
it may not be torn.
33 On its lower hem you shall make pomegranates of blue, purple, and
crimson yarns, all around the lower hem, with bells of gold between them all
around—
34 a golden bell and a pomegranate alternating all around the lower
hem of the robe.
35 Aaron shall wear it when he ministers, and its sound shall be
heard when he goes into the holy place before the Lord, and when he comes out,
so that he may not die.
36 You shall make a rosette of pure gold, and engrave on it, like the
engraving of a signet, "Holy to the Lord."
37 You shall fasten it on the turban with a blue cord; it shall be on
the front of the turban.
38 It shall be on Aaron's forehead, and Aaron shall take on himself
any guilt incurred in the holy offering that the Israelites consecrate as their
sacred donations; it shall always be on his forehead, in order that they may
find favour before the Lord.
39 You shall make the checkered tunic of fine linen, and you shall
make a turban of fine linen, and you shall make a sash embroidered with
needlework.
40 For Aaron's sons you shall make tunics and sashes and headdresses;
you shall make them for their glorious adornment.
41 You shall put them on your brother Aaron, and on his sons with
him, and shall anoint them and ordain them and consecrate them, so that they
may serve me as priests.
42 You shall make for them linen undergarments to cover their naked
flesh; they shall reach from the hips to the thighs;
43 Aaron and his sons shall wear them when they go into the tent of
meeting, or when they come near the altar to minister in the holy place; or
they will bring guilt on themselves and die. This shall be a perpetual
ordinance for him and for his descendants after him.
EXODUS 29
1 Now this is what you shall do to them to consecrate them, so that
they may serve me as priests. Take one young bull and two rams without
blemish,
2 and unleavened bread, unleavened cakes mixed with oil, and
unleavened wafers spread with oil. You shall make them of choice wheat
flour.
3 You shall put them in one basket and bring them in the basket, and
bring the bull and the two rams.
4 You shall bring Aaron and his sons to the entrance of the tent of
meeting, and wash them with water.
5 Then you shall take the vestments, and put on Aaron the tunic and
the robe of the ephod, and the ephod, and the breastpiece, and gird him with
the decorated band of the ephod;
6 and you shall set the turban on his head, and put the holy diadem
on the turban.
7 You shall take the anointing oil, and pour it on his head and
anoint him.
8 Then you shall bring his sons, and put tunics on them,
9 and you shall gird them with sashes and tie headdresses on them;
and the priesthood shall be theirs by a perpetual ordinance. You shall then
ordain Aaron and his sons.
10 You shall bring the bull in front of the tent of meeting. Aaron
and his sons shall lay their hands on the head of the bull,
11 and you shall slaughter the bull before the Lord, at the entrance
of the tent of meeting,
12 and shall take some of the blood of the bull and put it on the
horns of the altar with your finger, and all the rest of the blood you shall
pour out at the base of the altar.
13 You shall take all the fat that covers the entrails, and the
appendage of the liver, and the two kidneys with the fat that is on them, and
turn them into smoke on the altar.
14 But the flesh of the bull, and its skin, and its dung, you shall burn
with fire outside the camp; it is a sin offering.
15 Then you shall take one of the rams, and Aaron and his sons shall
lay their hands on the head of the ram,
16 and you shall slaughter the ram, and shall take its blood and dash
it against all sides of the altar.
17 Then you shall cut the ram into its parts, and wash its entrails
and its legs, and put them with its parts and its head,
18 and turn the whole ram into smoke on the altar; it is a burnt
offering to the Lord; it is a pleasing odour, an offering by fire to the
Lord.
19 You shall take the other ram; and Aaron and his sons shall lay
their hands on the head of the ram,
20 and you shall slaughter the ram, and take some of its blood and
put it on the lobe of Aaron's right ear and on the lobes of the right ears of
his sons, and on the thumbs of their right hands, and on the big toes of their
right feet, and dash the rest of the blood against all sides of the
altar.
21 Then you shall take some of the blood that is on the altar, and
some of the anointing oil, and sprinkle it on Aaron and his vestments and on
his sons and his sons' vestments with him; then he and his vestments shall be
holy, as well as his sons and his sons' vestments.
22 You shall also take the fat of the ram, the fat tail, the fat that
covers the entrails, the appendage of the liver, the two kidneys with the fat
that is on them, and the right thigh (for it is a ram of ordination),
23 and one loaf of bread, one cake of bread made with oil, and one
wafer, out of the basket of unleavened bread that is before the Lord;
24 and you shall place all these on the palms of Aaron and on the
palms of his sons, and raise them as an elevation offering before the
Lord.
25 Then you shall take them from their hands, and turn them into
smoke on the altar on top of the burnt offering of pleasing odour before the Lord;
it is an offering by fire to the Lord.
26 You shall take the breast of the ram of Aaron's ordination and
raise it as an elevation offering before the Lord; and it shall be your
portion.
27 You shall consecrate the breast that was raised as an elevation
offering and the thigh that was raised as an elevation offering from the ram of
ordination, from that which belonged to Aaron and his sons.
28 These things shall be a perpetual ordinance for Aaron and his sons from
the Israelites, for this is an offering; and it shall be an offering by the
Israelites from their sacrifice of offerings of well-being, their offering to
the Lord.
29 The sacred vestments of Aaron shall be passed on to his sons after
him; they shall be anointed in them and ordained in them.
30 The son who is priest in his place shall wear them seven days,
when he comes into the tent of meeting to minister in the holy place.
31 You shall take the ram of ordination, and boil its flesh in a holy
place;
32 and Aaron and his sons shall eat the flesh of the ram and the
bread that is in the basket, at the entrance of the tent of meeting.
33 They themselves shall eat the food by which atonement is made, to
ordain and consecrate them, but no one else shall eat of them, because they are
holy.
34 If any of the flesh for the ordination, or of the bread, remains until
the morning, then you shall burn the remainder with fire; it shall not be
eaten, because it is holy.
35 Thus you shall do to Aaron and to his sons, just as I have
commanded you; through seven days you shall ordain them.
36 Also every day you shall offer a bull as a sin offering for
atonement. Also you shall offer a sin offering for the altar, when you make
atonement for it, and shall anoint it, to consecrate it.
37 Seven days you shall make atonement for the altar, and consecrate
it, and the altar shall be most holy; whatever touches the altar shall become
holy.
38 Now this is what you shall offer on the altar: two lambs a year old
regularly each day.
39 One lamb you shall offer in the morning and the other lamb you
shall offer in the evening;
40 and with the first lamb one-tenth of a measure of choice flour
mixed with one-fourth of a hin of beaten oil, and one-fourth of a hin of wine
for a drink offering.
41 And the other lamb you shall offer in the evening, and shall offer
with it a grain offering and its drink offering, as in the morning, for a
pleasing odour, an offering by fire to the Lord.
42 It shall be a regular burnt offering throughout your generations
at the entrance of the tent of meeting before the Lord, where I will meet with
you, to speak to you there.
43 I will meet with the Israelites there, and it shall be sanctified by my
glory;
44 I will consecrate the tent of meeting and the altar; Aaron also
and his sons I will consecrate, to serve me as priests.
45 I will dwell among the Israelites, and I will be their God.
46 And they shall know that I am the Lord their God, who brought them
out of the land of Egypt that I might dwell among them; I am the Lord their
God.
EXODUS 30
1 You shall make an altar on which to offer incense; you shall make
it of acacia wood.
2 It shall be one cubit long, and one cubit wide; it shall be
square, and shall be two cubits high; its horns shall be of one piece with
it.
3You shall overlay it with pure gold, its top, and its sides all around
and its horns; and you shall make for it a moulding of gold all around.
4 And you shall make two golden rings for it; under its moulding on
two opposite sides of it you shall make them, and they shall hold the poles
with which to carry it.
5 You shall make the poles of acacia wood, and overlay them with
gold.
6 You shall place it in front of the curtain that is above the Ark
of the Covenant, in front of the mercy seat that is over the covenant, where I
will meet with you.
7 Aaron shall offer fragrant incense on it; every morning when he
dresses the lamps he shall offer it,
8 and when Aaron sets up the lamps in the evening, he shall offer
it, a regular incense offering before the Lord throughout your
generations.
9 You shall not offer unholy incense on it, or a burnt offering, or
a grain offering; and you shall not pour a drink offering on it.
10 Once a year Aaron shall perform the rite of atonement on its
horns. Throughout your generations he shall perform the atonement for it once a
year with the blood of the atoning sin offering. It is most holy to the
Lord.
11 The Lord spoke to Moses:
12 When you take a census of the Israelites to register them, at
registration all of them shall give a ransom for their lives to the Lord, so
that no plague may come upon them for being registered.
13 This is what each one who is registered shall give: half a shekel
according to the shekel of the sanctuary (the shekel is twenty gerahs), half a
shekel as an offering to the Lord.
14 Each one who is registered, from twenty years old and upward,
shall give the Lord's offering.
15 The rich shall not give more, and the poor shall not give less,
than the half shekel, when you bring this offering to the Lord to make
atonement for your lives.
16 You shall take the atonement money from the Israelites and shall
designate it for the service of the tent of meeting; before the Lord it will be
a reminder to the Israelites of the ransom given for your lives.
17 The Lord spoke to Moses:
18You shall make a bronze basin with a bronze stand for washing. You shall
put it between the tent of meeting and the altar, and you shall put water in
it;
19 with the water Aaron and his sons shall wash their hands and their
feet.
20 When they go into the tent of meeting, or when they come near the
altar to minister, to make an offering by fire to the Lord, they shall wash
with water, so that they may not die.
21 They shall wash their hands and their feet, so that they may not
die: it shall be a perpetual ordinance for them, for him and for his
descendants throughout their generations.
22 The Lord spoke to Moses:
23Take the finest spices: of liquid myrrh five hundred shekels, and of
sweet-smelling cinnamon half as much, that is, two hundred fifty, and two
hundred fifty of aromatic cane,
24 and five hundred of cassia—measured by the sanctuary shekel—and a
hin of olive oil;
25 and you shall make of these a sacred anointing oil blended as by
the perfumer; it shall be a holy anointing oil.
26 With it you shall anoint the tent of meeting and the Ark of the
Covenant,
27 and the table and all its utensils, and the lampstand and its
utensils, and the altar of incense,
28 and the altar of burnt offering with all its utensils, and the
basin with its stand;
29 you shall consecrate them, so that they may be most holy; whatever
touches them will become holy.
30 You shall anoint Aaron and his sons, and consecrate them, in order
that they may serve me as priests.
31You shall say to the Israelites, "This shall be my holy anointing
oil throughout your generations.
32 It shall not be used in any ordinary anointing of the body, and
you shall make no other like it in composition; it is holy, and it shall be
holy to you.
33 Whoever compounds any like it or whoever puts any of it on an
unqualified person shall be cut off from the people."
34 The Lord said to Moses: Take sweet spices, stacte, and onycha, and
galbanum, sweet spices with pure frankincense (an equal part of each),
35 and make an incense blended as by the perfumer, seasoned with
salt, pure and holy;
36 and you shall beat some of it into powder, and put part of it
before the covenant in the tent of meeting where I shall meet with you; it
shall be for you most holy.
37When you make incense according to this composition, you shall not make
it for yourselves; it shall be regarded by you as holy to the Lord.
38 Whoever makes any like it to use as perfume shall be cut off from
the people.
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