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They should eat these offerings that were used to remove their sins and to make them holy when they were made priests. But no one else is to eat them, because they are holy things.

Each day you are to offer a bull to remove the sins of Aaron and his sons so they will be given for service to the Lord . Make the altar ready for service to the Lord , and pour oil on it to make it holy.

"So I will make the Meeting Tent and the altar holy; I will also make Aaron and his sons holy so they may serve me as priests.

And they will know that I am the Lord their God who led them out of Egypt so that I could live with them. I am the Lord their God.

Each time they enter the Meeting Tent they must wash with water so they will not die. Whenever they approach the altar to serve as priests and offer a sacrifice to the Lord by fire,

they must wash their hands and their feet so they will not die. This is a rule which Aaron and his descendants are to keep from now on."

You will prepare all these things for service to God, and they will be very holy. Anything that touches these things must be holy.

"Put the oil on Aaron and his sons to give them for service to me, that they may serve me as priests.

I have also chosen Oholiab son of Ahisamach from the tribe of Dan to work with Bezalel. I have given skills to all the craftsmen, and they will be able to make all these things I have commanded you:

They will make the woven clothes and the holy clothes for Aaron and the clothes for his sons to wear when they serve as priests.

They will also make the special olive oil used in appointing people and things to the service of the Lord , and the sweet-smelling incense for the Holy Place. "These workers will make all these things just as I have commanded you."

"Tell the Israelites, ‘You must keep the rules about my Sabbaths, because they will be a sign between you and me from now on. In this way you will know that I, the Lord , make you holy.

The people saw that a long time had passed and Moses had not come down from the mountain. So they gathered around Aaron and said, "Moses led us out of Egypt, but we don't know what has happened to him. Make us gods who will lead us."

The people got up early the next morning and offered whole burnt offerings and fellowship offerings. They sat down to eat and drink, and then they got up and sinned sexually.

They have quickly turned away from the things I commanded them to do. They have made for themselves a calf covered with gold, and they have worshiped it and offered sacrifices to it. They have said, ‘Israel, these are your gods who brought you out of Egypt.'"

The Lord said to Moses, "I have seen these people, and I know that they are very stubborn.

So I told the people, ‘Take off your gold jewelry.' When they gave me the gold, I threw it into the fire and out came this calf!"

So Moses went back to the Lord and said, "How terribly these people have sinned! They have made for themselves gods from gold.

When the people heard this bad news, they became very sad, and none of them put on jewelry.

Whenever the people saw the pillar of cloud at the entrance of the Tent, they stood and worshiped, each person at the entrance of his own tent.