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"You shall also take the one ram, and Aaron and his sons shall lay their hands on the head of the ram;

"Then you shall take the other ram, and Aaron and his sons shall lay their hands on the head of the ram.

"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 his sons' right ears, and on the thumbs of their right hands, and on the big toes of their right feet, and sprinkle the rest of the blood around on the altar.

"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 on his garments, and on his sons and on his sons' garments with him; so he and his garments shall be consecrated, as well as his sons and his sons' garments with him.

and you shall put all these in the hands of Aaron and in the hands of his sons, and shall wave them as a wave offering before the LORD.

"You shall consecrate the breast of the wave offering and the thigh of the contribution which was waved and which was offered from the ram of ordination, from the one which was for Aaron and from the one which was for his sons.

"It shall be for Aaron and his sons as their portion forever from the sons of Israel, for it is a contribution; and it shall be a contribution from the sons of Israel from the sacrifices of their peace offerings, their contribution to the LORD.

"The holy garments of Aaron shall be for his sons after him, so that they may be anointed and ordained in them.

"For seven days the one of his sons who is priest in his place shall put them on when he enters the tent of meeting to minister in the Holy Place.

"Then Aaron and his sons shall eat the flesh of the ram and the bread that is in the basket, at the doorway of the tent of meeting.

"So you shall do for Aaron and for his sons, according to all that I have commanded you; you shall ordain them for seven days.

"I will consecrate the tent of meeting and the altar; I will also consecrate Aaron and his sons to serve as priests to Me.

"Aaron and his sons shall wash their hands and their feet from it;

"So they shall wash their hands and their feet, so that they do not die; and it shall be a permanent statute for them, for Aaron and his descendants throughout their generations."

"And you shall anoint Aaron and his sons, and consecrate them, so that they may serve as priests to Me.

'Whoever mixes any like it or whoever puts any of it on a layman shall be cut off from his people.'"

"Whoever makes any like it, to use as perfume, shall be cut off from his people."

the woven garments as well: the holy garments for Aaron the priest and the garments of his sons, with which to carry out their priesthood;

'Therefore you are to keep the Sabbath, for it is holy to you. Everyone who profanes it must be put to death; for whoever does any work on it, that person shall be cut off from among his people.

Then Moses pleaded with the LORD his God, and said, "LORD, why does Your anger burn against Your people whom You have brought out from the land of Egypt with great power and with a mighty hand?