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As for the one from Aaron's sons who presents the blood of the fellowship offerings and the fat, the right upper thigh shall belong to him as his share,

because I have taken the wave offering's breast section and the contribution offering's upper thigh from the Israelites out of their fellowship offerings' sacrifices, and I have given them to Aaron the priest and his sons from the Israelites as a lasting rule.'"

This is Aaron's allotted portion and his sons' allotted portion from Yahweh's offerings made by fire when he brought them forward to serve as priests for Yahweh.

This is what Yahweh commanded to give them from the Israelites on the day of his anointing them; it is a lasting statute for their generations.

which Yahweh commanded Moses on Mount Sinai on the day of his commanding the Israelites to present their offerings to Yahweh in the desert of Sinai.

"Take Aaron and his sons with him, and the garments and the anointing oil and the bull of the sin offering and the two rams and the basket of the unleavened bread,

So Moses brought Aaron and his sons near, and he washed them with water.

and he placed the turban on his head, and on the front of the turban he placed the gold rosette, the holy diadem, just as Yahweh had commanded Moses.

Then he brought forth the bull of the sin offering, and Aaron and his sons placed their hands on the head of the bull of the sin offering,

and he slaughtered it, and Moses took the blood and put it with his finger on the altar's horns all around and purified the altar; then he poured the blood out on the altar's base—thus he consecrated it in order to make atonement for it.

Then he brought the ram of the burnt offering near, and Aaron and his sons placed their hands on the ram's head,

Then he brought the second ram near, the ram of the consecration, and Aaron and his sons placed their hands on the ram's head,

and he slaughtered it. Then Moses took some of its blood and put it on Aaron's right ear lobe and on his right hand's thumb and on his right foot's big toe.

Then he put all of these on Aaron's palms and on his sons' palms, and he waved them as a wave offering before Yahweh.

Then Moses took some of the anointing oil and some of the blood that was on the altar, and he spattered them on Aaron, on his garments, and on Aaron's sons and on his sons' garments with him—thus he consecrated Aaron, his garments, and his sons and his sons' garments with him.

Then Moses said to Aaron and to his sons, "Boil the meat in the entrance to the tent of assembly, and there you must eat it and the bread that is in the basket of the consecration offering, just as I have commanded, saying, ‘Aaron and his sons must eat it,'

So Aaron and his sons did all the things that Yahweh had commanded through Moses.

Then on the eighth day Moses summoned Aaron and his sons and Israel's elders,

Then Aaron's sons presented the blood to him, and he dipped his finger in the blood, and he put it on the altar's horns, and he poured out the blood on the altar's base.

Then he presented the grain offering, and he filled his palm with some of it, and he turned it into smoke on the altar besides the morning's burnt offering.