WMM Bible Reading: Exodus 29

Exodus 29 – The consecration of priests shall be accompanied by appropriate sacrifices—a young bull and two unblemished rams; also unleavened wheat cakes and wafers.  Then the priest, in this case Aaron and his sons, should be dressed in their priestly garments.  The bull should be slaughtered and some blood placed on the horns of the altar, the fat burned on the altar.  The rest of the animal should be burned up outside the camp as a sin offering.

Then the rams: with the first, its blood should be splashed on the altar and the entire ram burned there as a holocaust, a sweet-smelling oblation.  With the second, some of its blood should be placed on the tip of Aaron’s right ear (and then his sons likewise), and on their right thumbs and toes.  The fat from this ram and its inner organs shall become a “wave offering” (or, as Schocken editors call it, an elevation offering) together with some of the bread and oil.  Then this too shall be burned on the altar.  The meat of the ram shall be boiled and the priests given it to eat—anything left over is to be burned since it is sacred (29:34).

Seven days are allotted for ordination, making atonement for the altar and consecrating it–two yearling lambs each day—one morning, one evening.