Leviticus 8

¹ Yahweh spoke to Moses; he said:

² Take Aaron, his sons with him, and the vestments, and the chrism, the bull for the sacrifice for sin, the two rams and the basket of unleavened bread.

³ Then call the whole community together at the entrance to the Tent of Meeting.’

⁴ Moses followed the orders of Yahweh; the community gathered at the entrance to the Tent of Meeting,

⁵ and Moses said to them, ‘This is what Yahweh has ordered to be done’.

⁶ He made Aaron and his sons come forward, and washed them with water.

⁷ He put the tunic on him, passed the girdle round his waist, dressed him in the robe and put the ephod on him. Then he put round his waist the woven band of the ephod with which he clothed him.

⁸ He put the pectoral on him, and placed the Urim and Thummim in it.

⁹ He put the turban on his head, with the golden plate on the front; this is the sacred diadem as Yahweh prescribed it to Moses.

¹⁰ Then Moses took the chrism and anointed the tabernacle and everything in it, to consecrate them.

¹¹ He sprinkled the altar seven times, and anointed the altar and its furnishing, the basin and its stand, to consecrate them.

¹² Then he poured the chrism on Aaron’s head, consecrating him by unction.

¹³ Then Moses made Aaron’s sons come forward; he put the tunics on them, passed the girdles round their waists and put on their head-dress, as Yahweh had ordered Moses.

¹⁴ Then he had the bull for the sacrifice for sin brought forward. Aaron and his sons laid their hands on the victim’s head

¹⁵ and Moses immolated it. Then he took the blood and with his finger put some of it on the horns round the altar, to take away its sin. Then he poured out the rest of the blood at the foot of the altar, which he consecrated by performing the rite of atonement over it.

¹⁶ Then he took all the fat that covers the entrails, the fatty mass which is over the liver, the two kidneys and their fat; and he burnt them all on the altar.

¹⁷ The bull’s skin, its flesh and its dung he burnt outside the camp, as Yahweh had ordered Moses.

¹⁸ Then he had the ram for holocaust brought forward. Aaron and his sons laid their hands on its head

¹⁹ and Moses immolated it. He poured its blood out on the borders of the altar.

²⁰ Then he quartered the ram and burned the head, the pieces and the fat.

²¹ He washed the entrails and legs, and burnt the whole ram on the altar. This was a holocaust whose fragrance would appease Yahweh; a burnt offering for Yahweh, as Yahweh had ordered Moses.

²² Then he had the other ram brought forward, for the sacrifice of investiture. Aaron and his sons laid their hands on its head

²³ and Moses immolated it. He took some of its blood and put it on the lobe of Aaron’s right ear, the thumb of his right hand, and the big toe of his right foot.

²⁴ Then he made the sons of Aaron come forward and he put some of the blood on the lobes of their right ears, the thumbs of their right hands and the big toes of their right feet. Next Moses poured the rest of the blood on the borders of the altar.

²⁵ Then he took the fat: the tail, all the fat that is on the entrails, the fatty mass which is over the liver, the two kidneys and their fat, and the right thigh.

²⁶ From the basket of unleavened bread placed before Yahweh, he took an unleavened cake, a cake of bread made with oil, and a wafer; he placed these on the fat and the right thigh,

²⁷ and put it all into Aaron’s hands and those of his sons, and made the gesture of offering before Yahweh.

²⁸ Then Moses took them back and burned them on the altar in addition to the holocaust. This was the sacrifice of investiture whose fragrance would appease Yahweh, a burnt offering to Yahweh.

²⁹ Then Moses took the breast and made the gesture of offering before Yahweh. This was the portion of the ram of investiture that reverted to Moses, as Yahweh had ordered Moses.

³⁰ Then Moses took the chrism and the blood that was on the altar and sprinkled Aaron and his vestments with it, and his sons and their vestments. In this way he consecrated Aaron and his vestments, and his sons and their vestments.

³¹ Then Moses said to Aaron and his sons, ‘Cook the meat at the entrance to the Tent of Meeting, and eat it there, as also the bread for the sacrifice of investiture that is in the basket, as I ordered, when I said: Aaron and his sons are to eat it.

³² What remains of the meat and bread you will burn.

³³ For seven days you must not leave the entrance to the Tent of Meeting, until the time of your investiture is complete; for your investiture will require seven days.

³⁴ Yahweh has ordered us to do as we have done today to perform the rite of atonement over you;

³⁵ and for seven days, day and night, you must remain at the entrance to the Tent of Meeting observing Yahweh’s ritual; do this, and you will not die.[*b] For this is the order I received.’

³⁶ And Aaron and his sons did everything that Yahweh had ordered through Moses.