Leviticus Chapter 8

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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Leviticus chapter eight, the Eternal One addressed Moses. Moses, take
Aarin and his sons, together with their sacred garments, the
specially prepared anointing oil, the bulls set aside for the
purification offering for sin, the two rams, and the basket
of unleavened bread. Then gather the entire community at the
entrance of the congregation tent. So Moses followed the Eternal's instructions,

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and when the community of Israel was gathered together at
the entrance of the congregation tent, Moses addressed the assembly.
The Eternal One has commanded that we gather and ordain
Aaron and his sons as priests. So Moses had Aaron
and his sons approach, and he washed them with water
and purified them. Moses put a tunic on Aarin, fastened

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the sash around his waist, and put the robe and
vest on him. He wrapped the skillfully made waistband of
the vest around him and tied it to him. Then
Moses placed the breast piece on him and put the
Urim and thummim inside a specially designed pouch on the breastpiece.
Moses then put the turban on Aaron's head and fastened
a golden medallion a holy crown to the front of it.

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Moses did all this exactly as the eternal commanded. Then
Moses anointed and consecrated the sanctuary of the congregation tent,
along with everything in it, with the anointing oil. He
sprinkled some of the oil on the altar seven times.
He anointed and consecrated the altar, its tools, and the
basin and its stand with the oil. Moses poured some
of the oil on Aaron's head and anointed him to

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set him apart as head of the priestly order. Then
Moses had Aaron's son stepped forward and dressed them with
the special tunics, fastened sashes about their waists, and placed
caps on their heads. He did exactly as the eternal
had commanded. Moses brought the bull for the purification offering
for sin and had Aaron and his sons placed their

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hands on the bull's head. After the bull was slaughtered,
Moses dipped his finger in its blood and rubbed it
on the altar horns, purifying the altar. Moses then poured
the remaining blood at the base of the altar. This
is how when Moses consecrated the altar and covered over
any impurity it possessed. Moses also removed the fat from
around the organs, the lobe of the liver, the two kidneys,

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and the fat around them, and offered it all up
as smoke on the altar. As for the rest of
the bull, its skin, its meat, and its excrement, he
took and burned it outside the camp. Moses did exactly
as the eternal commanded. Moses then brought out the ram
for the burnt offering and had Aaron and his sons
place their hands on its head. After Moses slaughtered it,
he splattered its blood against the sides of the altar.

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Moses cut it up into pieces, and then he took
the head, the cut portions, and the fat and offered
them up on the altar as smoke. After rinsing off
the organs and legs with water in order to remove
any impurities, he took everything that was left of the
rim and offered it up on the altar. The smoke
of the burnt offering rose and became a pleasant aroma,
a fire offering to the eternal one. Moses did all

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this exactly as the eternal commanded. Then Moses prepared the
second Ram, the ore Nation Rim. He had Aaron and
his sons placed their hands on its head. After Moses
slaughtered it, he put some of the Ram's blood on
Aaron's right ear lobe, on his right thumb, and on
his right big toe. Then Moses sent for Aaron's sons
and put some of the Ram's blood on their right

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ear lobes, on their right thumbs, and on their right
big toes. Moses then splattered the remaining blood against the
sides of the altar. He then removed the fat, the
fat tail, the fat around the organs, the lobe of
the liver, and two kidneys and fat from them, as
well as the right thigh of the Ram. Then Moses
reached into the basket of on leven bread dedicated to

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the Eternal One, and took out one loaf of unleaven bread,
one loaf made with oil, and one wafer. He put
them on the fat and on the right thigh. Then
he placed it all in the hands of Aaron and
his sons, who raised them to the Eternal One as
a wave offering. Moses then took it all back from
Aarin and his sons and offered it on the altar.
Along with the burnt offering, The smoke of the ordination

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offering rose and became a pleasant aroma, a fire offering
to the eternal. Moses also lifted up the breast of
the ram as a wave offering to the eternal. The
breast served as Moses's portion of the ordination offering. As
the Eternal had commanded, Moses took some of the anointing
oil and some of the blood from the altar and
sprinkled it on Aaron and his garments. He did the

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same on Aaron's sons and their garments. This is how
he consecrated Aaron and his priestly garments, as well as
his sons and their garments. Moses said to Aaron and
his sons, boil the meat at the entrance to the
congregation tent and feast on it together with bread from
the basket of the ordination offering. In accordance with the
instructions I gave, Aaron and his sons may eat it,

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burn the rest of the meat and bread in the fire.
You are not allowed to go beyond the entrance of
the congregation tent for seven days when your ordination period
is complete. For it will take seven days to ordain you.
Everything we have done today the Eternal commanded us to
do in order to cover your impurity. Stay here at
the entrance of the congregation ten, all day and all

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night for seven days. Do whatever the Eternal requires, or
else you will die. For this is the command he
has given me. So Aaron and his sons honored the
Eternal One's instructions, which he commanded through Moses.