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Exodus Chapter 29

1. ‘This is what you will do to them, to consecrate them to my priesthood. Take one young bull and two rams without blemish;
2. also unleavened bread, unleavened cakes mixed with oil, and unleavened wafers spread with oil, made from fine wheat flour,
3. and put these into a basket and present them in the basket, at the same time as the bull and the two rams.
4. ‘You will bring Aaron and his sons to the entrance of the Tent of Meeting and bathe them.
5. You will then take the vestments and dress Aaron in the tunic, the robe of the ephod, the ephod, and the breastplate, and tie the waistband of the ephod round his waist.
6. Then you will place the turban on his head, and on it put the symbol of holy consecration.
7. You will then take the anointing oil and pour it on his head and so anoint him.
8. ‘Next, you will bring his sons and dress them in tunics,
9. and fasten waistbands round their waists and put the head-dresses on their heads. By perpetual decree the priesthood will be theirs. Then you will invest Aaron and his sons.
10. ‘You will bring the bull in front of the Tent of Meeting, and Aaron and his sons will lay their hands on the bull’s head.
11. You will then slaughter the bull before Yahweh at the entrance to the Tent of Meeting.
12. You will then take some of the bull’s blood and with your finger put it on the horns of the altar. Next, pour out the rest of the blood at the foot of the altar.
13. And then take all the fat covering the entrails, the fatty mass over the liver, the two kidneys with their covering fat, and burn them on the altar.
14. But the young bull’s flesh, its skin and its offal, you will burn outside the camp, for this is a sin offering.
15. ‘Next, you will take one of the rams, and Aaron and his sons will lay their hands on the ram’s head.
16. You will then slaughter the ram, take its blood and pour it against the altar, all round.
17. Next, cut the ram into quarters, wash the entrails and legs and put them on the quarters and head.
18. Then burn the whole ram on the altar. This will be a burnt offering for Yahweh, a pleasing smell, a food offering burnt for Yahweh.
19. ‘Next, you will take the other ram, and Aaron and his sons will lay their hands on the ram’s head.
20. You will then slaughter the ram, take some of its blood and put it on the lobe of Aaron’s right ear, on the lobes of his sons’ right ears, the thumbs of their right hands, and the big toes of their right feet, and pour the rest of the blood against the altar, all round.
21. You will then take some of the blood on the altar and some of the anointing oil, and sprinkle it on Aaron and his vestments and on his sons and on his sons’ vestments: so that he and his vestments will be consecrated and his sons too, and his sons’ vestments.
22. ‘You will then take the fatty parts of the ram: the tail, the fat covering the entrails, the fatty mass over the liver, the two kidneys with their covering fat and also the right thigh — for this is a ram of investiture-
23. and a loaf of bread, a cake of bread made with oil, and a wafer, from the basket of unleavened bread before Yahweh,
24. and put it all on the palms of Aaron and his sons, and make the gesture of offering before Yahweh.
25. Then you will take them back and burn them on the altar, on top of the burnt offering, as a smell pleasing before Yahweh, a food offering burnt for Yahweh.
26. ‘You will then take the forequarters of the ram of Aaron’s investiture and with it make the gesture of offering before Yahweh; this will be your portion.
27. You will consecrate the forequarters that have been thus offered, as also the thigh that is set aside — what has been offered and what has been set aside from the ram of investiture of Aaron and his sons.
28. This, by perpetual decree, will be the portion that Aaron and his sons will receive from the Israelites, since it is the portion set aside, the portion set aside for Yahweh by the Israelites from their communion sacrifices: a portion set aside for Yahweh.
29. ‘Aaron’s sacred vestments must pass to his sons after him, and they will wear them for their anointing and investiture.
30. Whichever of the sons of Aaron succeeds him in the priesthood and enters the Tent of Meeting to serve in the sanctuary, will wear them for seven days.
31. ‘You will take the ram of investiture and cook its meat in a holy place.
32. Aaron and his sons will eat the meat of the ram and the bread which is in the basket, at the entrance to the Tent of Meeting.
33. They will eat what was used in making expiation for them at their investiture and consecration. No unauthorised person may eat these; they are holy things.
34. If any of the meat from the investiture sacrifice, or the bread, should be left till morning, you will burn what is left. It may not be eaten; it is a holy thing.
35. This is what you will do for Aaron and his sons, implementing all the orders I have given you. You will take seven days over their investiture.
36. ‘On each of the days you will also offer a young bull as a sacrifice for sin, in expiation. You will offer a sin sacrifice for the altar when you make expiation for it; then you will consecrate it by anointing it.
37. For seven days you will make expiation for the altar, then you will consecrate it; it will then be especially holy, and whatever touches the altar will become holy.
38. ‘This is what you must offer on the altar: two yearling male lambs each day in perpetuity.
39. The first lamb you will offer at dawn, and the second at twilight,
40. and with the first lamb, one-tenth of a measure of fine flour mixed with one-quarter of a hin of pounded olive oil and, for a libation, one-quarter of a hin of wine.
41. The second lamb you will offer at twilight, and do it with a similar cereal offering and libation as at dawn, as a pleasing smell, as an offering burnt for Yahweh,
42. a perpetual burnt offering for all your generations to come, at the entrance to the Tent of Meeting before Yahweh, where I shall meet you and speak to you.
43. ‘There I shall meet the Israelites in the place consecrated by my glory.
44. I shall consecrate the Tent of Meeting and the altar; I shall also consecrate Aaron and his sons, to be priests in my service.
45. And I shall live with the Israelites and be their God,
46. and they will know that I am Yahweh their God, who brought them out of Egypt to live among them: I, Yahweh their God.’

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SnyderTalk® Commentary

Exodus chapter 29 deals with the consecration of priests.  The sacrificial ritual symbolizes the Messiah suffering, shedding His blood, and dying for our cleansing.  His was the perfect sacrifice demanded by Yahweh’s law as the price for our sins.  He redeemed us (paid the price) so we can have intimacy with Yahweh if we place our faith in Him.  He is our Savior, our Redeemer, and our permanent High Priest.  Our salvation is not based on our ability to obey Yahweh’s law without fail because none of us can do that—not yet anyway.  The Messiah’s salvation is based on His righteousness because what we call “good works” and “obedience” don’t pass muster with Yahweh.  The Messiah is our Righteousness.  That’s why it’s important for us to know the Name given to Him by the Father.  He is Yahweh Tsidkenu—Yahweh our Righteousness. (Jeremiah 23: 5-6)  Hebrews 9: 1-10: 18 explains what He did for us perfectly:

“Now even the first covenant had regulations of divine worship and the earthly sanctuary.  For there was a tabernacle prepared, the outer one, in which were the lampstand and the table and the sacred bread; this is called the holy place.  Behind the second veil there was a tabernacle which is called the Holy of Holies, having a golden altar of incense and the ark of the covenant covered on all sides with gold, in which was a golden jar holding the manna, and Aaron’s rod which budded, and the tables of the covenant; and above it were the cherubim of glory overshadowing the mercy seat; but of these things we cannot now speak in detail.

Now when these things have been so prepared, the priests are continually entering the outer tabernacle performing the divine worship, but into the second, only the high priest enters once a year, not without taking blood, which he offers for himself and for the sins of the people committed in ignorance.  The Holy Spirit is signifying this, that the way into the holy place has not yet been disclosed while the outer tabernacle is still standing, which is a symbol for the present time. Accordingly both gifts and sacrifices are offered which cannot make the worshiper perfect in conscience, since they relate only to food and drink and various washings, regulations for the body imposed until a time of reformation.

But when Christ appeared as a high priest of the good things to come, He entered through the greater and more perfect tabernacle, not made with hands, that is to say, not of this creation; and not through the blood of goats and calves, but through His own blood, He entered the holy place once for all, having obtained eternal redemption.  For if the blood of goats and bulls and the ashes of a heifer sprinkling those who have been defiled sanctify for the cleansing of the flesh, how much more will the blood of Christ, who through the eternal Spirit offered Himself without blemish to God, cleanse your conscience from dead works to serve the living God?

For this reason He is the mediator of a new covenant, so that, since a death has taken place for the redemption of the transgressions that were committed under the first covenant, those who have been called may receive the promise of the eternal inheritance.  For where a covenant is, there must of necessity be the death of the one who made it.  For a covenant is valid only when men are dead, for it is never in force while the one who made it lives.  Therefore even the first covenant was not inaugurated without blood.  For when every commandment had been spoken by Moses to all the people according to the Law, he took the blood of the calves and the goats, with water and scarlet wool and hyssop, and sprinkled both the book itself and all the people, saying, ‘THIS IS THE BLOOD OF THE COVENANT WHICH GOD COMMANDED YOU.’  And in the same way he sprinkled both the tabernacle and all the vessels of the ministry with the blood. And according to the Law, one may almost say, all things are cleansed with blood, and without shedding of blood there is no forgiveness.

Therefore it was necessary for the copies of the things in the heavens to be cleansed with these, but the heavenly things themselves with better sacrifices than these.  For Christ did not enter a holy place made with hands, a mere copy of the true one, but into heaven itself, now to appear in the presence of God for us; nor was it that He would offer Himself often, as the high priest enters the holy place year by year with blood that is not his own.  Otherwise, He would have needed to suffer often since the foundation of the world; but now once at the consummation of the ages He has been manifested to put away sin by the sacrifice of Himself.  And inasmuch as it is appointed for men to die once and after this comes judgment, so Christ also, having been offered once to bear the sins of many, will appear a second time for salvation without reference to sin, to those who eagerly await Him.

For the Law, since it has only a shadow of the good things to come and not the very form of things, can never, by the same sacrifices which they offer continually year by year, make perfect those who draw near.  Otherwise, would they not have ceased to be offered, because the worshipers, having once been cleansed, would no longer have had consciousness of sins?  But in those sacrifices there is a reminder of sins year by year.  For it is impossible for the blood of bulls and goats to take away sins.  Therefore, when He comes into the world, He says, ‘SACRIFICE AND OFFERING YOU HAVE NOT DESIRED, BUT A BODY YOU HAVE PREPARED FOR ME; IN WHOLE BURNT OFFERINGS AND sacrifices FOR SIN YOU HAVE TAKEN NO PLEASURE.  THEN I SAID, ‘BEHOLD, I HAVE COME (IN THE SCROLL OF THE BOOK IT IS WRITTEN OF ME) TO DO YOUR WILL, O GOD.’’ (This is a quote from Psalm 40.)

After saying above, ‘SACRIFICES AND OFFERINGS AND WHOLE BURNT OFFERINGS AND sacrifices FOR SIN YOU HAVE NOT DESIRED, NOR HAVE YOU TAKEN PLEASURE in them’ (which are offered according to the Law), then He said, ‘BEHOLD, I HAVE COME TO DO YOUR WILL.’  He takes away the first in order to establish the second.  By this will we have been sanctified through the offering of the body of Jesus Christ once for all.

Every priest stands daily ministering and offering time after time the same sacrifices, which can never take away sins; but He, having offered one sacrifice for sins for all time, SAT DOWN AT THE RIGHT HAND OF GOD, waiting from that time onward UNTIL HIS ENEMIES BE MADE A FOOTSTOOL FOR HIS FEET.  For by one offering He has perfected for all time those who are sanctified. And the Holy Spirit also testifies to us; for after saying, ‘THIS IS THE COVENANT THAT I WILL MAKE WITH THEM AFTER THOSE DAYS, SAYS THE LORD: I WILL PUT MY LAWS UPON THEIR HEART, AND ON THEIR MIND I WILL WRITE THEM,’ He then says, ‘AND THEIR SINS AND THEIR LAWLESS DEEDS I WILL REMEMBER NO MORE.’

Now where there is forgiveness of these things, there is no longer any offering for sin.” (Hebrews 9: 1 to 10: 18)

I hope you understand the significance of what the Messiah did for us when He offered Himself as the sacrifice for our sins.  He is our Savior and our Redeemer.  His sacrifice was ONCE and FOR ALL.  If you have received Him as your Savior, you have been reconciled with the Father.

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