1 AND this is the thing that thou shalt do unto them to hallow them, to minister unto me in the priest’s office: Take one young bullock, [ A work animal, a beast of burden. Symbolic of the servants of God. ] and two rams without blemish, [ The sacrifice that took Isaac's place. ]

2 And unleavened bread, [ Symbolic to the passover. ] and cakes unleavened tempered with oil, [ Olive oil was used for light, it was obtained through great pressure Gethsemane. Oil was used for healing. ] and wafers unleavened anointed [ The Messiah in hebrew means "annointed". ] with oil: of wheaten [ Wheat instead of tares, symbolizing the righteous. ] flour shalt thou make them.

3 And thou shalt put them into one basket, and bring them in the basket, with the bullock and the two rams.

4 And Aaron and his sons thou shalt bring unto the door [ Outside before they enter. ] of the tabernacle of the congregation, and shalt wash them with water. [ Washed clean before they enter the house of God. This is done at the door of the tabernacle it is a preparatory right for those whom God exalts to king, priest. ]

5 And thou shalt take the garments, [ What are these garments spoken of here? ] and put upon Aaron the coat, [ What is "the coat"? ] and the robe of the ephod, and the ephod, and the breastplate, and gird him with the curious girdle of the ephod:

6 And thou shalt put the mitre upon his head, and put the holy crown [ The one that bears the inscription "Holiness To The Lord". Vs 5-6 Aaron is wearing the emblems of and bearing the holy priesthood. Crowns are worn by Kings and queens. ] upon the mitre.

7 Then shalt thou take the anointing oil, and pour it upon his head, and anoint him. [ So as they are preparing to enter the tabernacle they are washed, clothed and then anointed. These are all part of the initory ordinances before they go in to serve God in his holy house. We might ask anointed for what? ]

8 And thou shalt bring his sons, and put coats upon them.

9 And thou shalt gird them with girdles, Aaron and his sons, and put the bonnets on them: and the priest’s office shall be theirs for a perpetual statute: and thou shalt consecrate Aaron and his sons.

10 And thou shalt cause a bullock to be brought before the tabernacle of the congregation: and Aaron and his sons shall put their hands upon the head of the bullock. [ Symbolic of placing the sins of Israel upon the head of the bullock. A transfer of the sins from the people to a substitute. ]

11 And thou shalt kill the bullock [ The atonement for the sins of the people. The reason why the sacrificial altar is outside of the tabernacle. ] before the LORD, by the door of the tabernacle of the congregation.

12 And thou shalt take of the blood of the bullock, and put it upon the horns of the altar [ This is done to sanctify the altar itself. ] with thy finger, and pour all the blood beside the bottom of the altar.

13 And thou shalt take all the fat that covereth the inwards, [ The part of the body that offers a layer of protection for the body. ] and the caul that is above the liver, and the two kidneys, [ These parts cleanse the body of the body. Purification. ] and the fat that is upon them, and burn them upon the altar.

14 But the flesh [ The natural man. ] of the bullock, and his skin, [ The outward appearance. ] and his dung, [ The remains of the appetite of natural man. ] shalt thou burn with fire without the camp: it is a sin offering.

15 ¶ Thou shalt also take one ram; and Aaron and his sons shall put their hands upon the head of the ram.

16 And thou shalt slay the ram, and thou shalt take his blood, [ The sacrificed blood from the Ram. ] and sprinkle it round about upon the altar. [ Or sprinkle it on all four sides of the altar. By placing the blood of the sacrifice on the four corners of the altar, the priests were expressing that the sin sacrifice was meant to atone for the entire world. The use of the four cardinal points to symbolize the totality of the earth is one of the most ubiquitous symbols in the ancient world. ]

17 And thou shalt cut the ram in pieces, and wash the inwards of him, and his legs, and put them unto his pieces, and unto his head.

18 And thou shalt burn the whole ram upon the altar: it is a burnt offering unto the LORD: it is a sweet savour, an offering made by fire unto the LORD.

19 ¶ And thou shalt take the other ram; and Aaron and his sons shall put their hands upon the head of the ram.

20 Then shalt thou kill the ram, and take of his blood, and put it upon the tip of the right ear of Aaron, and upon the tip of the right ear of his sons, and upon the thumb of their right hand, and upon the great toe of their right foot, and sprinkle the blood upon the altar round about.

21 And thou shalt take of the blood that is upon the altar, and of the anointing oil, and sprinkle it upon Aaron, and upon his garments, and upon his sons, and upon the garments of his sons with him: and he shall be hallowed, and his garments, and his sons, and his sons’ garments with him.

22 Also thou shalt take of the ram the fat and the rump, and the fat that covereth the inwards, and the caul above the liver, and the two kidneys, and the fat that is upon them, and the right shoulder; for it is a ram of consecration:

23 And one loaf of bread, and one cake of oiled bread, and one wafer out of the basket of the unleavened bread that is before the LORD:

24 And thou shalt put all in the hands of Aaron, and in the hands of his sons; and shalt wave them for a wave offering before the LORD.

25 And thou shalt receive them of their hands, and burn them upon the altar for a burnt offering, for a sweet savour before the LORD: it is an offering made by fire unto the LORD.

26 And thou shalt take the breast of the ram of Aaron’s consecration, and wave it for a wave offering before the LORD: and it shall be thy part.

27 And thou shalt sanctify the breast of the wave offering, and the shoulder of the heave offering, which is waved, and which is heaved up, of the ram of the consecration, even of that which is for Aaron, and of that which is for his sons:

28 And it shall be Aaron’s and his sons’ by a statute for ever from the children of Israel: for it is an heave offering: and it shall be an heave offering from the children of Israel of the sacrifice of their peace offerings, even their heave offering unto the LORD.

29 ¶ And the holy garments of Aaron shall be his sons’ after him, to be anointed therein, and to be consecrated in them.

30 And that son that is priest in his stead shall put them on seven days, when he cometh into the tabernacle of the congregation to minister in the holy place.

31 ¶ And thou shalt take the ram of the consecration, and seethe his flesh in the holy place.

32 And Aaron and his sons shall eat the flesh of the ram, and the bread that is in the basket, by the door of the tabernacle of the congregation.

33 And they shall eat those things wherewith the atonement was made, to consecrate and to sanctify them: but a stranger shall not eat thereof, because they are holy.

34 And if ought of the flesh of the consecrations, or of the bread, remain unto the morning, then thou shalt burn the remainder with fire: it shall not be eaten, because it is holy.

35 And thus shalt thou do unto Aaron, and to his sons, according to all things which I have commanded thee: seven days shalt thou consecrate them.

36 And thou shalt offer every day a bullock for a sin offering for atonement: and thou shalt cleanse the altar, when thou hast made an atonement for it, and thou shalt anoint it, to sanctify it.

37 Seven days thou shalt make an atonement for the altar, and sanctify it; and it shall be an altar most holy: whatsoever toucheth the altar shall be holy.

38 ¶ Now this is that which thou shalt offer upon the altar; two lambs of the first year day by day continually. [ These are daily offerrings (morning and the evening). No rest for the priests, symbolic that the Lord never takes a rest from the atonement of our sins. ]

39 The one lamb thou shalt offer in the morning; and the other lamb thou shalt offer at even:

40 And with the one lamb a tenth deal of flour mingled with the fourth part of an hin of beaten oil; and the fourth part of an hin of wine for a drink offering.

41 And the other lamb thou shalt offer at even, and shalt do thereto according to the meat offering of the morning, and according to the drink offering thereof, for a sweet savour, an offering made by fire unto the LORD.

42 This shall be a continual burnt offering throughout your generations at the door of the tabernacle of the congregation before the LORD: where I will meet you, to speak there unto thee. [ What is it that God is really offerring us as we are in his holy house, pretty wild to think of right. ]

43 And there I will meet with the children of Israel, and the tabernacle shall be sanctified by my glory. [ This was fulfilled after the tabernacle was constructed and “the work was finished”: God’s glory filled the sanctuary (Exod 40:34-35). Just as God sanctified time after his creation work was finished, by filling the seventh day with his presence, so he sanctified space (the tabernacle) after its work of construction was finished, by filling it with his glory. ]

44 And I will sanctify the tabernacle of the congregation, and the altar: I will sanctify also both Aaron and his sons, to minister to me in the priest’s office.

45 ¶ And I will dwell [ I will be your neighbor, I will live by you. be with you. ] among the children of Israel, and will be their God.

46 And they shall know that I am the LORD their God, that brought them forth out of the land of Egypt, that I may dwell among them: I am the LORD their God.