立祭司的条例

29 “你要使亚伦父子们分别出来,做圣洁的祭司事奉我。你要选一头公牛犊和两只毫无残疾的公绵羊, 用细面粉预备无酵饼、调上油的无酵饼和涂上油的无酵薄饼。 所有的饼都要用一个篮子盛,连同公牛和绵羊一起带到会幕那里。 你要先让亚伦父子们在会幕门前沐浴, 然后给亚伦穿上内袍、以弗得和以弗得的外袍,戴上胸牌,束上精致的以弗得带子, 戴上礼冠,把圣冠[a]系在礼冠上。 之后,把膏油倒在他的头上,立他为祭司。 接着轮到亚伦的儿子们,要给他们穿上内袍, 为他们束上腰带,戴上帽子,他们就按永远的条例得到祭司的职分。你要这样把圣职授予他们。

10 “要把公牛牵到会幕前面,亚伦父子们要把手按在公牛头上, 11 在会幕门前,在耶和华面前宰牛。 12 然后,把血带到祭坛那里,用手指把血涂在坛的四个角上,剩下的血倒在坛脚。 13 再把遮盖内脏的脂肪、肝、两个肾脏和附在上面的脂肪都放在祭坛上烧掉。 14 但牛皮、肉和粪要拿到营外焚烧。这是赎罪祭。

15 “要把一只公绵羊牵来,亚伦父子们要把手按在羊头上, 16 然后宰羊,把血洒在祭坛的四周。 17 再把羊切成块状,用水洗净所有的内脏和腿,跟肉块和头放在一起。 18 然后,把整只羊放在祭坛上焚烧,这是献给耶和华的燔祭,是蒙耶和华悦纳的馨香火祭。

19 “你要把另一只公绵羊牵来,亚伦父子们要把手按在羊头上, 20 然后宰羊,取一点血涂在亚伦和他儿子们的右耳垂、右手的大拇指和右脚的大脚趾上,余下的血就洒在祭坛的四周。 21 再从祭坛上取一点血,与膏油一起洒在亚伦父子及其衣服上。这样,他们和他们的衣服就被分别出来,变得圣洁。

22 “你要取出羊的脂肪、肥尾巴、遮盖内脏的脂肪、肝叶、两个肾脏和附在上面的脂肪以及右腿,因为这是授圣职时所献的羊。 23 再从耶和华面前的篮子里取一个无酵饼、一个调油的无酵饼和一个薄饼。 24 把这些祭物都放在亚伦和他儿子的手中,作为摇祭在耶和华面前摇一摇。 25 然后,你要把这些祭物接过来,放在祭坛上焚烧献给耶和华,成为蒙耶和华悦纳的馨香火祭。 26 你要拿起亚伦承受圣职时所献的那头公羊的胸肉,作为摇祭在耶和华面前摇一摇。之后,这份祭肉就归你。

27 “要将属于亚伦父子们、授圣职时所献的摇祭胸肉和举祭腿肉分别出来,使之圣洁。 28 这些祭物要从以色列人所献的平安祭中取出来,归给亚伦父子们,作为永远的定例。这是以色列人当向耶和华献的祭物。

29 “亚伦的圣衣要留给他的子孙,他们可以穿上这圣衣受膏,承受圣职。 30 接替亚伦做祭司的那位后裔,每次进会幕的圣所供职时,都要一连七天穿着圣衣。

31 “要在圣洁的地方煮授圣职时所用的公绵羊肉。 32 亚伦父子们可以在会幕的门前吃这些祭肉和篮内的饼。 33 他们要吃这些在授圣职时用来赎罪、使他们圣洁的祭物。但普通人不能吃,因为这些是圣物。 34 若有授圣职时的肉或饼留到早上,就要烧掉,不可再吃,因为这些都是圣物。

35 “你要照我的吩咐,为亚伦父子们举行授圣职礼,历时七天。 36 每天要献一头公牛作赎罪祭洁净祭坛,然后用膏油抹祭坛,使祭坛圣洁。 37 你们连续七天都要这样做,这样祭坛便完全圣洁,凡是碰到祭坛的都变得圣洁。

38 “你们每天要献上两只一岁的羊羔作燔祭。 39 一只在早晨献上,另一只在黄昏献上。 40 要用一公斤细面粉调一升橄榄油做成素祭,与早晨献的羊羔一同献上,再献上一升酒作奠祭。 41 另一只羊要在黄昏的时候献上,所献的素祭和奠祭要跟早晨的一样,作为蒙耶和华悦纳的馨香火祭。

42 “你们世世代代要不断地在我面前献上燔祭,祭礼要在会幕门前举行,这会幕就是我跟你们会面和交谈的地方。 43 我要在那里和以色列人相会,我的荣耀将使整座会幕圣洁。

44 “我要使会幕和祭坛圣洁,也要使亚伦父子们圣洁,做祭司事奉我。 45 我要住在以色列人中间,做他们的上帝。 46 他们必知道我是他们的上帝耶和华。我带领他们离开埃及,就是为了要住在他们中间。我是他们的上帝耶和华。

Footnotes

  1. 29:6 圣冠”应指28章提到的金牌。

Priests are special servants of God

29 When you make the priests God's special servants, do it in this way: Take a young bull and two male sheep. They must not have anything wrong with them. Use good flour from wheat to make three kinds of bread, with no yeast in it. Mix olive oil with some of the flour before you cook it. Cook some of the flour without any oil in it. And cook some flour to make biscuits that you then put oil on. Put the bread and the biscuits into a basket. Bring them to the Tent of Meeting with the bull and the two sheep.[a]

Then bring Aaron and his sons to the entrance of the Tent of Meeting. Use water to wash them there and make them clean. Then take the special clothes. Dress Aaron in the shirt, the robe, the ephod and the breastpiece. Tie the ephod on him with its special belt. Put the linen hat on Aaron's head. Fix the special gold sign to the hat. Take the special olive oil. Pour it on his head to show that God has chosen him to be his servant.

Bring Aaron's sons and dress them in their special shirts. Put the cloth hats on their heads. Tie the long cloth belts around Aaron and on his sons. These men and their descendants will always be priests. That is a law that continues for ever. That is how you must make Aaron and his sons God's special servants.

10 Bring the bull to the front of the Tent of Meeting. Aaron and his sons must put their hands on the bull's head. 11 Then kill the animal as an offering to the Lord, at the entrance of the Tent of Meeting. 12 Take some of the bull's blood. Use your finger to put some of it on the horns of the altar. Pour the blood that remains on the ground around the altar. 13 Take all the fat that is round the inside parts of the animal. Take the best part of the liver. Take both the kidneys with the fat that is round them. Burn all these things on the altar. 14 But burn the rest of the bull's body outside the camp, with its skin and the food in its stomach. It is an offering to make the priests clean from their sins.

15 Take one of the male sheep. Aaron and his sons must put their hands on its head. 16 Kill the sheep and take its blood to the altar. Throw some of the blood onto every side of the altar. 17 Cut the sheep into pieces. Wash its inside parts and its legs. Then put them together with its head and the other pieces. 18 Completely burn the whole sheep on the altar. It is a burnt offering to the Lord. Its smell pleases him.

19 Take the second male sheep. Aaron and his sons must put their hands on its head. 20 Kill the sheep. Put some of its blood on Aaron's right ear, the thumb of his right hand and on the big toe of his right foot. Do the same thing to each of his sons. Then throw some of the sheep's blood onto every side of the altar. 21 Mix together some of the blood on the altar and some of the special oil. Splash this onto Aaron and onto his clothes. Splash it also onto his sons and onto their clothes. Then Aaron and his sons and their clothes will be holy.

22 Take all the fat from this male sheep. Take its fat tail, the fat around its inside parts and the best part of the liver. Take the two kidneys with the fat that is round them. Also take the top part of its right leg. (This is the sheep that makes Aaron and his sons special servants of God.) 23 Take one piece of each kind of flat bread out of the basket: bread that has no oil in it, bread with oil in it and a biscuit. These are an offering to the Lord. 24 Put all these things in the hands of Aaron and his sons. Then lift these things up to the Lord as an offering to him. 25 Then take them from Aaron and his sons and burn them on the altar. It is a burnt offering to the Lord. Its smell pleases him.

26 Take the meat from the ribs of the sheep that makes Aaron God's special servant. Lift it up to the Lord as an offering to him. Then you may eat this meat from the sheep. 27 You must keep separate this meat from the sheep's ribs, as well as the top part of its right leg. Those are the pieces that you lifted up to the Lord as an offering to him. Those pieces belong to Aaron and his sons. 28 In the future, when the Israelites bring a peace offering to the Lord, these pieces will belong to Aaron and his descendants. This will always be the regular gift from the Israelites to the priests. That is the law that will continue for ever. It is the gift that the Israelites must bring to the Lord.

29 Aaron's special clothes will belong to his descendants after he dies. When they too become God's special servants as his priests, they will wear them. 30 After Aaron's death, his son who becomes priest will first take seven days to serve the Lord in the tabernacle. The new priest must wear the special clothes in the Holy Place for those seven days.

31 Take the male sheep that makes Aaron God's special servant. Cook its meat in a holy place in the yard of the tabernacle. 32 Aaron and his sons must eat this meat and the bread that was in the basket. They must do this at the entrance of the Tent of Meeting. 33 That meat was part of the sacrifice which made them clean from their sins. It made them God's special servants as his priests. No other person may eat those things, because they are holy. 34 But if any of the meat from the offerings remains until the morning, you must burn it. Also burn any bread that remains. You must not eat it, because it is holy.

35 Do everything that I have commanded you, to make Aaron and his sons my special servants. Take seven days to do this. 36 Kill a bull each day, as a sacrifice that makes people clean from their sins.

Also make the altar clean and pure. Pour oil over it to make it holy for me. 37 Do this to the altar for seven days to make it pure. Then it will be completely holy. Anything that touches the altar will become holy too. 38 You must offer a regular gift on the altar each day. This offering must be two lambs that are one year old. 39 Offer one lamb in the morning and the other lamb in the evening. 40 With the first lamb, offer two litres of good flour. Mix the flour with one litre of olive oil. Also offer one litre of wine as a drink offering. 41 Kill the other lamb in the evening. Offer it with the same gifts of food and drink as in the morning. It is a burnt offering to the Lord. Its smell pleases him.

42 You and your descendants must continue to make this burnt offering as a regular offering to me, the Lord. Offer it to me at the entrance of the Tent of Meeting. I will meet with you there and I will speak to you. 43 I will meet with the Israelites there. My bright glory will make it a holy place.

44 In that way I will make the Tent of Meeting and its altar a special, holy place. Aaron and his sons will become my special servants. They will serve me as my priests. 45 I will live among the Israelites and I will be their God. 46 They will know that I am the Lord their God. I brought them out of Egypt so that I could live among them. I am the Lord their God.

Footnotes

  1. 29:3 ‘Tent of Meeting’ was another name for the tabernacle.

29 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, and two rams without blemish,

And unleavened bread, and cakes unleavened tempered with oil, and wafers unleavened anointed with oil: of wheaten flour shalt thou make them.

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

And Aaron and his sons thou shalt bring unto the door of the tabernacle of the congregation, and shalt wash them with water.

And thou shalt take the garments, and put upon Aaron the coat, and the robe of the ephod, and the ephod, and the breastplate, and gird him with the curious girdle of the ephod:

And thou shalt put the mitre upon his head, and put the holy crown upon the mitre.

Then shalt thou take the anointing oil, and pour it upon his head, and anoint him.

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

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.

11 And thou shalt kill the bullock 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 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, and the caul that is above the liver, and the two kidneys, and the fat that is upon them, and burn them upon the altar.

14 But the flesh of the bullock, and his skin, and his dung, 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, and sprinkle it round about upon the altar.

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.

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.

43 And there I will meet with the children of Israel, and the tabernacle shall be sanctified by my 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 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.