⁹ Then you shall take the anointing oil and anoint the tabernacle and all that is in it and consecrate it and all its furniture, so that it shall become holy.^(A)

¹⁰ Then Moses took the anointing oil and anointed the tabernacle and all that was in it and consecrated them.^(A)

Offerings of the Leaders

7 On the day when Moses had finished setting up the tabernacle and had anointed and consecrated it with all its furnishings and had anointed and consecrated the altar with all its utensils,^(A)

²⁰ But you have been anointed by the Holy One, and all of you have knowledge.^[a](A)

²² who has put his seal on us and given^[a] us his Spirit in our hearts as a down payment.^(A)

⁴ who consoles us in all our affliction, so that we may be able to console those who are in any affliction with the consolation with which we ourselves are consoled by God.

³⁴ He whom God has sent speaks the words of God, for he gives the Spirit without measure.^(A)

¹⁶ And when Jesus had been baptized, just as he came up from the water, suddenly the heavens were opened to him and he saw God’s Spirit descending like a dove and alighting on him.^(A)

The Good News of Deliverance