Exodus 29:30
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The son who succeeds him as priest and enters the Tent of Meeting to minister in the Holy Place must wear them for seven days.
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Consecration of Aaron and his Sons through the anointing of their persons and the offering of sacrifices, the directions for which form the subject of vv. 1-35. This can only be fully understood in connection with the sacrificial law contained in Lev 1-7. It will be more advisable therefore to defer the examination of this ceremony till we come to Lev 8, where the consecration itself is described. The same may also be said of the expiation and anointing of the altar, which are commanded in Exo 29:36 and Exo 29:37, and carried out in Lev 8:11.
Open source ↗Particular orders are given in this chapter, I. Concerning the consecration of the priests, and the sanctification of the altar (v. 1-37). II. Concerning the daily sacrifice (Exo 29:38-41). To which gracious promises are annexed that God would own and bless them in all their services (Exo 29:42, etc.).
Open source ↗29:30 The descendant who succeeds him: Each succeeding high priest was to be ordained in the same way.
Open source ↗Original language
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After Moses had removed Aaron’s garments and put them on his son Eleazar, Aaron died there on top of the mountain. Then Moses and Eleazar came down from the mountain.
On the eighth day Moses summoned Aaron and his sons and the elders of Israel.
Noah waited seven more days and again sent out the dove from the ark.
For seven days you must eat unleavened bread. On the first day you are to remove the leaven from your houses. Whoever eats anything leavened from the first day through the seventh must be cut off from Israel.
For seven days the priests are to make atonement for the altar and cleanse it; so they shall consecrate it.
And Noah waited seven more days and sent out the dove again, but this time she did not return to him.
On the seventh day the priest is to reexamine him, and if he sees that the infection is unchanged and has not spread on the skin, the priest must isolate him for another seven days.
Such a high priest truly befits us—One who is holy, innocent, undefiled, set apart from sinners, and exalted above the heavens.
So Aaron approached the altar and slaughtered the calf as a sin offering for himself.
This is what you are to do for Aaron and his sons based on all that I have commanded you, taking seven days to ordain them.