Ordaining The Priests (Exodus 29)

Was a holy barbeque part of the second ram’s offering during this ordination?

After you take the breast of the ram for Aaron’s ordination, wave it before the Lord as a wave offering, and it will be your share. Consecrate those parts of the ordination ram that belong to Aaron and his sons: the breast that was waved and the thigh that was presented. This is always to be the perpetual share from the Israelites for Aaron and his sons. It is the contribution the Israelites are to make to the Lord from their fellowship offerings. (Exodus 29:26-28 NIV)

Were the sacred garments to become an heirloom for future generations of priests?

Aaron’s sacred garments must be preserved for his descendants who succeed him, and they will wear them when they are anointed and ordained. The descendant who succeeds him as high priest will wear these clothes for seven days as he ministers in the Tabernacle and the Holy Place. (Exodus 29:29-30 NLT)

Eating

Where were Aaron and his sons to eat this holy barbeque? What about parts that were left over? Is this feast a fellowship with God and a foretaste of communion (Luke 22:19; 1 Corinthians 10:16)?

You shall take the ram of consecration and boil its meat in a holy place. Aaron and his sons shall eat the meat of the ram, and the bread that is in the basket, at the door of the Tent of Meeting. They shall eat those things with which atonement was made, to consecrate and sanctify them; but a stranger shall not eat of it, because they are holy. If anything of the meat of the consecration, or of the bread, remains to the morning, then you shall burn the remainder with fire. It shall not be eaten, because it is holy. (Exodus 29:31-34 WEB)

How long was the ordination ceremony for Aaron and his sons to last?

Treat Aaron and his sons just as I have commanded you. Ordain them for seven days. Every day you should offer a bull as a purification offering for reconciliation. You should remove the sin from the altar through a ritual of reconciliation, and you should anoint the altar to make it holy. Seven days you should perform the ritual of reconciliation for the altar and make it holy. In this way, the altar will become most holy, and whatever touches the altar will also become holy. (Exodus 29:35-37 CEB)

What were the daily sacrifices to be made by the priests?

Each day you must sacrifice two lambs a year old, one in the morning and one in the evening. With each lamb offer [a tenth of an ephah] one kilogram of your finest flour mixed with [a quarter of a hin] a liter of pure olive oil, and also pour out [a quarter of a hin] a liter of wine as an offering. The smell of this sacrifice on the fires of the altar will be pleasing to me. You and your descendants must always offer this sacrifice on the altar at the entrance to the sacred tent. (Exodus 29:38-42 CEV)

What would God do with Israel? How holy was Israel to be?

There I will meet with the people of Israel, and it shall be sanctified by my glory. I will consecrate the tent of meeting and the altar. Aaron also and his sons I will consecrate to serve me as priests. I will dwell among the people of Israel and will be their God. And they shall know that I am the Lord their God, who brought them out of the land of Egypt that I might dwell among them. I am the Lord their God. (Exodus 29:43-46 ESV)

Does the ordination of Aaron and his sons: washing, clothing, anointing, sacrificing and eating, hint at the sacrifice of Christ and the Christian life? You decide!