Exodus 28:41

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Summary

And thou shalt put them upon Aaron thy brother, and his sons with him; and shalt anoint them, and consecrate them, and sanctify them, that they may minister unto me in the priest's office.

Anoint them

And consecrate them

Hebrews 7:28

Minister

Exodus 28:1

General references

Exodus 29:7

Leviticus 8:12

Bible References

Anoint them

Then take the oil and put it on his head.

Take the best spices, five hundred shekels' weight of liquid myrrh, and of sweet cinnamon half as much, that is, two hundred and fifty shekels, and two hundred and fifty shekels of sweet calamus,

And put oil on them as you did on their father, so that they may be my priests: the putting on of oil will make them priests for ever, from generation to generation.

And do not go out from the door of the Tent of meeting, or death will come to you; for the holy oil of the Lord is on you. And they did as Moses said.

And in that day the weight which he put on your back will be taken away, and his yoke broken from off your neck.

The spirit of the Lord is on me, because I am marked out by him to give good news to the poor; he has sent me to make the broken-hearted well, to say that the prisoners will be made free, and that those in chains will see the light again;

For he whom God has sent says God's words; and God does not give him the Spirit by measure.

Now he who makes our faith strong together with you, in Christ, and has given us of his grace, is God;

And you have the Spirit from the Holy One and you all have knowledge.

And consecrate them

And put the linen bands round Aaron and his sons, and the head-dresses on them, to make them priests by my order for ever: so you are to make Aaron and his sons holy to me.

These are the names of the sons of Aaron, the priests, on whom the holy oil was put, who were marked out as priests.

For seven days they are to make offerings to take away sin from the altar and to make it clean; so they are to make it holy.

And no man who is not given authority by God, as Aaron was, takes this honour for himself.

The law makes high priests of men who are feeble; but the word of the oath, which was made after the law, gives that position to a Son, in whom all good is for ever complete.

Minister

Now let Aaron your brother, and his sons with him, come near from among the children of Israel, so that they may be my priests, even Aaron, and Nadab, Abihu, Eleazar, and Ithamar, his sons.

General references

Then take the oil and put it on his head.

And some of the oil he put on Aaron's head, to make him holy.