Week 43, Day 5: The priest are consecrated
Today’s Reading: Exodus 29:1-46
Some thoughts from the reading…
Now that the instructions for constructing the tent of meeting have been given, the next “step” is to consecrate the priest to serve before the Lord. Aaron and his sons are taken with their priestly garments and spend 7 days to go through this process. 7 is a number that we see repeated throughout the scriptures used in connection with holiness. This process would set them apart as holy and able to serve in the role of priests. At the same time they were to make atonement for the altar and consecrate the altar as well (vs. 37). This action introduces an interesting action that we will see from time to time. During certain occations the priests were to anoint the articles of the tent with blood. By doing this they were cleansing the items, purging them. We will talk more about this as we see this taking place.
Question: Why was their a need to go through a process to consecrate the priests and the altar?
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