1. When you ordain one of Aaron's sons as my priest, choose a young bull and two rams that have nothing wrong with them.
2. Then from your finest flour make three batches of dough without yeast. Shape some of it into larger loaves, some into smaller loaves mixed with olive oil, and the rest into thin wafers brushed with oil.
3. Put all this bread in a basket and bring it when you come to sacrifice the three animals to me.
4. Bring Aaron and his sons to the entrance of the sacred tent and make them wash themselves.
5. Dress Aaron in the priestly shirt, the robe that goes under the sacred apron, the apron itself, the breastpiece, and the sash.
6. Put on his turban with its narrow strip of engraved gold
7. and then ordain him by pouring olive oil on his head.
27-28. In the future, when anyone from Israel offers the ribs and a hind leg of a ram either to ordain a priest or to ask for my blessing, the meat belongs to me, but it may be eaten by the priests. This law will never change.
29-30. After Aaron's death, his priestly clothes are to be handed down to each descendant who succeeds him as high priest, and these clothes must be worn during the seven-day ceremony of ordination.
40-41. With each lamb offer one kilogramme of your finest flour mixed with a litre of pure olive oil, and also pour out a litre of wine as an offering. The smell of this sacrifice on the fires of the altar will be pleasing to me.
42-43. You and your descendants must always offer this sacrifice on the altar at the entrance to the sacred tent.People of Israel, I will meet and speak with you there, and my shining glory will make the place holy.