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And it shall have a hole for the head in the midst thereof: it shall have a binding of woven work round about the hole of it, as it were the hole of a coat of mail, that it is not rent.

And for Aaron's sons you shall make coats, and you shall make for them girdles, and head-tires you shall make for them, for glory and for beauty.

Also you shall take of the ram the fat, and the fat tail, and the fat that covers the insides, and the caul of the liver, and the two kidneys, and the fat that is on them, and the right thigh (for it is a ram of consecration),

And you shall put the whole on the hands of Aaron, and on the hands of his sons, and shall wave them for a wave-offering before Yahweh.

And you shall take them from their hands, and burn them on the altar on the burnt-offering, for a sweet savor before Yahweh: it is an offering made by fire to Yahweh.

And you shall take the breast of Aaron's ram of consecration, and wave it for a wave-offering before Yahweh: and it shall be your portion.

And you shall sanctify the breast of the wave-offering, and the thigh of the heave-offering, which is waved, and which is heaved up, of the ram of consecration, even of that which is for Aaron, and of that which is for his sons:

and it shall be for Aaron and his sons as [their] portion forever from the sons of Israel; for it is a heave-offering: and it shall be a heave-offering from the sons of Israel of the sacrifices of their peace-offerings, even their heave-offering to Yahweh.

And the holy garments of Aaron shall be for his sons after him, to be anointed in them, and to be consecrated in them.

And every day you shall offer the bull of sin-offering for atonement: and you shall cleanse the altar, when you make atonement for it; and you shall anoint it, to sanctify it.

Seven days you shall make atonement for the altar, and sanctify it: and the altar shall be most holy; whatever touches the altar shall be holy.

and with the one lamb a tenth part [of an ephah] of fine flour mingled with the fourth part of a hin of beaten oil, and the fourth part of a hin of wine for a drink-offering.

And the other lamb you shall offer at evening, and shall do thereto according to the meal-offering of the morning, and according to the drink-offering thereof, for a sweet savor, an offering made by fire to Yahweh.

And two golden rings you shall make for it under the crown thereof; on the two ribs thereof, on the two sides of it you shall make them; and they shall be for places for poles with which to bear it.

And Aaron shall make atonement on the horns of it once in the year; with the blood of the sin-offering of atonement once in the year he shall make atonement for it throughout your generations: it is most holy to Yahweh.

When you take the sum of the sons of Israel, according to those that are numbered of them, then they shall give every man a ransom for himself to Yahweh, when you number them; that there will be no plague among them, because you number them.

This they shall give, every one that passes over to those that are numbered, half a shekel after the shekel of the sanctuary; (the shekel is twenty gerahs;) half a shekel for an offering to Yahweh.

The rich shall not give more, and the poor shall not give less, than the half shekel, when they give the offering of Yahweh, to make atonement for your souls.

And you shall take the atonement money from the sons of Israel, and shall appoint it for the service of the tent of meeting; that it may be a memorial for the sons of Israel before Yahweh, to make atonement for your souls.

And the incense which you shall make, according to the composition thereof you shall not make for yourselves: it shall be to you holy for Yahweh.