And thou shalt take the ram of the consecration, and seethe his flesh in the holy place.
The ceremonies for consecrating Aaron and his sons had to be set down in detail so that they themselves would grasp the weight of what God called them to, and the people would learn to honor the office and keep their hands off it. The Hebrew word for consecrating means filling the hand, which tells us ministers have their hands full, no time for trifling, their work is so great and constant.
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Commenting on Exodus 29:1-37
And thou shalt take the ram of the consecration,.... For the other ram was cut in pieces and burnt, even the whole of it: and seethe his flesh in the holy place; not in that part of the tabernacle which was properly the holy place, as distinguished from the holy of holies, and from the court of the tabernacle; for in that there was no...
The full force of this consecration ceremony cannot be grasped apart from the sacrificial law in Leviticus 1-7, so I defer detailed examination until we reach Leviticus 8, where the consecration is actually carried out. The daily offerings that follow belong here because they begin immediately after the tabernacle's completion and form part of the sanctuary's total operation.
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Commenting on Exodus 29:1-37