Archive for month: February, 2022

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Today’s passage is Exodus 29:1-14.  Let’s go!

Exodus 29:1-14 (NIV)
1  “This is what you are to do to consecrate them, so they may serve me as priests: Take a young bull and two rams without defect.
2  And from fine wheat flour, without yeast, make bread, and cakes mixed with oil, and wafers spread with oil.
3  Put them in a basket and present them in it–along with the bull and the two rams.
4  Then bring Aaron and his sons to the entrance to the Tent of Meeting and wash them with water.
5  Take the garments and dress Aaron with the tunic, the robe of the ephod, the ephod itself and the breast piece. Fasten the ephod on him by its skillfully woven waistband……

Today we turn our attention to the consecration of the High Priest. Here God ordered Moses how to consecrate Aaron and his sons in detail. The word “to consecrate” in verse 9 means to sanctify, to prepare, to dedicate, to honor, or to treat as sacred. In other words, being consecrated means being sanctified by and dedicated to God. Therefore, “being consecrated as the High Priest” means “being set apart to be given the authority and duties of the High Priest.” God gave Aaron and his sons the right of the High Priest and the priesthood, which enabled them to render his people the remission of sins.

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Today’s passage is Exodus 28:31-43.  Let’s go!

Exodus 28:31-35 (NIV)
31  “Make the robe of the ephod entirely of blue cloth,
32  with an opening for the head in its center. There shall be a woven edge like a collar around this opening, so that it will not tear.
33  Make pomegranates of blue, purple and scarlet yarn around the hem of the robe, with gold bells between them.
34  The gold bells and the pomegranates are to alternate around the hem of the robe.
35  Aaron must wear it when he ministers. The sound of the bells will be heard when he enters the Holy Place before the LORD and when he comes out, so that he will not die.

On verses 31-35:  Here the LORD describes the robe that the priest would wear underneath the two pieces of clothing we looked at in verses 6-30: breastpiece and the ephod.  Unlike the breastpiece and ephod which were both multicoloured, the robe was to be a solid blue (v31).  The hem of the robe was to have yarn pomegranates (apparently a symbol of abundance in Moses’ time) with gold bells between each pomegranate.  

What does verse 35 mean when it says that the sound of the bells will be heard when the priest enters and exists the Holy Place “so that he will not die”?  One theory is that you were not to enter or exit the LORD’s presence unannounced, and so the ringing of the bells served as an announcement that the priest was moving, either in or out of the Holy Place. 

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Today’s passage is Exodus 28:15-30.  Let’s go!

Exodus 28:15-30 (NIV)
15  “Fashion a breastpiece for making decisions–the work of a skilled craftsman. Make it like the ephod: of gold, and of blue, purple and scarlet yarn, and of finely twisted linen.
16  It is to be square–a span long and a span wide–and folded double.
17  Then mount four rows of precious stones on it. In the first row there shall be a ruby, a topaz and a beryl;
18  in the second row a turquoise, a sapphire and an emerald;
19  in the third row a jacinth, an agate and an amethyst;……

On verses 15-30:  In these verses the LORD describes the breastpiece that the priest would wear.  Like the ephod, this square breastpiece was also made of expensive and excellent material: of gold, and of blue, purple and scarlet yarn, and of finely twisted linen (v15).  In addition it was bling-ed out with 12 precious stones representing the 12 tribes of Israel (v17-21).  It was also decorated with gold chains and gold rings (v22-28).

Finally, what is “the Urim and the Thummim” which were to be put in the breastpiece over Aaron’s heart?  The Urim and the Thummim was a “means of making decisions” (v30) in God’s presence.