Exodus 29 – Consecration of the Priests and Daily Offerings
In Exodus 29, God establishes the consecration ritual for His priests. Through blood, oil, garments, and sacrifice, we see the seriousness of divine service and a foreshadowing of Christ’s eternal priesthood.
Set Apart for Sacred Service
Priests were not chosen lightly. Exodus 29 reveals the weighty process of cleansing, consecration, and continual service. Every act was symbolic—pointing to the greater ministry of Jesus, our High Priest, and how believers are called into spiritual priesthood today.
✔ Washed, clothed, and anointed.
✔ Three sacrifices: sin, burnt, and peace.
✔ Blood applied to ear, thumb, and toe.
✔ Daily offerings continually before the Lord.
📖 Key Verse: “And this shall be a continual burnt offering throughout your generations at the door of the tabernacle of the congregation before the Lord.” – Exodus 29:42
🔎 Consecration isn’t a one-time act—it’s a lifelong posture of holiness, obedience, and communion.
Exodus Chapter 29 Overview
Exodus 29:1–9 – The Priests Prepared
📖 Exodus 29:1–4 – *”And this is the thing that thou shalt do unto them to hallow them… wash them with water…”
🔎 Washed before the call:
🔹 The first step of consecration was washing—a symbol of cleansing and spiritual rebirth.
🔹 Before the priest could serve, he had to be washed by another—showing that holiness is received, not self-made.
➡️ Spiritual Insight: We are washed by the Word and Spirit (Ephesians 5:26)—before ministry comes inner renewal.
📖 Exodus 29:5–6 – *”Thou shalt take the garments, and put upon Aaron the coat… and crown him with the holy crown.”
🔎 Clothed in holiness:
🔹 Aaron was dressed from head to toe, symbolizing the covering of God’s righteousness.
🔹 The garments weren’t for beauty alone—they represented identity, role, and divine purpose.
➡️ Christ Connection: Believers are now clothed in Christ’s righteousness (Isaiah 61:10; Galatians 3:27).
📖 Exodus 29:7 – *”Then shalt thou take the anointing oil, and pour it upon his head…”
🔎 Anointed for service:
🔹 Oil throughout Scripture symbolizes the Holy Spirit. Anointing confirmed that service is empowered by God, not talent.
🔹 It was poured, not sprinkled—signifying abundant enablement.
➡️ Ministry Insight: True service flows from an overflow of the Spirit, not just religious activity.
📖 Exodus 29:8–9 – *”And thou shalt bring his sons, and put coats upon them… and the priest’s office shall be theirs for a perpetual statute.”
🔎 A generational priesthood:
🔹 Aaron’s sons were also clothed and consecrated—God’s calling extended through lineage and legacy.
🔹 The priesthood was to be ongoing and perpetual, pointing to the eternal priesthood of Christ (Hebrews 7:24).
➡️ Believer’s Call: We are a royal priesthood (1 Peter 2:9), called to walk washed, clothed, and anointed in Christ.
Exodus 29:10–28 – The Blood, the Offering, and the Anointing
📖 Exodus 29:10–14 – *”And thou shalt cause a bullock to be brought before the tabernacle… and Aaron and his sons shall put their hands upon the head…”
🔎 Transferred guilt, divine substitution:
🔹 Laying hands on the bull transferred the sins and guilt of the priests to the sacrifice. The bull was then slain—judgment fell on the substitute.
➡️ Christ Connection: Jesus bore our sins as our sin offering (2 Corinthians 5:21)—the innocent for the guilty.
📖 Exodus 29:15–18 – *”Thou shalt also take one ram… and offer it for a burnt offering unto the Lord…”
🔎 A life fully surrendered:
🔹 The burnt offering was completely consumed—representing total dedication and worship.
🔹 It was a “sweet savor” to God, showing His delight in full surrender.
➡️ Spiritual Insight: True worship is not partial—it’s complete offering of self (Romans 12:1).
📖 Exodus 29:19–21 – *”Take the other ram… put blood upon the tip of the right ear… thumb… and great toe…”
🔎 Consecrated completely:
🔹 The blood marked the ear (to hear), hand (to serve), and foot (to walk)—a full-body declaration of holiness.
➡️ Believer’s Call: God wants all of us—what we hear, what we do, and where we go—to be sanctified.
📖 Exodus 29:22–28 – *”Thou shalt take the fat… the right shoulder… one loaf… for a wave offering before the Lord…”
🔎 Shared worship and sacred fellowship:
🔹 The wave offering was lifted and presented before God—symbolizing joyful giving and communion.
🔹 The peace offering was shared with the priest—God, His servant, and the people united in worship.
➡️ Christ Connection: Through Christ, we are brought into fellowship with God—we eat at His table (Revelation 3:20).
Exodus 29:29–37 – Sacred Things and the Altar Purified
📖 Exodus 29:29–30 – *”And the holy garments of Aaron shall be his sons’ after him… that they may be anointed therein, and consecrated in them.”
🔎 Sacred garments, lasting inheritance:
🔹 The priestly garments were passed down—symbolizing a perpetual call to holiness.
🔹 Holiness wasn’t just personal—it was generational and representative.
➡️ Spiritual Insight: The call to ministry and purity is not ours alone—it’s a legacy of worship and obedience.
📖 Exodus 29:31–34 – *”And thou shalt take the ram of the consecration… and eat it with the bread that is in the basket…”
🔎 Shared sacred meal:
🔹 The consecrated meal was eaten by the priests—a symbol of participation in the offering, and a foreshadow of spiritual communion.
🔹 What remained beyond the appointed time was burned—no holy thing was to become defiled.
➡️ Christ Connection: Jesus offers us a sacred meal of fellowship and life (John 6:51; 1 Corinthians 11:23–26).
📖 Exodus 29:35–37 – *”Seven days shalt thou consecrate them… and cleanse the altar… whatsoever toucheth the altar shall be holy.”
🔎 Full purification and holiness:
🔹 Seven days of consecration signified completion and spiritual perfection.
🔹 The altar was anointed and sanctified—even the inanimate became holy by God’s presence.
🔹 Anything touching the altar became holy—God’s holiness spreads, not defilement.
➡️ Spiritual Insight: Holiness is contagious when it begins at the altar—the place of sacrifice purifies everything that draws near.
Exodus 29:38–46 – Daily Worship and God’s Dwelling
📖 Exodus 29:38–41 – *”Now this is that which thou shalt offer upon the altar; two lambs of the first year day by day continually…”
🔎 Continual worship, continual dependence:
🔹 God commanded two lambs be offered every day, morning and evening—a rhythm of daily surrender and communion.
🔹 Each lamb was accompanied by flour, oil, and wine—symbolizing provision, anointing, and joy.
➡️ Spiritual Insight: Worship isn’t reserved for special days—it’s a daily sacrifice of praise and trust (Hebrews 13:15).
📖 Exodus 29:42–43 – *”This shall be a continual burnt offering… where I will meet you, to speak there unto thee.”
🔎 The altar as a meeting place:
🔹 God promised to meet and speak where the offerings were made. He desires relationship, not just ritual.
🔹 The fire that consumed the offering was also where His voice was heard.
➡️ Christ Connection: Jesus is our altar and sacrifice—through Him we have daily access and communion with the Father (Hebrews 10:19–22).
📖 Exodus 29:44–46 – *”And I will sanctify the tabernacle… and dwell among the children of Israel… and they shall know that I am the Lord…”
🔎 A God who dwells, not departs:
🔹 God’s desire was to dwell among His people, not remain distant. Holiness made room for His abiding presence.
🔹 This section echoes Eden, foreshadows Christ’s incarnation, and previews the New Jerusalem—God’s ultimate dwelling with man (Revelation 21:3).
➡️ Final Insight: The goal of consecration and sacrifice is not ceremony—but relationship and habitation. God wants to live with us, not just visit.
Exodus Chapter 29 - Deeper Study
Overview: Priestly Ministry and Daily Devotion
🔹 Timeframe: Instructions during Moses’ 40 days on Mount Sinai.
🔹 Setting: Tabernacle service preparation.
🔹 Theme: God’s presence is sustained by holiness, sacrifice, and consistent worship.
Key Takeaways
🔑 God calls for purity, dedication, and complete surrender.
🔑 Priestly service points to Jesus and to our own call to be living sacrifices.
🔑 Daily offerings remind us to walk with God continually.
Prophetic Patterns & Dual Fulfillment
🔮 Blood on ear, hand, foot – Symbol of full consecration (hearing, serving, walking).
🔮 Continual burnt offerings – Point to Christ’s once-for-all sacrifice, yet daily intercession (Hebrews 7:25).
🔮 God dwelling among them – Fulfilled in Christ (John 1:14) and the Holy Spirit (1 Corinthians 6:19).
Historical & Cultural Context
📜 Anointing oil – A symbol of divine appointment, used only for sacred purposes.
📜 Peace offering (wave offering) – Shared between God, priest, and offerer—a symbol of fellowship.
📜 Seven-day consecration – Symbol of completeness and new creation.
💡 Final Reflection: Are You a Living Sacrifice?
The priests were set apart by blood and oil—but also by daily service. The altar burned continually.
📌 Is your life fully surrendered—ear, hands, and feet?
📌 Are you daily offering your time, worship, and obedience?
📌 Do you dwell in His presence, not just visit it?
🚀 Let your consecration be daily. Your altar ever burning. Your life, a living sacrifice.
Consecration of the Priests
Exo 29:1 And this is the thing that thou shalt do unto them to hallow them, to minister unto me in the priest’s office: Take one young bullock, and two rams without blemish,
Exo 29:2 And unleavened bread, and cakes unleavened tempered with oil, and wafers unleavened anointed with oil: of wheaten flour shalt thou make them.
Exo 29:3 And thou shalt put them into one basket, and bring them in the basket, with the bullock and the two rams.
Exo 29:4 And Aaron and his sons thou shalt bring unto the door of the tabernacle of the congregation, and shalt wash them with water.
Exo 29:5 And thou shalt take the garments, and put upon Aaron the coat, and the robe of the ephod, and the ephod, and the breastplate, and gird him with the curious girdle of the ephod:
Exo 29:6 And thou shalt put the mitre upon his head, and put the holy crown upon the mitre.
Exo 29:7 Then shalt thou take the anointing oil, and pour it upon his head, and anoint him.
Exo 29:8 And thou shalt bring his sons, and put coats upon them.
Exo 29:9 And thou shalt gird them with girdles, Aaron and his sons, and put the bonnets on them: and the priest’s office shall be theirs for a perpetual statute: and thou shalt consecrate Aaron and his sons.
Exo 29:10 And thou shalt cause a bullock to be brought before the tabernacle of the congregation: and Aaron and his sons shall put their hands upon the head of the bullock.
Exo 29:11 And thou shalt kill the bullock before the LORD, by the door of the tabernacle of the congregation.
Exo 29:12 And thou shalt take of the blood of the bullock, and put it upon the horns of the altar with thy finger, and pour all the blood beside the bottom of the altar.
Exo 29:13 And thou shalt take all the fat that covereth the inwards, and the caul that is above the liver, and the two kidneys, and the fat that is upon them, and burn them upon the altar.
Exo 29:14 But the flesh of the bullock, and his skin, and his dung, shalt thou burn with fire without the camp: it is a sin offering.
Exo 29:15 Thou shalt also take one ram; and Aaron and his sons shall put their hands upon the head of the ram.
Exo 29:16 And thou shalt slay the ram, and thou shalt take his blood, and sprinkle it round about upon the altar.
Exo 29:17 And thou shalt cut the ram in pieces, and wash the inwards of him, and his legs, and put them unto his pieces, and unto his head.
Exo 29:18 And thou shalt burn the whole ram upon the altar: it is a burnt offering unto the LORD: it is a sweet savour, an offering made by fire unto the LORD.
Exo 29:19 And thou shalt take the other ram; and Aaron and his sons shall put their hands upon the head of the ram.
Exo 29:20 Then shalt thou kill the ram, and take of his blood, and put it upon the tip of the right ear of Aaron, and upon the tip of the right ear of his sons, and upon the thumb of their right hand, and upon the great toe of their right foot, and sprinkle the blood upon the altar round about.
Exo 29:21 And thou shalt take of the blood that is upon the altar, and of the anointing oil, and sprinkle it upon Aaron, and upon his garments, and upon his sons, and upon the garments of his sons with him: and he shall be hallowed, and his garments, and his sons, and his sons’ garments with him.
Exo 29:22 Also thou shalt take of the ram the fat and the rump, and the fat that covereth the inwards, and the caul above the liver, and the two kidneys, and the fat that is upon them, and the right shoulder; for it is a ram of consecration:
Exo 29:23 And one loaf of bread, and one cake of oiled bread, and one wafer out of the basket of the unleavened bread that is before the LORD:
Exo 29:24 And thou shalt put all in the hands of Aaron, and in the hands of his sons; and shalt wave them for a wave offering before the LORD.
Exo 29:25 And thou shalt receive them of their hands, and burn them upon the altar for a burnt offering, for a sweet savour before the LORD: it is an offering made by fire unto the LORD.
Exo 29:26 And thou shalt take the breast of the ram of Aaron’s consecration, and wave it for a wave offering before the LORD: and it shall be thy part.
Exo 29:27 And thou shalt sanctify the breast of the wave offering, and the shoulder of the heave offering, which is waved, and which is heaved up, of the ram of the consecration, even of that which is for Aaron, and of that which is for his sons:
Exo 29:28 And it shall be Aaron’s and his sons’ by a statute for ever from the children of Israel: for it is an heave offering: and it shall be an heave offering from the children of Israel of the sacrifice of their peace offerings, even their heave offering unto the LORD.
Exo 29:29 And the holy garments of Aaron shall be his sons’ after him, to be anointed therein, and to be consecrated in them.
Exo 29:30 And that son that is priest in his stead shall put them on seven days, when he cometh into the tabernacle of the congregation to minister in the holy place.
Exo 29:31 And thou shalt take the ram of the consecration, and seethe his flesh in the holy place.
Exo 29:32 And Aaron and his sons shall eat the flesh of the ram, and the bread that is in the basket, by the door of the tabernacle of the congregation.
Exo 29:33 And they shall eat those things wherewith the atonement was made, to consecrate and to sanctify them: but a stranger shall not eat thereof, because they are holy.
Exo 29:34 And if ought of the flesh of the consecrations, or of the bread, remain unto the morning, then thou shalt burn the remainder with fire: it shall not be eaten, because it is holy.
Exo 29:35 And thus shalt thou do unto Aaron, and to his sons, according to all things which I have commanded thee: seven days shalt thou consecrate them.
Exo 29:36 And thou shalt offer every day a bullock for a sin offering for atonement: and thou shalt cleanse the altar, when thou hast made an atonement for it, and thou shalt anoint it, to sanctify it.
Exo 29:37 Seven days thou shalt make an atonement for the altar, and sanctify it; and it shall be an altar most holy: whatsoever toucheth the altar shall be holy.
Exo 29:38 Now this is that which thou shalt offer upon the altar; two lambs of the first year day by day continually.
Exo 29:39 The one lamb thou shalt offer in the morning; and the other lamb thou shalt offer at even:
Exo 29:40 And with the one lamb a tenth deal of flour mingled with the fourth part of an hin of beaten oil; and the fourth part of an hin of wine for a drink offering.
Exo 29:41 And the other lamb thou shalt offer at even, and shalt do thereto according to the meat offering of the morning, and according to the drink offering thereof, for a sweet savour, an offering made by fire unto the LORD.
Exo 29:42 This shall be a continual burnt offering throughout your generations at the door of the tabernacle of the congregation before the LORD: where I will meet you, to speak there unto thee.
Exo 29:43 And there I will meet with the children of Israel, and the tabernacle shall be sanctified by my glory.
Exo 29:44 And I will sanctify the tabernacle of the congregation, and the altar: I will sanctify also both Aaron and his sons, to minister to me in the priest’s office.
Exo 29:45 And I will dwell among the children of Israel, and will be their God.
Exo 29:46 And they shall know that I am the LORD their God, that brought them forth out of the land of Egypt, that I may dwell among them: I am the LORD their God.
Date Written
1446-1406 BC
Written By
Moses
Language
Hebrew
Verses
46