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Speaker 1: Life Audio The Bible Study Podcast, Episode nine eighty six. Today,

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Speaker 1: The Bible Study Podcast continues the study of the Book

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Speaker 1: of Exodus with chapter twenty nine. Welcome to the Bible

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Speaker 1: Study Podcast. I'm your host, Chris Christensen. Chapter twenty nine

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Speaker 1: has to do with the consecration of the priests. But

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Speaker 1: first a word from this sponsor. Chapter twenty nine. Consecration

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Speaker 1: of the priests. And when we say consecration, that means

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Speaker 1: to dedicate something or someone to God. And it goes

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Speaker 1: like this, this is what you are to do to

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Speaker 1: consecrate them so that they may serve me as priests.

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Speaker 1: Take a young bowl in two rams without defect, and

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Speaker 1: from the finest wheat flour, make round loaves without yeast,

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Speaker 1: thick loaves without yeast and with olive oil mixed in,

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Speaker 1: and thin loaves without yeast and brushed with olive oil.

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Speaker 1: Put them in a basket and present them along with

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Speaker 1: a bull and the two rams. Then bring Arin and

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Speaker 1: and wash them with water. Take the garments and dress

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Speaker 1: erin with the tunic, the robe of the ephod, the

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Speaker 1: ephod itself, and the breastpiece fasten the epod on him

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Speaker 1: by its skillful woven wasistband. Put the turbine on his

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Speaker 1: head and attach the sacred emblem to the turbine. Take

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Speaker 1: the anointing oil and anoint him by pouring it on

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Speaker 1: his head. Bring his sons and dress them in tunics

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Speaker 1: and fasten caps on them. Then tie sashes on Erin

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Speaker 1: and his sons. The priesthood is theirs by a lasting ordinance.

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Speaker 1: So we're going to dress them in the clothes that

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Speaker 1: we talked about last week, preparing them, especially the erin

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Speaker 1: the high priest garment with the ephod and the breastpiece

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Speaker 1: and the orm and the thunum and the turban and

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Speaker 1: all of those things. We're going to anoint them with oil,

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Speaker 1: which used for priests and also for kings. It was

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Speaker 1: a very traditional thing when we anoint people with oil

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Speaker 1: during their baptism. It's going back to that sort of anointing.

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Speaker 1: And then we're to bring sacrifices, both sacrifices of bread

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Speaker 1: then this is flat bread, so it's bread made without yeast,

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Speaker 1: as well as two sacrifices, a young bull and two rams.

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Speaker 1: Then you shall ordain Aaron and his sons. Bring the

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Speaker 1: Aaron and his son shall lay their hands on its head,

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Speaker 1: slaughter it in the lord's presence at the entrance to

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Speaker 1: the base of the altar. Then take all the fat

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Speaker 1: on the internal organs, the long lobe of the liver,

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Speaker 1: them on the altar. But burn the bull's flesh and

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Speaker 1: its hide in its intestines outside the camp. It is

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Speaker 1: a sin offering. Take one of the rams, and Aaron

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Speaker 1: and his sons shall lay their hands on its head slaughtered,

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Speaker 1: and take the blood and splash it against the sides

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Speaker 1: of the altar. Cut the ram into pieces, and wash

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Speaker 1: the internal organs and the legs, putting them with the

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Speaker 1: head and the other pieces. Then burn the entire ram

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Speaker 1: on the altar. It is a burnt offering to the Lord,

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Speaker 1: Take the other ram, and Erin and his son shall

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Speaker 1: of their right feet. Then splash blood against the sides

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Speaker 1: So we've got some sacrifices going on, and there are

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Speaker 1: We're going to go through in details what the different

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Speaker 1: and so it's going to be to cleanse them from sin.

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Speaker 1: And in the Bible in general, this idea of the

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Speaker 1: Why that particular big toe and why your particular thumbs,

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Speaker 1: then also this anointing oil and we're sprinking in it

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Speaker 1: But this whole part of this consecrating, the setting them

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Speaker 1: aside for this special role of priest, and the role

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Speaker 1: of priest here, especially here in the Old Testament, is

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Speaker 1: from a priesthood of all believers. Understanding that the New

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Speaker 1: anybody else to come between us and God anymore. As

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Speaker 1: New Testament who is Christian, not talking about the Jewish

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Speaker 1: high priest, but you won't see anybody else in the

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Speaker 1: deacons and even bishops, but you won't see someone called

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Speaker 1: But this is a very important role here. These people

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Speaker 1: burn them on the altar, along with the burnt offering

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Speaker 1: meaning that this is something that the priests would eat.

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Speaker 1: Erin's sacred garments will belong to his descendants, so that

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Speaker 1: Similar while we would ordains pastors these days, or priests

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Speaker 1: There I will meet you and speak to you. And

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Speaker 1: consecrate the tent of Meeting, and the altar will consecrate

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