¹And the Lᴏʀᴅ spoke to Moses, saying: ²“Take Aaron and his sons with him, and the garments, the anointing oil, a bull as the sin offering, two rams, and a basket of unleavened bread; ³and gather all the congregation together at the door of the tabernacle of meeting.” ⁴So Moses did as the Lᴏʀᴅ commanded him. And the congregation was gathered together at the door of the tabernacle of meeting. ⁵And Moses said to the congregation, “This is what the Lᴏʀᴅ commanded to be done.” ⁶Then Moses brought Aaron and his sons and washed them with water. ⁷And he put the tunic on him, girded him with the sash, clothed him with the robe, and put the ephod on him; and he girded him with the intricately woven band of the ephod, and with it tied the ephod on him. ⁸Then he put the breastplate on him, and he put the Urim and the Thummim in the breastplate. ⁹And he put the turban on his head. Also on the turban, on its front, he put the golden plate, the holy crown, as the Lᴏʀᴅ had commanded Moses. ¹⁰Also Moses took the anointing oil, and anointed the tabernacle and all that was in it, and consecrated them. ¹¹He sprinkled some of it on the altar seven times, anointed the altar and all its utensils, and the laver and its base, to consecrate them. ¹²And he poured some of the anointing oil on Aaron’s head and anointed him, to consecrate him. ¹³Then Moses brought Aaron’s sons and put tunics on them, girded them with sashes, and put hats on them, as the Lᴏʀᴅ had commanded Moses. ¹⁴And he brought the bull for the sin offering. Then Aaron and his sons laid their hands on the head of the bull for the sin offering, ¹⁵and Moses killed it. Then he took the blood, and put some on the horns of the altar all around with his finger, and purified the altar. And he poured the blood at the base of the altar, and consecrated it, to make atonement for it. ¹⁶Then he took all the fat that was on the entrails, the fatty lobe attached to the liver, and the two kidneys with their fat, and Moses burned them on the altar. ¹⁷But the bull, its hide, its flesh, and its offal, he burned with fire outside the camp, as the Lᴏʀᴅ had commanded Moses. ¹⁸Then he brought the ram as the burnt offering. And Aaron and his sons laid their hands on the head of the ram, ¹⁹and Moses killed it. Then he sprinkled the blood all around on the altar. ²⁰And he cut the ram into pieces; and Moses burned the head, the pieces, and the fat. ²¹Then he washed the entrails and the legs in water. And Moses burned the whole ram on the altar. It was a burnt sacrifice for a sweet aroma, an offering made by fire to the Lᴏʀᴅ, as the Lᴏʀᴅ had commanded Moses. ²²And he brought the second ram, the ram of consecration. Then Aaron and his sons laid their hands on the head of the ram, ²³and Moses killed it. Also he took some of its blood and put it on the tip of Aaron’s right ear, on the thumb of his right hand, and on the big toe of his right foot. ²⁴Then he brought Aaron’s sons. And Moses put some of the blood on the tips of their right ears, on the thumbs of their right hands, and on the big toes of their right feet. And Moses sprinkled the blood all around on the altar. ²⁵Then he took the fat and the fat tail, all the fat that was on the entrails, the fatty lobe attached to the liver, the two kidneys and their fat, and the right thigh; ²⁶and from the basket of unleavened bread that was before the Lᴏʀᴅ he took one unleavened cake, a cake of bread anointed with oil, and one wafer, and put them on the fat and on the right thigh; ²⁷and he put all these in Aaron’s hands and in his sons’ hands, and waved them as a wave offering before the Lᴏʀᴅ. ²⁸Then Moses took them from their hands and burned them on the altar, on the burnt offering. They were consecration offerings for a sweet aroma. That was an offering made by fire to the Lᴏʀᴅ. ²⁹And Moses took the breast and waved it as a wave offering before the Lᴏʀᴅ. It was Moses’ part of the ram of consecration, as the Lᴏʀᴅ had commanded Moses. ³⁰Then Moses took some of the anointing oil and some of the blood which was on the altar, and sprinkled it on Aaron, on his garments, on his sons, and on the garments of his sons with him; and he consecrated Aaron, his garments, his sons, and the garments of his sons with him. ³¹And Moses said to Aaron and his sons, “Boil the flesh at the door of the tabernacle of meeting, and eat it there with the bread that is in the basket of consecration offerings, as I commanded, saying, ‘Aaron and his sons shall eat it.’ ³²What remains of the flesh and of the bread you shall burn with fire. ³³And you shall not go outside the door of the tabernacle of meeting for seven days, until the days of your consecration are ended. For seven days he shall consecrate you. ³⁴As he has done this day, so the Lᴏʀᴅ has commanded to do, to make atonement for you. ³⁵Therefore you shall stay at the door of the tabernacle of meeting day and night for seven days, and keep the charge of the Lᴏʀᴅ, so that you may not die; for so I have been commanded.” ³⁶So Aaron and his sons did all the things that the Lᴏʀᴅ had commanded by the hand of Moses.

¹To the Chief Musician. To the tune of ‘Death of the Son.’ A Psalm of David. I will praise You, O Lᴏʀᴅ, with my whole heart; I will tell of all Your marvelous works. ²I will be glad and rejoice in You; I will sing praise to Your name, O Most High. ³When my enemies turn back, They shall fall and perish at Your presence. ⁴For You have maintained my right and my cause; You sat on the throne judging in righteousness. ⁵You have rebuked the nations, You have destroyed the wicked; You have blotted out their name forever and ever. ⁶O enemy, destructions are finished forever! And you have destroyed cities; Even their memory has perished. ⁷But the Lᴏʀᴅ shall endure forever; He has prepared His throne for judgment. ⁸He shall judge the world in righteousness, And He shall administer judgment for the peoples in uprightness. ⁹The Lᴏʀᴅ also will be a refuge for the oppressed, A refuge in times of trouble. ¹⁰And those who know Your name will put their trust in You; For You, Lord, have not forsaken those who seek You. ¹¹Sing praises to the Lᴏʀᴅ, who dwells in Zion! Declare His deeds among the people. ¹²When He avenges blood, He remembers them; He does not forget the cry of the humble. ¹³Have mercy on me, O Lᴏʀᴅ! Consider my trouble from those who hate me, You who lift me up from the gates of death, ¹⁴That I may tell of all Your praise In the gates of the daughter of Zion. I will rejoice in Your salvation. ¹⁵The nations have sunk down in the pit which they made; In the net which they hid, their own foot is caught. ¹⁶The Lᴏʀᴅ is known by the judgment He executes; The wicked is snared in the work of his own hands. Meditation. Selah ¹⁷The wicked shall be turned into hell, And all the nations that forget God. ¹⁸For the needy shall not always be forgotten; The expectation of the poor shall not perish forever. ¹⁹Arise, O Lᴏʀᴅ, Do not let man prevail; Let the nations be judged in Your sight. ²⁰Put them in fear, O Lᴏʀᴅ, That the nations may know themselves to be but men. Selah

¹When you sit down to eat with a ruler, Consider carefully what is before you; ²And put a knife to your throat If you are a man given to appetite. ³Do not desire his delicacies, For they are deceptive food. ⁴Do not overwork to be rich; Because of your own understanding, cease ⁵Will you set your eyes on that which is not? For riches certainly make themselves wings; They fly away like an eagle toward heaven. ⁶Do not eat the bread of a miser, Nor desire his delicacies; ⁷For as he thinks in his heart, so is he. “Eat and drink!” he says to you, But his heart is not with you. ⁸The morsel you have eaten, you will vomit up, And waste your pleasant words. ⁹Do not speak in the hearing of a fool, For he will despise the wisdom of your words. ¹⁰Do not remove the ancient landmark, Nor enter the fields of the fatherless; ¹¹For their Redeemer is mighty; He will plead their cause against you. ¹²Apply your heart to instruction, And your ears to words of knowledge. ¹³Do not withhold correction from a child, For if you beat him with a rod, he will not die. ¹⁴You shall beat him with a rod, And deliver his soul from hell. ¹⁵My son, if your heart is wise, My heart will rejoice—indeed, I myself; ¹⁶Yes, my inmost being will rejoice When your lips speak right things. ¹⁷Do not let your heart envy sinners, But be zealous for the fear of the Lᴏʀᴅ all the day; ¹⁸For surely there is a hereafter, And your hope will not be cut off. ¹⁹Hear, my son, and be wise; And guide your heart in the way ²⁰Do not mix with winebibbers, Or with gluttonous eaters of meat; ²¹For the drunkard and the glutton will come to poverty, And drowsiness will clothe a man with rags ²²Listen to your father who begot you, And do not despise your mother when she is old. ²³Buy the truth, and do not sell it, Also wisdom and instruction and understanding. ²⁴The father of the righteous will greatly rejoice, And he who begets a wise child will delight in him. ²⁵Let your father and your mother be glad, And let her who bore you rejoice. ²⁶My son, give me your heart, And let your eyes observe my ways. ²⁷For a harlot is a deep pit, And a seductress is a narrow well. ²⁸She also lies in wait as for a victim, And increases the unfaithful among men. ²⁹Who has woe? Who has sorrow? Who has contentions? Who has complaints? Who has wounds without cause? Who has redness of eyes? ³⁰Those who linger long at the wine, Those who go in search of mixed wine. ³¹Do not look on the wine when it is red, When it sparkles in the cup, When it swirls around smoothly; ³²At the last it bites like a serpent, And stings like a viper. ³³Your eyes will see strange things, And your heart will utter perverse things. ³⁴Yes, you will be like one who lies down in the midst of the sea, Or like one who lies at the top of the mast, saying: ³⁵“They have struck me, but I was not hurt; They have beaten me, but I did not feel it. When shall I awake, that I may seek another drink?”

¹For you yourselves know, brethren, that our coming to you was not in vain. ²But even after we had suffered before and were spitefully treated at Philippi, as you know, we were bold in our God to speak to you the gospel of God in much conflict. ³For our exhortation did not come from error or uncleanness, nor was it in deceit. ⁴But as we have been approved by God to be entrusted with the gospel, even so we speak, not as pleasing men, but God who tests our hearts. ⁵For neither at any time did we use flattering words, as you know, nor a cloak for covetousness—God is witness. ⁶Nor did we seek glory from men, either from you or from others, when we might have made demands as apostles of Christ. ⁷But we were gentle among you, just as a nursing mother cherishes her own children. ⁸So, affectionately longing for you, we were well pleased to impart to you not only the gospel of God, but also our own lives, because you had become dear to us. ⁹For you remember, brethren, our labor and toil; for laboring night and day, that we might not be a burden to any of you, we preached to you the gospel of God. ¹⁰You are witnesses, and God also, how devoutly and justly and blamelessly we behaved ourselves among you who believe; ¹¹as you know how we exhorted, and comforted, and charged every one of you, as a father does his own children, ¹²that you would walk worthy of God who calls you into His own kingdom and glory. ¹³For this reason we also thank God without ceasing, because when you received the word of God which you heard from us, you welcomed it not as the word of men, but as it is in truth, the word of God, which also effectively works in you who believe. ¹⁴For you, brethren, became imitators of the churches of God which are in Judea in Christ Jesus. For you also suffered the same things from your own countrymen, just as they did from the Judeans, ¹⁵who killed both the Lord Jesus and their own prophets, and have persecuted us; and they do not please God and are contrary to all men, ¹⁶forbidding us to speak to the Gentiles that they may be saved, so as always to fill up the measure of their sins; but wrath has come upon them to the uttermost. ¹⁷But we, brethren, having been taken away from you for a short time in presence, not in heart, endeavored more eagerly to see your face with great desire. ¹⁸Therefore we wanted to come to you—even I, Paul, time and again—but Satan hindered us. ¹⁹For what is our hope, or joy, or crown of rejoicing? Is it not even you in the presence of our Lord Jesus Christ at His coming? ²⁰For you are our glory and joy.