Food for the Priests

The ordination ram is boiled, and Aaron and his sons must eat its meat and the basket bread at the Tent entrance, while any remainder is burned. What atones for ordination also becomes sacred food, guarded from outsiders and decay.

Y³¹ou are to take the ram of ordination and boil its flesh in a holy place. ³²At the entrance to the Tent of Meeting, Aaron and his sons are to eat the meat of the ram and the bread that is in the basket. ³³They must eat those things by which atonement was made for their ordination and consecration. But no outsider may eat them, because these things are sacred. ³⁴And if any of the meat of ordination or any bread is left until the morning, you are to burn up the remainder. It must not be eaten, because it is sacred.

The whole ordination process is to continue for seven days, with daily sin offerings and atonement for the altar itself. By the end, the altar is made most holy and transmits holiness by contact.

³⁵This is what you are to do for Aaron and his sons based on all that I have commanded you, taking seven days to ordain them. ³⁶Sacrifice a bull as a sin offering each day for atonement. Purify the altar by making atonement for it, and anoint it to consecrate it. ³⁷For seven days you shall make atonement for the altar and consecrate it. Then the altar will become most holy; whatever touches the altar will be holy.