Once dressed, the priests are consecrated for service, a process described in greater detail in Leviticus 8. Because the priest is the covenant mediator, the bull to cover his own sin is sacrificed first (29:10–14). While the blood of this animal is sprinkled before the curtain (Lev. 4:6), placed on the altar of incense, and poured out at the base of the outside altar, its fat portions are burned on the sacrificial altar as an offering to the Lord, and its flesh and hide are to be burned outside the camp in a ceremonially clean place.

The first of two rams is a whole burnt offering (29:15–18), the blood of which is sprinkled on all sides of the altar. The blood of the second ram (29:19–21), the ordination offering, is sprinkled on all sides of the altar, and also put on the right ear lob…