The directions for the ceremony of consecrating the tent of meeting, the altar and the priests were given in Exodus 28 and 29. “I will consecrate the tent of meeting and the altar. Aaron also and his sons I will consecrate to serve me as priests.” (Exod. 29:44) Leviticus 8 gives an account of it.
In the sacrifice of the ram of ordination (i.e., of dedication to special service), the blood of the ram was put on the lobe of the right ear, on the thumb of the right hand and on the big toe on the right feet. It symbolize the atonement of our sin that the ram died on our behalf. With the death of the ram, we were brought from the punishment of death into a redeemed life. We are given a new life. Should we present this new life to the bondage of sin all over again?
“Do not present your members to sin as instruments for unrighteousness, but present yourselves to God as those who have been brought from death to life, and your members to God as instruments for righteousness.” Rom. 6:13.
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