Exodus 29 — Sketch

The Sacrificial System

Big Idea:

• God tells Moses to consecrate Aaron and his sons as the priesthood. They should wash, put on the priestly garments, and be anointed with oil.

• Aaron and his sons should put their hands on a bull, slaughter it, put the bull’s blood on the altar, and then sacrifice part of the bull there. The rest of the bull should be burned outside of the camp.

• Aaron and his sons should put their hands on a ram and then slaughter it. They are to put its blood on the altar and then sacrifice it there.

• Aaron and his sons should put their hands on another ram and then slaughter it too. They are to put some of its blood on their right earlobes, right thumbs, and right big toes. The rest of the blood goes on the altar.

• The blood from the altar will then go on Aaron and his sons’ clothes.

• Aaron and his sons should take a loaf of yeast-less bread, a cake made with oil, and a wafer, wave them before God, and burn them on the altar.

• Aaron and his sons are allowed to eat some of the ram and the bread in front of the Tabernacle.

• Every day, they are to sacrifice two year-old lambs — one in the morning and the other at night.

Jesus in This Chapter:

• This is the beginning of the Hebrew sacrificial system. The priests would put their hands on the animals to symbolically put their sin on the animal. Then they would kill the animal as a way of killing the sin. This did not actually take away their sin but pointed toward the one who ultimately would — Jesus.

• The burning of yeast-less bread symbolized how the sin-less Jesus would be killed.

• Aaron and his sons smeared blood on themselves to symbolize how Jesus’ blood washes away our sin.

(Originally written June 22, 2022)