KJV King James Version
And thou shalt gird them with girdles, Aaron and his sons, and put the bonnets on them: and the priest’s office shall be theirs for a perpetual statute: and thou shalt consecrate Aaron and his sons.
VERSE STUDY • KJV
Exodus 29:9
And thou shalt gird them with girdles, Aaron and his sons, and put the bonnets on them: and the priest’s office shall be theirs for a perpetual statute: and thou shalt consecrate Aaron and his sons.
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BSB Berean Standard Bible
Wrap the sashes around Aaron and his sons and tie headbands on them. The priesthood shall be theirs by a permanent statute. In this way you are to ordain Aaron and his sons.
WEB World English Bible
You shall clothe them with belts, Aaron and his sons, and bind headbands on them: and they shall have the priesthood by a perpetual statute: and you shall consecrate Aaron and his sons.
ASV American Standard Version
And thou shalt gird them with girdles, Aaron and his sons, and bind head-tires on them: and they shall have the priesthood by a perpetual statute: and thou shalt consecrate Aaron and his sons.
YLT Young’s Literal Translation
and hast girded them with a girdle (Aaron and his sons), and hast bound on them bonnets; and the priesthood hath been theirs by a statute age-during, and thou hast consecrated the hand of Aaron, and the hand of his sons,
Surrounding context — Exodus 29
6 And thou shalt put the mitre upon his head, and put the holy crown upon the mitre.
7 Then shalt thou take the anointing oil, and pour [it] upon his head, and anoint him.
8 And thou shalt bring his sons, and put coats upon them.
9 And thou shalt gird them with girdles, Aaron and his sons, and put the bonnets on them: and the priest’s office shall be theirs for a perpetual statute: and thou shalt consecrate Aaron and his sons.
10 And thou shalt cause a bullock to be brought before the tabernacle of the congregation: and Aaron and his sons shall put their hands upon the head of the bullock.
11 And thou shalt kill the bullock before the LORD, [by] the door of the tabernacle of the congregation.
12 And thou shalt take of the blood of the bullock, and put [it] upon the horns of the altar with thy finger, and pour all the blood beside the bottom of the altar.
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וְחָגַרְתָּ֩H2296 · cha.garto girdאֹתָ֨םH853 · et[Obj.]אַבְנֵ֜טH73 · av.netgirdleאַהֲרֹ֣ןH175 · a.ha.ronAaronוּבָנָ֗יוH1121 · benson: childוְחָבַשְׁתָּ֤H2280 · cha.vashto saddle/tieלָהֶם֙H9038 · hemthemמִגְבָּעֹ֔תH4021 · mig.ba.ahheadgearוְהָיְתָ֥הH1961 · ha.yahto beלָהֶ֛םH9038 · hemthemכְּהֻנָּ֖הH3550 · ke.hun.nahpriesthoodלְחֻקַּ֣תH2708 · chuq.qahstatuteעוֹלָ֑םH5769 · o.lamforever: enduringוּמִלֵּאתָ֥H4390 · ma.leto fillיַֽד־H3027 · yadhandאַהֲרֹ֖ןH175 · a.ha.ronAaronוְיַד־H3027 · yadhandבָּנָֽיו׃H1121 · benson: child
Cross-references
Numbers 18:7Therefore thou and thy sons with thee shall keep your priest’s office for every thing of the altar, and within the vail; and ye shall serve: I have given your priest’s office [unto you as] a service of gift: and the stranger that cometh nigh shall be put to death.Leviticus 8:22-28And he brought the other ram, the ram of consecration: and Aaron and his sons laid their hands upon the head of the ram.Deuteronomy 18:5For the LORD thy God hath chosen him out of all thy tribes, to stand to minister in the name of the LORD, him and his sons for ever.Numbers 25:13And he shall have it, and his seed after him, [even] the covenant of an everlasting priesthood; because he was zealous for his God, and made an atonement for the children of Israel.Leviticus 8:33And ye shall not go out of the door of the tabernacle of the congregation [in] seven days, until the days of your consecration be at an end: for seven days shall he consecrate you.Numbers 3:10And thou shalt appoint Aaron and his sons, and they shall wait on their priest’s office: and the stranger that cometh nigh shall be put to death.Hebrews 5:4-5And no man taketh this honour unto himself, but he that is called of God, as [was] Aaron.Numbers 16:10And he hath brought thee near [to him], and all thy brethren the sons of Levi with thee: and seek ye the priesthood also?Numbers 16:35And there came out a fire from the LORD, and consumed the two hundred and fifty men that offered incense.Exodus 40:15And thou shalt anoint them, as thou didst anoint their father, that they may minister unto me in the priest’s office: for their anointing shall surely be an everlasting priesthood throughout their generations.Numbers 16:40[To be] a memorial unto the children of Israel, that no stranger, which [is] not of the seed of Aaron, come near to offer incense before the LORD; that he be not as Korah, and as his company: as the LORD said to him by the hand of Moses.Exodus 28:40-41And for Aaron’s sons thou shalt make coats, and thou shalt make for them girdles, and bonnets shalt thou make for them, for glory and for beauty.Hebrews 5:10Called of God an high priest after the order of Melchisedec.Exodus 28:1And take thou unto thee Aaron thy brother, and his sons with him, from among the children of Israel, that he may minister unto me in the priest’s office, [even] Aaron, Nadab and Abihu, Eleazar and Ithamar, Aaron’s sons.Hebrews 7:23-28And they truly were many priests, because they were not suffered to continue by reason of death:Hebrews 7:11-14If therefore perfection were by the Levitical priesthood, (for under it the people received the law,) what further need [was there] that another priest should rise after the order of Melchisedec, and not be called after the order of Aaron?Exodus 32:29For Moses had said, Consecrate yourselves to day to the LORD, even every man upon his son, and upon his brother; that he may bestow upon you a blessing this day.
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