“The holy garments of Aaron shall be for his sons after him; they shall be anointed in them and ordained in them. The son who succeeds him as priest, who comes into the tent of meeting to minister in the Holy Place, shall wear them seven days.
“You shall take the ram of ordination and boil its flesh in a holy place. And Aaron and his sons shall eat the flesh of the ram and the bread that is in the basket in the entrance of the tent of meeting. They shall eat those things with which atonement was made at their ordination and consecration, but an outsider shall not eat of them, because they are holy. And if any of the flesh for the ordination or of the bread remain until the morning, then you shall burn the remainder with fire. It shall not be eaten, because it is holy.
“Thus you shall do to Aaron and to his sons, according to all that I have commanded you. Through seven days shall you ordain them, and every day you shall offer a bull as a sin offering for atonement. Also you shall purify the altar, when you make atonement for it, and shall anoint it to consecrate it. Seven days you shall make atonement for the altar and consecrate it, and the altar shall be most holy. Whatever touches the altar shall become holy.
Comment: Holy has at least two meanings which are related but obviously not identical. There is a moral sense to the word which is seen in perfection as related to Jehovah God – the Holy One of Israel and in the life of Jesus when He lived on earth. Whilst no human, except Jesus, is holy to the extent of being perfect, there are some more righteous than others – the Psalms for instance often class people as good (righteous) or evil (wicked) but God alone is morally perfect. There is another sense in which ‘holy’ means ‘set apart’. Things cannot be morally good but the equipment in the Tabernacle is ‘set apart’ and the altar is called ‘most holy’! The first part of this section deals with Aaron’s replacement and the priestly garments are to be passed on to his successor. You will remember that there are on his garments of very special significance! This describes the offerings to be made. A portion of one of the rams would be eaten in a celebration meal at the induction. Our lives are meant to be both set apart to God in living sacrifice and holy also in the moral sense. We can never earn our way into rightness with God – that is only made possible by the perfect sacrifice of Jesus and how we deal with Him – either in faith or rejection!
Prayer: Thank You for the Easter message and it power to right relationships with You. Help me to be holy in both senses of the word, as expressed above.
As I read it! 