Free group study handout
Exodus 29: Group Study Handout
How to use: read Exodus 29 aloud together, then take the questions in order. One page is enough for an evening.
Overview
Yahweh instructs Moses to consecrate Aaron and his sons for the priest’s office (vv. 1-4). They take a young bull, two rams, and various unleavened breads.
Key verse
“This is the thing that you shall do to them to make them holy, to minister to me in the priest’s office: take one young bull and two rams without defect,”
Exodus 29:1 (WEB)
Outline
- Exodus 29:1–4 Instructions for Consecration
- Exodus 29:5–9 Clothing the Priests
- Exodus 29:10–21 Sin Offering Ritual
- Exodus 29:22–30 Consecration of Offerings
- Exodus 29:31–34 Eating the Consecrated Portions
- Exodus 29:35–46 Ongoing Atonement and Divine Promise
Discussion questions
- In v5, what garments are put on Aaron during the consecration?
- What does Aaron and his sons do to the bull in v10?
- The sin offering in v14: why is the meat and skin burned outside the camp?
- In v38, why are two lambs offered continually every day?
- When have you felt the weight of a 'perpetual statute' in your responsibilities?
Go deeper
Passages that echo Exodus 29: 2 Corinthians 6, Leviticus 8, Leviticus 1.
Before next time: read Exodus 30.