Then bring Aaron and his sons to the entrance to the tent of meeting and wash them with water. The ordination ceremony begins at the entrance — the same threshold that will be the daily site of the priests' ministry. The washing with water is the first act of the ordination: before the vestments, before the anointing, before any sacrifice, the priests are washed. John 13:8 records Jesus saying: unless I wash you, you have no part with me — the washing that initiates relationship and service precedes every other act of consecration. The water that washes the priests before their ordination is the type of the water that initiates all who enter the new covenant community.

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