Bring his sons and dress them in tunics. Then anoint them just as you anointed their father, so they may serve me as priests. Aaron's sons receive the three-garment vestment and the anointing. The just as you anointed their father communicates the continuity of the priestly anointing: the same oil, the same act, the same consecration. 1 Peter 2:9 says you are a royal priesthood — the anointing that constitutes the Aaronic priesthood is the type of the anointing of the whole new covenant priestly community.

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