He put all these in the hands of Aaron and his sons, and they waved them before the Lord as a wave offering. The filling of Aaron's and his sons' hands with the wave offering portions — the act from which ordination gets its Hebrew name milluim, filling — is the defining gesture of the entire ordination ceremony. The hands that have been washed, anointed, and blood-marked are now filled with what they will handle in all their future priestly service. The wave before the Lord is the first priestly act of the newly installed priesthood: even before they are fully installed, they perform the foundational gesture of covenant worship.

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