What has been done today was commanded by the Lord to make atonement for you. Everything done on the first day of the ordination is to be repeated for the full seven days: the atonement that the ordination ceremonies provide is comprehensive and requires the full seven-day period. The purpose statement — to make atonement for you — grounds the entire ordination ceremony in the atonement theology. The priests who will administer atonement for Israel are themselves atoned for through the ordination process. The priestly office begins in the experience of what it will provide: atonement.

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