You must observe this event as an ordinance for you and for your children forever.

So you must keep ¹  this ordinance at its appointed time from year to year. ² 

From that time onward it was a binding ordinance ¹  for Israel, right up to the present time.

For observing the festival is a requirement for Israel; ¹  it is an ordinance given by the God of Jacob.

“You are to take the ram of the consecration and cook ¹  its meat in a holy place. ² 

And you must not go out from the entrance of the Meeting Tent for seven days, until the day when your days of ordination are completed, because you must be ordained over a seven-day period. ¹ 

¹ The Lord said to Moses and Aaron, “This is the ordinance of the Passover. No foreigner may ²  share in eating it. ³ 

Do you know the laws of the heavens, or can you set up their rule over the earth?

Today they stand firm by your decrees, for all things are your servants.

You are to sanctify the breast of the wave offering and the thigh of the contribution, ¹  which were waved and lifted up as a contribution from the ram of consecration, from what belongs to Aaron and to his sons.

Then he presented the second ram, the ram of ordination, ¹  and Aaron and his sons laid their hands on the head of the ram

Moses then took them from their palms and offered them up in smoke on the altar ¹  on top of the burnt offering – they were an ordination offering for a soothing aroma; it was a gift to the Lord.

Finally, Moses took the breast and waved it as a wave offering before the Lord from the ram of ordination. It was Moses’ share just as the Lord had commanded Moses.

That day Joshua drew up an agreement ¹  for the people, and he established rules and regulations ²  for them in Shechem.

This day will become ¹  a memorial ²  for you, and you will celebrate it as a festival ³  to the Lord – you will celebrate it perpetually as a lasting ordinance. ⁴ 

You are to take the breast of the ram of Aaron’s consecration; you are to wave it as a wave offering before the Lord, and it is to be your share.

If any of the meat from the consecration offerings ¹  or any of the bread is left over ²  until morning, then you are to burn up ³  what is left over. It must not be eaten, ⁴  because it is holy.

This is the law ¹  for the burnt offering, the grain offering, ²  the sin offering, the guilt offering, the ordination offering, ³  and the peace offering sacrifice,

¹ “These are the decisions that you will set before them:

He then presented the burnt offering, and did it according to the standard regulation. ¹