Sunday School Lesson

This Quarter's Theme: Costly Sacrifices

Devotional Reading: Psalm 133

Background Scripture: Exodus 29:1-37; Leviticus 8:1-36

Scripture Reading: Exodus 29:1-9; 35-37

 1 “This is what you are to do to consecrate them, so they may serve me as priests: Take a young bull and two rams without defect. 2 And from the finest wheat flour make round loaves without yeast, thick loaves without yeast and with olive oil mixed in, and thin loaves without yeast and brushed with olive oil. 3 Put them in a basket and present them along with the bull and the two rams. 4 Then bring Aaron and his sons to the entrance to the tent of meeting and wash them with water.5 Take the garments and dress Aaron with the tunic, the robe of the ephod, the ephod itself and the breastpiece. Fasten the ephod on him by its skillfully woven waistband. 6 Put the turbanon his head and attach the sacred emblem to the turban. 7 Take the anointing oil and anoint him by pouring it on his head.

35 “Do for Aaron and his sons everything I have commanded you, taking seven days to ordain them. 36 Sacrifice a bull each day as a sin offering to make atonement. Purify the altar by making atonement for it, and anoint it to consecrate it. 37 For seven days make atonement for the altar and consecrate it. Then the altar will be most holy, and whatever touches it will be holy.

Lesson Outline: Tabernacle, Sacrifices, and Atonement (Lesson 1-5)

I.  Preparing the Offerings (Exodus 29:1-3)

   A. Animals and Bread (vv.1-2)

   B. Collection and Presentation (v.3)

        God the Painter

II. Preparing the Ordinands (Exodus 29:4-9) 

   A. Person, Place, and Purification (v.4)

   B. Aaron, Attire, and Anointing (v.5-7)

   C. Descendants, Dress, and Duration (v. 8-9)

       Hand Me-Down Clothes

III. Requiring a Week (Exodus 29:35-37)

   A. For the Priests (v.35)

   B. For the Altar (v.36-37)

Conclusion

    A. The Old in the New