35. seven days shalt thou consecratethemThe renewal of these ceremonies on the return of every dayin the seven, with the intervention of a Sabbath, was a wisepreparatory arrangement, in order to afford a sufficient interval forcalm and devout reflection (Heb 9:1;Heb 10:1).

Exo 29:36;Exo 29:37. CONSECRATIONOF THE ALTAR.

Fuente: Jamieson, Fausset and Brown’s Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

And thus shall thou do unto Aaron, and to his sons,…. For their consecration, washing, clothing, anointing them, sprinkling blood upon them and their garments, and offering sacrifice for them:

according to all things which I have commanded thee; no one thing was to be omitted, and we find they were carefully and punctually observed, Le 8:1

seven days shalt thou consecrate them: so long the rites and ceremonies of the consecration were to be performing, that they might be thoroughly used to the putting on of their garments, and the offering of sacrifices as they saw performed by Moses; and in all respects be fitted for the discharge of their office: the Jewish writers generally say that seven days were appointed, that a sabbath might pass over them.

Fuente: John Gill’s Exposition of the Entire Bible

THE SEVENFOLD REPETITION OF THE CONSECRATION CEREMONIAL.

(35) Seven days shalt thou consecrate them.The number seven possessed an ideal completeness, resting on the primeval facts of creation (Genesis 1, 2). It is the number almost exclusively used under the old covenant, when acts are to attain their result by repetition. (See Lev. 4:6; Lev. 4:17; Lev. 8:11; Lev. 14:7; Lev. 16:14; Num. 19:4; Jos. 6:4; 1Ki. 18:43; 2Ki. 5:10; Psa. 119:164; &c.) Here we are to understand a sevenfold repetition of the entire ceremonial of consecration. (See Lev. 8:33-34.)

Fuente: Ellicott’s Commentary for English Readers (Old and New Testaments)

The Seven Day Consecration ( Exo 29:35-37 ).

Exo 29:35-37

“And thus shall you do to Aaron and his sons, in accordance with all that I have commanded you. Seven days you shall consecrate them. And every day you shall offer the bullock of sin offering for atonement, and you shall cleanse the altar when you make atonement for it, and you shall anoint it to sanctify it. Seven days shall you make atonement for the altar and sanctify it. And the altar shall be most holy. Whatever touches the altar will be holy.”

This probably means that the same ritual as is described above is to be gone through for seven days, the number of divine perfection. Their consecration must be total and complete. This necessarily involves offering the ox bull of the purification for sin offering for atonement, and now we learn that it is not only to be efficacious for Aaron and his sons, but is also to be efficacious in cleansing and making atonement for the altar which they will use.

Furthermore as well as the sacrificing of the sacrifice the altar is also to be anointed to sanctify it. So important is all this that the command is repeated. ‘Seven days shall you make atonement for the altar and sanctify it.’ In Lev 8:15 we learn that the altar is purified by putting the blood of the sin offering on the horns of the altar and sanctified by the blood being applied to the base of the altar, and that this also makes atonement for it.

So all that is to be used in making atonement for the people must first, themselves and itself, be cleansed, sanctified and atoned for, for they are of the sinful and profane world. Thus are they made ‘holy’, set apart to God for a holy purpose. This is now especially stressed as far as the altar is concerned

“ And the altar shall be most holy. Whatever touches (or ‘would touch”) the altar will be holy.’ As a result of its consecration the altar becomes so holy that all that touches it becomes holy. This latter is not necessarily to be seen as a benefit for the person who touches it. Rather it is a warning. If a man touches the altar he becomes especially ‘set part to Yahweh’, and must either be slain or redeemed, for he has become Yahweh’s (in a similar way to the firstborn in Exo 13:2). But this is to bring out that the altar is Yahweh’s. It is a holy thing.

All this is a reminder to us that if we as ‘royal priests’ (1Pe 2:9) would be consecrated and sanctified to God it can only be through the shed blood of Christ and through our being set apart wholly to Him. Then we may partake of His bread and act as ‘priests’ on behalf of others, bringing them to the foot of the cross. Indeed all these offerings point to Christ. He is our sacrifice for sin in order to make atonement for us, He is our whole burnt offering through Whom we offer ourselves to God, He is our peace offering through Whom we find peace with God and of Whom we can partake by coming to Him as the bread of life and to eat of His body by coming and believing (Joh 6:35; Joh 6:53-56).

Fuente: Commentary Series on the Bible by Peter Pett

Exo 29:35. Seven days shalt thou consecrate them The solemn services appointed above were to be repeated for seven days successively, to impress both the priests and the people with the highest ideas of the solemnity of that service to which the priests were called; and further, to signify the peculiar holiness of this consecration, the altar itself, upon which the sacrifices were offered, and which was to be every day sanctified, was to impart sanctification to every thing that touched it, separating it from a common to a sacred use, Exo 29:37. See Mat 23:19. Or, possibly, whatsoever toucheth the altar, may signify only such offerings and gifts, as, in consequence of this consecration, were laid upon the altar, and by it made holy. The most cursory reader can hardly help observing the regard constantly paid to the number seven in Scripture; some reasons for which are offered in our note on Gen 2:3.

REFLECTIONS.The consecration of Aaron and his sons succeeds the preparation of the sanctuary, where they are to minister. The manner is solemn, to intimate the greatness of the charge committed to them, and the surrender they are called upon to make of themselves to God. Moses is employed as an extraordinary minister from God for the purpose, and he begins the ceremonial,

1. With bringing them to the door of the tabernacle, as persons selected of God. 2. By a general ablution. God will be sanctified in those who come nigh him. How can an unholy minister dare approach the Holy God? 3. By robbing them. They who would minister before the Lord, must be clothed with righteousness as with a garment. 4. By anointing the high-priest with holy oil. The unction from the Holy One alone can qualify a minister for the discharge of his office. 5. By a variety of sacrifices. A sin-offering precedes: for as men, they first needed to sacrifice for their own sins, before they could make atonement for the sins of others. The burnt-offering followed, intimating the warmth of holy love in their hearts, inclining them to yield themselves up as living sacrifices to God. The peace-offering completed the consecration. (1.) The blood of it must be put upon them, and, with the holy anointing oil, be sprinkled upon them. The blood of Jesus Christ must be thus applied to our hearts; and when we would appear before God with acceptance, it must be with our robes made white in this blood of the lamb. (2.) The priest’s hands must be filled with the parts devoted to God, and thus they begin their ministrations. If we minister acceptably before God, it must be given us; he must fill our hands, or we cannot feed the people; and when he does, every minister will find business in abundance. No time will be left for idling and vanity. (3.) God’s part must be burnt; afterwards, the priests’ portion is assigned them. They who serve the altar, have a right to live by the altar. (4.) The remainder must be eaten by Aaron and his sons in token of their joyful acceptance of the mercy bestowed on them. They who hold communion with Christ, while they commemorate his sacrifice, feed upon him with thanksgiving. (5.) Seven days were to be employed in the consecration, and sacrifices were offered every day. It requires solemn deliberation to ordain a minister of the sanctuary: and they, who are to preach remission of sins to others, have abundant need to gain some sure and certain hope that their own are pardoned. (6.) The altar too must be consecrated, to intimate the universal pollution which reigns by sin, and that without atoning blood nothing can be an acceptable service to God. Lastly, we have in this, [1.] A type of Christ, who is both Priest and Altar and Sacrifice together, consecrated of God with the oil of gladness above his fellows, clothed with spotless purity, and by his own blood perfecting the atonement: [2.] Of every faithful soul, washed in the blood of the Redeemer, and thus by grace enabled to offer up spiritual sacrifices acceptable to God through Jesus Christ.

Fuente: Commentary on the Holy Bible by Thomas Coke

The everyday offering Paul explains, Heb 10:1-4 .

Fuente: Hawker’s Poor Man’s Commentary (Old and New Testaments)

Exo 29:35 And thus shalt thou do unto Aaron, and to his sons, according to all [things] which I have commanded thee: seven days shalt thou consecrate them.

Ver. 35. Seven days. ] To teach the priests to consecrate their whole lives to God’s service.

Fuente: John Trapp’s Complete Commentary (Old and New Testaments)

thus shalt thou do: Exo 40:12-15, Lev 8:4-36

according: Exo 39:42, Exo 39:43, Exo 40:16, Joh 16:14

seven days: Exo 29:30, Exo 29:37, Exo 40:12, Exo 40:13, Lev 8:33-35, Lev 14:8-11

Reciprocal: Exo 28:41 – and consecrate them Exo 30:30 – consecrate Lev 6:20 – a meat offering Lev 8:35 – the tabernacle Lev 15:13 – seven days 2Ch 13:9 – young Eze 43:25 – General Eph 5:24 – in Heb 9:2 – a tabernacle

Fuente: The Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Exo 29:35. Seven days shalt thou consecrate them Though all the ceremonies were performed on the first day, yet they were not to look upon their consecration as completed till the seven days end, which put a solemnity upon their admission, and a distance between this and their former state, and obliged them to enter upon their work with a pause, giving them time to consider the weight of it. This was to be observed in after ages: he that was to succeed Aaron in the high-priesthood, must put on the holy garments seven days together, in token of a deliberate advance into his office, and that one sabbath might pass over him in his consecration. Every day of the seven, in this first consecrations, a bullock was to be offered for a sin-offering, which was to intimate, 1st, That though atonement was made, yet they must still keep up a penitent sense of sin, and often repeat the confession of it. 2d, That those sacrifices which were thus offered day by day, could not make the comers thereunto perfect, for then they would have ceased to be offered, Heb 10:1-2. They must therefore expect the bringing in of a better hope. Now this consecration of the priests was a shadow of good things to come. 1st, Our Lord Jesus is the great High-Priest of our profession, called of God to be so consecrated for evermore, anointed with the Spirit above his fellows, clothed with the holy garments, even with glory and beauty, sanctified by his own blood, not that of bullocks and rams. 2d, All believers are spiritual priests, to offer spiritual sacrifices, (1Pe 2:5,) washed in the blood of Christ, and so made to our God priests, Rev 1:5-6. They also are clothed with the beauty of holiness, and have received the anointing, 1Jn 2:27. 3d, It is likewise here intimated that gospel ministers are to be solemnly set apart to the work of the ministry with great deliberation and seriousness, both in the ordainers and in the ordained, as those that are employed in a great work, and intrusted with a great charge.

Fuente: Joseph Bensons Commentary on the Old and New Testaments