FILL THEIR HAND — the standard Hebrew idiom for ordination to priestly office (28:41), almost certainly referring to a priest receiving his own physical portion of the sacrifice that installs him. Exodus 29 (already on these pages) confirms it directly: the verb fires four more times at the ordination itself (29:9, 29, 33, 35), and its noun form — eil ha-millu'im, literally 'the ram OF FILLING' — becomes that chapter's own standing name for the ordination sacrifice (29:22, 26, 27, 31, 34), the priest's own portion pressed into his palms before it is burned (29:24). Every major English version translates the idiom away — KJV/ASV 'consecrate them,' NIV/NASB/ESV 'ordain them' (and, for the noun, 'ram of consecration'/'ram of ordination') — none keeps the image of a hand being FILLED. This translation renders every occurrence literally, in the same spirit as 'side' over 'rib' at Genesis 2: a vivid physical idiom the whole shelf has quietly smoothed into abstraction. ⚠ The idiom returns once more, in a radically different key: after the golden calf, Moses tells the Levites to 'FILL YOUR HAND today to Jehovah' (Exodus 32:29, already on these pages) — the identical phrase, but shouted as a command across a camp still littered with the dead, not performed as a robed ceremony with anointing oil. Aaron's line is ordained by ritual; the Levites are ordained by what they were willing to do. The whole idiom finally gets its narrative payoff at Leviticus 8:22-29 (already on these pages), where the ram of filling is actually slaughtered and the raw fat and bread are placed directly on Aaron's own open palms — the hand, quite literally, filled. → first discussed at Exod 28:41