Leviticus
1 Now the LORD called to Moses, and
spoke to him from the tabernacle of meeting, saying,
2"Speak to the children of
3"If his offering is a burnt sacrifice of the
herd, let him offer a male without blemish; he shall offer it of his own free
will at the door of the tabernacle of meeting before the LORD.
4Then he shall put his hand on the head of the burnt
offering, and it will be accepted on his behalf to make atonement for him.
5He shall kill the bull before the LORD; and the
priests, Aaron's sons, shall bring the blood and sprinkle the blood all around
on the altar that is by the door of the tabernacle of meeting.
6And he shall skin the burnt offering and cut it into
its pieces.
7The sons of Aaron the priest shall put fire on the
altar, and lay the wood in order on the fire.
8Then the priests, Aaron's sons, shall lay the parts,
the head, and the fat in order on the wood that is on the fire upon the altar;
9but he shall wash its entrails and its legs with
water. And the priest shall burn all on the altar as a burnt sacrifice, an
offering made by fire, a sweet aroma to the LORD.
10"If his offering is of the flocks--of the sheep
or of the goats--as a burnt sacrifice, he shall bring a male without blemish.
11He shall kill it on the north side of the altar
before the LORD; and the priests, Aaron's sons, shall sprinkle its blood all
around on the altar.
12And he shall cut it into its pieces, with its head
and its fat; and the priest shall lay them in order on the wood that is on the
fire upon the altar;
13but he shall wash the entrails and the legs with
water. Then the priest shall bring it all and burn it on the altar; it is a
burnt sacrifice, an offering made by fire, a sweet aroma to the LORD.
14"And if the burnt sacrifice of his offering to
the LORD is of birds, then he shall bring his offering of turtledoves or young
pigeons.
15The priest shall bring it to the altar, wring off its
head, and burn it on the altar; its blood shall be drained out at the side of
the altar.
16And he shall remove its crop with its feathers and
cast it beside the altar on the east side, into the place for ashes.
17Then he shall split it at its wings, but shall not
divide it completely; and the priest shall burn it on the altar, on the wood
that is on the fire. It is a burnt sacrifice, an offering made by fire, a sweet
aroma to the LORD.
2"When anyone offers a grain
offering to the LORD, his offering shall be of fine flour. And he shall pour oil
on it, and put frankincense on it.
2He shall bring it to Aaron's sons, the priests, one
of whom shall take from it his handful of fine flour and oil with all the
frankincense. And the priest shall burn it as a memorial on the altar, an
offering made by fire, a sweet aroma to the LORD.
3The rest of the grain offering shall be Aaron's and
his sons'. It is most holy of the offerings to the LORD made by fire.
4"And if you bring as an offering a grain offering
baked in the oven, it shall be unleavened cakes of fine flour mixed with oil,
or unleavened wafers anointed with oil.
5But if your offering is a grain offering baked in a
pan, it shall be of fine flour, unleavened, mixed with oil.
6You shall break it in pieces and pour oil on it; it
is a grain offering.
7"If your offering is a grain offering baked in a
covered pan, it shall be made of fine flour with oil.
8You shall bring the grain offering that is made of
these things to the LORD. And when it is presented to the priest, he shall
bring it to the altar.
9Then the priest shall take from the grain offering a
memorial portion, and burn it on the altar. It is an offering made by fire, a
sweet aroma to the LORD.
10And what is left of the grain offering shall be
Aaron's and his sons'. It is most holy of the offerings to the LORD made by
fire.
11"No grain offering which you bring to the LORD
shall be made with leaven, for you shall burn no leaven nor any honey in any
offering to the LORD made by fire.
12As for the offering of the firstfruits, you shall
offer them to the LORD, but they shall not be burned on the altar for a sweet
aroma.
13And every offering of your grain offering you shall
season with salt; you shall not allow the salt of the covenant of your God to
be lacking from your grain offering. With all your offerings you shall offer
salt.
14"If you offer a grain offering of your
firstfruits to the LORD, you shall offer for the grain offering of your
firstfruits green heads of grain roasted on the fire, grain beaten from full
heads.
15And you shall put oil on it, and lay frankincense on
it. It is a grain offering.
16Then the priest shall burn the memorial portion: part
of its beaten grain and part of its oil, with all the frankincense, as an offering
made by fire to the LORD.
3"When his offering is a
sacrifice of a peace offering, if he offers it of the herd, whether male or
female, he shall offer it without blemish before the LORD.
2And he shall lay his hand on the head of his
offering, and kill it at the door of the tabernacle of meeting; and Aaron's
sons, the priests, shall sprinkle the blood all around on the altar.
3Then he shall offer from the sacrifice of the peace
offering an offering made by fire to the LORD. The fat that covers the entrails
and all the fat that is on the entrails,
4the two kidneys and the fat that is on them by the
flanks, and the fatty lobe attached to the liver above the kidneys, he shall
remove;
5and Aaron's sons shall burn it on the altar upon the
burnt sacrifice, which is on the wood that is on the fire, as an offering made
by fire, a sweet aroma to the LORD.
6"If his offering as a sacrifice of a peace
offering to the LORD is of the flock, whether male or female, he shall offer it
without blemish.
7If he offers a lamb as his offering, then he shall
offer it before the LORD.
8And he shall lay his hand on the head of his
offering, and kill it before the tabernacle of meeting; and Aaron's sons shall
sprinkle its blood all around on the altar.
9"Then he shall offer from the sacrifice of the
peace offering, as an offering made by fire to the LORD, its fat and the whole
fat tail which he shall remove close to the backbone. And the fat that covers
the entrails and all the fat that is on the entrails,
10the two kidneys and the fat that is on them by the
flanks, and the fatty lobe attached to the liver above the kidneys, he shall
remove;
11and the priest shall burn them on the altar as food,
an offering made by fire to the LORD.
12"And if his offering is a goat, then he shall
offer it before the LORD.
13He shall lay his hand on its head and kill it before
the tabernacle of meeting; and the sons of Aaron shall sprinkle its blood all
around on the altar.
14Then he shall offer from it his offering, as an
offering made by fire to the LORD. The fat that covers the entrails and all the
fat that is on the entrails,
15the two kidneys and the fat that is on them by the
flanks, and the fatty lobe attached to the liver above the kidneys, he shall
remove;
16and the priest shall burn them on the altar as food,
an offering made by fire for a sweet aroma; all the fat is the LORD's.
17"This shall be a perpetual statute throughout your
generations in all your dwellings: you shall eat neither fat nor blood."'
4Now the LORD spoke to Moses, saying,
2"Speak to the children of
3if the anointed priest sins, bringing guilt on the
people, then let him offer to the LORD for his sin which he has sinned a young
bull without blemish as a sin offering.
4He shall bring the bull to the door of the tabernacle
of meeting before the LORD, lay his hand on the bull's head, and kill the bull
before the LORD.
5Then the anointed priest shall take some of the
bull's blood and bring it to the tabernacle of meeting.
6The priest shall dip his finger in the blood and
sprinkle some of the blood seven times before the LORD, in front of the veil of
the sanctuary.
7And the priest shall put some of the blood on the
horns of the altar of sweet incense before the LORD, which is in the tabernacle
of meeting; and he shall pour the remaining blood of the bull at the base of
the altar of the burnt offering, which is at the door of the tabernacle of
meeting.
8He shall take from it all the fat of the bull as the
sin offering. The fat that covers the entrails and all the fat which is on the
entrails,
9the two kidneys and the fat that is on them by the
flanks, and the fatty lobe attached to the liver above the kidneys, he shall
remove,
10as it was taken from the bull of the sacrifice of the
peace offering; and the priest shall burn them on the altar of the burnt
offering.
11But the bull's hide and all its flesh, with its head
and legs, its entrails and offal--
12the whole bull he shall carry outside the camp to a
clean place, where the ashes are poured out, and burn it on wood with fire;
where the ashes are poured out it shall be burned.
13"Now if the whole congregation of
14when the sin which they have committed becomes known,
then the assembly shall offer a young bull for the sin, and bring it before the
tabernacle of meeting.
15And the elders of the congregation shall lay their
hands on the head of the bull before the LORD. Then the bull shall be killed
before the LORD.
16The anointed priest shall bring some of the bull's
blood to the tabernacle of meeting.
17Then the priest shall dip his finger in the blood and
sprinkle it seven times before the LORD, in front of the veil.
18And he shall put some of the blood on the horns of
the altar which is before the LORD, which is in the tabernacle of meeting; and
he shall pour the remaining blood at the base of the altar of burnt offering,
which is at the door of the tabernacle of meeting.
19He shall take all the fat from it and burn it on the
altar.
20And he shall do with the bull as he did with the bull
as a sin offering; thus he shall do with it. So the priest shall make atonement
for them, and it shall be forgiven them.
21Then he shall carry the bull outside the camp, and
burn it as he burned the first bull. It is a sin offering for the assembly.
22"When a ruler has sinned, and done something unintentionally
against any of the commandments of the LORD his God in anything which should
not be done, and is guilty,
23or if his sin which he has committed comes to his
knowledge, he shall bring as his offering a kid of the goats, a male without
blemish.
24And he shall lay his hand on the head of the goat,
and kill it at the place where they kill the burnt offering before the LORD. It
is a sin offering.
25The priest shall take some of the blood of the sin
offering with his finger, put it on the horns of the altar of burnt offering,
and pour its blood at the base of the altar of burnt offering.
26And he shall burn all its fat on the altar, like the
fat of the sacrifice of the peace offering. So the priest shall make atonement
for him concerning his sin, and it shall be forgiven him.
27"If anyone of the common people sins
unintentionally by doing something against any of the commandments of the LORD
in anything which ought not to be done, and is guilty,
28or if his sin which he has committed comes to his
knowledge, then he shall bring as his offering a kid of the goats, a female
without blemish, for his sin which he has committed.
29And he shall lay his hand on the head of the sin
offering, and kill the sin offering at the place of the burnt offering.
30Then the priest shall take some of its blood with his
finger, put it on the horns of the altar of burnt offering, and pour all the
remaining blood at the base of the altar.
31He shall remove all its fat, as fat is removed from
the sacrifice of the peace offering; and the priest shall burn it on the altar
for a sweet aroma to the LORD. So the priest shall make atonement for him, and
it shall be forgiven him.
32"If he brings a lamb as his sin offering, he
shall bring a female without blemish.
33Then he shall lay his hand on the head of the sin
offering, and kill it as a sin offering at the place where they kill the burnt
offering.
34The priest shall take some of the blood of the sin
offering with his finger, put it on the horns of the altar of burnt offering,
and pour all the remaining blood at the base of the altar.
35He shall remove all its fat, as the fat of the lamb
is removed from the sacrifice of the peace offering. Then the priest shall burn
it on the altar, according to the offerings made by fire to the LORD. So the
priest shall make atonement for his sin that he has committed, and it shall be
forgiven him.
5"If a person sins in hearing
the utterance of an oath, and is a witness, whether he has seen or known of the
matter--if he does not tell it, he bears guilt.
2"Or if a person touches any unclean thing,
whether it is the carcass of an unclean beast, or the carcass of unclean
livestock, or the carcass of unclean creeping things, and he is unaware of it,
he also shall be unclean and guilty.
3Or if he touches human uncleanness--whatever
uncleanness with which a man may be defiled, and he is unaware of it--when he
realizes it, then he shall be guilty.
4"Or if a person swears, speaking thoughtlessly
with his lips to do evil or to do good, whatever it is that a man may pronounce
by an oath, and he is unaware of it--when he realizes it, then he shall be
guilty in any of these matters.
5"And it shall be, when he is guilty in any of
these matters, that he shall confess that he has sinned in that thing;
6and he shall bring his trespass offering to the LORD
for his sin which he has committed, a female from the flock, a lamb or a kid of
the goats as a sin offering. So the priest shall make atonement for him
concerning his sin.
7"If he is not able to bring a lamb, then he
shall bring to the LORD, for his trespass which he has committed, two
turtledoves or two young pigeons: one as a sin offering and the other as a
burnt offering.
8And he shall bring them to the priest, who shall
offer that which is for the sin offering first, and wring off its head from its
neck, but shall not divide it completely.
9Then he shall sprinkle some of the blood of the sin
offering on the side of the altar, and the rest of the blood shall be drained
out at the base of the altar. It is a sin offering.
10And he shall offer the second as a burnt offering
according to the prescribed manner. So the priest shall make atonement on his
behalf for his sin which he has committed, and it shall be forgiven him.
11"But if he is not able to bring two turtledoves
or two young pigeons, then he who sinned shall bring for his offering one-tenth
of an ephah of fine flour as a sin offering. He shall put no oil on it, nor
shall he put frankincense on it, for it is a sin offering.
12Then he shall bring it to the priest, and the priest
shall take his handful of it as a memorial portion, and burn it on the altar
according to the offerings made by fire to the LORD. It is a sin offering.
13The priest shall make atonement for him, for his sin
that he has committed in any of these matters; and it shall be forgiven him.
The rest shall be the priest's as a grain offering."'
14Then the LORD spoke to Moses, saying:
15"If a person commits a trespass, and sins unintentionally
in regard to the holy things of the LORD, then he shall bring to the LORD as
his trespass offering a ram without blemish from the flocks, with your
valuation in shekels of silver according to the shekel of the sanctuary, as a
trespass offering.
16And he shall make restitution for the harm that he
has done in regard to the holy thing, and shall add one-fifth to it and give it
to the priest. So the priest shall make atonement for him with the ram of the
trespass offering, and it shall be forgiven him.
17"If a person sins, and commits any of these
things which are forbidden to be done by the commandments of the LORD, though
he does not know it, yet he is guilty and shall bear his iniquity.
18And he shall bring to the priest a ram without blemish
from the flock, with your valuation, as a trespass offering. So the priest
shall make atonement for him regarding his ignorance in which he erred and did
not know it, and it shall be forgiven him.
19It is a trespass offering; he has certainly trespassed
against the LORD."
6And the LORD spoke to Moses, saying:
2"If a person sins and commits a trespass against
the LORD by lying to his neighbor about what was delivered to him for
safekeeping, or about a pledge, or about a robbery, or if he has extorted from
his neighbor,
3or if he has found what was lost and lies concerning
it, and swears falsely--in any one of these things that a man may do in which
he sins:
4then it shall be, because he has sinned and is guilty,
that he shall restore what he has stolen, or the thing which he has extorted,
or what was delivered to him for safekeeping, or the lost thing which he found,
5or all that about which he has sworn falsely. He
shall restore its full value, add one-fifth more to it, and give it to whomever
it belongs, on the day of his trespass offering.
6And he shall bring his trespass offering to the LORD,
a ram without blemish from the flock, with your valuation, as a trespass
offering, to the priest.
7So the priest shall make atonement for him before the
LORD, and he shall be forgiven for any one of these things that he may have
done in which he trespasses."
8Then the LORD spoke to Moses, saying,
9"Command Aaron and his sons, saying, "This
is the law of the burnt offering: The burnt offering shall be on the hearth
upon the altar all night until morning, and the fire of the altar shall be kept
burning on it.
10And the priest shall put on his linen garment, and
his linen trousers he shall put on his body, and take up the ashes of the burnt
offering which the fire has consumed on the altar, and he shall put them beside
the altar.
11Then he shall take off his garments, put on other
garments, and carry the ashes outside the camp to a clean place.
12And the fire on the altar shall be kept burning on
it; it shall not be put out. And the priest shall burn wood on it every
morning, and lay the burnt offering in order on it; and he shall burn on it the
fat of the peace offerings.
13A fire shall always be burning on the altar; it shall
never go out.
14"This is the law of the grain offering: The sons
of Aaron shall offer it on the altar before the LORD.
15He shall take from it his handful of the fine flour
of the grain offering, with its oil, and all the frankincense which is on the
grain offering, and shall burn it on the altar for a sweet aroma, as a memorial
to the LORD.
16And the remainder of it Aaron and his sons shall eat;
with unleavened bread it shall be eaten in a holy place; in the court of the
tabernacle of meeting they shall eat it.
17It shall not be baked with leaven. I have given it as
their portion of My offerings made by fire; it is most holy, like the sin
offering and the trespass offering.
18All the males among the children of Aaron may eat it.
It shall be a statute forever in your generations concerning the offerings made
by fire to the LORD. Everyone who touches them must be holy."'
19And the LORD spoke to Moses, saying,
20"This is the offering of Aaron and his sons,
which they shall offer to the LORD, beginning on the day when he is anointed:
one-tenth of an ephah of fine flour as a daily grain offering, half of it in
the morning and half of it at night.
21It shall be made in a pan with oil. When it is mixed,
you shall bring it in. The baked pieces of the grain offering you shall offer
for a sweet aroma to the LORD.
22The priest from among his sons, who is anointed in
his place, shall offer it. It is a statute forever to the LORD. It shall be
wholly burned.
23For every grain offering for the priest shall be
wholly burned. It shall not be eaten."
24Also the LORD spoke to Moses, saying,
25"Speak to Aaron and to his sons, saying,
"This is the law of the sin offering: In the place where the burnt
offering is killed, the sin offering shall be killed before the LORD. It is
most holy.
26The priest who offers it for sin shall eat it. In a
holy place it shall be eaten, in the court of the tabernacle of meeting.
27Everyone who touches its flesh must be holy. And when
its blood is sprinkled on any garment, you shall wash that on which it was
sprinkled, in a holy place.
28But the earthen vessel in which it is boiled shall be
broken. And if it is boiled in a bronze pot, it shall be both scoured and
rinsed in water.
29All the males among the priests may eat it. It is
most holy.
30But no sin offering from which any of the blood is
brought into the tabernacle of meeting, to make atonement in the holy place,
shall be eaten. It shall be burned in the fire.
7"Likewise this is the law of
the trespass offering (it is most holy):
2In the place where they kill the burnt offering they
shall kill the trespass offering. And its blood he shall sprinkle all around on
the altar.
3And he shall offer from it all its fat. The fat tail and
the fat that covers the entrails,
4the two kidneys and the fat that is on them by the
flanks, and the fatty lobe attached to the liver above the kidneys, he shall
remove;
5and the priest shall burn them on the altar as an
offering made by fire to the LORD. It is a trespass offering.
6Every male among the priests may eat it. It shall be
eaten in a holy place. It is most holy.
7The trespass offering is like the sin offering; there
is one law for them both: the priest who makes atonement with it shall have it.
8And the priest who offers anyone's burnt offering,
that priest shall have for himself the skin of the burnt offering which he has
offered.
9Also every grain offering that is baked in the oven
and all that is prepared in the covered pan, or in a pan, shall be the priest's
who offers it.
10Every grain offering, whether mixed with oil or dry,
shall belong to all the sons of Aaron, to one as much as the other.
11"This is the law of the sacrifice of peace
offerings which he shall offer to the LORD:
12If he offers it for a thanksgiving, then he shall
offer, with the sacrifice of thanksgiving, unleavened cakes mixed with oil,
unleavened wafers anointed with oil, or cakes of blended flour mixed with oil.
13Besides the cakes, as his offering he shall offer
leavened bread with the sacrifice of thanksgiving of his peace offering.
14And from it he shall offer one cake from each
offering as a heave offering to the LORD. It shall belong to the priest who
sprinkles the blood of the peace offering.
15"The flesh of the sacrifice of his peace
offering for thanksgiving shall be eaten the same day it is offered. He shall
not leave any of it until morning.
16But if the sacrifice of his offering is a vow or a
voluntary offering, it shall be eaten the same day that he offers his
sacrifice; but on the next day the remainder of it also may be eaten;
17the remainder of the flesh of the sacrifice on the
third day must be burned with fire.
18And if any of the flesh of the sacrifice of his peace
offering is eaten at all on the third day, it shall not be accepted, nor shall
it be imputed to him; it shall be an abomination to him who offers it, and the
person who eats of it shall bear guilt.
19"The flesh that touches any unclean thing shall not
be eaten. It shall be burned with fire. And as for the clean flesh, all who are
clean may eat of it.
20But the person who eats the flesh of the sacrifice of
the peace offering that belongs to the LORD, while he is unclean, that person
shall be cut off from his people.
21Moreover the person who touches any unclean thing,
such as human uncleanness, an unclean animal, or any abominable unclean thing,
and who eats the flesh of the sacrifice of the peace offering that belongs to
the LORD, that person shall be cut off from his people."'
22And the LORD spoke to Moses, saying,
23"Speak to the children of
24And the fat of an animal that dies naturally, and the
fat of what is torn by wild beasts, may be used in any other way; but you shall
by no means eat it.
25For whoever eats the fat of the animal of which men
offer an offering made by fire to the LORD, the person who eats it shall be cut
off from his people.
26Moreover you shall not eat any blood in any of your
dwellings, whether of bird or beast.
27Whoever eats any blood, that person shall be cut off
from his people."'
28Then the LORD spoke to Moses, saying,
29"Speak to the children of
30His own hands shall bring the offerings made by fire
to the LORD. The fat with the breast he shall bring, that the breast may be
waved as a wave offering before the LORD.
31And the priest shall burn the fat on the altar, but
the breast shall be Aaron's and his sons'.
32Also the right thigh you shall give to the priest as
a heave offering from the sacrifices of your peace offerings.
33He among the sons of Aaron, who offers the blood of
the peace offering and the fat, shall have the right thigh for his part.
34For the breast of the wave offering and the thigh of
the heave offering I have taken from the children of Israel, from the sacrifices
of their peace offerings, and I have given them to Aaron the priest and to his
sons from the children of Israel by a statute forever."'
35This is the consecrated portion for Aaron and his
sons, from the offerings made by fire to the LORD, on the day when Moses
presented them to minister to the LORD as priests.
36The LORD commanded this to be given to them by the
children of
37This is the law of the burnt offering, the grain
offering, the sin offering, the trespass offering, the consecrations, and the
sacrifice of the peace offering,
38which the LORD commanded Moses on Mount Sinai, on the
day when He commanded the children of
8And the LORD spoke to Moses, saying:
2"Take Aaron and his sons with him, and the
garments, the anointing oil, a bull as the sin offering, two rams, and a basket
of unleavened bread;
3and gather all the congregation together at the door
of the tabernacle of meeting."
4So Moses did as the LORD commanded him. And the
congregation was gathered together at the door of the tabernacle of meeting.
5And Moses said to the congregation, "This is
what the LORD commanded to be done."
6Then Moses brought Aaron and his sons and washed them
with water.
7And he put the tunic on him, girded him with the
sash, clothed him with the robe, and put the ephod on him; and he girded him
with the intricately woven band of the ephod, and with it tied the ephod on
him.
8Then he put the breastplate on him, and he put the
Urim and the Thummim in the breastplate.
9And he put the turban on his head. Also on the
turban, on its front, he put the golden plate, the holy crown, as the LORD had commanded
Moses.
10Also Moses took the anointing oil, and anointed the
tabernacle and all that was in it, and consecrated them.
11He sprinkled some of it on the altar seven times,
anointed the altar and all its utensils, and the laver and its base, to consecrate
them.
12And he poured some of the anointing oil on Aaron's
head and anointed him, to consecrate him.
13Then Moses brought Aaron's sons and put tunics on
them, girded them with sashes, and put hats on them, as the LORD had commanded
Moses.
14And he brought the bull for the sin offering. Then
Aaron and his sons laid their hands on the head of the bull for the sin
offering,
15and Moses killed it. Then he took the blood, and put
some on the horns of the altar all around with his finger, and purified the
altar. And he poured the blood at the base of the altar, and consecrated it, to
make atonement for it.
16Then he took all the fat that was on the entrails,
the fatty lobe attached to the liver, and the two kidneys with their fat, and
Moses burned them on the altar.
17But the bull, its hide, its flesh, and its offal, he
burned with fire outside the camp, as the LORD had commanded Moses.
18Then he brought the ram as the burnt offering. And
Aaron and his sons laid their hands on the head of the ram,
19and Moses killed it. Then he sprinkled the blood all
around on the altar.
20And he cut the ram into pieces; and Moses burned the
head, the pieces, and the fat.
21Then he washed the entrails and the legs in water.
And Moses burned the whole ram on the altar. It was a burnt sacrifice for a
sweet aroma, an offering made by fire to the LORD, as the LORD had commanded
Moses.
22And he brought the second ram, the ram of
consecration. Then Aaron and his sons laid their hands on the head of the ram,
23and Moses killed it. Also he took some of its blood
and put it on the tip of Aaron's right ear, on the thumb of his right hand, and
on the big toe of his right foot.
24Then he brought Aaron's sons. And Moses put some of
the blood on the tips of their right ears, on the thumbs of their right hands,
and on the big toes of their right feet. And Moses sprinkled the blood all
around on the altar.
25Then he took the fat and the fat tail, all the fat
that was on the entrails, the fatty lobe attached to the liver, the two kidneys
and their fat, and the right thigh;
26and from the basket of unleavened bread that was
before the LORD he took one unleavened cake, a cake of bread anointed with oil,
and one wafer, and put them on the fat and on the right thigh;
27and he put all these in Aaron's hands and in his
sons' hands, and waved them as a wave offering before the LORD.
28Then Moses took them from their hands and burned them
on the altar, on the burnt offering. They were consecration offerings for a
sweet aroma. That was an offering made by fire to the LORD.
29And Moses took the breast and waved it as a wave
offering before the LORD. It was Moses' part of the ram of consecration, as the
LORD had commanded Moses.
30Then Moses took some of the anointing oil and some of
the blood which was on the altar, and sprinkled it on Aaron, on his garments,
on his sons, and on the garments of his sons with him; and he consecrated
Aaron, his garments, his sons, and the garments of his sons with him.
31And Moses said to Aaron and his sons, "Boil the
flesh at the door of the tabernacle of meeting, and eat it there with the bread
that is in the basket of consecration offerings, as I commanded, saying,
"Aaron and his sons shall eat it.'
32What remains of the flesh and of the bread you shall
burn with fire.
33And you shall not go outside the door of the
tabernacle of meeting for seven days, until the days of your consecration are
ended. For seven days he shall consecrate you.
34As he has done this day, so the LORD has commanded to
do, to make atonement for you.
35Therefore you shall stay at the door of the
tabernacle of meeting day and night for seven days, and keep the charge of the
LORD, so that you may not die; for so I have been commanded."
36So Aaron and his sons did all the things that the
LORD had commanded by the hand of Moses.
9It came to pass on the eighth day
that Moses called Aaron and his sons and the elders of
2And he said to Aaron, "Take for yourself a young
bull as a sin offering and a ram as a burnt offering, without blemish, and
offer them before the LORD.
3And to the children of
4also a bull and a ram as peace offerings, to
sacrifice before the LORD, and a grain offering mixed with oil; for today the
LORD will appear to you."'
5So they brought what Moses commanded before the
tabernacle of meeting. And all the congregation drew near and stood before the
LORD.
6Then Moses said, "This is the thing which the
LORD commanded you to do, and the glory of the LORD will appear to you."
7And Moses said to Aaron, "Go to the altar, offer
your sin offering and your burnt offering, and make atonement for yourself and
for the people. Offer the offering of the people, and make atonement for them,
as the LORD commanded."
8Aaron therefore went to the altar and killed the calf
of the sin offering, which was for himself.
9Then the sons of Aaron brought the blood to him. And
he dipped his finger in the blood, put it on the horns of the altar, and poured
the blood at the base of the altar.
10But the fat, the kidneys, and the fatty lobe from the
liver of the sin offering he burned on the altar, as the LORD had commanded
Moses.
11The flesh and the hide he burned with fire outside
the camp.
12And he killed the burnt offering; and Aaron's sons
presented to him the blood, which he sprinkled all around on the altar.
13Then they presented the burnt offering to him, with
its pieces and head, and he burned them on the altar.
14And he washed the entrails and the legs, and burned
them with the burnt offering on the altar.
15Then he brought the people's offering, and took the
goat, which was the sin offering for the people, and killed it and offered it
for sin, like the first one.
16And he brought the burnt offering and offered it
according to the prescribed manner.
17Then he brought the grain offering, took a handful of
it, and burned it on the altar, besides the burnt sacrifice of the morning.
18He also killed the bull and the ram as sacrifices of
peace offerings, which were for the people. And Aaron's sons presented to him
the blood, which he sprinkled all around on the altar,
19and the fat from the bull and the ram--the fatty
tail, what covers the entrails and the kidneys, and the fatty lobe attached to
the liver;
20and they put the fat on the breasts. Then he burned
the fat on the altar;
21but the breasts and the right thigh Aaron waved as a
wave offering before the LORD, as Moses had commanded.
22Then Aaron lifted his hand toward the people, blessed
them, and came down from offering the sin offering, the burnt offering, and
peace offerings.
23And Moses and Aaron went into the tabernacle of
meeting, and came out and blessed the people. Then the glory of the LORD
appeared to all the people,
24and fire came out from before the LORD and consumed
the burnt offering and the fat on the altar. When all the people saw it, they
shouted and fell on their faces.
10Then Nadab and Abihu, the sons of
Aaron, each took his censer and put fire in it, put incense on it, and offered
profane fire before the LORD, which He had not commanded them.
2So fire went out from the LORD and devoured them, and
they died before the LORD.
3And Moses said to Aaron, "This is what the LORD
spoke, saying: "By those who come near Me I must be regarded as holy; And
before all the people I must be glorified."' So Aaron held his peace.
4Then Moses called Mishael and Elzaphan, the sons of
Uzziel the uncle of Aaron, and said to them, "Come near, carry your
brethren from before the sanctuary out of the camp."
5So they went near and carried them by their tunics
out of the camp, as Moses had said.
6And Moses said to Aaron, and to Eleazar and Ithamar,
his sons, "Do not uncover your heads nor tear your clothes, lest you die,
and wrath come upon all the people. But let your brethren, the whole house of
7You shall not go out from the door of the tabernacle
of meeting, lest you die, for the anointing oil of the LORD is upon you."
And they did according to the word of Moses.
8Then the LORD spoke to Aaron, saying:
9"Do not drink wine or intoxicating drink, you,
nor your sons with you, when you go into the tabernacle of meeting, lest you
die. It shall be a statute forever throughout your generations,
10that you may distinguish between holy and unholy, and
between unclean and clean,
11and that you may teach the children of
12And Moses spoke to Aaron, and to Eleazar and Ithamar,
his sons who were left: "Take the grain offering that remains of the
offerings made by fire to the LORD, and eat it without leaven beside the altar;
for it is most holy.
13You shall eat it in a holy place, because it is your
due and your sons' due, of the sacrifices made by fire to the LORD; for so I
have been commanded.
14The breast of the wave offering and the thigh of the
heave offering you shall eat in a clean place, you, your sons, and your
daughters with you; for they are your due and your sons' due, which are given
from the sacrifices of peace offerings of the children of
15The thigh of the heave offering and the breast of the
wave offering they shall bring with the offerings of fat made by fire, to offer
as a wave offering before the LORD. And it shall be yours and your sons' with
you, by a statute forever, as the LORD has commanded."
16Then Moses made careful inquiry about the goat of the
sin offering, and there it was--burned up. And he was angry with Eleazar and
Ithamar, the sons of Aaron who were left, saying,
17"Why have you not eaten the sin offering in a
holy place, since it is most holy, and God has given it to you to bear the
guilt of the congregation, to make atonement for them before the LORD?
18See! Its blood was not brought inside the holy place;
indeed you should have eaten it in a holy place, as I commanded."
19And Aaron said to Moses, "Look, this day they
have offered their sin offering and their burnt offering before the LORD, and
such things have befallen me! If I had eaten the sin offering today, would it
have been accepted in the sight of the LORD?"
20So when Moses heard that, he was content.
11Now the LORD spoke to Moses and
Aaron, saying to them,
2"Speak to the children of
3Among the animals, whatever divides the hoof, having
cloven hooves and chewing the cud--that you may eat.
4Nevertheless these you shall not eat among those that
chew the cud or those that have cloven hooves: the camel, because it chews the
cud but does not have cloven hooves, is unclean to you;
5the rock hyrax, because it chews the cud but does not
have cloven hooves, is unclean to you;
6the hare, because it chews the cud but does not have
cloven hooves, is unclean to you;
7and the swine, though it divides the hoof, having
cloven hooves, yet does not chew the cud, is unclean to you.
8Their flesh you shall not eat, and their carcasses
you shall not touch. They are unclean to you.
9"These you may eat of all that are in the water:
whatever in the water has fins and scales, whether in the seas or in the
rivers--that you may eat.
10But all in the seas or in the rivers that do not have
fins and scales, all that move in the water or any living thing which is in the
water, they are an abomination to you.
11They shall be an abomination to you; you shall not
eat their flesh, but you shall regard their carcasses as an abomination.
12Whatever in the water does not have fins or
scales--that shall be an abomination to you.
13"And these you shall regard as an abomination
among the birds; they shall not be eaten, they are an abomination: the eagle,
the vulture, the buzzard,
14the kite, and the falcon after its kind;
15every raven after its kind,
16the ostrich, the short-eared owl, the sea gull, and
the hawk after its kind;
17the little owl, the fisher owl, and the screech owl;
18the white owl, the jackdaw, and the carrion vulture;
19the stork, the heron after its kind, the hoopoe, and
the bat.
20"All flying insects that creep on all fours
shall be an abomination to you.
21Yet these you may eat of every flying insect that
creeps on all fours: those which have jointed legs above their feet with which
to leap on the earth.
22These you may eat: the locust after its kind, the
destroying locust after its kind, the cricket after its kind, and the
grasshopper after its kind.
23But all other flying insects which have four feet
shall be an abomination to you.
24"By these you shall become unclean; whoever
touches the carcass of any of them shall be unclean until evening;
25whoever carries part of the carcass of any of them
shall wash his clothes and be unclean until evening:
26The carcass of any animal which divides the foot, but
is not cloven-hoofed or does not chew the cud, is unclean to you. Everyone who
touches it shall be unclean.
27And whatever goes on its paws, among all kinds of
animals that go on all fours, those are unclean to you. Whoever touches any
such carcass shall be unclean until evening.
28Whoever carries any such carcass shall wash his
clothes and be unclean until evening. It is unclean to you.
29"These also shall be unclean to you among the
creeping things that creep on the earth: the mole, the mouse, and the large
lizard after its kind;
30the gecko, the monitor lizard, the sand reptile, the sand
lizard, and the chameleon.
31These are unclean to you among all that creep.
Whoever touches them when they are dead shall be unclean until evening.
32Anything on which any of them falls, when they are
dead shall be unclean, whether it is any item of wood or clothing or skin or
sack, whatever item it is, in which any work is done, it must be put in water.
And it shall be unclean until evening; then it shall be clean.
33Any earthen vessel into which any of them falls you
shall break; and whatever is in it shall be unclean:
34in such a vessel, any edible food upon which water
falls becomes unclean, and any drink that may be drunk from it becomes unclean.
35And everything on which a part of any such carcass
falls shall be unclean; whether it is an oven or cooking stove, it shall be
broken down; for they are unclean, and shall be unclean to you.
36Nevertheless a spring or a cistern, in which there is
plenty of water, shall be clean, but whatever touches any such carcass becomes
unclean.
37And if a part of any such carcass falls on any
planting seed which is to be sown, it remains clean.
38But if water is put on the seed, and if a part of any
such carcass falls on it, it becomes unclean to you.
39"And if any animal which you may eat dies, he
who touches its carcass shall be unclean until evening.
40He who eats of its carcass shall wash his clothes and
be unclean until evening. He also who carries its carcass shall wash his
clothes and be unclean until evening.
41"And every creeping thing that creeps on the
earth shall be an abomination. It shall not be eaten.
42Whatever crawls on its belly, whatever goes on all
fours, or whatever has many feet among all creeping things that creep on the
earth--these you shall not eat, for they are an abomination.
43You shall not make yourselves abominable with any
creeping thing that creeps; nor shall you make yourselves unclean with them,
lest you be defiled by them.
44For I am the LORD your God. You shall therefore
consecrate yourselves, and you shall be holy; for I am holy. Neither shall you
defile yourselves with any creeping thing that creeps on the earth.
45For I am the LORD who brings you up out of the
46"This is the law of the animals and the birds
and every living creature that moves in the waters, and of every creature that
creeps on the earth,
47to distinguish between the unclean and the clean, and
between the animal that may be eaten and the animal that may not be
eaten."'
12Then the LORD spoke to Moses,
saying,
2"Speak to the children of Israel, saying:
"If a woman has conceived, and borne a male child, then she shall be
unclean seven days; as in the days of her customary impurity she shall be
unclean.
3And on the eighth day the flesh of his foreskin shall
be circumcised.
4She shall then continue in the blood of her
purification thirty-three days. She shall not touch any hallowed thing, nor
come into the sanctuary until the days of her purification are fulfilled.
5"But if she bears a female child, then she shall
be unclean two weeks, as in her customary impurity, and she shall continue in
the blood of her purification sixty-six days.
6"When the days of her purification are
fulfilled, whether for a son or a daughter, she shall bring to the priest a
lamb of the first year as a burnt offering, and a young pigeon or a turtledove
as a sin offering, to the door of the tabernacle of meeting.
7Then he shall offer it before the LORD, and make
atonement for her. And she shall be clean from the flow of her blood. This is
the law for her who has borne a male or a female.
8"And if she is not able to bring a lamb, then she may bring two turtledoves or two young pigeons--one a