Guilt Offering

6 ^[a]Then the Lord spoke to Moses, saying, ² “^(A)When a person sins and acts unfaithfully against the Lord, and disavows the rightful claim of his neighbor regarding a deposit or a security entrusted to him, or regarding robbery, or he has extorted from his neighbor, ³ or ^(B)has found what was lost and lied about it and sworn falsely, so that he sins regarding any of the things that people do; ⁴ then it shall be, when he sins and becomes guilty, that he shall ^(C)restore what he took by robbery or acquired by extortion, or the deposit which was ^[b]entrusted to him, or the lost property which he found, ⁵ or anything about which he swore falsely; ^(D)he shall make restitution for it ^[c]in full and add to it a fifth more. ^(E)He shall give it to the one to whom it belongs on the day he presents his guilt offering. ⁶ Then he shall bring to the priest his guilt offering to the Lord, ^(F)a ram without defect from the flock, according to your assessment, as a guilt offering, ⁷ and ^(G)the priest shall make atonement for him before the Lord, and he will be forgiven for any one of the things which he may have done to incur guilt.”

The Priest’s Part in the Offerings

^8 [d]Then the Lord spoke to Moses, saying, ⁹ “Command Aaron and his sons, saying, ‘This is ^(H)the law for the burnt offering: the burnt offering itself shall remain on the hearth on the altar all night until the morning, and ^(I)the fire on the altar is to be kept burning on it. ¹⁰ The priest is to put on ^(J)his linen robe, and he shall put on linen undergarments next to his ^[e]body; and he shall take up the fatty ashes to which the fire ^[f]reduces the burnt offering on the altar and place them beside the altar. ¹¹ Then he shall take off his garments and put on other garments, and carry the fatty ashes outside the camp to a clean place. ¹² The fire on the altar shall be kept burning on it. It shall not go out, but the priest shall burn wood on it every morning; and he shall lay out the burnt offering on it, and offer up in smoke the fat portions of the peace offerings ^(K)on it. ¹³ Fire shall be kept burning continually on the altar; it is not to go out.

¹⁴ ‘Now this is the law of the grain offering: the sons of Aaron shall present it before the Lord in front of the altar. ^15 (L)Then one of them shall lift up from it a handful of the fine flour of the grain offering, ^[g]with its oil and all the incense that is on the grain offering, and he shall offer it up in smoke on the altar, a soothing aroma, as its memorial offering to the Lord. ¹⁶ And Aaron and his sons are to eat ^(M)what is left of it. It shall be eaten as unleavened cakes in a holy place; they are to eat it in the courtyard of the tent of meeting. ^17 (N)It shall not be baked with leaven. I have given it as their share from My offerings by fire; ^(O)it is most holy, like the sin offering and ^(P)the guilt offering. ^18 (Q)Every male among the sons of Aaron may eat it; it is a permanent ordinance throughout your generations, from the offerings by fire to the Lord. ^[h](R)Whoever touches them ^[i]will become consecrated.’”

¹⁹ Then the Lord spoke to Moses, saying, ²⁰ “This is the offering which Aaron and his sons are to present to the Lord on the day when he is anointed; the tenth of an ^[j](S)ephah of fine flour as ^(T)a ^[k]regular grain offering, half of it in the morning and half of it in the evening. ²¹ It shall be prepared with oil on a ^(U)griddle. When it is well stirred, you shall bring it. You shall present the grain offering in baked pieces as a soothing aroma to the Lord. ²² The anointed priest who will be in his place ^[l]among his sons shall ^[m]offer it. By a permanent ordinance it shall be entirely offered up in smoke to the Lord. ²³ So every grain offering of the priest shall be burned entirely. It shall not be eaten.”

²⁴ Then the Lord spoke to Moses, saying, ²⁵ “Speak to Aaron and to his sons, saying, ‘This is the law of the sin offering: ^(V)in the place where the burnt offering is slaughtered, the sin offering shall be slaughtered before the Lord; it is most holy. ^26 (W)The priest who offers it for sin shall eat it. It shall be eaten in a holy place, in the courtyard of the tent of meeting. ^27 (X)[n]Whoever touches its flesh ^[o]will become consecrated; and when any of its blood spatters on a garment, you shall wash what spattered on it in a holy place. ²⁸ Also ^(Y)the earthenware vessel in which it was boiled shall be broken; and if it was boiled in a bronze vessel, then it shall be scoured and rinsed in water. ^29 (Z)Every male among the priests may eat it; ^(AA)it is most holy. ³⁰ But no sin offering ^(AB)of which any of the blood is brought into the tent of meeting to make atonement ^(AC)in the Holy Place shall be eaten; ^(AD)it shall be burned with fire.

The Priest’s Part in the Offerings

7 ‘Now this is the law of the ^(AE)guilt offering; it is most holy. ² In ^(AF)the place where they slaughter the burnt offering they are to slaughter the guilt offering, and the priest shall sprinkle its blood around on the altar. ³ Then he shall offer from it all its fat: the ^(AG)fat tail and the fat that covers the entrails, ⁴ and the two kidneys with the fat that is on them, which is on the loins; and he shall remove the lobe on the liver ^(AH)with the kidneys. ⁵ The priest shall offer them up in smoke on the altar as an offering by fire to the Lord; it is a guilt offering. ^6 (AI)Every male among the priests may eat it. It shall be eaten in a holy place; it is most holy. ⁷ The guilt offering is like the ^(AJ)sin offering: there is one law for them. The ^(AK)priest who makes atonement with it ^[p]shall have it. ⁸ Also the priest who presents anyone’s burnt offering, ^[q]that priest shall have for himself the hide of the burnt offering which he has presented. ⁹ Likewise, every grain offering that is baked in the oven and everything prepared in a ^[r]pan or on a ^(AL)griddle ^[s]shall belong to the priest who presents it. ¹⁰ Every grain offering, mixed with oil or dry, shall ^[t]belong to all the sons of Aaron, ^[u]to all alike.

¹¹ ‘Now this is the law of the ^(AM)sacrifice of peace offerings which shall be presented to the Lord. ¹² If he offers it by way of ^(AN)thanksgiving, then along with the sacrifice of thanksgiving he shall offer ^(AO)unleavened cakes mixed with oil, and unleavened wafers ^[v]spread with oil, and cakes of well stirred fine flour mixed with oil. ¹³ With the sacrifice of his peace offerings for thanksgiving, he shall present his offering with cakes of ^(AP)leavened bread. ¹⁴ Of ^[w]this he shall present one of every offering as a ^[x]contribution to the Lord; ^(AQ)it shall ^[y]belong to the priest who sprinkles the blood of the peace offerings.

¹⁵ ‘^(AR)Now as for the flesh of the sacrifice of his thanksgiving peace offerings, it shall be eaten on the day of his offering; he shall not leave any of it over until morning. ¹⁶ But if the sacrifice of his offering is a ^[z](AS)vow or a ^[aa]voluntary offering, it shall be eaten on the day that he offers his sacrifice, and on the next ^[ab]day what is left of it may be eaten; ^17 (AT)but what is left over from the flesh of the sacrifice on the third day shall be burned with fire. ¹⁸ So if any of the flesh of the sacrifice of his peace offerings is ever eaten on the third day, he who offers it will not be accepted, and it will not be credited to him. It will be an ^(AU)unclean thing, and the person who eats it shall bear his punishment.

¹⁹ ‘Also the flesh that touches anything unclean shall not be eaten; it shall be burned with fire. ^[ac]As for other flesh, anyone who is clean may eat such flesh. ^20 (AV)But the person who eats the flesh of the sacrifice of peace offerings which belong to the Lord, ^[ad]when he is unclean, that person ^(AW)shall be cut off from his people. ^21 (AX)When anyone touches anything unclean, whether human uncleanness, or an unclean animal, or any unclean ^[ae]detestable thing, and eats of the flesh of the sacrifice of peace offerings which belong to the Lord, that person shall be cut off from his people.’”

²² Then the Lord spoke to Moses, saying, ²³ “Speak to the sons of Israel, saying, ‘You shall not eat ^(AY)any fat from an ox, a sheep, or a goat. ²⁴ Also the fat of an animal which dies and the fat of an animal ^(AZ)torn by animals may be put to any other use, but you certainly are not to eat it. ²⁵ For whoever eats the fat of the animal from which ^[af]an offering by fire is offered to the Lord, the person who eats it shall also be cut off from his people. ²⁶ And ^(BA)you are not to eat any blood, either of bird or animal, in any of your dwellings. ²⁷ Any person who eats any blood, that person shall also be cut off from his people.’”

²⁸ Then the Lord spoke to Moses, saying, ²⁹ “Speak to the sons of Israel, saying, ‘He who offers ^(BB)the sacrifice of his peace offerings to the Lord shall bring his offering to the Lord from the sacrifice of his peace offerings. ³⁰ His own hands are to bring offerings by fire to the Lord. He shall bring the fat with the breast, so that the ^(BC)breast may be ^[ag]presented as a wave offering before the Lord. ³¹ And the priest shall offer up the fat in smoke on the altar, but ^(BD)the breast shall belong to Aaron and to his sons. ³² And you shall give ^(BE)the right thigh to the priest as a ^[ah]contribution from the sacrifices of your peace offerings. ³³ The one among the sons of Aaron who offers the blood of the peace offerings and the fat, the right thigh shall be his as his portion. ³⁴ For I have taken from the sons of Israel ^(BF)the breast of the wave offering and the thigh of the ^[ai]contribution from the sacrifices of their peace offerings, and have given them to Aaron the priest and to his sons as their allotted portion forever from the sons of Israel.

³⁵ ‘This is the ^(BG)allotment to Aaron and the allotment to his sons from the offerings by fire to the Lord, on that day when he presented them to serve as priests to the Lord. ^36 [aj]These the Lord had commanded to be given them from the sons of Israel on the day that He ^(BH)anointed them. It is their allotted portion forever throughout their generations.’”

³⁷ This is the law of the burnt offering, the grain offering, the sin offering and the guilt offering, and ^(BI)the ordination offering and the sacrifice of peace offerings, ^38 (BJ)which the Lord commanded Moses on Mount Sinai on the day that He commanded the sons of Israel to ^[ak]present their offerings to the Lord in the wilderness of Sinai.

Parable of Ten Virgins

25 “Then ^(A)the kingdom of heaven will be comparable to ten virgins, who took their ^(B)lamps and went out to meet the groom. ² Five of them were foolish, and five were ^(C)prudent. ³ For when the foolish took their lamps, they did not take extra oil with them; ⁴ but the ^(D)prudent ones took oil in flasks with their lamps. ⁵ Now while the groom was delaying, they all became drowsy and began to sleep. ⁶ But at midnight ^[a]there finally was a shout: ‘Behold, the groom! Come out to meet him.’ ⁷ Then all those virgins got up and trimmed their lamps. ⁸ But the foolish virgins said to the prudent ones, ‘Give us some of your oil, because our lamps are going out.’ ⁹ However, the ^(E)prudent ones answered, ‘No, there most certainly would not be enough for us and you too; go instead to the merchants and buy some for yourselves.’ ¹⁰ But while they were ^[b]on their way to buy the oil, the groom came, and those who were ^(F)ready went in with him to ^(G)the wedding feast; and ^(H)the door was shut. ¹¹ Yet later, the other virgins also came, saying, ‘^(I)Lord, lord, open up for us.’ ¹² But he answered, ‘Truly I say to you, I do not know you.’ ^13 (J)Be on the alert then, because you do not know the day nor the hour.

Parable of the Talents

¹⁴ “^(K)For it is just like a man ^(L)about to go on a journey, who called his own slaves and entrusted his possessions to them. ¹⁵ To one he gave five ^[c](M)talents, to another, two, and to another, one, each according to his own ability; and he ^(N)went on his journey. ¹⁶ The one who had received the five ^(O)talents immediately went and did business with them, and earned five more talents. ¹⁷ In the same way the one who had received the two talents earned two more. ¹⁸ But he who received the one talent went away and dug a hole in the ground, and hid his ^[d]master’s money.

¹⁹ “Now after a long time the master of those slaves *came and *^(P)settled accounts with them. ²⁰ The one who had received the five ^(Q)talents came up and brought five more talents, saying, ‘Master, you entrusted five talents to me. See, I have earned five more talents.’ ²¹ His master said to him, ‘Well done, good and ^(R)faithful slave. You were faithful with a few things, I will ^(S)put you in charge of many things; enter the joy of your ^[e]master.’

²² “Also the one who had received the two ^(T)talents came up and said, ‘Master, you entrusted two talents to me. See, I have earned two more talents.’ ²³ His master said to him, ‘Well done, good and ^(U)faithful slave. You were faithful with a few things, I will put you in charge of many things; enter the joy of your master.’

²⁴ “Now the one who had received the one ^(V)talent also came up and said, ‘Master, I knew you to be a hard man, reaping where you did not sow, and gathering where you did not scatter seed. ²⁵ And I was afraid, so I went away and hid your talent in the ground. See, you still have what is yours.’

²⁶ “But his master answered and said to him, ‘You ^[f]worthless, lazy slave! Did you know that I reap where I did not sow, and gather where I did not scatter seed? ²⁷ Then you ought to have ^[g]put my money in the bank, and ^[h]on my arrival I would have received my money back with interest. ²⁸ Therefore: take the talent away from him, and give it to the one who has the ten talents.’

²⁹ “^(W)For to everyone who has, more shall be given, and he will have an abundance; but from the one who does not have, even what he does have shall be taken away. ³⁰ And throw the worthless slave into ^(X)the outer darkness; in that place there will be weeping and gnashing of teeth.