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Leviticus 8

    ²Take Aaron and his sons with him, and the garments [symbols of their office], and the anointing oil, and the bull of the sin offering, and the two rams, and the basket of unleavened bread;

    ³And assemble all the congregation at the door of the Tent of Meeting.

    ⁴Moses did as the Lord commanded him, and the congregation was assembled at the door of the Tent of Meeting.

    ⁵Moses told the congregation, This is what the Lord has commanded to be done.

    ⁶Moses brought Aaron and his sons and washed them with water.

    ⁷He put on Aaron the long undertunic, girded him with the long sash, clothed him with the robe, put the ephod (an upper vestment) upon him, and girded him with the skillfully woven cords attached to the ephod, binding it to him.

    ⁸And Moses put upon Aaron the breastplate; also he put in the breastplate the Urim and the Thummim [articles upon which the high priest put his hand when seeking the divine will concerning the nation].

    ⁹And he put the turban or miter on his head; on it, in front, Moses put the shining gold plate, the holy diadem, as the Lord commanded him.

    ¹⁰And Moses took the anointing oil and anointed the tabernacle and all that was in it, and consecrated them.

    ¹¹And he sprinkled some of the oil on the altar seven times and anointed the altar and all its utensils, and the laver and its base, to consecrate them.

    ¹²And he poured some of the anointing oil upon Aaron's head and anointed him to consecrate him.

    ¹³And Moses brought Aaron's sons and put undertunics on them and girded them with sashes and wound turbans on them, as the Lord commanded Moses.

    ¹⁴Then he brought the bull of the sin offering, and Aaron and his sons laid their hands on the head of the bull of the sin offering.

    ¹⁵Moses killed it and took the blood and put it on the horns of the altar round about with his finger and poured the blood at the base of the altar and purified and consecrated the altar to make atonement for it.

    ¹⁶He took all the fat that was on the entrails, and the lobe of the liver, and the two kidneys with their fat, and Moses burned them on the altar.

    ¹⁷But the bull [the sin offering] and its hide, its flesh, and its dung he burned with fire outside the camp, as the Lord commanded Moses.

    ¹⁸He brought the ram for the burnt offering, and Aaron and his sons laid their hands on the head of the ram.

    ¹⁹And Moses killed it and dashed the blood upon the altar round about.

    ²⁰He cut the ram into pieces and Moses burned the head, the pieces, and the fat.

    ²¹And he washed the entrails and the legs in water; then Moses burned the whole ram on the altar; it was a burnt sacrifice, for a sweet and satisfying fragrance, an offering made by fire to the Lord, as the Lord commanded Moses.

    ²²And he brought the other ram, the ram of consecration and ordination, and Aaron and his sons laid their hands upon the head of the ram.

    ²³And Moses killed it and took some of its blood and put it on the tip of Aaron's right ear, and on the thumb of his right hand, and on the great toe of his right foot.

    ²⁴And he brought Aaron's sons and Moses put some of the blood on the tips of their right ears, and the thumbs of their right hands, and the great toes of their right feet; and Moses dashed the blood upon the altar round about.

    ²⁵And he took the fat, the fat tail, all the fat that was on the entrails, the lobe of the liver, and the two kidneys and their fat, and the right thigh;

    ²⁶And out of the basket of unleavened bread, that was before the Lord, he took one unleavened cake, a cake of oiled bread, and one wafer and put them on the fat and on the right thigh;

    ²⁷And he put all these in Aaron's hands and his sons' hands and waved them for a wave offering before the Lord.

    ²⁸Then Moses took these things from their hands and burned them on the altar with the burnt offering as an ordination offering, for a sweet and satisfying fragrance, an offering made by fire to the Lord.

    ²⁹And Moses took the breast and waved it for a wave offering before the Lord; for of the ram of consecration and ordination it was Moses' portion, as the Lord commanded Moses.

    ³⁰And Moses took some of the anointing oil and some of the blood which was on the altar and sprinkled it on Aaron and his garments, and upon his sons and their garments also; so Moses consecrated Aaron and his garments, and his sons and his sons' garments.

    ³¹And Moses said to Aaron and his sons, Boil the flesh at the door of the Tent of Meeting and there eat it with the bread that is in the basket of consecration and ordination, as I commanded, saying, Aaron and his sons shall eat it.

    ³²And what remains of the flesh and of the bread you shall burn with fire.

    ³³And you shall not go out of the door of the Tent of Meeting for seven days, until the days of your consecration and ordination are ended; for it will take seven days to consecrate and ordain you.

    ³⁴As has been done this day, so the Lord has commanded to do for your atonement.

    ³⁵At the door of the Tent of Meeting you shall remain day and night for seven days, ^[a]doing what the Lord has charged you to do, that you die not; for so I am commanded.

    ³⁶So Aaron and his sons did all the things which the Lord commanded through Moses.

Leviticus 9

    ²And he said to Aaron, Take a young calf for a sin offering and a ram for a burnt offering, [each] without blemish, and offer them before the Lord.^(A)

    ³And say to the Israelites, Take a male goat for a sin offering, and a calf and a lamb, both a year old, without blemish, for a burnt offering,

    ⁴Also a bull and a ram for peace offerings to sacrifice before the Lord, and a cereal offering mixed with oil, for today the Lord will appear to you.

    ⁵They brought before the Tent of Meeting what Moses [had] commanded; all the congregation drew near and stood before the Lord.

    ⁶And 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, Draw near to the altar and offer your sin offering and your burnt offering and make atonement for yourself and for the people; and offer the offering of the people and make atonement for them, as the Lord commanded.^(B)

    ⁸So Aaron drew near to the altar and killed the calf of the sin offering, which was designated for himself.

    ⁹The sons of Aaron presented the blood to him; he dipped his finger in the blood and put it on the horns of the altar and poured out the blood at the altar's base;

    ¹⁰But the fat, the kidneys, and the lobe of the liver from the sin offering he burned on the altar, as the Lord had commanded Moses.

    ¹¹And the flesh and the hide Aaron burned with fire outside the camp.

    ¹²He killed the burnt offering, and Aaron's sons delivered to him the blood, which he dashed round about upon the altar.

    ¹³And they brought the burnt offering to him piece by piece, and the head, and Aaron burned them upon the altar.

    ¹⁴And he washed the entrails and the legs and burned them with the burnt offering on the altar.

    ¹⁵Then Aaron presented the people's offering, and took the goat of the sin offering which was for the people and killed it and offered it for sin as he did the first sin offering.^(C)

    ¹⁶And he presented the burnt offering and offered it according to the ordinance.

    ¹⁷And Aaron presented the cereal offering and took a handful of it and burned it on the altar in addition to the burnt offering of the morning.

    ¹⁸He also killed the bull and the ram, the sacrifice of peace offerings, for the people; and Aaron's sons presented to him the blood, which he dashed upon the altar round about,

    ¹⁹And the fat of the bull and of the ram, the fat tail and that which covers the entrails, and the kidneys, and the lobe of the liver.

    ²⁰And they put the fat upon the breasts, and Aaron burned the fat upon the altar;

    ²¹But the breasts and the right thigh Aaron waved for a wave offering before the Lord, as Moses commanded.

    ²²Then Aaron lifted his hands toward the people and blessed them, and came down [from the altar] after offering the sin offering, the burnt offering, and the peace offerings.

    ²³Moses and Aaron went into the Tent of Meeting, and when they came out they blessed the people, and the glory of the Lord [the Shekinah cloud] appeared to all the people [as promised].^(D)

    ²⁴Then there came a fire out from before the Lord and consumed the burnt offering and the fat on the altar; and when all the people saw it, they shouted and fell on their faces.

Leviticus 10

    ²And there came forth fire from before the Lord and killed them, and they died before the Lord.

    ³Then Moses said to Aaron, This is what the Lord meant when He said, I ^[b][and My will, not their own] will be acknowledged as hallowed by those who come near Me, and before all the people I will be honored. And Aaron said nothing.

    ⁴Moses called Mishael and Elzaphan, sons of Uzziel uncle of Aaron, and said to them, Come near, carry your brethren from before the sanctuary out of the camp.

    ⁵So they drew near and carried them in their undertunics [stripped of their priestly vestments] out of the camp, as Moses had said.

    ⁶And Moses said to Aaron and Eleazar and Ithamar, his sons [the father and brothers of the two priests whom God had slain for offering false fire], Do not uncover your heads or let your hair go loose or tear your clothes, lest you die [also] and lest God's wrath should come upon all the congregation; but let your brethren, the whole house of Israel, bewail the burning which the Lord has kindled.

    ⁷And you shall not go out from the door of the Tent of Meeting, lest you die, for the Lord's anointing oil is upon you. And they did according to Moses' word.

    ⁸And the Lord said to Aaron,

    ⁹Do not drink wine or strong drink, you or your sons, when you go into the Tent of Meeting, lest you die; it shall be a statute forever in all your generations.

    ¹⁰You shall make a distinction and recognize a difference between the holy and the common or unholy, and between the unclean and the clean;

    ¹¹And you are to teach the Israelites all the statutes which the Lord has spoken to them by Moses.

    ¹²And Moses said to Aaron and to Eleazar and Ithamar, his sons who were left, Take the cereal offering that remains of the offerings of the Lord made by fire and eat it without leaven beside the altar, for it is most holy.

    ¹³You shall eat it in a sacred place, because it is your due and your sons' due, from the offerings made by fire to the Lord; for so I am commanded.

    ¹⁴But the breast that is waved and the thigh that is offered you shall eat in a clean place, you and your sons and daughters with you; for they are your due and your sons' due, given out of the sacrifices of the peace offerings of the Israelites.

    ¹⁵The thigh that is offered and the breast that is waved they shall bring with the offerings made by fire of the fat, to wave for a wave offering before the Lord; and it shall be yours and your sons' with you as a portion or due perpetually, as the Lord has commanded.

    ¹⁶And Moses diligently tried to find [what had become of] the goat [that had been offered] for the sin offering, and behold, it was burned up [as waste]! And he was angry with Eleazar and Ithamar, the sons of Aaron who were left alive, and said,

    ¹⁷Why have you not eaten the sin offering in the Holy Place? It is most holy; and God has given it to you to bear and take away the iniquity of the congregation, to make atonement for them before the Lord.

    ¹⁸Behold, the blood of it was not brought within the Holy Place; you should indeed have eaten [the flesh of it] in the Holy Place, as I commanded.

    ¹⁹But Aaron said to Moses, Behold, this very day in which they have [obediently] offered their sin offering and their burnt offering before the Lord, such [terrible calamities] have befallen me [and them]! If I [and they] had eaten the most holy sin offering today [humbled as we have been by the sin of our kinsmen and God's judgment upon them], would it have been acceptable in the sight of the Lord?^(E)

    ²⁰And when Moses heard that, he was pacified.

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³¹When the Son of Man comes in His glory (His majesty and splendor), and all the holy angels with Him, then He will sit on the throne of His glory.

    ³²All nations will be gathered before Him, and He will separate them [the people] from one another as a shepherd separates his sheep from the goats;^(A)

    ³³And He will cause the sheep to stand at His right hand, but the goats at His left.

    ³⁴Then the King will say to those at His right hand, Come, you blessed of My Father [you ^[a]favored of God and appointed to eternal salvation], inherit (receive as your own) the kingdom prepared for you from the foundation of the world.

    ³⁵For I was hungry and you gave Me food, I was thirsty and you gave Me something to drink, I was a stranger and you ^[b]brought Me together with yourselves and welcomed and entertained and ^[c]lodged Me,

    ³⁶I was naked and you clothed Me, I was sick and you visited Me ^[d]with help and ministering care, I was in prison and you came to see Me.^(B)

    ³⁷Then the just and upright will answer Him, Lord, when did we see You hungry and gave You food, or thirsty and gave You something to drink?

    ³⁸And when did we see You a stranger and welcomed and entertained You, or naked and clothed You?

    ³⁹And when did we see You sick or in prison and came to visit You?

    ⁴⁰And the King will reply to them, Truly I tell you, in so far as you did it for one of the least [^[e]in the estimation of men] of these My brethren, you did it for Me.^(C)

    ⁴¹Then He will say to those at His left hand, Begone from Me, you cursed, into the eternal fire prepared for the devil and his angels!

    ⁴²For I was hungry and you gave Me no food, I was thirsty and you gave Me nothing to drink,

    ⁴³I was a stranger and you did not welcome Me and entertain Me, I was naked and you did not clothe Me, I was sick and in prison and you did not visit Me ^[f]with help and ministering care.

    ⁴⁴Then they also [in their turn] will answer, Lord, when did we see You hungry or thirsty or a stranger or naked or sick or in prison, and did not minister to You?

    ⁴⁵And He will reply to them, Solemnly I declare to you, in so far as you failed to do it for the least [^[g]in the estimation of men] of these, you failed to do it for Me.^(D)

    ⁴⁶Then they will go away into eternal punishment, but those who are just and upright and in right standing with God into eternal life.^(E)