¹⁹ Aaron replied to Moses, “Today they sacrificed their sin offering and their burnt offering^(A) before the Lord, but such things as this have happened to me. Would the Lord have been pleased if I had eaten the sin offering today?”

¹² Then he slaughtered the burnt offering.^(A) His sons handed him the blood,^(B) and he splashed it against the sides of the altar.

⁸ So Aaron came to the altar and slaughtered the calf as a sin offering^(A) for himself.

¹³ Another thing you do: You flood the Lord’s altar with tears.^(A) You weep and wail^(B) because he no longer looks with favor^(C) on your offerings or accepts them with pleasure from your hands.^(D)

¹³ And you say, ‘What a burden!’^(A) and you sniff at it contemptuously,^(B)” says the Lord Almighty.

“When you bring injured, lame or diseased animals and offer them as sacrifices,^(C) should I accept them from your hands?”^(D) says the Lord.

¹⁰ “Oh, that one of you would shut the temple doors,^(A) so that you would not light useless fires on my altar! I am not pleased^(B) with you,” says the Lord Almighty, “and I will accept^(C) no offering^(D) from your hands.

¹² Although they fast, I will not listen to their cry;^(A) though they offer burnt offerings^(B) and grain offerings,^(C) I will not accept^(D) them. Instead, I will destroy them with the sword,^(E) famine^(F) and plague.”^(G)