The Law of Burnt Offerings

1 Now ^(A)the Lord called to Moses and spoke to him from the tent of meeting, saying, ² “Speak to the sons of Israel and say to them, ‘When anyone of you brings an ^(B)offering to the Lord, you shall bring your offering of livestock from ^(C)the herd or the flock. ³ If his offering is a ^(D)burnt offering from the herd, he shall offer a male ^(E)without defect; he shall offer it ^(F)at the doorway of the tent of meeting, so that he may be accepted before the Lord. ⁴ And ^(G)he shall lay his hand on the head of the burnt offering, so that it may be accepted for him to make ^(H)atonement on his behalf. ⁵ Then ^(I)he shall ^[a]slaughter the ^[b]bull before the Lord; and Aaron’s sons the priests shall offer up ^(J)the blood and ^(K)sprinkle the blood around on the altar that is at the doorway of the tent of meeting. ^6 (L)He shall then skin the burnt offering and cut it into its pieces. ⁷ And ^(M)the sons of Aaron the priest shall put fire on the altar and arrange wood on the fire. ⁸ Then Aaron’s sons the priests shall arrange the pieces, with the head and the ^(N)suet, on the wood which is on the fire that is on the altar. ⁹ Its ^(O)entrails, however, and its legs he shall wash with water. And ^(P)the priest shall offer all of it up in smoke on the altar as a burnt offering, an offering by fire as ^(Q)a soothing aroma to the Lord.

¹⁰ ‘But if his offering is from the flock, either from the sheep or from the goats, as a burnt offering, he shall offer a ^(R)male without defect. ¹¹ And ^(S)he shall slaughter it on the side of the altar northward before the Lord, and Aaron’s sons the priests shall sprinkle its blood around on the altar. ¹² He shall then cut it into its pieces with its head and its ^(T)suet, and the priest shall arrange them on the wood which is on the fire that is on the altar. ¹³ The entrails, however, and the legs he shall wash with water. And ^(U)the priest shall offer all of it, and offer it up in smoke on the altar; it is a burnt offering, an offering by fire of a soothing aroma to the Lord.

¹⁴ ‘But if his offering to the Lord is a burnt offering of birds, then he shall bring his offering from the ^(V)turtledoves or from young doves. ¹⁵ The priest shall bring it to the altar, and pinch off its head, and offer it up in smoke on the altar; and its blood is to be drained out ^(W)on the side of the altar. ¹⁶ He shall also remove its craw with its feathers and throw it beside the altar eastward, to the place of the ^(X)fatty ashes. ¹⁷ Then he shall tear it by its wings, but ^(Y)shall not sever it. And the priest shall offer it up in smoke on the altar, on the wood which is on the fire; ^(Z)it is a burnt offering, an offering by fire of a soothing aroma to the Lord.

The Law of Grain Offerings

2 ‘Now when anyone presents a ^(AA)grain offering as an offering to the Lord, his offering shall be of fine flour, and he shall pour oil on it and put frankincense on it. ² He shall then bring it to Aaron’s sons the priests; and he shall take from it ^(AB)his handful of its fine flour and of its oil, with all of its frankincense. And the priest shall offer it up in smoke as its ^(AC)memorial portion on the altar, an offering by fire of a soothing aroma to the Lord. ^3 (AD)The remainder of the grain offering belongs to ^(AE)Aaron and his sons: a most holy part of the offerings to the Lord by fire.

⁴ ‘Now when you bring an offering of a grain offering baked in an oven, it shall be ^(AF)unleavened cakes of fine flour mixed with oil, or unleavened wafers ^[c]spread with oil. ⁵ And if your offering is a grain offering made ^(AG)on the griddle, it shall be of fine flour, unleavened, mixed with oil; ⁶ you shall break it into bits and pour oil on it; it is a grain offering. ⁷ Now if your offering is a grain offering made ^(AH)in a ^[d]pan, it shall be made of fine flour with oil. ⁸ When you bring in the grain offering which is made of these things to the Lord, it shall be presented to the priest, and he shall bring it to the altar. ⁹ The priest then shall take up from the grain offering ^(AI)its memorial portion, and shall offer it up in smoke on the altar as an offering by fire of a soothing aroma to the Lord. ^10 (AJ)The remainder of the grain offering belongs to Aaron and his sons: a most holy part of the offerings to the Lord by fire.

¹¹ ‘^(AK)No grain offering, which you bring to the Lord, shall be made with leaven, for you shall not offer ^[e]up in smoke any leaven or any honey as an ^(AL)offering by fire to the Lord. ^12 (AM)As an offering of first fruits you shall bring them to the Lord, but they shall not ascend as a soothing aroma on the altar. ¹³ Every grain offering of yours, moreover, you shall season with salt, so that ^(AN)the salt of the covenant of your God will not be lacking from your grain offering; with all your offerings you shall offer salt.

¹⁴ ‘Also if you bring a grain offering of early ripened things to the Lord, you shall bring ^(AO)fresh heads of grain roasted in the fire, crushed grain of new growth, for the grain offering of your early ripened produce. ¹⁵ You shall then put oil on it and place incense on it; it is a grain offering. ¹⁶ Then the priest shall offer up in smoke ^(AP)its memorial portion, part of its crushed grain and its oil with all its incense as an offering by fire to the Lord.

The Law of Peace Offerings

3 ‘Now if his offering is a ^(AQ)sacrifice of peace offerings, if he is going to offer from the herd, whether male or female, he shall offer it ^(AR)without defect before the Lord. ² And ^(AS)he shall lay his hand on the head of his offering and ^(AT)slaughter it at the doorway of the tent of meeting, and Aaron’s sons the priests shall sprinkle the blood around on the altar. ³ From the sacrifice of the peace offerings he shall then present an offering by fire to the Lord, the fat that covers the entrails and all the fat that is on the entrails, ⁴ and the two kidneys with the fat that is on them, which is on the loins, and the ^[f]lobe of the liver, which he shall remove with the kidneys. ⁵ Then ^(AU)Aaron’s sons shall offer it up in smoke on the altar ^(AV)on the burnt offering, which is on the wood that is on the fire; ^(AW)it is an offering by fire of a soothing aroma to the Lord. ⁶ But if his offering for a sacrifice of peace offerings to the Lord is from the flock, he shall offer it, male or female, ^(AX)without defect. ⁷ If he is going to offer ^(AY)a lamb for his offering, then he shall offer it ^(AZ)before the Lord, ⁸ and ^(BA)he shall lay his hand on the head of his offering and ^(BB)slaughter it in front of the tent of meeting, and Aaron’s sons shall ^(BC)sprinkle its blood around on the altar. ⁹ From the ^(BD)sacrifice of peace offerings he shall then bring as an offering by fire to the Lord, its fat, the entire fat tail which he shall remove close to the backbone, the fat that covers the entrails, and all the fat that is on the entrails, ¹⁰ and the two kidneys with the fat that is on them, which is on the loins, and the ^[g]lobe of the liver, which he shall remove ^(BE)with the kidneys. ¹¹ Then the priest shall offer it up in smoke ^(BF)on the altar as ^(BG)food, an offering by fire to the Lord.

¹² ‘Now if his offering is ^(BH)a goat, then he shall offer it before the Lord, ¹³ and he shall lay his hand on its head and slaughter it in front of the tent of meeting, and the sons of Aaron shall sprinkle its blood around on the altar. ¹⁴ From it he shall present his offering as an offering by fire to the Lord, the fat that covers the entrails and all the fat that is on the entrails, ¹⁵ and the two kidneys with the fat that is on them, which is on the loins, and the ^[h]lobe of the liver, which he shall remove ^(BI)with the kidneys. ¹⁶ The priest shall offer them up in smoke on the altar as food, an offering by fire as a soothing aroma; ^(BJ)all fat is the Lord’s. ¹⁷ It is a ^(BK)permanent statute throughout your generations in all your dwelling places: you shall not eat any fat ^(BL)or any blood.’”

The Law of Sin Offerings

4 Then the Lord spoke to Moses, saying, ² “Speak to the sons of Israel, saying, ‘If a person sins ^(BM)unintentionally in any of the ^[i]things which the Lord has ^(BN)commanded not to be done, and commits any of them, ^3 (BO)if the anointed priest sins so as to bring guilt on the people, then he is to offer to the Lord a ^[j]bull without defect as a sin offering for his sin which he has ^[k]committed. ⁴ He shall bring the bull to the doorway of the tent of meeting before the Lord, and ^(BP)he shall lay his hand on the head of the bull and slaughter the bull before the Lord. ⁵ Then the ^(BQ)anointed priest is to take some of the blood of the bull and bring it to the tent of meeting, ⁶ and the priest shall dip his finger in the blood and sprinkle some of the blood seven times before the Lord, in front of ^(BR)the veil of the sanctuary. ⁷ The priest shall also put some of the blood on the horns of ^(BS)the altar of fragrant incense which is before the Lord in the tent of meeting; and all the rest of the blood of the bull he shall pour out at the base of the altar of burnt offering, which is at the doorway of the tent of meeting. ⁸ And ^(BT)he shall remove from it all the fat of the bull of the sin offering: the fat that covers the entrails, and all the fat which is on the entrails, ⁹ and the two kidneys with the fat that is on them, which is on the loins, and the ^[l]lobe of the liver, which he shall remove ^(BU)with the kidneys ¹⁰ (just as it is removed from the ox of the sacrifice of peace offerings); and the priest is to offer them up in smoke on the altar of burnt offering. ¹¹ But ^(BV)the hide of the bull and all its flesh, along with its head, its legs, its entrails, and its refuse, ^12 [m]that is, all the rest of the bull, he is to bring out to ^(BW)a clean place outside the camp where the fatty ashes are poured out, and burn it on wood with fire; where the fatty ashes are poured out it shall be burned.

¹³ ‘^(BX)Now if the entire congregation of Israel does wrong unintentionally and the matter ^[n]escapes the notice of the assembly, and they commit any of the ^[o]things which the Lord has commanded not to be done, and they become guilty; ^14 (BY)when the sin ^[p]which they have ^[q]committed becomes known, then the assembly shall offer ^(BZ)a ^[r]bull of the herd as a sin offering and bring it in front of the tent of meeting. ¹⁵ Then ^(CA)the elders of the congregation shall lay their hands on the head of the bull before the Lord, and the bull shall be slaughtered ^(CB)before the Lord. ¹⁶ Then the anointed priest is to bring some of the blood of the bull to the tent of meeting; ¹⁷ and ^(CC)the priest shall dip his finger in the blood and sprinkle it seven times before the Lord, in front of the veil. ¹⁸ He shall then put some of the blood on the horns of ^(CD)the altar which is before the Lord ^[s]in the tent of meeting; and all the rest of the blood he shall pour out at the base of the altar of burnt offering which is at the doorway of the tent of meeting. ¹⁹ And ^(CE)he shall remove all its fat from it and offer it up in smoke on the altar. ²⁰ He shall also do with the bull just as he did with ^(CF)the bull of the sin offering; he shall do the same with it. So ^(CG)the priest shall make atonement for them, and they will be forgiven. ²¹ Then he is to bring the bull out to a place outside the camp and burn it just as he burned the first bull; it is ^(CH)the sin offering for the assembly.

²² ‘When ^(CI)a leader ^(CJ)sins and unintentionally does any of ^[t]the things which the Lord his God has commanded not to be done, and he becomes guilty, ^23 [u](CK)if his sin ^[v]which he has committed is made known to him, he shall bring as his offering a ^[w](CL)goat, ^(CM)a male without defect. ²⁴ And he shall lay his hand on the head of the male goat and slaughter it in the place where they slaughter the burnt offering before the Lord; it is a sin offering. ²⁵ Then the priest is to take some of the blood of the sin offering with his finger and put it on ^(CN)the horns of the altar of burnt offering; and the rest of its blood he shall pour out at the base of the altar of burnt offering. ²⁶ And he shall offer ^(CO)all its fat up in smoke on the altar as in the case of the fat of the sacrifice of peace offerings. So ^(CP)the priest shall make atonement for him regarding his sin, and he will be forgiven.

²⁷ ‘Now if ^[x]anyone of the ^[y]common people sins ^(CQ)unintentionally by doing any of the ^[z]things which the Lord has commanded not to be done, and becomes guilty, ^28 [aa](CR)if his sin which he has ^[ab]committed is made known to him, then he shall bring as his offering a ^[ac](CS)goat, a ^(CT)female without defect, for his sin which he has ^[ad]committed. ²⁹ And ^(CU)he shall lay his hand on the head of the sin offering and ^(CV)slaughter the sin offering at the place of the burnt offering. ³⁰ The priest shall then take some of its blood with his finger and put it on the horns of ^(CW)the altar of burnt offering; and ^(CX)all the rest of its blood he shall pour out at the base of the altar. ^31 (CY)Then he shall remove all its fat, just as the fat was removed from the sacrifice of peace offerings; and the priest shall offer it up in smoke on the altar as ^(CZ)a soothing aroma to the Lord. So the priest shall make atonement for him, ^[ae]and he will be forgiven.

³² ‘But if he brings ^(DA)a lamb as his offering for a sin offering, he shall bring a female without defect. ³³ And ^(DB)he shall lay his hand on the head of the sin offering and slaughter it as a sin offering ^(DC)in the place where they slaughter the burnt offering. ³⁴ And the priest is to take some of the blood of the sin offering with his finger and put it on the horns of ^(DD)the altar of burnt offering, and ^(DE)all the rest of its blood he shall pour out at the base of the altar. ³⁵ Then he shall remove ^(DF)all its fat, just as the fat of the lamb is removed from the sacrifice of the peace offerings, and the priest shall offer ^[af]it up in smoke on the altar, on the offerings by fire to the Lord. So ^(DG)the priest shall make atonement for him regarding his sin which he has ^[ag]committed, and he will be forgiven.

The Law of Guilt Offerings

5 ‘Now if a person sins after he hears a ^[ah]public ^(DH)order to testify when he is a witness, whether he has seen or otherwise known, if he does not tell it, then he will bear his punishment. ² Or if a person touches ^(DI)any unclean thing, whether a carcass of an unclean animal, or the carcass of unclean cattle, or a carcass of unclean swarming things, though it is hidden from him and he is unclean, then he will be guilty. ³ Or if he touches human uncleanness, of whatever sort his uncleanness may be with which he becomes unclean, and it is hidden from him, and then he comes to know it, he will be guilty. ⁴ Or if a person ^(DJ)swears thoughtlessly with his lips to do evil or to do good, in whatever matter people speak thoughtlessly with an oath, and it is hidden from him, and then he comes to know it, he will be guilty of one of these things. ⁵ So it shall be when he becomes guilty of one of these things, that he shall ^(DK)confess that in which he has sinned. ⁶ He shall also bring his guilt offering to the Lord for his sin which he has ^[ai]committed, ^(DL)a female from the flock, a lamb or a ^[aj]goat as a sin offering. So the priest shall make atonement on his behalf for his sin.

⁷ ‘But if ^[ak]he cannot afford a lamb, then he shall bring to the Lord his guilt offering for that in which he has sinned, two turtledoves or two young doves, ^(DM)one as a sin offering and the other as a burnt offering. ⁸ He shall bring them to the priest, who shall first offer that which is for the sin offering, and shall pinch off its head at the front of its neck, but he ^(DN)shall not sever it. ⁹ He shall also sprinkle some of the blood of the sin offering ^(DO)on the side of the altar, while the rest of the blood shall be drained out ^(DP)at the base of the altar: it is a sin offering. ¹⁰ The second he shall then prepare as a burnt offering ^(DQ)according to the ordinance. ^(DR)So the priest shall make atonement on his behalf for his sin which he has ^[al]committed, and it will be forgiven him.

¹¹ ‘But ^(DS)if his ^[am]means are insufficient for two turtledoves or two young doves, then for his offering for that which he has sinned, he shall bring the tenth of an ^[an]ephah of fine flour as a sin offering; ^(DT)he shall not put oil on it or place incense on it, for it is a sin offering. ¹² He shall bring it to the priest, and the priest shall take his handful of it as its memorial portion and offer it up in smoke on the altar, ^[ao]with the offerings of the Lord by fire: it is a sin offering. ¹³ So the priest shall make atonement for him concerning his sin which he has ^[ap]committed from ^(DU)one of these, and it will be forgiven him; then ^(DV)the rest shall become the priest’s, like the grain offering.’”

¹⁴ Then the Lord spoke to Moses, saying, ¹⁵ “^(DW)If a person acts unfaithfully and sins ^(DX)unintentionally against the Lord’s holy things, then he shall bring his ^(DY)guilt offering to the Lord: ^(DZ)a ram without defect from the flock, according to your assessment in silver by shekels, in terms of the ^(EA)shekel of the sanctuary, as a guilt offering. ¹⁶ And ^(EB)he shall make restitution for that which he has sinned against the holy thing, and shall add to it a fifth part of it and give it to the priest. ^(EC)The priest shall then make atonement for him with the ram of the guilt offering, and it will be forgiven him.

¹⁷ “Now if a person sins and does any of the things ^[aq]which the Lord has commanded not to be done, ^(ED)though he was unaware, he is still guilty and shall bear his punishment. ¹⁸ He is then to bring to the priest ^(EE)a ram without defect from the flock, according to your assessment, as a guilt offering. So the priest shall make atonement for him concerning his sin which he committed ^(EF)unintentionally and did not know it, and it will be forgiven him. ¹⁹ It is a guilt offering; he was certainly guilty before the Lord.”

Guilt Offering

6 ^[ar]Then the Lord spoke to Moses, saying, ² “^(EG)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 ^(EH)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 ^(EI)restore what he took by robbery or acquired by extortion, or the deposit which was ^[as]entrusted to him, or the lost property which he found, ⁵ or anything about which he swore falsely; ^(EJ)he shall make restitution for it ^[at]in full and add to it a fifth more. ^(EK)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, ^(EL)a ram without defect from the flock, according to your assessment, as a guilt offering, ⁷ and ^(EM)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 [au]Then the Lord spoke to Moses, saying, ⁹ “Command Aaron and his sons, saying, ‘This is ^(EN)the law for the burnt offering: the burnt offering itself shall remain on the hearth on the altar all night until the morning, and ^(EO)the fire on the altar is to be kept burning on it. ¹⁰ The priest is to put on ^(EP)his linen robe, and he shall put on linen undergarments next to his ^[av]body; and he shall take up the fatty ashes to which the fire ^[aw]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 ^(EQ)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 (ER)Then one of them shall lift up from it a handful of the fine flour of the grain offering, ^[ax]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 ^(ES)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 (ET)It shall not be baked with leaven. I have given it as their share from My offerings by fire; ^(EU)it is most holy, like the sin offering and ^(EV)the guilt offering. ^18 (EW)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. ^[ay](EX)Whoever touches them ^[az]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 ^[ba](EY)ephah of fine flour as ^(EZ)a ^[bb]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 ^(FA)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 ^[bc]among his sons shall ^[bd]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: ^(FB)in the place where the burnt offering is slaughtered, the sin offering shall be slaughtered before the Lord; it is most holy. ^26 (FC)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 (FD)[be]Whoever touches its flesh ^[bf]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 ^(FE)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 (FF)Every male among the priests may eat it; ^(FG)it is most holy. ³⁰ But no sin offering ^(FH)of which any of the blood is brought into the tent of meeting to make atonement ^(FI)in the Holy Place shall be eaten; ^(FJ)it shall be burned with fire.

The Priest’s Part in the Offerings

7 ‘Now this is the law of the ^(FK)guilt offering; it is most holy. ² In ^(FL)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 ^(FM)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 ^(FN)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 (FO)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 ^(FP)sin offering: there is one law for them. The ^(FQ)priest who makes atonement with it ^[bg]shall have it. ⁸ Also the priest who presents anyone’s burnt offering, ^[bh]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 ^[bi]pan or on a ^(FR)griddle ^[bj]shall belong to the priest who presents it. ¹⁰ Every grain offering, mixed with oil or dry, shall ^[bk]belong to all the sons of Aaron, ^[bl]to all alike.

¹¹ ‘Now this is the law of the ^(FS)sacrifice of peace offerings which shall be presented to the Lord. ¹² If he offers it by way of ^(FT)thanksgiving, then along with the sacrifice of thanksgiving he shall offer ^(FU)unleavened cakes mixed with oil, and unleavened wafers ^[bm]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 ^(FV)leavened bread. ¹⁴ Of ^[bn]this he shall present one of every offering as a ^[bo]contribution to the Lord; ^(FW)it shall ^[bp]belong to the priest who sprinkles the blood of the peace offerings.

¹⁵ ‘^(FX)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 ^[bq](FY)vow or a ^[br]voluntary offering, it shall be eaten on the day that he offers his sacrifice, and on the next ^[bs]day what is left of it may be eaten; ^17 (FZ)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 ^(GA)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. ^[bt]As for other flesh, anyone who is clean may eat such flesh. ^20 (GB)But the person who eats the flesh of the sacrifice of peace offerings which belong to the Lord, ^[bu]when he is unclean, that person ^(GC)shall be cut off from his people. ^21 (GD)When anyone touches anything unclean, whether human uncleanness, or an unclean animal, or any unclean ^[bv]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 ^(GE)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 ^(GF)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 ^[bw]an offering by fire is offered to the Lord, the person who eats it shall also be cut off from his people. ²⁶ And ^(GG)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 ^(GH)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 ^(GI)breast may be ^[bx]presented as a wave offering before the Lord. ³¹ And the priest shall offer up the fat in smoke on the altar, but ^(GJ)the breast shall belong to Aaron and to his sons. ³² And you shall give ^(GK)the right thigh to the priest as a ^[by]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 ^(GL)the breast of the wave offering and the thigh of the ^[bz]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 ^(GM)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 [ca]These the Lord had commanded to be given them from the sons of Israel on the day that He ^(GN)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 ^(GO)the ordination offering and the sacrifice of peace offerings, ^38 (GP)which the Lord commanded Moses on Mount Sinai on the day that He commanded the sons of Israel to ^[cb]present their offerings to the Lord in the wilderness of Sinai.

The Consecration of Aaron and His Sons

8 Then the Lord spoke to Moses, saying, ² “^(GQ)Take Aaron and his sons with him, and the ^(GR)garments and ^(GS)the anointing oil, and the bull of the sin offering, and the two rams and the basket of unleavened bread, ³ and assemble all the congregation at the doorway of the tent of meeting.” ⁴ So Moses did just as the Lord commanded him. When the congregation was assembled at the doorway of the tent of meeting, ⁵ Moses said to the congregation, “This is the thing which the Lord has commanded us to do.”

⁶ Then ^(GT)Moses had Aaron and his sons come near, and he ^(GU)washed them with water. ⁷ Then he ^(GV)put the tunic on ^[cc]Aaron and wrapped his waist with the sash, and clothed him with the robe and put the ephod on him; and he wrapped his waist with the artistic band of the ephod, ^[cd]with which he fitted it to him. ⁸ He then placed the ^[ce]breastpiece on him, and in the ^[cf]breastpiece he put the ^[cg](GW)Urim and the Thummim. ⁹ He also placed the turban on his head, and on the turban, at its front, he placed ^(GX)the golden plate, the holy crown, just as the Lord had commanded Moses.

¹⁰ Moses then took ^(GY)the anointing oil and anointed the ^[ch]tabernacle and everything that was in it, and consecrated them. ¹¹ He also sprinkled some of it on the altar seven times and anointed the altar and all its utensils, and the basin and its stand, to ^(GZ)consecrate them. ¹² Then he poured some of the ^(HA)anointing oil on Aaron’s head and anointed him, to consecrate him. ^13 (HB)Next Moses had Aaron’s sons come near, and he clothed them with tunics and wrapped their waists with sashes, and bound ^[ci]caps on them, just as the Lord had commanded Moses.

¹⁴ Then he brought ^(HC)the bull of the sin offering, and Aaron and his sons laid their hands on the head of the bull of the sin offering. ¹⁵ Next ^[cj]Moses slaughtered it and took the blood and with his finger ^(HD)put some of it around on the horns of the altar, and purified the altar. Then he poured out the rest of the blood at the base of the altar and consecrated it, to make atonement for it. ¹⁶ He also ^(HE)took all the fat that was on the entrails and the ^[ck]lobe of the liver, and the two kidneys and their fat; and Moses offered it up in smoke on the altar. ^17 (HF)But the bull and its hide, its flesh, and its refuse he burned in the fire outside the camp, just as the Lord had commanded Moses.

¹⁸ Then he presented ^(HG)the ram of the burnt offering, and Aaron and his sons laid their hands on the head of the ram. ¹⁹ And ^[cl]Moses slaughtered it and sprinkled the blood around on the altar. ²⁰ When he had cut the ram into its pieces, Moses ^(HH)offered up the head and the pieces and the suet in smoke. ²¹ After he had washed the entrails and the legs with water, Moses ^(HI)offered up the whole ram in smoke on the altar. It was a burnt offering for a soothing aroma; it was an offering by fire to the Lord, just as the Lord had commanded Moses.

²² Then he presented the second ram, ^(HJ)the ram of ^[cm]ordination, and Aaron and his sons laid their hands on the head of the ram. ^23 [cn]And Moses slaughtered it and took some of its blood and ^(HK)put it on the lobe of Aaron’s right ear, and on the thumb of his right hand and on the big toe of his right foot. ²⁴ He also had Aaron’s sons come near; and Moses put some of the blood on the lobe of their right ear, and on the thumb of their right hand and on the big toe of their right foot. Moses then ^(HL)sprinkled the rest of the blood around on the altar. ²⁵ He then took the fat, and the fat tail, and all the fat that was on the entrails, and the ^[co]lobe of the liver, the two kidneys and their fat, and the right thigh. ²⁶ And ^(HM)from the basket of unleavened bread that was before the Lord, he took one unleavened cake and one cake of bread mixed with oil and one wafer, and placed them on the portions of fat and on the right thigh. ²⁷ He then ^(HN)put all these on the hands of Aaron and on the hands of his sons, and presented them as a wave offering before the Lord. ²⁸ Then Moses ^(HO)took them from their hands and offered them up in smoke on the altar with the burnt offering. They were an ordination offering for ^(HP)a soothing aroma; it was an offering by fire to the Lord. ²⁹ Moses also took ^(HQ)the breast and presented it as a wave offering before the Lord; it was ^(HR)Moses’ portion of the ram of ordination, just as the Lord had commanded Moses.

³⁰ So Moses ^(HS)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, and his sons, and the garments of his sons with him.

³¹ Then Moses said to Aaron and to his sons, “^(HT)Boil the flesh at the doorway of the tent of meeting, and eat it there together with the bread which is in the basket of the ordination offering, just as I commanded, ^(HU)saying, ‘Aaron and his sons shall eat it.’ ³² And ^(HV)the remainder of the flesh and of the bread you shall burn in the fire. ³³ And ^(HW)you shall not go outside the doorway of the tent of meeting for seven days, until the day that the period of your ordination is fulfilled; for he will ^[cp]ordain you through seven days. ³⁴ The Lord has commanded us to do as has been done this day, to make atonement on your behalf. ³⁵ At the doorway of the tent of meeting, moreover, you shall remain day and night for seven days and ^(HX)fulfill your duty to the Lord, so that you will not die; for so I have been commanded.” ³⁶ Aaron and his sons did all the things which the Lord had commanded through Moses.

Aaron Offers Sacrifices

9 Now it came about ^(HY)on the eighth day that Moses called Aaron and his sons and the elders of Israel; ² and he said to Aaron, “^(HZ)Take for yourself a calf, a bull, as a sin offering and a ram as a burnt offering, both without defect, and offer them before the Lord. ³ Then you shall speak to the sons of Israel, saying, ‘Take a male goat as a sin offering, and a calf and a lamb, both one year old, without defect, as a burnt offering, ⁴ and an ox and a ram for peace offerings, to sacrifice before the Lord, and a grain offering mixed with oil; for today ^(IA)the Lord will appear to you.’” ⁵ So they took what Moses had commanded to the front of the tent of meeting, and the whole congregation came near and stood before the Lord. ⁶ And Moses said, “This is the thing which the Lord has commanded you to do, so that ^(IB)the glory of the Lord may appear to you.” ⁷ Moses then said to Aaron, “Come near to the altar and ^[cq](IC)offer your sin offering and your burnt offering, so that you may make atonement for yourself and for the people; then make the offering ^[cr]for the people, so that you may make atonement for them, just as the Lord has commanded.”

^8 (ID)So Aaron came near to the altar and slaughtered the calf of the sin offering which was for himself. ^9 (IE)Aaron’s sons then presented the blood to him; and he dipped his finger in the blood and ^(IF)put some on the horns of the altar, and poured out the rest of the blood at the base of the altar. ¹⁰ The fat and the kidneys and the ^[cs]lobe of the liver of the sin offering he then offered up in smoke on the altar, just as the Lord had commanded Moses. ^11 (IG)The flesh and the hide, however, he burned with fire outside the camp.

¹² Then he slaughtered the burnt offering; and Aaron’s sons brought the blood to him, and he sprinkled it around on the altar. ¹³ They brought the burnt offering to him in ^[ct]pieces, with the head, and he offered them up in smoke on the altar. ¹⁴ He also washed the entrails and the legs, and offered them up in smoke with the burnt offering on the altar.

¹⁵ Then he presented the people’s offering, and took the ^(IH)goat of the sin offering which was for the people, and slaughtered it and offered it for sin, like the first. ¹⁶ He also presented the burnt offering, and ^[cu]offered it according to ^(II)the ordinance. ¹⁷ Next he presented ^(IJ)the grain offering, and filled his ^[cv]hand with some of it and offered it up in smoke on the altar, ^(IK)besides the burnt offering of the morning.

¹⁸ Then ^(IL)he slaughtered the ox and the ram, the sacrifice of peace offerings which was for the people; and Aaron’s sons brought the blood to him, and he sprinkled it around on the altar. ¹⁹ As for the portions of fat from the ox and from the ram, the fat tail, the fat ^(IM)covering, the kidneys, and the ^[cw]lobe of the liver, ²⁰ they now placed the portions of fat on the breasts; and he offered ^[cx]them up in smoke on the altar. ²¹ But ^(IN)the breasts and the right thigh Aaron ^[cy]presented as a wave offering before the Lord, just as Moses had commanded.

²² Then Aaron lifted up his hands toward the people and ^(IO)blessed them, and he stepped down after making the sin offering, the burnt offering, and the peace offerings. ²³ And Moses and Aaron went into the tent of meeting. When they came out and blessed the people, ^(IP)the glory of the Lord appeared to all the people. ^24 (IQ)Then fire went out from the Lord and consumed the burnt offering and the portions of fat on the altar; and when all the people saw it, they shouted and fell ^[cz]face downward.

The Sin of Nadab and Abihu

10 Now ^(IR)Nadab and Abihu, the sons of Aaron, took their respective ^(IS)firepans, and after putting fire in them, placed incense on ^[da]the fire and offered ^[db]strange fire before the Lord, which He had not commanded them. ^2 (IT)And fire came out from the presence of the Lord and consumed them, and they died before the Lord. ³ Then Moses said to Aaron, “It is what the Lord spoke, saying,

So Aaron, therefore, kept silent.

⁴ Moses called also to ^(IX)Mishael and Elzaphan, the sons of Aaron’s uncle Uzziel, and said to them, “Come forward, carry your relatives away from the front of the sanctuary to an area outside of the camp.” ⁵ So they came forward and carried them, still in their ^(IY)tunics, to an area outside the camp, just as Moses had said. ⁶ Then Moses said to Aaron and to his sons Eleazar and Ithamar, “^(IZ)Do not ^[dd]uncover your heads nor tear your clothes, so that you do not die and He does not ^(JA)become wrathful against all the congregation. But your ^[de]kinsmen, the entire house of Israel, shall weep for the burning which the Lord has ^[df]brought about. ⁷ You shall not even go out from the doorway of the tent of meeting, or you will die; for ^(JB)the Lord’s anointing oil is upon you.” So they did according to the word of Moses.

⁸ The Lord then spoke to Aaron, saying, ⁹ “^(JC)Do not drink wine or strong drink, neither you nor your sons with you, when you come into the tent of meeting, so that you do not die—it is a permanent statute throughout your generations— ¹⁰ and ^(JD)to make a distinction between the holy and the profane, and between the unclean and the clean, ¹¹ and ^(JE)so as to teach the sons of Israel all the statutes which the Lord has spoken to them through Moses.”

¹² Then Moses spoke to Aaron, and to his surviving sons, ^(JF)Eleazar and Ithamar, “^(JG)Take the grain offering that is left over from the Lord’s offerings by fire and eat it as unleavened bread beside the altar, for it is most holy. ¹³ You shall eat it in a holy place, because it is your allotted portion and your sons’ allotted portion from the Lord’s offerings by fire; for so I have been commanded. ^14 (JH)The breast of the wave offering, however, and the thigh of the offering you may eat in a clean place, you and your sons and your daughters with you; for they have been given as your allotted portion and your sons’ allotted portion from the sacrifices of the peace offerings of the sons of Israel. ¹⁵ They shall bring ^(JI)the thigh offered by lifting up and the breast offered by waving, along with the offerings by fire of the portions of fat, to present as a wave offering before the Lord; so it shall be a thing perpetually due you and your sons with you, just as the Lord has commanded.”

¹⁶ But Moses searched carefully for the ^(JJ)goat of the sin offering, and behold, it had been burned! So he was angry with Aaron’s surviving sons Eleazar and Ithamar, saying, ¹⁷ “Why ^(JK)did you not eat the sin offering at the ^[dg]holy place? For it is most holy, and ^[dh]He gave it to you to take away ^(JL)the guilt of the congregation, to make atonement for them before the Lord. ¹⁸ Behold, ^(JM)since its blood had not been brought inside, into the sanctuary, you certainly should have ^(JN)eaten it in the sanctuary, just as I commanded!” ¹⁹ But Aaron said to Moses, “Behold, this very day they ^(JO)presented their sin offering and their burnt offering before the Lord. When things like these happened to me, if I had eaten a sin offering today, would it have been good in the sight of the Lord?” ²⁰ When Moses heard that, it was good in his sight.

Laws about Animals for Food

11 The Lord spoke again to Moses and to Aaron, saying to them, ² “Speak to the sons of Israel, saying, ‘^(JP)These are the creatures which you may eat from all the animals that are on the earth. ³ Whatever has a divided hoof, showing split hoofs, and chews the cud, among the animals, that you may eat. ⁴ Nevertheless, ^(JQ)you are not to eat of these, among those which chew the cud, or among those which have a divided hoof: the camel, for though it chews cud, it does not have a divided hoof; it is unclean to you. ⁵ Likewise, the rock hyrax, for though it chews cud, it does not have a divided hoof; it is unclean to you. ⁶ The ^[di]rabbit also, for though it chews cud, it does not have a divided hoof; it is unclean to you. ⁷ And the pig, for though it has a divided hoof, and so it shows a split hoof, it does not chew cud; it is unclean to you. ⁸ You shall not eat any of their flesh nor touch their carcasses; they are unclean to you.

⁹ ‘^(JR)These you may eat, of whatever is in the water: everything that has fins and scales, in the water, in the seas, or in the rivers, you may eat. ^10 (JS)But whatever is in the seas and in the rivers that does not have fins and scales among all the teeming life of the water, and among all the living creatures that are in the water, they are detestable things to you, ¹¹ and they shall be detestable to you; you may not eat any of their flesh, and you shall detest their carcasses. ¹² Whatever in the water does not have fins and scales is detestable to you.

Avoid the Unclean

¹³ ‘Moreover, these ^(JT)you shall detest among the birds; they are detestable, not to be eaten: the ^[dj]eagle, the vulture, and the ^[dk]buzzard, ¹⁴ the red kite, the falcon in its kind, ¹⁵ every raven in its kind, ¹⁶ the ostrich, the owl, the seagull, and the hawk in its kind, ¹⁷ the little owl, the cormorant, and the ^[dl]great owl, ¹⁸ the white owl, the ^[dm]pelican, and the carrion vulture, ¹⁹ the stork, the heron in its kinds, the hoopoe, and the bat.

²⁰ ‘All the ^[dn]winged insects that walk on all fours are detestable to you. ²¹ Yet these you may eat among all the ^[do]winged insects that walk on all fours: those which have jointed legs above their feet with which to jump on the earth. ²² These of them you may eat: the locust in its kinds, the devastating locust in its kinds, the cricket in its kinds, and the grasshopper in its kinds. ²³ But all other ^[dp]winged insects which are four-footed are detestable to you.

²⁴ ‘By these, moreover, you will be made unclean; whoever touches their carcasses becomes unclean until evening, ²⁵ and ^(JU)whoever picks up any of their carcasses shall wash his clothes and be unclean until evening. ²⁶ As for all the animals which have a divided hoof but do not show a split hoof, or do not chew the cud, they are unclean to you; whoever touches them becomes unclean. ²⁷ Also whatever walks on its paws, among all the creatures that walk on all fours, are unclean to you; whoever touches their carcasses becomes unclean until evening, ²⁸ and the one who picks up their carcasses shall wash his clothes and be unclean until evening; they are unclean to you.

²⁹ ‘Now these are to you the unclean among the swarming things which swarm on the earth: the mole, the mouse, and the ^[dq]great lizard in its kinds, ³⁰ the gecko, the ^[dr]crocodile, the lizard, the ^[ds]sand reptile, and the chameleon. ³¹ These are to you the unclean among all the swarming things; whoever touches them when they are dead becomes unclean until evening. ³² Also anything on which one of them may fall when they are dead becomes unclean, including any wooden article, or clothing, or a hide, or a sack—any article ^[dt]of which use is made—^(JV)it shall be put in the water and be unclean until evening, then it becomes clean. ³³ As for any ^(JW)earthenware vessel into which one of them may fall, whatever is in it becomes unclean and you shall break ^[du]the vessel. ³⁴ Any of the ^[dv]food which may be eaten, on which water comes, shall become unclean, and any ^[dw]liquid which may be drunk in every vessel shall become unclean. ³⁵ Moreover, everything on which part of their carcass may fall becomes unclean; an oven or a ^[dx]stove shall be smashed; they are unclean and shall continue as unclean to you. ³⁶ Nevertheless, a spring or a cistern ^[dy]collecting water shall be clean, though the one who touches their carcass shall be unclean. ³⁷ Now if a part of their carcass falls on any seed for sowing which is to be sown, it is clean. ³⁸ But if water is put on the seed and a part of their carcass falls on it, it is unclean to you.

³⁹ ‘Also if one of the animals dies which you have for food, the one who touches its carcass becomes unclean until evening. ^40 (JX)He, too, who eats some of its carcass shall wash his clothes and be unclean until evening, and the one who picks up its carcass shall wash his clothes and be unclean until evening.

⁴¹ ‘^(JY)Now every swarming thing that swarms on the earth is detestable, not to be eaten. ⁴² Whatever crawls on its belly, and whatever walks on all fours, whatever has many feet, in regard to every swarming thing that swarms on the earth, you shall not eat them, because they are detestable. ^43 (JZ)Do not make ^[dz]yourselves detestable through any of the swarming things that swarm; and you shall not make yourselves unclean with them so that you become unclean. ⁴⁴ For ^(KA)I am the Lord your God. Consecrate yourselves therefore, and ^(KB)be holy, because I am holy. And you shall not make yourselves unclean with any of the swarming things that swarm on the earth. ^45 (KC)For I am the Lord who brought you up from the land of Egypt, to be your God; so ^(KD)you shall be holy, because I am holy.’”

⁴⁶ This is the law regarding the animal and the bird, and every living thing that moves in the waters and everything that swarms on the earth, ^47 (KE)to make a distinction between the unclean and the clean, and between the edible creature and the creature which is not to be eaten.

Laws of Motherhood

12 Then the Lord spoke to Moses, saying, ² “Speak to the sons of Israel, saying:

‘When a woman gives birth and delivers a male child, then she shall be unclean for seven days; ^(KF)as she is in the days of her menstruation, she shall be unclean. ³ Then on ^(KG)the eighth day the flesh of his foreskin shall be circumcised. ⁴ And she shall stay at home in her condition of ^[ea]blood purification for thirty-three days; she shall not touch any consecrated thing, nor enter the sanctuary until the days of her purification are completed. ⁵ But if she gives birth to a female child, then she shall be unclean for two weeks, as in her menstruation; and she shall stay at home in her condition of ^[eb]blood purification for sixty-six days.

⁶ ‘^(KH)When the days of her purification are completed, for a son or for a daughter, she shall bring to the priest at the doorway of the tent of meeting a one-year-old lamb as a burnt offering and a young pigeon or a turtledove ^(KI)as a ^[ec]sin offering. ⁷ Then he shall offer it before the Lord and make atonement for her, and she shall be cleansed from the ^[ed]flow of her blood. This is the law for her who gives birth to a child, whether a male or a female. ⁸ But if ^[ee]she cannot afford a lamb, then she shall take ^(KJ)two turtledoves or two young doves, ^(KK)the one as a burnt offering and the other as a ^[ef]sin offering; and the ^(KL)priest shall make atonement for her, and she will be clean.’”

The Test for Leprosy

13 Then the Lord spoke to Moses and to Aaron, saying, ² “When someone has on the skin of his ^[eg]body a swelling, or a scab, or a bright spot, and it becomes an infection of ^[eh]leprosy on the skin of his ^[ei]body, ^(KM)then he shall be brought to Aaron the priest or to one of his sons the priests. ³ The priest shall look at the infected area on the skin of the ^[ej]body, and if the hair in the infection has turned white and the infection appears to be deeper than the skin of his ^[ek]body, it is an infection of leprosy; when the priest has looked at him, he shall pronounce him unclean. ⁴ But if the bright spot is white on the skin of his ^[el]body, and ^[em]it does not appear to be deeper than the skin, and the hair on it has not turned white, then the priest shall ^[en]isolate the person who has the infection for seven days. ⁵ Then the priest shall look at him on the seventh day, and if in his eyes the infection has ^[eo]not changed and the infection has not spread on the skin, then the priest shall ^[ep]isolate him for seven more days. ⁶ The priest shall then look at him again on the seventh day, and if the infected area has faded and the infection has not spread on the skin, then the priest shall pronounce him clean; it is only a rash. And he shall ^(KN)wash his clothes and be clean.

⁷ “But if the rash spreads farther on the skin after he has shown himself to the priest for his cleansing, he shall appear again to the priest. ⁸ And the priest shall look, and if the rash has spread on the skin, then the priest shall pronounce him unclean; it is leprosy.

⁹ “When the infection of leprosy is on someone, then he shall be brought to the priest. ¹⁰ The priest shall then look, and if there is a ^(KO)white swelling on the skin, and it has turned the hair white, and there is new raw flesh in the swelling, ¹¹ it is ^[eq]a chronic leprosy on the skin of his ^[er]body, and the priest shall pronounce him unclean; he shall not ^[es]isolate him, for he is unclean. ¹² If the leprosy breaks out farther on the skin, and the leprosy covers all the skin of the person who has the infection from his head even to his feet, ^[et]as far as the priest can see, ¹³ then the priest shall look, and behold, if the leprosy has covered his entire ^[eu]body, he shall pronounce the one who has the infection clean; it has all turned white and he is clean. ¹⁴ But whenever raw flesh appears on him, he shall be unclean. ¹⁵ The priest shall look at the raw flesh, and he shall pronounce him unclean; the raw flesh is unclean, it is leprosy. ¹⁶ Or if the raw flesh turns back and is changed to white, then he shall ^(KP)come to the priest, ¹⁷ and the priest shall look at him, and behold, if the infected area has turned white, then the priest shall pronounce the one who has the infection clean; he is clean.

¹⁸ “Now when the ^[ev]body has a boil on its skin and it is healed, ¹⁹ and in the place of the boil there is a white swelling or a reddish-white, bright spot, then it shall be shown to the priest; ²⁰ and the priest shall look, and behold, if ^[ew]it appears to be deeper than the skin, and the hair on it has turned white, then the priest shall pronounce him unclean; it is the infection of leprosy, it has broken out in the boil. ²¹ But if the priest looks at it, and behold, there are no white hairs in it and it is not deeper than the skin and is faded, then the priest shall ^[ex]isolate him for seven days; ²² and if it spreads farther on the skin, then the priest shall pronounce him unclean; it is an infection. ²³ But if the bright spot remains in its place and does not spread, it is only the scar of the boil; and the priest shall pronounce him clean.

²⁴ “Or if the ^[ey]body sustains in its skin a burn by fire, and the raw flesh of the burn becomes a bright spot, reddish-white, or white, ²⁵ then the priest shall look at it. And if the hair in the bright spot has ^(KQ)turned white and it appears to be deeper than the skin, it is leprosy; it has broken out in the burn. Therefore, the priest shall pronounce him unclean; it is an infection of leprosy. ²⁶ But if the priest looks at it, and indeed, there is no white hair in the bright spot and it is no deeper than the skin, but is dim, then the priest shall ^[ez]isolate him for seven days; ²⁷ and the priest shall look at him on the seventh day. If it spreads farther in the skin, then the priest shall pronounce him unclean; it is an infection of leprosy. ²⁸ But if the bright spot remains in its place and has not spread in the skin, but is dim, it is the swelling from the burn; and the priest shall pronounce him clean, for it is only the scar of the burn.

²⁹ “Now if a man or woman has an infection on the head or on the beard, ³⁰ then the priest shall look at the infection, and if it appears to be deeper than the skin and there is thin yellowish hair in it, then the priest shall pronounce him unclean; it is a scale, it is leprosy of the head or of the beard. ³¹ But if the priest looks at the infection of the scale, and indeed, it appears to be no deeper than the skin and there is no black hair in it, then the priest shall ^[fa]isolate the person with the scaly infection for seven days. ³² And on the seventh day the priest shall look at the infection, and if the scale has not spread and no yellowish hair has ^[fb]grown in it, and the appearance of the scale is no deeper than the skin, ³³ then he shall shave himself, but he shall not shave the scale; and the priest shall ^[fc]isolate the person with the scale for seven more days. ³⁴ Then on the seventh day the priest shall look at the scale, and if the scale has not spread in the skin and it appears to be no deeper than the skin, the priest shall pronounce him clean; and he shall wash his clothes and be clean. ³⁵ But if the scale spreads farther in the skin after his cleansing, ³⁶ then the priest shall look at him, and if the scale has spread on the skin, the priest need not look for the yellowish hair; he is unclean. ³⁷ If in his sight the scale has remained, however, and black hair has grown in it, the scale has healed, and he is clean; and the priest shall pronounce him clean.

³⁸ “When a man or a woman has bright spots on the skin of the ^[fd]body, white bright spots, ³⁹ then the priest shall look, and if the bright spots on the skin of their ^[fe]bodies are a faint white, it is ^[ff]eczema that has broken out on the skin; he is clean.

⁴⁰ “Now if a man ^[fg]loses the hair of his head, he is only ^(KR)bald; he is clean. ⁴¹ And if his head becomes bald at the ^[fh]front and sides, he is bald on the forehead; he is clean. ⁴² But if on the bald head or the bald forehead there occurs a reddish-white infection, it is leprosy breaking out on his bald head or on his bald forehead. ⁴³ Then ^(KS)the priest shall look at him; and if the swelling of the infection is reddish-white on his bald head or on his bald forehead, like the appearance of leprosy in the skin of the ^[fi]body, ⁴⁴ he is a leprous man, he is unclean. The priest must pronounce him unclean; his infection is on his head.

⁴⁵ “As for the person who has the leprous infection, his clothes shall be torn and ^(KT)the hair of his head shall be ^[fj]uncovered, and he shall ^(KU)cover his ^[fk]mustache and call out, ‘^(KV)Unclean! Unclean!’ ⁴⁶ He shall remain unclean all the days during which he has the infection; he is unclean. He shall live alone; he shall live ^(KW)outside the camp.

⁴⁷ “When a garment has ^[fl]a mark of leprosy in it, whether it is a wool garment or a linen garment, ⁴⁸ whether in ^[fm]warp or ^[fn]woof, of linen or of wool, whether in leather or in any article made of leather, ⁴⁹ if the ^[fo]mark is greenish or reddish in the garment or in the leather, whether in the ^[fp]warp or in the woof, or in any article of leather, it is a leprous ^[fq]mark and it shall be shown to the priest. ⁵⁰ Then ^(KX)the priest shall look at the mark and shall ^[fr]quarantine the article with the mark for seven days. ⁵¹ He shall then look at the mark on the seventh day; if the mark has spread in the garment, whether in the ^[fs]warp or in the woof, or in the leather, whatever the purpose for which the leather is used, the mark is a ^[ft]leprous malignancy, it is unclean. ⁵² So he shall burn the garment, whether it is the ^[fu]warp or the woof, in wool or in linen, or any article of leather, in which the mark occurs; for it is a ^[fv]leprous malignancy. It shall be burned in the fire.

⁵³ “But if the priest looks, and indeed the mark has not spread in the garment, either in the ^[fw]warp or in the woof, or in any article of leather, ⁵⁴ then the priest shall order them to wash the thing in which the mark occurs, and he shall ^[fx]quarantine it for seven more days. ⁵⁵ After the article with the mark has been washed, the priest shall again look, and if the mark has not changed its appearance, even if the mark has not spread, it is unclean; you shall burn it in the fire, whether an eating away has produced bareness on the back or on the front of it.

⁵⁶ “But if the priest looks, and indeed the mark has faded after it has been washed, then he shall tear it out of the garment or out of the leather, whether from the ^[fy]warp or from the woof; ⁵⁷ yet if it appears again in the garment, whether in the warp or in the woof, or in any article of leather, it is an outbreak; the article with the mark shall be burned in the fire. ⁵⁸ But the garment, whether the warp or the woof, or any article of leather from which the mark has disappeared when you washed it, shall then be washed a second time and will be clean.”

⁵⁹ This is the law for the mark of leprosy in a garment of wool or linen, whether in the warp or in the woof, or in any article of leather, for pronouncing it clean or unclean.

Law of Cleansing a Person with Leprosy

14 Then the Lord spoke to Moses, saying, ² “This shall be the law of the person with leprosy on the day of his cleansing. ^(KY)Now he shall be brought to the priest; ³ and the priest shall go ^(KZ)out to a place outside of the camp. Then the priest shall look, and if the ^[fz]leprous infection has been healed in the person with leprosy, ⁴ then the priest shall give orders to take two live clean birds, ^(LA)cedar wood, a ^[ga]scarlet string, and hyssop for the one who is to be cleansed. ⁵ The priest shall also give orders to slaughter the one bird in an earthenware vessel over ^[gb]running water. ⁶ As for the live bird, he shall take it together with ^(LB)the cedar wood, the ^[gc]scarlet string, and the ^(LC)hyssop, and shall dip them and the live bird in the blood of the bird that was slaughtered over the ^[gd]running water. ^7 (LD)He shall then sprinkle seven times the one who is to be cleansed from the leprosy and shall pronounce him clean, and shall let the live bird go free over the open field. ^8 (LE)The one to be cleansed shall then wash his clothes and shave off all his hair, and bathe in water and ^(LF)be clean. And afterward he may enter the camp, but he ^(LG)shall stay outside his tent for seven days. ⁹ Then it shall be on the seventh day that he shall shave off all his hair: he shall shave his head and his beard and his eyebrows, even all his hair. He shall then wash his clothes and bathe his ^[ge]body in water and ^(LH)be clean.

¹⁰ “Now on the eighth day he is to take two male lambs without defect, and a yearling ewe lamb without defect, and three-tenths of an ^[gf]ephah of fine flour mixed with oil as a grain offering, and one ^[gg](LI)log of oil; ¹¹ and the priest who is going to pronounce him clean shall present the person to be cleansed and ^[gh]the offerings before the Lord at the doorway of the tent of meeting. ¹² Then the priest shall take the one male lamb and bring it as a ^(LJ)guilt offering, with the ^[gi](LK)log of oil, and present them as a ^(LL)wave offering before the Lord. ¹³ Next he shall slaughter the male lamb in ^(LM)the place where they slaughter the ^[gj]sin offering and the burnt offering, at the place of the sanctuary—for the guilt offering, ^(LN)like the ^[gk]sin offering, belongs to the priest; it is most holy. ¹⁴ The priest shall then take some of the blood of the ^(LO)guilt offering, and the priest shall put it on ^(LP)the lobe of the right ear of the one to be cleansed, and on the thumb of his right hand, and on the big toe of his right foot. ¹⁵ The priest shall also take some of the ^[gl](LQ)log of oil, and pour it into his left palm; ¹⁶ the priest shall then dip his right-hand finger into the oil that is in his left palm, and with his finger sprinkle some of the oil seven times before the Lord. ¹⁷ Of the remaining oil which is in his palm, the priest shall ^(LR)put some on the right ear lobe of the one to be cleansed, and on the thumb of his right hand, and on the big toe of his right foot, on the blood of the guilt offering; ¹⁸ as for the rest of the oil that is in the priest’s palm, he shall put it on the head of the one to be cleansed. So the priest shall make ^(LS)atonement on his behalf before the Lord. ¹⁹ The priest shall next offer the ^[gm](LT)sin offering and make atonement for the one to be cleansed from his uncleanness. Then afterward, he shall slaughter the burnt offering. ²⁰ The priest shall offer up the burnt offering and the grain offering on the altar. So the priest shall make atonement for him, and ^(LU)he will be clean.

²¹ “^(LV)But if he is poor and his ^[gn]means are insufficient, then he is to take one male lamb for a ^(LW)guilt offering as a wave offering to make atonement for him, and a tenth of an ^[go]ephah of fine flour mixed with oil as a grain offering, and a ^[gp](LX)log of oil, ²² and two turtledoves or two young doves, which ^[gq]are within his means. ^(LY)The one shall be a ^[gr](LZ)sin offering, and the other a burnt offering. ^23 (MA)Then on the eighth day he shall bring them for his cleansing to the priest, at the doorway of the tent of meeting, before the Lord. ²⁴ The priest shall take the lamb of the guilt offering and ^(MB)the ^[gs]log of oil, and the priest shall offer them as a wave offering before the Lord. ²⁵ Next he shall slaughter the lamb of the guilt offering; and the priest is to take some of the blood of the guilt offering and put it on ^(MC)the lobe of the right ear of the one to be cleansed, and on the thumb of his right hand, and on the big toe of his right foot. ²⁶ The priest shall also pour some of the oil into his left palm; ²⁷ and with his right-hand finger the priest shall sprinkle some of the oil that is in his left palm seven times before the Lord. ²⁸ The priest shall then put some of the oil that is in his palm on the lobe of the right ear of the one to be cleansed, and on the thumb of his right hand, and on the big toe of his right foot, on the place of the blood of the guilt offering. ²⁹ Moreover, the rest of the oil that is in the priest’s palm, he shall put on the head of the one to be cleansed, to make atonement on his behalf before the Lord. ³⁰ He shall then offer one of the turtledoves or young doves, ^[gt]which are within his means. ³¹ He shall offer what ^[gu]he can afford, ^(MD)the one as a ^[gv]sin offering and the other as a burnt offering, together with the grain offering. So the priest shall make atonement before the Lord on behalf of the one to be cleansed. ³² This is the law for him in whom there is an infection of leprosy, whose ^[gw]means are limited for his cleansing.”

Cleansing a Leprous House

³³ The Lord further spoke to Moses and to Aaron, saying:

³⁴ “^(ME)When you enter the land of Canaan, which I am giving you as a possession, and I put a spot of leprosy on a house in the land of your possession, ³⁵ then the one who owns the house shall come and tell the priest, saying, ‘Something like ^(MF)a spot of leprosy has become visible to me in the house.’ ³⁶ The priest shall then command that they empty the house before the priest goes in to look at the spot, so that everything in the house need not become unclean; and afterward the priest shall go in to look at the house. ³⁷ So he shall look at the spot, and if the spot on the walls of the house has greenish or reddish depressions and appears deeper than the ^[gx]surface, ³⁸ the priest shall come out of the house, to the ^[gy]doorway, and ^[gz]quarantine the house for seven days. ³⁹ Then the priest shall return on the seventh day and ^[ha]make an inspection. If the spot has indeed spread on the walls of the house, ⁴⁰ the priest shall order them to pull out the stones with the spot on them and throw them away ^[hb]at an unclean place outside the city. ⁴¹ And he shall have the house scraped all around ^[hc]inside, and they shall dump the plaster that they scrape off at an unclean place outside the city. ⁴² Then they shall take other stones and replace the discarded stones, and he shall take other plaster and replaster the house.

⁴³ “If, however, the spot breaks out again in the house after he has pulled out the stones and scraped the house, and after it has been replastered, ⁴⁴ then the priest shall come in and ^[hd]make an inspection. If he sees that the spot has indeed spread in the house, it is ^(MG)a malignant spot in the house; it is unclean. ⁴⁵ The owner shall therefore tear down the house, its stones, its timbers, and all the plaster of the house, and he shall take them outside the city to an ^(MH)unclean place. ⁴⁶ Moreover, whoever goes into the house during the time that he has ^[he]quarantined it, becomes ^(MI)unclean until evening. ⁴⁷ Likewise, whoever lies down in the house shall wash his clothes, and whoever eats in the house shall wash his clothes.

⁴⁸ “If, on the other hand, the priest comes in and ^[hf]makes an inspection and the spot has not indeed spread in the house after the house has been replastered, then the priest shall pronounce the house clean because the spot has ^[hg]not reappeared. ⁴⁹ To cleanse the house then, he shall take ^(MJ)two birds, cedar wood, a ^[hh]scarlet string, and hyssop, ⁵⁰ and he shall slaughter the one bird in an earthenware vessel over ^[hi]running water. ⁵¹ Then he shall take the cedar wood, the ^(MK)hyssop, and the ^[hj]scarlet string, with the live bird, and dip them in the blood of the slaughtered bird as well as in the ^[hk]running water, and sprinkle the house seven times. ⁵² So he shall cleanse the house with the blood of the bird and with the ^[hl]running water, along with the live bird, the cedar wood, the hyssop, and the ^[hm]scarlet string. ⁵³ However, he shall let the live bird go free outside the city into the open field. So he shall make atonement for the house, and it will be clean.”

⁵⁴ This is the law for any spot of leprosy—even for a ^(ML)scale, ⁵⁵ and for the ^(MM)leprous garment or house, ⁵⁶ and ^(MN)for a swelling, for a scab, and for a bright spot— ⁵⁷ to teach ^[hn]when they are unclean and ^[ho]when they are clean. This is the law of leprosy.

Cleansing Unhealthiness

15 The Lord also spoke to Moses and to Aaron, saying, ² “Speak to the sons of Israel, and say to them, ‘^(MO)When any man has a discharge from his ^[hp]body, ^[hq]his discharge is unclean. ³ This, moreover, shall be his uncleanness in his discharge: it is his uncleanness whether his body allows its discharge to flow or whether his body obstructs its discharge. ⁴ Every bed on which the man with the discharge lies becomes unclean, and everything on which he sits becomes unclean. ⁵ Anyone, moreover, who touches his bed shall wash his clothes and bathe in water and be unclean until evening; ⁶ and whoever sits on the thing on which the man with the discharge has been sitting, shall wash his clothes and bathe in water and be unclean until evening. ⁷ Also whoever touches the ^[hr]man with the discharge shall wash his clothes and bathe in water and be unclean until evening. ⁸ Or if the man with the discharge spits on one who is clean, he too shall wash his clothes and bathe in water and be unclean until evening. ⁹ Every saddle on which the man with the discharge rides becomes unclean. ¹⁰ Whoever then touches any of the things which were under him shall be unclean until evening, and the one who carries them shall wash his clothes and bathe in water and be unclean until evening. ¹¹ Likewise, whomever the man with the discharge touches without having rinsed his hands in water shall wash his clothes and bathe in water and be unclean until evening. ¹² However, an ^(MP)earthenware vessel which the man with the discharge touches shall be broken, and every wooden vessel shall be rinsed in water.

¹³ ‘Now when the man with the discharge becomes cleansed from his discharge, then he ^(MQ)shall count off for himself seven days for his cleansing; he shall then wash his clothes and bathe his body in ^[hs]running water and will become clean. ¹⁴ Then on the eighth day he shall take for himself ^(MR)two turtledoves or two young doves, and come before the Lord to the doorway of the tent of meeting and give them to the priest; ¹⁵ and the priest shall offer them, ^(MS)one as a ^[ht]sin offering and the other as a burnt offering. So ^(MT)the priest shall make atonement on his behalf before the Lord because of his discharge.

¹⁶ ‘^(MU)Now if a ^[hu]man has a seminal emission, he shall bathe all his body in water and be unclean until evening. ¹⁷ As for any garment or any leather on which there is a seminal emission, it shall be washed with water and be unclean until evening. ¹⁸ If a man sleeps with a woman so that there is a seminal emission, they shall both bathe in water and be ^(MV)unclean until evening.

¹⁹ ‘^(MW)When a woman has a discharge, if her discharge in her body is blood, she shall continue in her menstrual impurity for seven days; and whoever touches her shall be unclean until evening. ²⁰ Everything also on which she lies during her menstrual impurity shall be unclean, and everything on which she sits shall be unclean. ²¹ Anyone who touches her bed shall wash his clothes and bathe in water and be unclean until evening. ²² Whoever touches any object on which she sits shall wash his clothes and bathe in water and be unclean until evening. ²³ Whether it be on the bed or on the thing on which she is sitting, when he touches it, he shall be unclean until evening. ^24 (MX)If a man actually sleeps with her so that her menstrual impurity is on him, he shall be unclean seven days, and every bed on which he lies shall be unclean.

²⁵ ‘^(MY)Now if a woman has a discharge of her blood for many days, not at the period of her menstrual impurity, or if she has a discharge beyond ^[hv]that period, for all the days of her impure discharge she shall continue as though ^[hw]in her menstrual impurity; she is unclean. ²⁶ Any bed on which she lies all the days of her discharge shall be to her like ^[hx]her bed at menstruation; and every object on which she sits shall be unclean, like ^[hy]her uncleanness at that time. ²⁷ Likewise, whoever touches them shall be unclean, and shall wash his clothes and bathe in water and be unclean until evening. ²⁸ When she becomes clean from her discharge, she shall count off for herself seven days; and afterward she will be clean. ²⁹ Then on the eighth day she shall take for herself two turtledoves or two young doves, and bring them to the priest, to the doorway of the tent of meeting. ³⁰ And the priest shall offer the ^(MZ)one as a ^[hz]sin offering, and the other as a burnt offering. So the priest shall make atonement on her behalf before the Lord because of her impure discharge.’

³¹ “And so you shall keep the sons of Israel separated from their uncleanness, so that they will not die in their uncleanness by their ^(NA)defiling My ^[ia]tabernacle that is among them.” ³² This is the law for the one with a discharge, and for the man ^[ib]who has a seminal emission so that he is unclean by it, ³³ and for the woman who is ill because of menstrual impurity, and for the one who has a discharge, whether a male or a female, or a man who sleeps with an unclean woman.

Law of Atonement

16 Now the Lord spoke to Moses after ^(NB)the death of the two sons of Aaron, when they had approached the presence of the Lord and died. ² The Lord said to Moses:

“Tell your brother Aaron that he shall not enter ^(NC)at ^[ic]any time into the Holy Place inside the veil, before the ^[id]atoning cover which is on the ark, or he will die; for ^(ND)I will appear in the cloud over the ^[ie]atoning cover. ³ Aaron shall enter the Holy Place with this: with a ^[if]bull as a ^[ig](NE)sin offering and a ram as a burnt offering. ⁴ He shall put on the ^(NF)holy linen tunic, and the linen undergarments shall be next to his ^[ih]body, and he shall be wrapped about the waist with the linen sash and the linen turban wound around his forehead (these are holy garments). He shall ^(NG)bathe his ^[ii]body in water and put them on. ⁵ And he shall take from the congregation of the sons of Israel ^(NH)two male goats as a ^[ij]sin offering, and one ram as a burnt offering. ⁶ Then ^(NI)Aaron shall offer the bull as the ^[ik]sin offering, which is for himself, so that he may make atonement for himself and for his household. ⁷ He shall then take the two goats and present them before the Lord at the doorway of the tent of meeting. ⁸ Aaron shall cast lots for the two goats, one lot for the Lord and the other lot for ^[il]the ^[im]scapegoat. ⁹ Then Aaron shall offer the goat on which the lot for the Lord fell, and make it a ^[in]sin offering. ¹⁰ But the goat on which the lot for ^[io]the ^[ip]scapegoat fell shall be presented alive before the Lord, to make ^(NJ)atonement upon it, to send it into the wilderness ^[iq]as the ^[ir]scapegoat.

¹¹ “Then Aaron shall offer the bull of the ^[is]sin offering ^(NK)which is for himself and make atonement for himself and ^(NL)for his household, and he shall slaughter the bull of the ^[it]sin offering which is for himself. ¹² He shall take a ^(NM)firepan full of coals of fire from upon the altar before the Lord and ^[iu]two handfuls of finely ground ^(NN)sweet incense, and bring it inside the veil. ¹³ He shall put the incense on the fire before the Lord, so that the cloud of incense may cover the ^(NO)atoning cover that is on the ark of the testimony, ^(NP)otherwise he will die. ¹⁴ Moreover, ^(NQ)he shall take some of the blood of the bull and sprinkle it ^(NR)with his finger on the atoning cover on the east side; also in front of the atoning cover he shall sprinkle some of the blood with his finger seven times.

¹⁵ “Then he shall slaughter the goat of the sin offering, ^(NS)which is for the people, and bring its blood inside the veil and do with its blood as he did with the blood of the bull, and sprinkle it on the atoning cover and in front of the atoning cover. ^16 (NT)He shall make atonement for the Holy Place, because of the impurities of the sons of Israel and because of their unlawful acts regarding all their sins; and he shall do so for the tent of meeting which remains with them in the midst of their impurities. ¹⁷ When he goes in to make atonement in the Holy Place, no one shall be in the tent of meeting until he comes out, so that he may make atonement for himself and for his household, and for all the assembly of Israel. ¹⁸ Then he shall go out to the altar that is before the Lord and make atonement for it; he shall take some of the blood from the bull and some of the blood from the goat, and ^(NU)put it on the horns of the altar on all sides. ^19 (NV)With his finger he shall sprinkle some of the blood on it seven times and cleanse it, and consecrate it from the impurities of the sons of Israel.

²⁰ “When he finishes atoning for the Holy Place and the tent of meeting and the altar, he shall offer the live goat. ²¹ Then Aaron shall lay both of his hands on the head of the live goat, and ^(NW)confess over it all the wrongdoings of the sons of Israel and all their unlawful acts regarding all their sins; and he shall place them on the head of the goat and send it away into the wilderness by the hand of a man who stands ready. ²² Then the goat shall carry on itself all their wrongdoings to an ^[iv]isolated territory; he shall release the goat in the wilderness.

²³ “Then Aaron shall come into the tent of meeting and take off ^(NX)the linen garments which he put on when he went into the Holy Place, and shall leave them there. ²⁴ And ^(NY)he shall bathe his ^[iw]body with water in a holy place and put on ^(NZ)his clothes, and come out and offer his burnt offering and the burnt offering of the people, and make atonement for himself and for the people. ²⁵ Then he shall offer up in smoke the fat of the sin offering on the altar. ²⁶ The one who released the goat ^[ix]as the ^[iy]scapegoat ^(OA)shall wash his clothes and bathe his ^[iz]body with water; then afterward he shall come into the camp. ²⁷ But the bull of the ^[ja]sin offering and the goat of the ^[jb]sin offering, ^(OB)whose blood was brought in to make atonement in the Holy Place, shall be taken outside the camp, and they shall burn their hides, their flesh, and their refuse in the fire. ²⁸ Then the ^(OC)one who burns them shall wash his clothes and bathe his body with water; and afterward he shall come into the camp.

An Annual Atonement

²⁹ “This shall be a permanent statute for you: ^(OD)in the seventh month, on the tenth day of the month, you shall humble ^[jc]yourselves and not ^(OE)do any work, whether the native, or the stranger who resides among you; ³⁰ for it is on this day that ^[jd]atonement shall be made for you to ^(OF)cleanse you; you will be clean from all your sins before the Lord. ³¹ It is to be a Sabbath of solemn rest for you, so that you may ^(OG)humble ^[je]yourselves; it is a permanent statute. ³² So the priest who is anointed and ^[jf]ordained to serve as priest in his father’s place shall make atonement: he shall put on ^(OH)the linen garments, the holy garments, ³³ and make atonement for the holy sanctuary, and he shall make atonement for the tent of meeting and for the altar. He shall also make atonement for ^(OI)the priests and for all the people of the assembly. ³⁴ Now you shall have this as a ^(OJ)permanent statute, to ^(OK)make atonement for the sons of Israel for all their sins once every year.” And just as the Lord had commanded Moses, so he did.

Blood for Atonement

17 Then the Lord spoke to Moses, saying, ² “Speak to Aaron and to his sons and to all the sons of Israel, and say to them, ‘This is what the Lord has commanded, saying, ³ “Anyone from the house of Israel who slaughters an ox, a lamb, or a goat in the camp, or slaughters it outside the camp, ⁴ and ^(OL)has not brought it to the doorway of the tent of meeting to present it as an offering to the Lord in front of the ^[jg]tabernacle of the Lord, bloodshed is to be counted against that person. He has shed blood, and that person shall be cut off from among his people. ⁵ This shall be done so that the sons of Israel will bring their sacrifices which they were sacrificing ^[jh]in the open field—so that they will bring them to the Lord at the doorway of the tent of meeting to the priest, and sacrifice them as sacrifices of peace offerings to the Lord. ⁶ The priest shall sprinkle the blood on the altar of the Lord at the doorway of the tent of meeting, and ^(OM)offer up the fat in smoke as a soothing aroma to the Lord. ⁷ And ^(ON)they shall no longer offer their sacrifices to the ^[ji]goat demons with which they play the prostitute. This shall be a permanent statute to them throughout their generations.”’

⁸ “Then you shall say to them, ‘Anyone from the house of Israel, or from the strangers who reside among them, who offers a burnt offering or sacrifice, ⁹ and ^(OO)does not bring it to the doorway of the tent of meeting to ^[jj]offer it to the Lord, that person also shall be cut off from his people.

¹⁰ ‘^(OP)And anyone from the house of Israel, or from the strangers who reside among them, who eats any blood, ^(OQ)I will set My face against that person who eats the blood, and will cut him off from among his people.