The Burnt Offering

1 Now the Lord ^(A)called to Moses, and spoke to him ^(B)from the tabernacle of meeting, saying, ² “Speak to the children of Israel, and say to them: ^(C)‘When any one of you brings an offering to the Lord, you shall bring your offering of the livestock—of the herd and of the flock.

³ ‘If his offering is a burnt sacrifice of the herd, let him offer a male ^(D)without blemish; he shall offer it of his own free will at the door of the tabernacle of meeting before the Lord. ^4 (E)Then he shall put his hand on the head of the burnt offering, and it will be ^(F)accepted on his behalf ^(G)to make atonement for him. ⁵ He shall kill the ^(H)bull before the Lord; ^(I)and the priests, Aaron’s sons, shall bring the blood ^(J)and sprinkle the blood all around on the altar that is by the door of the tabernacle of meeting. ⁶ And he shall ^(K)skin the burnt offering and cut it into its pieces. ⁷ The sons of Aaron the priest shall put ^(L)fire on the altar, and ^(M)lay the wood in order on the fire. ⁸ Then the priests, Aaron’s sons, shall lay the parts, the head, and the fat in order on the wood that is on the fire upon the altar; ⁹ but he shall wash its entrails and its legs with water. And the priest shall burn all on the altar as a burnt sacrifice, an offering made by fire, a ^(N)sweet^[a] aroma to the Lord.

¹⁰ ‘If his offering is of the flocks—of the sheep or of the goats—as a burnt sacrifice, he shall bring a male ^(O)without blemish. ^11 (P)He shall kill it on the north side of the altar before the Lord; and the priests, Aaron’s sons, shall sprinkle its blood all around on the altar. ¹² And he shall cut it into its pieces, with its head and its fat; and the priest shall lay them in order on the wood that is on the fire upon the altar; ¹³ but he shall wash the entrails and the legs with water. Then the priest shall bring it all and burn it on the altar; it is a burnt sacrifice, an ^(Q)offering made by fire, a sweet aroma to the Lord.

¹⁴ ‘And if the burnt sacrifice of his offering to the Lord is of birds, then he shall bring his offering of ^(R)turtledoves or young pigeons. ¹⁵ The priest shall bring it to the altar, ^[b]wring off its head, and burn it on the altar; its blood shall be drained out at the side of the altar. ¹⁶ And he shall remove its crop with its feathers and cast it ^(S)beside the altar on the east side, into the place for ashes. ¹⁷ Then he shall split it at its wings, but ^(T)shall not divide it completely; and the priest shall burn it on the altar, on the wood that is on the fire. ^(U)It is a burnt sacrifice, an offering made by fire, a ^[c]sweet aroma to the Lord.

The Law of the Burnt Offering

⁸ Then the Lord spoke to Moses, saying, ⁹ “Command Aaron and his sons, saying, ‘This is the ^(A)law of the burnt offering: The burnt offering shall be on the hearth upon the altar all night until morning, and the fire of the altar shall be kept burning on it. ^10 (B)And the priest shall put on his linen garment, and his linen trousers he shall put on his body, and take up the ashes of the burnt offering which the fire has consumed on the altar, and he shall put them ^(C)beside the altar. ¹¹ Then ^(D)he shall take off his garments, put on other garments, and carry the ashes outside the camp ^(E)to a clean place. ¹² And the fire on the altar shall be kept burning on it; it shall not be put out. And the priest shall burn wood on it every morning, and lay the burnt offering in order on it; and he shall burn on it ^(F)the fat of the peace offerings. ¹³ A fire shall always be burning on the ^(G)altar; it shall never go out.

Daily Offerings^(A)

28 Now the Lord spoke to Moses, saying, ² “Command the children of Israel, and say to them, ‘My offering, ^(B)My food for My offerings made by fire as a sweet aroma to Me, you shall be careful to offer to Me at their appointed time.’

³ “And you shall say to them, ^(C)‘This is the offering made by fire which you shall offer to the Lord: two male lambs in their first year without blemish, day by day, as a regular burnt offering. ⁴ The one lamb you shall offer in the morning, the other lamb you shall offer in the evening, ⁵ and ^(D)one-tenth of an ephah of fine flour as a ^(E)grain offering mixed with one-fourth of a hin of pressed oil. ⁶ It is ^(F)a regular burnt offering which was ordained at Mount Sinai for a sweet aroma, an offering made by fire to the Lord. ⁷ And its drink offering shall be one-fourth of a hin for each lamb; ^(G)in a holy place you shall pour out the drink to the Lord as an offering. ⁸ The other lamb you shall offer in the evening; as the morning grain offering and its drink offering, you shall offer it as an offering made by fire, a ^[a]sweet aroma to the Lord.

⁸ “Also you shall say to them: ‘Whatever man of the house of Israel, or of the strangers who dwell among you, ^(A)who offers a burnt offering or sacrifice, ⁹ and does not ^(B)bring it to the door of the tabernacle of meeting, to offer it to the Lord, that man shall be ^[a]cut off from among his people.

The Grain Offering

2 ‘When anyone offers ^(A)a grain offering to the Lord, his offering shall be of fine flour. And he shall pour oil on it, and put ^(B)frankincense on it. ² He shall bring it to Aaron’s sons, the priests, one of whom shall take from it his handful of fine flour and oil with all the frankincense. And the priest shall burn ^(C)it as a memorial on the altar, an offering made by fire, a sweet aroma to the Lord. ^3 (D)The rest of the grain offering shall be Aaron’s and his ^(E)sons’. ^(F)It is most holy of the offerings to the Lord made by fire.

⁴ ‘And if you bring as an offering a grain offering baked in the oven, it shall be unleavened cakes of fine flour mixed with oil, or unleavened wafers ^(G)anointed^[a] with oil. ⁵ But if your offering is a grain offering baked in a ^[b]pan, it shall be of fine flour, unleavened, mixed with oil. ⁶ You shall break it in pieces and pour oil on it; it is a grain offering.

⁷ ‘If your offering is a grain offering baked in a ^(H)covered pan, it shall be made of fine flour with oil. ⁸ You shall bring the grain offering that is made of these things to the Lord. And when it is presented to the priest, he shall bring it to the altar. ⁹ Then the priest shall take from the grain offering ^(I)a memorial portion, and burn it on the altar. It is an ^(J)offering made by fire, a sweet aroma to the Lord. ¹⁰ And ^(K)what is left of the grain offering shall be Aaron’s and his sons’. It is most holy of the offerings to the Lord made by fire.

¹¹ ‘No grain offering which you bring to the Lord shall be made with ^(L)leaven, for you shall burn no leaven nor any honey in any offering to the Lord made by fire. ^12 (M)As for the offering of the firstfruits, you shall offer them to the Lord, but they shall not be burned on the altar for a sweet aroma. ¹³ And every offering of your grain offering ^(N)you shall season with salt; you shall not allow ^(O)the salt of the covenant of your God to be lacking from your grain offering. ^(P)With all your offerings you shall offer salt.

¹⁴ ‘If you offer a grain offering of your firstfruits to the Lord, ^(Q)you shall offer for the grain offering of your firstfruits green heads of grain roasted on the fire, grain beaten from ^(R)full heads. ¹⁵ And ^(S)you shall put oil on it, and lay frankincense on it. It is a grain offering. ¹⁶ Then the priest shall burn ^(T)the memorial portion: part of its beaten grain and part of its oil, with all the frankincense, as an offering made by fire to the Lord.

The Law of the Grain Offering

¹⁴ ‘This is the law of the grain offering: The sons of Aaron shall offer it on the altar before the Lord. ¹⁵ He shall take from it his handful of the fine flour of the grain offering, with its oil, and all the frankincense which is on the grain offering, and shall burn it on the altar for a sweet aroma, as a memorial to the Lord. ¹⁶ And the remainder of it Aaron and his sons shall eat; with unleavened bread it shall be eaten in a holy place; in the court of the tabernacle of meeting they shall eat it. ¹⁷ It shall not be baked with leaven. I have given it as their ^[a]portion of My offerings made by fire; it is most holy, like the sin offering and the ^(A)trespass offering. ^18 (B)All the males among the children of Aaron may eat it. ^(C)It shall be a statute forever in your generations concerning the offerings made by fire to the Lord. ^(D)Everyone who touches them must be holy.’ ”

¹⁹ And the Lord spoke to Moses, saying, ^20 (E)“This is the offering of Aaron and his sons, which they shall offer to the Lord, beginning on the day when he is anointed: one-tenth of an ^(F)ephah of fine flour as a daily grain offering, half of it in the morning and half of it at night. ²¹ It shall be made in a ^(G)pan with oil. When it is mixed, you shall bring it in. The baked pieces of the grain offering you shall offer for a ^[b]sweet aroma to the Lord. ²² The priest from among his sons, ^(H)who is anointed in his place, shall offer it. It is a statute forever to the Lord. ^(I)It shall be ^[c]wholly burned. ²³ For every grain offering for the priest shall be wholly burned. It shall not be eaten.”

Laws of Grain and Drink Offerings

15 And the Lord spoke to Moses, saying, ^2 (A)“Speak to the children of Israel, and say to them: ‘When you have come into the land you are to inhabit, which I am giving to you, ³ and you ^(B)make an offering by fire to the Lord, a burnt offering or a sacrifice, ^(C)to fulfill a vow or as a freewill offering or ^(D)in your appointed feasts, to make a ^(E)sweet^[a] aroma to the Lord, from the herd or the flock, ⁴ then ^(F)he who presents his offering to the Lord shall bring ^(G)a grain offering of one-tenth of an ephah of fine flour mixed ^(H)with one-fourth of a hin of oil; ^5 (I)and one-fourth of a hin of wine as a drink offering you shall prepare with the burnt offering or the sacrifice, for each ^(J)lamb. ^6 (K)Or for a ram you shall prepare as a grain offering two-tenths of an ephah of fine flour mixed with one-third of a hin of oil; ⁷ and as a drink offering you shall offer one-third of a hin of wine as a sweet aroma to the Lord. ⁸ And when you prepare a young bull as a burnt offering, or as a sacrifice to fulfill a vow, or as a ^(L)peace offering to the Lord, ⁹ then shall be offered ^(M)with the young bull a grain offering of three-tenths of an ephah of fine flour mixed with half a hin of oil; ¹⁰ and you shall bring as the drink offering half a hin of wine as an offering made by fire, a sweet aroma to the Lord.

^11 (N)‘Thus it shall be done for each young bull, for each ram, or for each lamb or young goat. ¹² According to the number that you prepare, so you shall do with everyone according to their number. ¹³ All who are native-born shall do these things in this manner, in presenting an offering made by fire, a sweet aroma to the Lord. ¹⁴ And if a stranger ^[b]dwells with you, or whoever is among you throughout your generations, and would present an offering made by fire, a sweet aroma to the Lord, just as you do, so shall he do. ^15 (O)One ^[c]ordinance shall be for you of the assembly and for the stranger who dwells with you, an ordinance forever throughout your generations; as you are, so shall the stranger be before the Lord. ¹⁶ One law and one custom shall be for you and for the stranger who dwells with you.’ ”

¹⁷ Again the Lord spoke to Moses, saying, ^18 (P)“Speak to the children of Israel, and say to them: ‘When you come into the land to which I bring you, ¹⁹ then it will be, when you eat of ^(Q)the bread of the land, that you shall offer up a heave offering to the Lord. ^20 (R)You shall offer up a cake of the first of your ground meal as a heave offering; as ^(S)a heave offering of the threshing floor, so shall you offer it up. ²¹ Of the first of your ground meal you shall give to the Lord a heave offering throughout your generations.