⁴⁵ Now from the sixth hour (noon) there was darkness over all the land until the ninth hour (three o’clock).

⁴⁶ And about the ninth hour (three o’clock) Jesus cried with a loud voice, Eli, Eli, lama sabachthani?—that is, My God, My God, why have You abandoned Me [leaving Me ^[a]helpless, forsaking and failing Me in My need]?^(A)

⁴⁷ And some of the bystanders, when they heard it, said, This Man is calling for Elijah!

⁴⁸ And one of them immediately ran and took a sponge, soaked it with vinegar (a sour wine), and put it on a reed (staff), and was ^[b]about to give it to Him to drink.^(B)

⁴⁹ But the others said, Wait! Let us see whether Elijah will come to save Him ^[c]from death.

⁵⁰ And Jesus cried again with a loud voice and gave up His spirit.

⁵¹ And at once the curtain of the ^[d]sanctuary of the temple was torn in two from top to bottom; the earth shook and the rocks were split.^(C)

⁵² The tombs were opened and many bodies of the saints who had fallen asleep ^[e]in death were raised [to life];

⁵³ And coming out of the tombs after His resurrection, they went into the holy city and appeared to many people.

⁵⁴ When the centurion and those who were with him keeping watch over Jesus observed the earthquake and all that was happening, they were terribly frightened and filled with awe, and said, Truly this was God’s Son!

⁵⁵ There were also numerous women there, looking on from a distance, who were of those who had accompanied Jesus from Galilee, ministering to Him.

⁵⁶ Among them were Mary of Magdala, and Mary the mother of James and Joseph, and the mother of Zebedee’s sons.

⁵⁷ When it was evening, there came a rich man from Arimathea, named Joseph, who also was a disciple of Jesus.

⁵⁸ He went to Pilate and asked for the body of Jesus, and Pilate ordered that it be given to him.

⁵⁹ And Joseph took the body and ^[f]rolled it up in a clean linen cloth ^[g]used for swathing dead bodies

⁶⁰ And laid it in his own fresh (^[h]undefiled) tomb, which he had hewn in the rock; and he rolled a big boulder over the door of the tomb and went away.

⁶¹ And Mary of Magdala and the other Mary kept sitting there opposite the tomb.

⁶² The next day, that is, the day after the day of Preparation [for the Sabbath], the chief priests and the Pharisees assembled before Pilate

⁶³ And said, Sir, we have just remembered how that ^[i]vagabond Imposter said while He was still alive, After three days I will rise again.

⁶⁴ Therefore give an order to have the tomb made secure and safeguarded until the third day, for fear that His disciples will come and steal Him away and tell the people that He has risen from the dead, and the last deception and fraud will be worse than the first.

⁶⁵ Pilate said to them, You have a guard [of soldiers; take them and] go, make it as secure as you can.

⁶⁶ So they went off and made the tomb secure by sealing the boulder, a guard of soldiers being with them and remaining to watch.

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1 The Lord ^[a]called to Moses out of the Tent of Meeting, and said to him,

² Say to the Israelites, When any man of you brings an offering to the Lord, you shall bring your offering of [domestic] animals from the herd or from the flock.

³ If his offering is a burnt offering from the herd, he shall offer a male without blemish; he shall offer it at the door of the Tent of Meeting, that he may be accepted before the Lord.^(A)

⁴ And he shall lay [both] his hands upon the head of the burnt offering [transferring symbolically his guilt to the victim], and it shall be ^[b]an acceptable atonement for him.^(B)

⁵ The man shall kill the young bull before the Lord, and the priests, Aaron’s sons, shall present the blood and dash [it] round about upon the altar that is at the door of the Tent of Meeting.

⁶ And he shall skin the burnt offering and cut it into pieces.

⁷ And the sons of Aaron the priest shall put fire on the altar and lay wood in order on the fire;

⁸ And Aaron’s sons the priests shall lay the pieces, the head and the fat, in order on the wood on the fire on the altar.

⁹ But its entrails and its legs he shall wash with water. And the priest shall burn all of it on the altar for a burnt offering, an offering by fire, a sweet and satisfying odor to the Lord.^(C)

¹⁰ And if the man’s offering is of the flock, from the sheep or the goats, for a burnt offering, he shall offer a male without blemish.

¹¹ And he shall kill it on the north side of the altar before the Lord, and Aaron’s sons the priests shall dash its blood round about against the altar.

¹² And [the man] shall cut it into pieces, with its head and its fat, and the priest shall lay them in order on the wood that is on the fire on the altar.

¹³ But he shall wash the entrails and legs with water. The priest shall offer all of it and burn it on the altar; it is a burnt offering, an offering made by fire, a sweet and satisfying fragrance to the Lord.

¹⁴ And if the offering to the Lord is a burnt offering of birds, then [the man] shall bring turtledoves or young pigeons.

¹⁵ And the priest shall bring it to the altar, and wring off its head, and burn it on the altar; and its blood shall be drained out on the side of the altar.

¹⁶ And he shall take away its crop with its feathers and cast it beside the altar on the east side, in the place for ashes.

¹⁷ And he shall split it open [holding it] by its wings, but shall not cut it in two. And the priest shall burn it on the altar, on the wood that is on the fire; it is a burnt offering, an offering made by fire, a sweet and satisfying odor to the Lord.

2 When anyone offers a cereal offering to the Lord, it shall be of fine flour; and he shall pour oil over it and lay frankincense on it.

² And he shall bring it to Aaron’s sons the priests. Out of it he shall take a handful of the fine flour and oil, with all its frankincense, and the priest shall burn this on the altar as the memorial portion of it, an offering made by fire, of a sweet and satisfying fragrance to the Lord.

³ What is left of the cereal offering shall be Aaron’s and his sons’; it is a most holy part of the offerings made to the Lord by fire.

⁴ When you bring as an offering cereal baked in the oven, it shall be unleavened cakes of fine flour mixed with oil, or unleavened wafers spread with oil.

⁵ If your offering is cereal baked on a griddle, 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 cereal offering.

⁷ And if your offering is cereal cooked in the frying pan, it shall be made of fine flour with oil.

⁸ And you shall bring the cereal offering that is made of these things to the Lord; it shall be presented to the priest, and he shall bring it to the [bronze] altar.

⁹ The priest shall take from the cereal offering its memorial portion and burn it on the altar, an offering made by fire, a sweet and satisfying fragrance to the Lord.

¹⁰ What is left of the cereal offering shall be Aaron’s and his sons’; it is a most holy part of the offerings made to the Lord by fire.

¹¹ No cereal offering that you bring to the Lord shall be made with leaven, for you shall burn no leaven or honey in any offering made by fire to the Lord.^(D)

¹² As an offering of firstfruits you may offer leaven and honey to the Lord, but ^[c]they shall not be burned on the altar for a sweet odor [to the Lord, for their aid to fermentation is symbolic of corruption in the human heart].

¹³ Every cereal offering you shall season with salt [symbol of preservation]; neither shall you allow the salt of the covenant of your God to be lacking from your cereal offering; with all your offerings you shall offer salt.^(E)

¹⁴ If you offer a cereal offering of your firstfruits to the Lord, you shall offer for it of your firstfruits grain in the ear parched with fire, bruised and crushed grain out of the fresh and fruitful ear.

¹⁵ And you shall put oil on it and lay frankincense on it; it is a cereal offering.

¹⁶ The priest shall burn as its memorial portion part of the bruised and crushed grain of it and part of the oil of it, with all its frankincense; it is an offering made by fire to the Lord.

3 If a man’s offering is a sacrifice of peace offering, if he offers an animal from the herd, whether male or female, he shall offer it without blemish before the Lord.

² He shall lay [both] his ^[d]hands upon the head of his offering and kill it at the door of the Tent of Meeting; and Aaron’s sons the priests shall throw the blood against the altar round about.

³ And from the sacrifice of the peace offering, an offering made by fire to the Lord, he shall offer the fat that covers and is upon the entrails,

⁴ And the two kidneys with the fat that is on them at the loins, and the appendage of the liver which he shall take away with the kidneys.

⁵ Aaron’s sons shall burn it all on the altar upon the burnt offering which is on the wood on the fire, an offering made by fire, of a sweet and satisfying odor to the Lord.

⁶ If his peace offering to the Lord is an animal from the flock, male or female, he shall offer it without blemish.

⁷ If he offers a lamb, then he shall offer it before the Lord.

⁸ He shall lay [both] his hands on the head of his offering and kill it before the Tent of Meeting; and Aaron’s sons shall throw its blood around against the altar.

⁹ And he shall offer from the peace offering as an offering made by fire to the Lord: the fat of it, the fat tail as a whole, taking it off close to the backbone, and the fat that covers and is upon the entrails,

¹⁰ And the two kidneys, and the fat on them at the loins, and the appendage of the liver, which he shall take away with the kidneys.

¹¹ The priest shall burn it upon the altar, a food offering made by fire to the Lord.

¹² If [a man’s] offering is a goat, he shall offer it before the Lord,

¹³ And lay his hands upon its head, and kill it before the Tent of Meeting; and the sons of Aaron shall throw its blood against the altar round about.

¹⁴ Then he shall offer from it as his offering made by fire to the Lord: the fat that covers and is on the entrails,

¹⁵ And the two kidneys and the fat that is on them at the loins, and the appendage of the liver which he shall take away with the kidneys.

¹⁶ The priest shall burn them on the altar as food, offered by fire, for a sweet and satisfying fragrance. All the fat is the Lord’s.

¹⁷ It shall be a perpetual statute for your generations in all your dwelling places, that you eat neither fat nor blood.