and do with this bull just as he did with the bull for the sin offering. In this way the priest will make atonement for the community, and they will be forgiven.

Then he shall take the bull outside the camp and burn it as he burned the first bull. This is the sin offering for the community.

‘Bring Aaron and his sons, their garments, the anointing oil, the bull for the sin offering, the two rams and the basket containing bread made without yeast,

He then presented the bull for the sin offering, and Aaron and his sons laid their hands on its head.

Moses slaughtered the bull and took some of the blood, and with his finger he put it on all the horns of the altar to purify the altar. He poured out the rest of the blood at the base of the altar. So he consecrated it to make atonement for it.

But the bull with its hide and its flesh and its intestines he burned outside the camp, as the Lord commanded Moses.

He said to Aaron, ‘Take a bull calf for your sin offering and a ram for your burnt offering, both without defect, and present them before the Lord.

‘This is how Aaron is to enter the Most Holy Place: he must first bring a young bull for a sin offering and a ram for a burnt offering.

‘Aaron is to offer the bull for his own sin offering to make atonement for himself and his household.

‘Aaron shall bring the bull for his own sin offering to make atonement for himself and his household, and he is to slaughter the bull for his own sin offering.

He is to take some of the bull’s blood and with his finger sprinkle it on the front of the atonement cover; then he shall sprinkle some of it with his finger seven times before the atonement cover.

‘He shall then slaughter the goat for the sin offering for the people and take its blood behind the curtain and do with it as he did with the bull’s blood: he shall sprinkle it on the atonement cover and in front of it.

‘Then he shall come out to the altar that is before the Lord and make atonement for it. He shall take some of the bull’s blood and some of the goat’s blood and put it on all the horns of the altar.

The bull and the goat for the sin offerings, whose blood was brought into the Most Holy Place to make atonement, must be taken outside the camp; their hides, flesh and intestines are to be burned.

Present with this bread seven male lambs, each a year old and without defect, one young bull and two rams. They will be a burnt offering to the Lord, together with their grain offerings and drink offerings – a food offering, an aroma pleasing to the Lord.

one young bull, one ram and one male lamb a year old for a burnt offering;

one young bull, one ram and one male lamb a year old for a burnt offering;

one young bull, one ram and one male lamb a year old for a burnt offering;

one young bull, one ram and one male lamb a year old for a burnt offering;

one young bull, one ram and one male lamb a year old for a burnt offering;

one young bull, one ram and one male lamb a year old for a burnt offering;

one young bull, one ram and one male lamb a year old for a burnt offering;

one young bull, one ram and one male lamb a year old for a burnt offering;

one young bull, one ram and one male lamb a year old for a burnt offering;

one young bull, one ram and one male lamb a year old for a burnt offering;