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Eternal One: ² Moses, I want you to go talk with the Israelites and tell them how to perform ritual offerings: Any time one of you brings an offering to Me, you must bring the offering from the animals of either the herd or the flock. ³ If you are bringing a burnt offering from your herd, then you are to pick an unblemished bull. No diseased, weak, or injured animals are allowed. Offer it at the entrance to the congregation tent so that I can accept it. ⁴ The person offering the sacrifice shall place his hand on the head of the living animal, and the offering will be accepted to atone for the person’s sins. ⁵ You shall slaughter the young bull in My presence. Aaron’s sons, the priests, will offer the blood and splatter it around the altar at the entrance of the congregation tent. ⁶ You shall then skin the burnt offering and cut the animal up into pieces. ⁷ The sons of Aaron the priest will place fire on the altar and arrange the pieces of wood. ⁸ Aaron’s sons, the priests, will place the head, the fat, and individual pieces of the sacrifice on the altar as the wood burns. ⁹ Wash the animal’s organs and legs with water so that unclean elements are not included in the offering. The priest will offer up the whole burnt offering on the altar, and the smoke of the offering will rise and be a pleasant aroma to Me.

¹⁰ If you give a burnt offering from the flock, either of sheep or goats, you are only to offer an unblemished male. No diseased, weak, or injured animals are allowed. ¹¹ Slaughter it on the north side of the altar before Me. Aaron’s sons, the priests, will splatter the blood all around the altar. ¹² Cut the sacrifice up into pieces. The priests will take the head, fat, and rest of the pieces and place them all on the altar as the fire burns. ¹³ Wash the animal’s organs and legs with water. The priest will offer up the whole burnt offering on the altar, and the smoke of the sacrifice will rise and be a pleasant aroma to Me.

¹⁴ But if you have no flock or herd of your own, then you may offer Me birds; your offering is to be turtledoves or young pigeons. ¹⁵ The priest will take it to the altar, pull off its head, and offer up the sacrifice as smoke on the altar. Its blood will be drained onto the side of the altar. ¹⁶ The priest will remove the crop and feathers and toss them on the eastern side of the altar in the ash pile. ¹⁷ Then the priest will tear the bird open by its wings without separating them completely from its body. The priest will offer up the burnt offering as smoke on the wood-fire of the altar, and the smoke of the sacrifice will rise and be a pleasant aroma to Me.

2 Eternal One: Any time one of you brings a grain offering to Me, it should be the finest flour mixed with olive oil and frankincense. ² Give it to Aaron’s sons, the priests. One of the priests will take a handful of the fine flour mixed with olive oil and frankincense and offer up a memorial portion on the altar, and the smoke of the offering will rise and be a pleasant aroma to Me. ³ The rest of the grain offering is for Aaron and his sons. It is a most holy part of the fire-offerings dedicated to Me. No one other than the priests may eat it.

Eternal One: ⁴ Any time one of you brings a grain offering that was prepared in an oven, it should be bread made without yeast from the finest flour mixed with oil or a wafer made without yeast spread with oil. ⁵ Any time one of you brings a grain offering that was prepared on a griddle, it should be made without yeast from the finest flour mixed with oil. ⁶ Separate it into pieces, pour oil on it, and present it as a grain offering. ⁷ Any time one of you brings a grain offering that was prepared in a pan, it should be made from the finest flour and mixed with oil. ⁸ Whenever you bring any of these grain offerings to Me, it should be given to the priest who will then take it to the altar. ⁹ The priest will offer up the memorial portion on the altar, and the smoke of the offering will rise and be a pleasant aroma to Me. ¹⁰ The rest of the grain offering is for Aaron and his sons. It is a most holy part of the fire-offerings dedicated to Me. No one other than the priests may eat it.

¹¹ Every grain offering that is presented before Me must be made without yeast because it is forbidden to offer up any yeast or honey to Me by means of the fire-offering. ¹² When you bring an offering of the first and finest part of the harvest to Me, you may bring yeast and honey but they must not be offered up in smoke as a pleasant aroma. ¹³ You must salt every grain offering you bring so that the salt of your covenant with God^[a] will not be missing. You will season all of the offerings you present with salt.

Eternal One: ¹⁴ If you present a grain offering from the first ripe grain of your harvest to Me, bring fresh new grain, crushed and roasted in the fire. ¹⁵ Also mix it with oil and frankincense because it is presented as a grain offering. ¹⁶ The priests will then offer up a memorial portion of the grain mixed with oil and all of the frankincense as a fire-offering to Me.

3 Eternal One: Any time one of you presents a sacrifice from the herd as a peace offering, you must offer only an unblemished cow or bull before Me.

Eternal One: ² You will put your hand on the animal’s head and slaughter it at the entrance of the congregation tent. Aaron’s sons, the priests, will splatter its blood against the sides of the altar. ³ From the sacrifice of the peace offerings, you must bring to Me as a fire-offering the fat covering and surrounding the animal’s organs, ⁴ the two kidneys and also the fat on them from the loins, and the lobe of the liver (which will be removed along with the kidneys). ⁵ Aaron’s sons will offer this peace offering on top of the burnt offering on the altar, and the smoke of the sacrifice will rise and be a pleasant aroma to Me.

⁶ If the animal sacrifice for the peace offering to Me is of the flock, then you must offer an unblemished male or female. ⁷ If you bring a lamb as your offering before Me, ⁸ you must place your hand on the head of the offering and slaughter it at the entrance of the congregation tent. Aaron’s sons will then splatter the blood of the lamb against the sides of the altar. ⁹ From the peace offering, you must bring to Me as a fire-offering its fat, the tail (which is to be cut off near the backbone), the fat covering and surrounding the organs, ¹⁰ the two kidneys and the fat on them from the loins, and the lobe of the liver (which must be removed along with the kidneys). ¹¹ The priest will then offer all these on the altar as a fire-offering to Me.

¹² If you bring a goat as your offering before Me, ¹³ you must place your hand on its head and slaughter it at the entrance of the congregation tent. Aaron’s sons will then splatter its blood against the sides of the altar. ¹⁴ From this offering, you must bring to Me as a fire-offering the fat covering and surrounding the organs, ¹⁵ the two kidneys and the fat on them near the loins, and the lobe of the liver (which must be removed along with the kidneys). ¹⁶ The priest will then offer all these on the altar, and the smoke of the sacrifice will rise and be a pleasant aroma. All the fat belongs to Me.

¹⁷ Do not eat any fat or blood. This directive stands throughout all generations regardless of where you live.

Eternal One: ² Moses, go, talk with the Israelites, and tell them that if someone unwittingly commits a sin that violates any of the directives I have given, this is what you should do.

Eternal One: ³ If the person anointed as priest commits a sin, he brings guilt on the people and they suffer the consequences. So the priest must offer the most valuable animal—an unblemished, young bull—to Me as a purification offering for sin. ⁴ He must bring the bull to the entrance of the congregation tent, place his hand on the bull’s head, and slaughter it in My presence. ⁵ The anointed priest must then carry some of the bull’s blood inside the congregation tent. ⁶ While in the tent, he is to dip his finger into the blood and sprinkle it seven times before Me in front of the veil of the sanctuary. ⁷ He must then approach the altar of fragrant incense and place some of the blood on its horns before Me. He must then pour the rest of the bull’s blood at the base of the altar of burnt offering located near the entrance of the congregation tent. ⁸ The priest must remove all of the fat from the bull being offered as a purification offering for sin, the fat covering and surrounding the organs, ⁹ the two kidneys and the fat on them near the loins, and the lobe of the liver (which must be removed with the kidneys). ¹⁰ He should remove these portions in the same manner that they are removed from the ox sacrificed as a peace offering. The priest should then offer them on the altar of burnt offering. ¹¹ As for the bull’s skin and the rest of its meat, head, legs, intestines, and excrement— ¹² basically, the rest of the bull’s body—the priest must move it to a ritually clean space where ashes are dumped outside the community, and he must burn it there on the wood-fire. It must be burned in the place where the ashes are dumped.

¹³ If the entire community of Israel unintentionally commits a sin and, for a time at least, the sin goes unnoticed by the community, and they have violated any one of the directives I gave them, and they are guilty, ¹⁴ then later when the sin is realized, the community must offer a young bull as a purification offering for sin. They must bring the bull to the entrance of the congregation tent. ¹⁵ The community elders are to place their hands on the bull’s head and then slaughter the bull in My presence. ¹⁶ The one anointed as high priest must then carry some of the bull’s blood into the congregation tent, ¹⁷ where he is to dip his finger into the blood and sprinkle it seven times in My presence in front of the veil of the sanctuary. ¹⁸ The priest must also approach the altar, which is before Me in the congregation tent, and place some of the blood on its horns. He is to pour the rest of the blood at the base of the altar of burnt offering located at the entrance to the congregation tent. ¹⁹ The priest must remove all the bull’s fat and offer it up in smoke on the altar. ²⁰ He is to do the same thing with this bull that he did with the bull of the purification offering for sin. This is how the priest will cover the sin of the community of Israel, and the entire community will be forgiven. ²¹ Then the priest must carry the rest of the bull’s body outside the camp and burn it in the same manner that he burned the first purification-offering bull. This is the purification offering for sin when the entire community is involved.

^22-23 The following are instructions for what to do when a leader unwittingly commits a sin by violating any of My directives: When he realizes his guilt or the sin he committed is brought to his attention, then he must bring an unblemished male goat as his offering.

²⁴ He is to place his hand on the head of the goat and slaughter it in the same spot where the burnt offerings are slaughtered in My presence. The goat is to be presented as a purification offering for sin. ²⁵ The officiating priest must dip his finger into the blood of the sin offering, put it on the horns of the altar of burnt offering, and then pour the rest of the blood at the base of the altar. ²⁶ The priest is to offer up all of its fat as smoke in the same way that the fat of the peace offering is offered up. This is how the priest will cover the leader’s sin, and the leader will be forgiven.

^27-28 If a common person among you unwittingly commits a sin by violating any of My directives, once he realizes his guilt or the sin he committed is brought to his attention, then he should offer an unblemished female goat for his wrong. ²⁹ He must place his hand on the head of the purification offering for sin and slaughter it in the same spot where the burnt offerings are slaughtered. ³⁰ The priest will then dip his finger in some of its blood, put it on the horns of the altar of burnt offering, and then pour the rest of the blood at the base of the altar. ³¹ The priest is then to remove its fat in the same manner that the fat is removed from the peace offerings. The priest must offer up the fat on the altar, and the smoke of the sacrifice will rise and be a pleasant aroma to Me. This is how the priest will cover the sins of common people and how they will be forgiven.

³² If a person presents a lamb for the purification offering for sin, then he must bring an unblemished female. ³³ He is to place his hand on the lamb’s head and slaughter it as a purification offering for sin in the same spot where the burnt offerings are slaughtered. ³⁴ The priest must then dip his finger into the blood of the purification offering for sin, put it on the horns of the altar of burnt offering, and then pour the rest of the blood at the base of the altar. ³⁵ The priest is to remove all of its fat in the same manner that the fat is removed from the sacrifice of the peace offerings, and the priest will offer it up on the altar on top of the fire-offering to Me. This is how the priest will make atonement for the sin this person committed, and this is how he will be forgiven.