Leviticus, 7

1. The LORD said to Moses,

1. ' "This is the ritual for the sacrifice of reparation: "It is especially holy.

2. "Take Aaron and his sons, together with the vestments, the anointing oil, the bullock for a sin offering, the two rams, and the basket of unleavened food.

2. The victim must be slaughtered where the burnt offerings are slaughtered, and the priest will pour the blood all around the altar.

3. Then assemble the whole community at the entrance of the meeting tent."

3. He will then offer all the fat: the tail, the fat covering the entrails,

4. And Moses did as the LORD had commanded. When the community had assembled at the entrance of the meeting tent,

4. both kidneys, the fat on them and on the loins, the mass of fat which he will remove from the liver and kidneys.

5. Moses told them what the LORD had ordered to be done.

5. The priest will burn these pieces on the altar as food burnt for Yahweh. This is a sacrifice of reparation.

6. Bringing forward Aaron and his sons, he first washed them with water.

6. Every male who is a priest may eat it. It will be eaten inside the holy place; it is especially holy.

7. Then he put the tunic on Aaron, girded him with the sash, clothed him with the robe, placed the ephod on him, and girded him with the embroidered belt of the ephod, fastening it around him.

7. "As with the sacrifice for sin, so with the sacrifice of reparation -- the ritual is the same for both. The offering with which the priest performs the rite of expiation will revert to the priest.

8. He then set the breastpiece on him, with the Urim and Thummim in it,

8. The hide of the victim presented by someone to the priest to be offered as a burnt offering will revert to the priest.

9. and put the miter on his head, attaching the gold plate, the sacred diadem, over the front of the miter, at his forehead, as the LORD had commanded him to do.

9. Every cereal offering baked in the oven, every cereal offering cooked in the pan or on the griddle will revert to the priest who offers it.

10. Taking the anointing oil, Moses anointed and consecrated the Dwelling, with all that was in it.

10. Every cereal offering, mixed with oil or dry, will revert to all the descendants of Aaron without distinction.

11. Then he sprinkled some of this oil seven times on the altar, and anointed the altar, with all its appurtenances, and the laver, with its base, thus consecrating them.

11. "This is the ritual for the communion sacrifice to be offered to Yahweh:

12. He also poured some of the anointing oil on Aaron's head, thus consecrating him.

12. "If this is offered as a sacrifice with praise, to the latter must be added an offering of unleavened cakes mixed with oil, unleavened wafers spread with oil, and wheaten flour in the form of cakes mixed with oil.

13. Moses likewise brought forward Aaron's sons, clothed them with tunics, girded them with sashes, and put turbans on them, as the LORD had commanded him to do.

13. This offering, then, must be added to the cakes of leavened bread and to the communion sacrifice with praise.

14. When he had brought forward the bullock for a sin offering, Aaron and his sons laid their hands on its head.

14. One of the cakes of this offering must be presented as an offering to Yahweh; it will revert to the priest who pours out the blood of the communion sacrifice.

15. Then Moses slaughtered it, and taking some of its blood, with his finger he put it on the horns around the altar, thus purifying the altar. He also made atonement for the altar by pouring out the blood at its base when he consecrated it.

15. The meat of the victim will be eaten on the day the offering is made; nothing may be left until next morning.

16. Taking all the fat that was over the inner organs, as well as the lobe of the liver and the two kidneys with their fat, Moses burned them on the altar.

16. "If the victim is offered as a votive or a voluntary sacrifice, it must be eaten on the day it is offered, and the remainder may be eaten on the following day;

17. The bullock, however, with its hide and flesh and offal he burned in the fire outside the camp, as the LORD had commanded him to do.

17. but on the third day whatever is left of the meat of the victim must be burnt.

18. He next brought forward the holocaust ram, and Aaron and his sons laid their hands on its head.

18. "If any of the meat of a victim offered as a communion sacrifice is eaten on the third day, the person who has offered it will not be acceptable and will receive no credit for it. It will count as rotten meat, and the person who eats it will bear the consequences of the guilt.

19. When he had slaughtered it, Moses splashed its blood on all sides of the altar.

19. "Meat that has touched anything unclean cannot be eaten; it must be burnt. "Anyone clean may eat the meat,

20. After cutting up the ram into pieces, he burned the head, the cut-up pieces and the suet;

20. but anyone unclean who eats the meat of a communion sacrifice offered to Yahweh will be outlawed from his people.

21. then, having washed the inner organs and the shanks with water, he also burned these remaining parts of the ram on the altar as a holocaust, a sweet-smelling oblation to the LORD, as the LORD had commanded him to do.

21. Furthermore, if anyone touches anything unclean, human or animal, or any foul thing, and then eats the meat of a communion sacrifice offered to Yahweh, that individual will be outlawed from his people." '

22. Then he brought forward the second ram, the ordination ram, and Aaron and his sons laid their hands on its head.

22. Yahweh spoke to Moses and said,

23. When he had slaughtered it, Moses took some of its blood and put it on the tip of Aaron's right ear, on the thumb of his right hand, and on the big toe of his right foot.

23. 'Speak to the Israelites and say: "You may not eat the fat of ox, sheep or goat.

24. Moses had the sons of Aaron also come forward, and he put some of the blood on the tips of their right ears, on the thumbs of their right hands, and on the big toes of their right feet. The rest of the blood he splashed on the sides of the altar.

24. The fat of an animal that has died a natural death or been savaged by beasts may be used for any other purpose, but you are not to eat it.

25. He then took the fat: the fatty tail and all the fat over the inner organs, the lobe of the liver and the two kidneys with their fat, and likewise the right leg;

25. Anyone who eats the fat of an animal offered as food burnt for Yahweh will be outlawed from his people.

26. from the basket of unleavened food that was set before the LORD he took one unleavened cake, one loaf of bread made with oil, and one wafer; these he placed on top of the portions of fat and the right leg.

26. "Wherever you live, you will never eat blood, whether it be of bird or of beast.

27. He then put all these things into the hands of Aaron and his sons, whom he had wave them as a wave offering before the LORD.

27. Anyone who eats any blood will be outlawed from his people." '

28. When he had received them back, Moses burned them with the holocaust on the altar as the ordination offering, a sweet-smelling oblation to the LORD.

28. Yahweh spoke to Moses and said,

29. He then took the breast and waved it as a wave offering before the LORD; this was Moses' own portion of the ordination ram. All this was in keeping with the LORD'S command to Moses.

29. 'Speak to the Israelites and say: "Anyone who offers Yahweh a communion sacrifice must bring him part of his sacrifice as an offering.

30. Taking some of the anointing oil and some of the blood that was on the altar, Moses sprinkled with it Aaron and his vestments, as well as his sons and their vestments, thus consecrating both Aaron and his vestments and his sons and their vestments.

30. He must bring the food to be burnt for Yahweh, that is to say, the fat adhering to the forequarters, with his own hands. He will bring it, and also the forequarters, with which he will make the gesture of offering before Yahweh.

31. Finally, Moses said to Aaron and his sons, "Boil the flesh at the entrance of the meeting tent, and there eat it with the bread that is in the basket of the ordination offering, in keeping with the command I have received: 'Aaron and his sons shall eat of it.'

31. The priest will then burn the fat on the altar, and the forequarters will revert to Aaron and his descendants.

32. What is left over of the flesh and the bread you shall burn up in the fire.

32. You will set aside the right thigh from your communion sacrifice and give it to the priest.

33. Moreover, you are not to depart from the entrance of the meeting tent for seven days, until the days of your ordination are completed; for your ordination is to last for seven days.

33. The right thigh will be the portion of the descendant of Aaron who offers the blood and fat of the communion sacrifice.

34. The LORD has commanded that what has been done today be done to make atonement for you.

34. For I have deprived the Israelites of the forequarter offered and the thigh presented in their communion sacrifices, and given them to the priest Aaron and his descendants; this is a perpetual law for the Israelites." '

35. Hence you must remain at the entrance of the meeting tent day and night for seven days, carrying out the prescriptions of the LORD; otherwise, you shall die; for this is the command I have received."

35. Such was the portion of Aaron and his descendants in the food burnt for Yahweh, the day he presented them to Yahweh for them to become his priests.

36. So Aaron and his sons did all that the LORD had commanded through Moses.

36. This was what Yahweh ordered the Israelites to give them on the day they were anointed: a perpetual law for all their descendants.

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37. Such was the ritual for burnt offering, cereal offering, sacrifice for sin, sacrifice of reparation, investiture sacrifice and communion sacrifice,

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38. which Yahweh laid down for Moses on Mount Sinai, the day he ordered the Israelites to make their offerings to Yahweh in the desert of Sinai.