LEV 1:1 Then the
Lord called to Moses and spoke to him from the tent
of meeting, saying,
LEV 1:2 "Speak to the sons of Israel and say
to them, 'When any man of you brings an offering to
the Lord, you shall bring your offering of animals
from the herd or the flock.
LEV 1:3 'If his offering is a burnt offering
from the herd, he shall offer it, a male without
defect; he shall offer it at the doorway of the tent
of meeting, that he may be accepted before the Lord.
LEV 1:4 'And he shall lay his hand on the
head of the burnt offering, that it may be accepted
for him to make atonement on his behalf.
LEV 1:5 'And he shall slay the young bull
before the Lord; and Aaron's sons, the priests,
shall offer up the blood and sprinkle the blood
around on the altar that is at the doorway of the
tent of meeting.
LEV 1:6 'He shall then skin the burnt
offering and cut it into its pieces.
LEV 1:7 'And the sons of Aaron the priest
shall put fire on the altar and arrange wood on the
fire.
LEV 1:8 'Then Aaron's sons, the priests,
shall arrange the pieces, the head, and the suet
over the wood which is on the fire that is on the
altar.
LEV 1:9 'Its entrails, however, and its legs
he shall wash with water. And the priest shall offer
up in smoke all of it on the altar for a burnt
offering, an offering by fire of a soothing aroma to
the Lord.
LEV 1:10 'But if his offering is from the
flock, of the sheep or of the goats, for a burnt
offering, he shall offer it a male without defect.
LEV 1:11 'And he shall slay it on the side of
the altar northward before the Lord, and Aaron's
sons, the priests, shall sprinkle its blood around
on the altar.
LEV 1:12 'He shall then cut it into its
pieces with its head and its suet, and the priest
shall arrange them on the wood which is on the fire
that is on the altar.
LEV 1:13 'The entrails, however, and the legs
he shall wash with water. And the priest shall offer
all of it, and offer it up in smoke on the altar; it
is a burnt offering, an offering by fire of a
soothing aroma to the Lord.
LEV 1:14 'But if his offering to the Lord is
a burnt offering of birds, then he shall bring his
offering from the turtledoves or from young pigeons.
LEV 1:15 'And the priest shall bring it to
the altar and wring off its head, and offer it up in
smoke on the altar; and its blood is to be drained
out on the side of the altar.
LEV 1:16 'He shall also take away its crop
with its feathers, and cast it beside the altar
eastward, to the place of the ashes.
LEV 1:17 'Then he shall tear it by its wings,
{but} shall not sever {it}. And the priest shall
offer it up in smoke on the altar on the wood which
is on the fire; it is a burnt offering, an offering
by fire of a soothing aroma to the Lord.
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LEV 2:1 'Now when
anyone presents a grain offering as an offering to
the Lord, his offering shall be of fine flour, and
he shall pour oil on it and put frankincense on it.
LEV 2:2 'He shall then bring it to Aaron's
sons, the priests; and shall take from it his
handful of its fine flour and of its oil with all of
its frankincense. And the priest shall offer {it} up
in smoke {as} its memorial portion on the altar, an
offering by fire of a soothing aroma to the Lord.
LEV 2:3 'And the remainder of the grain
offering belongs to Aaron and his sons: a thing most
holy, of the offerings to the Lord by fire.
LEV 2:4 'Now when you bring an offering of a
grain offering baked in an oven, {it shall be}
unleavened cakes of fine flour mixed with oil, or
unleavened wafers spread with oil.
LEV 2:5 'And if your offering is a grain
offering {made} on the griddle, {it shall be} of
fine flour, unleavened, mixed with oil;
LEV 2:6 you shall break it into bits, and
pour oil on it; it is a grain offering.
LEV 2:7 'Now if your offering is a grain
offering {made} in a pan, it shall be made of fine
flour with oil.
LEV 2:8 'When you bring in the grain offering
which is made of these things to the Lord, it shall
be presented to the priest and he shall bring it to
the altar.
LEV 2:9 'The priest then shall take up from
the grain offering its memorial portion, and shall
offer {it} up in smoke on the altar {as} an offering
by fire of a soothing aroma to the Lord.
LEV 2:10 'And the remainder of the grain
offering belongs to Aaron and his sons: a thing most
holy, of the offerings to the Lord by fire.
LEV 2:11 'No grain offering, which you bring
to the Lord, shall be made with leaven, for you
shall not offer up in smoke any leaven or any honey
as an offering by fire to the Lord.
LEV 2:12 'As an offering of first fruits, you
shall bring them to the Lord, but they shall not
ascend for a soothing aroma on the altar.
LEV 2:13 'Every grain offering of yours,
moreover, you shall season with salt, so that the
salt of the covenant of your God shall not be
lacking from your grain offering; with all your
offerings you shall offer salt.
LEV 2:14 'Also if you bring a grain offering
of early ripened things to the Lord, you shall bring
fresh heads of grain roasted in the fire, grits of
new growth, for the grain offering of your early
ripened things.
LEV 2:15 'You shall then put oil on it and
lay incense on it; it is a grain offering.
LEV 2:16 'And the priest shall offer up in
smoke its memorial portion, part of its grits and
its oil with all its incense as an offering by fire
to the Lord.
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LEV 3:1 'Now if
his offering is a sacrifice of peace offerings, if
he is going to offer out of the herd, whether male
or female, he shall offer it without defect before
the Lord.
LEV 3:2 'And he shall lay his hand on the
head of his offering and slay it at the doorway of
the tent of meeting, and Aaron's sons, the priests,
shall sprinkle the blood around on the altar.
LEV 3:3 'And from the sacrifice of the peace
offerings, he shall present an offering by fire to
the Lord, the fat that covers the entrails and all
the fat that is on the entrails,
LEV 3:4 and the two kidneys with the fat that
is on them, which is on the loins, and the lobe of
the liver, which he shall remove with the kidneys.
LEV 3:5 'Then Aaron's sons shall offer {it}
up in smoke on the altar on the burnt offering,
which is on the wood that is on the fire; it is an
offering by fire of a soothing aroma to the Lord.
LEV 3:6 'But if his offering for a sacrifice
of peace offerings to the Lord is from the flock, he
shall offer it, male or female, without defect.
LEV 3:7 'If he is going to offer a lamb for
his offering, then he shall offer it before the
Lord,
LEV 3:8 and he shall lay his hand on the head
of his offering, and slay it before the tent of
meeting; and Aaron's sons shall sprinkle its blood
around on the altar.
LEV 3:9 'And from the sacrifice of peace
offerings he shall bring as an offering by fire to
the Lord, its fat, the entire fat tail which he
shall remove close to the backbone, and the fat that
covers the entrails and all the fat that is on the
entrails,
LEV 3:10 and the two kidneys with the fat
that is on them, which is on the loins, and the lobe
of the liver, which he shall remove with the
kidneys.
LEV 3:11 'Then the priest shall offer {it} up
in smoke on the altar, {as} food, an offering by
fire to the Lord.
LEV 3:12 'Moreover, if his offering is a
goat, then he shall offer it before the Lord,
LEV 3:13 and he shall lay his hand on its
head and slay it before the tent of meeting; and the
sons of Aaron shall sprinkle its blood around on the
altar.
LEV 3:14 'And from it he shall present his
offering as an offering by fire to the Lord, the fat
that covers the entrails and all the fat that is on
the entrails,
LEV 3:15 and the two kidneys with the fat
that is on them, which is on the loins, and the lobe
of the liver, which he shall remove with the
kidneys.
LEV 3:16 'And the priest shall offer them up
in smoke on the altar {as} food, an offering by fire
for a soothing aroma; all fat is the Lord's.
LEV 3:17 'It is a perpetual statute
throughout your generations in all your dwellings:
you shall not eat any fat or any blood.'"
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LEV 4:1 Then the
Lord spoke to Moses, saying,
LEV 4:2 "Speak to the sons of Israel, saying,
'If a person sins unintentionally in any of the
things which the Lord has commanded not to be done,
and commits any of them,
LEV 4:3 if the anointed priest sins so as to
bring guilt on the people, then let him offer to the
Lord a bull without defect as a sin offering for the
sin he has committed.
LEV 4:4 'And he shall bring the bull to the
doorway of the tent of meeting before the Lord, and
he shall lay his hand on the head of the bull, and
slay the bull before the Lord.
LEV 4:5 'Then the anointed priest is to take
some of the blood of the bull and bring it to the
tent of meeting,
LEV 4:6 and the priest shall dip his finger
in the blood, and sprinkle some of the blood seven
times before the Lord, in front of the veil of the
sanctuary.
LEV 4:7 'The priest shall also put some of
the blood on the horns of the altar of fragrant
incense which is before the Lord in the tent of
meeting; and all the blood of the bull he shall pour
out at the base of the altar of burnt offering which
is at the doorway of the tent of meeting.
LEV 4:8 'And he shall remove from it all the
fat of the bull of the sin offering: the fat that
covers the entrails, and all the fat which is on the
entrails,
LEV 4:9 and the two kidneys with the fat that
is on them, which is on the loins, and the lobe of
the liver, which he shall remove with the kidneys
LEV 4:10 (just as it is removed from the ox
of the sacrifice of peace offerings), and the priest
is to offer them up in smoke on the altar of burnt
offering.
LEV 4:11 'But the hide of the bull and all
its flesh with its head and its legs and its
entrails and its refuse,
LEV 4:12 that is, all {the rest of} the bull,
he is to bring out to a clean place outside the camp
where the ashes are poured out, and burn it on wood
with fire; where the ashes are poured out it shall
be burned.
LEV 4:13 'Now if the whole congregation of
Israel commits error, and the matter escapes the
notice of the assembly, and they commit any of the
things which the Lord has commanded not to be done,
and they become guilty;
LEV 4:14 when the sin which they have
committed becomes known, then the assembly shall
offer a bull of the herd for a sin offering, and
bring it before the tent of meeting.
LEV 4:15 'Then the elders of the congregation
shall lay their hands on the head of the bull before
the Lord, and the bull shall be slain before the
Lord.
LEV 4:16 'Then the anointed priest is to
bring some of the blood of the bull to the tent of
meeting;
LEV 4:17 and the priest shall dip his finger
in the blood, and sprinkle {it} seven times before
the Lord, in front of the veil.
LEV 4:18 'And he shall put some of the blood
on the horns of the altar which is before the Lord
in the tent of meeting; and all the blood he shall
pour out at the base of the altar of burnt offering
which is at the doorway of the tent of meeting.
LEV 4:19 'And he shall remove all its fat
from it and offer it up in smoke on the altar.
LEV 4:20 'He shall also do with the bull just
as he did with the bull of the sin offering; thus he
shall do with it. So the priest shall make atonement
for them, and they shall be forgiven.
LEV 4:21 'Then he is to bring out the bull to
{a place} outside the camp, and burn it as he burned
the first bull; it is the sin offering for the
assembly.
LEV 4:22 'When a leader sins and
unintentionally does any one of all the things which
the Lord God has commanded not to be done, and he
becomes guilty,
LEV 4:23 if his sin which he has committed is
made known to him, he shall bring for his offering a
goat, a male without defect.
LEV 4:24 'And he shall lay his hand on the
head of the male goat, and slay it in the place
where they slay the burnt offering before the Lord;
it is a sin offering.
LEV 4:25 'Then the priest is to take some of
the blood of the sin offering with his finger, and
put it on the horns of the altar of burnt offering;
and {the rest of} its blood he shall pour out at the
base of the altar of burnt offering.
LEV 4:26 'And all its fat he shall offer up
in smoke on the altar as {in the case of} the fat of
the sacrifice of peace offerings. Thus the priest
shall make atonement for him in regard to his sin,
and he shall be forgiven.
LEV 4:27 'Now if anyone of the common people
sins unintentionally in doing any of the things
which the Lord has commanded not to be done, and
becomes guilty,
LEV 4:28 if his sin, which he has committed
is made known to him, then he shall bring for his
offering a goat, a female without defect, for his
sin which he has committed.
LEV 4:29 'And he shall lay his hand on the
head of the sin offering, and slay the sin offering
at the place of the burnt offering.
LEV 4:30 'And the priest shall take some of
its blood with his finger and put it on the horns of
the altar of burnt offering; and all {the rest of}
its blood he shall pour out at the base of the
altar.
LEV 4:31 'Then he shall remove all its fat,
just as the fat was removed from the sacrifice of
peace offerings; and the priest shall offer it up in
smoke on the altar for a soothing aroma to the Lord.
Thus the priest shall make atonement for him, and he
shall be forgiven.
LEV 4:32 'But if he brings a lamb as his
offering for a sin offering, he shall bring it, a
female without defect.
LEV 4:33 'And he shall lay his hand on the
head of the sin offering, and slay it for a sin
offering in the place where they slay the burnt
offering.
LEV 4:34 'And the priest is to take some of
the blood of the sin offering with his finger and
put it on the horns of the altar of burnt offering;
and all {the rest of} its blood he shall pour out at
the base of the altar.
LEV 4:35 'Then he shall remove all its fat,
just as the fat of the lamb is removed from the
sacrifice of the peace offerings, and the priest
shall offer them up in smoke on the altar, on the
offerings by fire to the Lord. Thus the priest shall
make atonement for him in regard to his sin which he
has committed, and he shall be forgiven.
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LEV 5:1 'Now if a
person sins, after he hears a public adjuration {to
testify}, when he is a witness, whether he has seen
or {otherwise} known, if he does not tell {it}, then
he will bear his guilt.
LEV 5:2 'Or if a person touches any unclean
thing, whether a carcass of an unclean beast, or the
carcass of unclean cattle, or a carcass of unclean
swarming things, though it is hidden from him, and
he is unclean, then he will be guilty.
LEV 5:3 'Or if he touches human uncleanness,
of whatever {sort} his uncleanness {may} be with
which he becomes unclean, and it is hidden from him,
and then he comes to know {it}, he will be guilty.
LEV 5:4 'Or if a person swears thoughtlessly
with his lips to do evil or to do good, in whatever
matter a man may speak thoughtlessly with an oath,
and it is hidden from him, and then he comes to know
{it}, he will be guilty in one of these.
LEV 5:5 'So it shall be when he becomes
guilty in one of these, that he shall confess that
in which he has sinned.
LEV 5:6 'He shall also bring his guilt
offering to the Lord for his sin which he has
committed, a female from the flock, a lamb or a goat
as a sin offering. So the priest shall make
atonement on his behalf for his sin.
LEV 5:7 'But if he cannot afford a lamb, then
he shall bring to the Lord his guilt offering for
that in which he has sinned, two turtledoves or two
young pigeons, one for a sin offering and the other
for a burnt offering.
LEV 5:8 'And he shall bring them to the
priest, who shall offer first that which is for the
sin offering and shall nip its head at the front of
its neck, but he shall not sever {it.}
LEV 5:9 'He shall also sprinkle some of the
blood of the sin offering on the side of the altar,
while the rest of the blood shall be drained out at
the base of the altar: it is a sin offering.
LEV 5:10 'The second he shall then prepare as
a burnt offering according to the ordinance. So the
priest shall make atonement on his behalf for his
sin which he has committed, and it shall be forgiven
him.
LEV 5:11 'But if his means are insufficient
for two turtledoves or two young pigeons, then for
his offering for that which he has sinned, he shall
bring the tenth of an ephah of fine flour for a sin
offering; he shall not put oil on it or place
incense on it, for it is a sin offering.
LEV 5:12 'And he shall bring it to the
priest, and the priest shall take his handful of it
as its memorial portion and offer {it} up in smoke
on the altar, with the offerings of the Lord by
fire: it is a sin offering.
LEV 5:13 'So the priest shall make atonement
for him concerning his sin which he has committed
from one of these, and it shall be forgiven him;
then {the rest} shall become the priest's, like the
grain offering.' "
LEV 5:14 Then the Lord spoke to Moses,
saying,
LEV 5:15 "If a person acts unfaithfully and
sins unintentionally against the Lord's holy things,
then he shall bring his guilt offering to the Lord:
a ram without defect from the flock, according to
your valuation in silver by shekels, in {terms of}
the shekel of the sanctuary, for a guilt offering.
LEV 5:16 "And he shall make restitution for
that which he has sinned against the holy thing, and
shall add to it a fifth part of it, and give it to
the priest. The priest shall then make atonement for
him with the ram of the guilt offering, and it shall
be forgiven him.
LEV 5:17 "Now if a person sins and does any
of the things which the Lord has commanded not to be
done, though he was unaware, still he is guilty, and
shall bear his punishment.
LEV 5:18 "He is then to bring to the priest a
ram without defect from the flock, according to your
valuation, for a guilt offering. So the priest shall
make atonement for him concerning his error in which
he sinned unintentionally and did not know {it}, and
it shall be forgiven him.
LEV 5:19 "It is a guilt offering; he was
certainly guilty before the Lord."
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LEV 6:1 Then the
Lord spoke to Moses, saying,
LEV 6:2 "When a person sins and acts
unfaithfully against the Lord, and deceives his
companion in regard to a deposit or a security
entrusted {to him}, or through robbery, or {if} he
has extorted from his companion,
LEV 6:3 or has found what was lost and lied
about it and sworn falsely, so that he sins in
regard to any one of the things a man may do;
LEV 6:4 then it shall be, when he sins and
becomes guilty, that he shall restore what he took
by robbery, or what he got by extortion, or the
deposit which was entrusted to him, or the lost
thing which he found,
LEV 6:5 or anything about which he swore
falsely; he shall make restitution for it in full,
and add to it one-fifth more. He shall give it to
the one to whom it belongs on the day {he presents}
his guilt offering.
LEV 6:6 "Then he shall bring to the priest
his guilt offering to the Lord, a ram without defect
from the flock, according to your valuation, for a
guilt offering,
LEV 6:7 and the priest shall make atonement
for him before the Lord; and he shall be forgiven
for any one of the things which he may have done to
incur guilt."
LEV 6:8 Then the Lord spoke to Moses, saying,
LEV 6:9 "Command Aaron and his sons, saying,
'This is the law for the burnt offering: the burnt
offering itself {shall remain} on the hearth on the
altar all night until the morning, and the fire on
the altar is to be kept burning on it.
LEV 6:10 'And the priest is to put on his
linen robe, and he shall put on undergarments next
to his flesh; and he shall take up the ashes {to}
which the fire reduces the burnt offering on the
altar, and place them beside the altar.
LEV 6:11 'Then he shall take off his garments
and put on other garments, and carry the ashes
outside the camp to a clean place.
LEV 6:12 'And the fire on the altar shall be
kept burning on it. It shall not go out, but the
priest shall burn wood on it every morning; and he
shall lay out the burnt offering on it, and offer up
in smoke the fat portions of the peace offerings on
it.
LEV 6:13 'Fire shall be kept burning
continually on the altar; it is not to go out.
LEV 6:14 'Now this is the law of the grain
offering: the sons of Aaron shall present it before
the Lord in front of the altar.
LEV 6:15 'Then one {of them} shall lift up
from it a handful of the fine flour of the grain
offering, with its oil and all the incense that is
on the grain offering, and he shall offer {it} up in
smoke on the altar, a soothing aroma, as its
memorial offering to the Lord.
LEV 6:16 'And what is left of it Aaron and
his sons are to eat. It shall be eaten as unleavened
cakes in a holy place; they are to eat it in the
court of the tent of meeting.
LEV 6:17 'It shall not be baked with leaven.
I have given it as their share from My offerings by
fire; it is most holy, like the sin offering and the
guilt offering.
LEV 6:18 'Every male among the sons of Aaron
may eat it; it is a permanent ordinance throughout
your generations, from the offerings by fire to the
Lord. Whoever touches them shall become
consecrated.' "
LEV 6:19 Then the Lord spoke to Moses,
saying,
LEV 6:20 "This is the offering which Aaron
and his sons are to present to the Lord on the day
when he is anointed; the tenth of an ephah of fine
flour as a regular grain offering, half of it in the
morning and half of it in the evening.
LEV 6:21 "It shall be prepared with oil on a
griddle. When it is {well} stirred, you shall bring
it. You shall present the grain offering in baked
pieces as a soothing aroma to the Lord.
LEV 6:22 "And the anointed priest who will be
in his place among his sons shall offer it. By a
permanent ordinance it shall be entirely offered up
in smoke to the Lord.
LEV 6:23 "So every grain offering of the
priest shall be burned entirely. It shall not be
eaten."
LEV 6:24 Then the Lord spoke to Moses,
saying,
LEV 6:25 "Speak to Aaron and to his sons,
saying, 'This is the law of the sin offering: in the
place where the burnt offering is slain the sin
offering shall be slain before the Lord; it is most
holy.
LEV 6:26 'The priest who offers it for sin
shall eat it. It shall be eaten in a holy place, in
the court of the tent of meeting.
LEV 6:27 'Anyone who touches its flesh shall
become consecrated; and when any of its blood
splashes on a garment, in a holy place you shall
wash what was splashed on.
LEV 6:28 'Also the earthenware vessel in
which it was boiled shall be broken; and if it was
boiled in a bronze vessel, then it shall be scoured
and rinsed in water.
LEV 6:29 'Every male among the priests may
eat of it; it is most holy.
LEV 6:30 'But no sin offering of which any of
the blood is brought into the tent of meeting to
make atonement in the holy place shall be eaten; it
shall be burned with fire.
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LEV 7:1 'Now this
is the law of the guilt offering; it is most holy.
LEV 7:2 'In the place where they slay the
burnt offering they are to slay the guilt offering,
and he shall sprinkle its blood around on the altar.
LEV 7:3 'Then he shall offer from it all its
fat: the fat tail and the fat that covers the
entrails,
LEV 7:4 and the two kidneys with the fat that
is on them, which is on the loins, and the lobe on
the liver he shall remove with the kidneys.
LEV 7:5 'And the priest shall offer them up
in smoke on the altar as an offering by fire to the
Lord; it is a guilt offering.
LEV 7:6 'Every male among the priests may eat
of it. It shall be eaten in a holy place; it is most
holy.
LEV 7:7 'The guilt offering is like the sin
offering, there is one law for them; the priest who
makes atonement with it shall have it.
LEV 7:8 'Also the priest who presents any
man's burnt offering, that priest shall have for
himself the skin of the burnt offering which he has
presented.
LEV 7:9 'Likewise, every grain offering that
is baked in the oven, and everything prepared in a
pan or on a griddle, shall belong to the priest who
presents it.
LEV 7:10 'And every grain offering mixed with
oil, or dry, shall belong to all the sons of Aaron,
to all alike.
LEV 7:11 'Now this is the law of the
sacrifice of peace offerings which shall be
presented to the Lord.
LEV 7:12 'If he offers it by way of
thanksgiving, then along with the sacrifice of
thanksgiving he shall offer unleavened cakes mixed
with oil, and unleavened wafers spread with oil, and
cakes {of well} stirred fine flour mixed with oil.
LEV 7:13 'With the sacrifice of his peace
offerings for thanksgiving, he shall present his
offering with cakes of leavened bread.
LEV 7:14 'And of this he shall present one of
every offering as a contribution to the Lord; it
shall belong to the priest who sprinkles the blood
of the peace offerings.
LEV 7:15 'Now {as for} the flesh of the
sacrifice of his thanksgiving peace offerings, it
shall be eaten on the day of his offering; he shall
not leave any of it over until morning.
LEV 7:16 'But if the sacrifice of his
offering is a votive or a freewill offering, it
shall be eaten on the day that he offers his
sacrifice; and on the next day what is left of it
may be eaten;
LEV 7:17 but what is left over from the flesh
of the sacrifice on the third day shall be burned
with fire.
LEV 7:18 'So if any of the flesh of the
sacrifice of his peace offerings should {ever} be
eaten on the third day, he who offers it shall not
be accepted, {and} it shall not be reckoned to his
{benefit.} It shall be an offensive thing, and the
person who eats of it shall bear his {own} iniquity.
LEV 7:19 'Also the flesh that touches
anything unclean shall not be eaten; it shall be
burned with fire. As for {other} flesh, anyone who
is clean may eat {such} flesh.
LEV 7:20 'But the person who eats the flesh
of the sacrifice of peace offerings which belong to
the Lord, in his uncleanness, that person shall be
cut off from his people.
LEV 7:21 'And when anyone touches anything
unclean, whether human uncleanness, or an unclean
animal, or any unclean detestable thing, and eats of
the flesh of the sacrifice of peace offerings which
belong to the Lord, that person shall be cut off
from his people.' "
LEV 7:22 Then the Lord spoke to Moses,
saying,
LEV 7:23 "Speak to the sons of Israel,
saying, 'You shall not eat any fat {from} an ox, a
sheep, or a goat.
LEV 7:24 'Also the fat of {an animal} which
dies, and the fat of an animal torn {by beasts}, may
be put to any other use, but you must certainly not
eat it.
LEV 7:25 'For whoever eats the fat of the
animal from which an offering by fire is offered to
the Lord, even the person who eats shall be cut off
from his people.
LEV 7:26 'And you are not to eat any blood,
either of bird or animal, in any of your dwellings.
LEV 7:27 'Any person who eats any blood, even
that person shall be cut off from his people.' "
LEV 7:28 Then the Lord spoke to Moses,
saying,
LEV 7:29 "Speak to the sons of Israel,
saying, 'He who offers the sacrifice of his peace
offerings to the Lord shall bring his offering to
the Lord from the sacrifice of his peace offerings.
LEV 7:30 'His own hands are to bring
offerings by fire to the Lord. He shall bring the
fat with the breast, that the breast may be
presented as a wave offering before the Lord.
LEV 7:31 'And the priest shall offer up the
fat in smoke on the altar; but the breast shall
belong to Aaron and his sons.
LEV 7:32 'And you shall give the right thigh
to the priest as a contribution from the sacrifices
of your peace offerings.
LEV 7:33 'The one among the sons of Aaron who
offers the blood of the peace offerings and the fat,
the right thigh shall be his as {his} portion.
LEV 7:34 'For I have taken the breast of the
wave offering and the thigh of the contribution from
the sons of Israel from the sacrifices of their
peace offerings, and have given them to Aaron the
priest and to his sons as {their} due forever from
the sons of Israel.
LEV 7:35 'This is that which is consecrated
to Aaron and that which is consecrated to his sons
from the offerings by fire to the Lord, in that day
when he presented them to serve as priests to the
Lord.
LEV 7:36 'These the Lord had commanded to be
given them from the sons of Israel in the day that
He anointed them. It is {their} due forever
throughout their generations.' "
LEV 7:37 This is the law of the burnt
offering, the grain offering and the sin offering
and the guilt offering and the ordination offering
and the sacrifice of peace offerings,
LEV 7:38 which the Lord commanded Moses at
Mount Sinai in the day that He commanded the sons of
Israel to present their offerings to the Lord in the
wilderness of Sinai.
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LEV 8:1 Then the
Lord spoke to Moses, saying,
LEV 8:2 "Take Aaron and his sons with him,
and the garments and the anointing oil and the bull
of the sin offering, and the two rams and the basket
of unleavened bread;
LEV 8:3 and assemble all the congregation at
the doorway of the tent of meeting."
LEV 8:4 So Moses did just as the Lord
commanded him. When the congregation was assembled
at the doorway of the tent of meeting,
LEV 8:5 Moses said to the congregation, "This
is the thing which the Lord has commanded to do."
LEV 8:6 Then Moses had Aaron and his sons
come near, and washed them with water.
LEV 8:7 And he put the tunic on him and
girded him with the sash, and clothed him with the
robe, and put the ephod on him; and he girded him
with the artistic band of the ephod, with which he
tied {it} to him.
LEV 8:8 He then placed the breastpiece on
him, and in the breastpiece he put the Urim and the
Thummim.
LEV 8:9 He also placed the turban on his
head, and on the turban, at its front, he placed the
golden plate, the holy crown, just as the Lord had
commanded Moses.
LEV 8:10 Moses then took the anointing oil
and anointed the tabernacle and all that was in it,
and consecrated them.
LEV 8:11 And he sprinkled some of it on the
altar seven times and anointed the altar and all its
utensils, and the basin and its stand, to consecrate
them.
LEV 8:12 Then he poured some of the anointing
oil on Aaron's head and anointed him, to consecrate
him.
LEV 8:13 Next Moses had Aaron's sons come
near and clothed them with tunics, and girded them
with sashes, and bound caps on them, just as the
Lord had commanded Moses.
LEV 8:14 Then he brought the bull of the sin
offering, and Aaron and his sons laid their hands on
the head of the bull of the sin offering.
LEV 8:15 Next Moses slaughtered {it} and took
the blood and with his finger put {some of it}
around on the horns of the altar, and purified the
altar. Then he poured out {the rest of} the blood at
the base of the altar and consecrated it, to make
atonement for it.
LEV 8:16 He also took all the fat that was on
the entrails and the lobe of the liver, and the two
kidneys and their fat; and Moses offered it up in
smoke on the altar.
LEV 8:17 But the bull and its hide and its
flesh and its refuse, he burned in the fire outside
the camp, just as the Lord had commanded Moses.
LEV 8:18 Then he presented the ram of the
burnt offering, and Aaron and his sons laid their
hands on the head of the ram.
LEV 8:19 And Moses slaughtered {it} and
sprinkled the blood around on the altar.
LEV 8:20 When he had cut the ram into its
pieces, Moses offered up the head and the pieces and
the suet in smoke.
LEV 8:21 After he had washed the entrails and
the legs with water, Moses offered up the whole ram
in smoke on the altar. It was a burnt offering for a
soothing aroma; it was an offering by fire to the
Lord, just as the Lord had commanded Moses.
LEV 8:22 Then he presented the second ram,
the ram of ordination; and Aaron and his sons laid
their hands on the head of the ram.
LEV 8:23 And Moses slaughtered {it} and took
some of its blood and put it on the lobe of Aaron's
right ear, and on the thumb of his right hand, and
on the big toe of his right foot.
LEV 8:24 He also had Aaron's sons come near;
and Moses put some of the blood on the lobe of their
right ear, and on the thumb of their right hand, and
on the big toe of their right foot. Moses then
sprinkled {the rest of} the blood around on the
altar.
LEV 8:25 And he took the fat, and the fat
tail, and all the fat that was on the entrails, and
the lobe of the liver and the two kidneys and their
fat and the right thigh.
LEV 8:26 And from the basket of unleavened
bread that was before the Lord, he took one
unleavened cake and one cake of bread {mixed with}
oil and one wafer, and placed {them} on the portions
of fat and on the right thigh.
LEV 8:27 He then put all {these} on the hands
of Aaron and on the hands of his sons, and presented
them as a wave offering before the Lord.
LEV 8:28 Then Moses took them from their
hands and offered them up in smoke on the altar with
the burnt offering. They were an ordination offering
for a soothing aroma; it was an offering by fire to
the Lord.
LEV 8:29 Moses also took the breast and
presented it for a wave offering before the Lord; it
was Moses' portion of the ram of ordination, just as
the Lord had commanded Moses.
LEV 8:30 So Moses took some of the anointing
oil and some of the blood which was on the altar,
and sprinkled it on Aaron, on his garments, on his
sons, and on the garments of his sons with him; and
he consecrated Aaron, his garments, and his sons,
and the garments of his sons with him.
LEV 8:31 Then Moses said to Aaron and to his
sons, "Boil the flesh at the doorway of the tent of
meeting, and eat it there together with the bread
which is in the basket of the ordination offering,
just as I commanded, saying, 'Aaron and his sons
shall eat it.'
LEV 8:32 "And the remainder of the flesh and
of the bread you shall burn in the fire.
LEV 8:33 "And you shall not go outside the
doorway of the tent of meeting for seven days, until
the day that the period of your ordination is
fulfilled; for he will ordain you through seven
days.
LEV 8:34 "The Lord has commanded to do as has
been done this day, to make atonement on your
behalf.
LEV 8:35 "At the doorway of the tent of
meeting, moreover, you shall remain day and night
for seven days, and keep the charge of the Lord,
that you may not die, for so I have been commanded."
LEV 8:36 Thus Aaron and his sons did all the
things which the Lord had commanded through Moses.
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LEV 9:1 Now it
came about on the eighth day that Moses called Aaron
and his sons and the elders of Israel;
LEV 9:2 and he said to Aaron, "Take for
yourself a calf, a bull, for a sin offering and a
ram for a burnt offering, {both} without defect, and
offer {them} before the Lord.
LEV 9:3 "Then to the sons of Israel you shall
speak, saying, 'Take a male goat for a sin offering,
and a calf and a lamb, both one year old, without
defect, for a burnt offering,
LEV 9:4 and an ox and a ram for peace
offerings, to sacrifice before the Lord, and a grain
offering mixed with oil; for today the Lord shall
appear to you.' "
LEV 9:5 So they took what Moses had commanded
to the front of the tent of meeting, and the whole
congregation came near and stood before the Lord.
LEV 9:6 And Moses said, "This is the thing
which the Lord has commanded you to do, that the
glory of the Lord may appear to you."
LEV 9:7 Moses then said to Aaron, "Come near
to the altar and offer your sin offering and your
burnt offering, that you may make atonement for
yourself and for the people; then make the offering
for the people, that you may make atonement for
them, just as the Lord has commanded."
LEV 9:8 So Aaron came near to the altar and
slaughtered the calf of the sin offering which was
for himself.
LEV 9:9 And Aaron's sons presented the blood
to him; and he dipped his finger in the blood, and
put {some} on the horns of the altar, and poured out
{the rest of} the blood at the base of the altar.
LEV 9:10 The fat and the kidneys and the lobe
of the liver of the sin offering, he then offered up
in smoke on the altar just as the Lord had commanded
Moses.
LEV 9:11 The flesh and the skin, however, he
burned with fire outside the camp.
LEV 9:12 Then he slaughtered the burnt
offering; and Aaron's sons handed the blood to him
and he sprinkled it around on the altar.
LEV 9:13 And they handed the burnt offering
to him in pieces with the head, and he offered
{them} up in smoke on the altar.
LEV 9:14 He also washed the entrails and the
legs, and offered {them} up in smoke with the burnt
offering on the altar.
LEV 9:15 Then he presented the people's
offering, and took the goat of the sin offering
which was for the people, and slaughtered it and
offered it for sin, like the first.
LEV 9:16 He also presented the burnt
offering, and offered it according to the ordinance.
LEV 9:17 Next he presented the grain
offering, and filled his hand with some of it and
offered {it} up in smoke on the altar, besides the
burnt offering of the morning.
LEV 9:18 Then he slaughtered the ox and the
ram, the sacrifice of peace offerings which was for
the people; and Aaron's sons handed the blood to him
and he sprinkled it around on the altar.
LEV 9:19 As for the portions of fat from the
ox and from the ram, the fat tail, and the {fat}
covering, and the kidneys and the lobe of the liver,
LEV 9:20 they now placed the portions of fat
on the breasts; and he offered them up in smoke on
the altar.
LEV 9:21 But the breasts and the right thigh
Aaron presented as a wave offering before the Lord,
just as Moses had commanded.
LEV 9:22 Then Aaron lifted up his hands
toward the people and blessed them, and he stepped
down after making the sin offering and the burnt
offering and the peace offerings.
LEV 9:23 And Moses and Aaron went into the
tent of meeting. When they came out and blessed the
people, the glory of the Lord appeared to all the
people.
LEV 9:24 Then fire came out from before the
Lord and consumed the burnt offering and the
portions of fat on the altar; and when all the
people saw {it}, they shouted and fell on their
faces.
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LEV 10:1 Now
Nadab and Abihu, the sons of Aaron, took their
respective firepans, and after putting fire in them,
placed incense on it and offered strange fire before
the Lord, which He had not commanded them.
LEV 10:2 And fire came out from the presence
of the Lord and consumed them, and they died before
the Lord.
LEV 10:3 Then Moses said to Aaron, "It is
what the Lord spoke, saying, 'By those who come near
Me I will be treated as holy, And before all the
people I will be honored.'" So Aaron, therefore,
kept silent.
LEV 10:4 Moses called also to Mishael and
Elzaphan, the sons of Aaron's uncle Uzziel, and said
to them, "Come forward, carry your relatives away
from the front of the sanctuary to the outside of
the camp."
LEV 10:5 So they came forward and carried
them still in their tunics to the outside of the
camp, as Moses had said.
LEV 10:6 Then Moses said to Aaron and to his
sons Eleazar and Ithamar, "Do not uncover your heads
nor tear your clothes, so that you may not die, and
that He may not become wrathful against all the
congregation. But your kinsmen, the whole house of
Israel, shall bewail the burning which the Lord has
brought about.
LEV 10:7 "You shall not even go out from the
doorway of the tent of meeting, lest you die; for
the Lord's anointing oil is upon you." So they did
according to the word of Moses.
LEV 10:8 The Lord then spoke to Aaron,
saying,
LEV 10:9 "Do not drink wine or strong drink,
neither you nor your sons with you, when you come
into the tent of meeting, so that you may not die -
- it is a perpetual statute throughout your
generations - -
LEV 10:10 and so as to make a distinction
between the holy and the profane, and between the
unclean and the clean,
LEV 10:11 and so as to teach the sons of
Israel all the statutes which the Lord has spoken to
them through Moses."
LEV 10:12 Then Moses spoke to Aaron, and to
his surviving sons, Eleazar and Ithamar, "Take the
grain offering that is left over from the Lord's
offerings by fire and eat it unleavened beside the
altar, for it is most holy.
LEV 10:13 "You shall eat it, moreover, in a
holy place, because it is your due and your sons'
due out of the Lord's offerings by fire; for thus I
have been commanded.
LEV 10:14 "The breast of the wave offering,
however, and the thigh of the offering you may eat
in a clean place, you and your sons and your
daughters with you; for they have been given as your
due and your sons' due out of the sacrifices of the
peace offerings of the sons of Israel.
LEV 10:15 "The thigh offered by lifting up
and the breast offered by waving, they shall bring
along with the offerings by fire of the portions of
fat, to present as a wave offering before the Lord;
so it shall be a thing perpetually due you and your
sons with you, just as the Lord has commanded."
LEV 10:16 But Moses searched carefully for
the goat of the sin offering, and behold, it had
been burned up! So he was angry with Aaron's
surviving sons Eleazar and Ithamar, saying,
LEV 10:17 "Why did you not eat the sin
offering at the holy place? For it is most holy, and
He gave it to you to bear away the guilt of the
congregation, to make atonement for them before the
Lord.
LEV 10:18 "Behold, since its blood had not
been brought inside, into the sanctuary, you should
certainly have eaten it in the sanctuary, just as I
commanded."
LEV 10:19 But Aaron spoke to Moses, "Behold,
this very day they presented their sin offering and
their burnt offering before the Lord. When things
like these happened to me, if I had eaten a sin
offering today, would it have been good in the sight
of the Lord?"
LEV 10:20 And when Moses heard {that}, it
seemed good in his sight.
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LEV 11:1 The Lord
spoke again to Moses and to Aaron, saying to them,
LEV 11:2 "Speak to the sons of Israel,
saying, 'These are the creatures which you may eat
from all the animals that are on the earth.
LEV 11:3 'Whatever divides a hoof, thus
making split hoofs, {and} chews the cud, among the
animals, that you may eat.
LEV 11:4 'Nevertheless, you are not to eat of
these, among those which chew the cud, or among
those which divide the hoof: the camel, for though
it chews cud, it does not divide the hoof, it is
unclean to you.
LEV 11:5 'Likewise, the rock badger, for
though it chews cud, it does not divide the hoof, it
is unclean to you;
LEV 11:6 the rabbit also, for though it chews
cud, it does not divide the hoof, it is unclean to
you;
LEV 11:7 and the pig, for though it divides
the hoof, thus making a split hoof, it does not chew
cud, it is unclean to you.
LEV 11:8 'You shall not eat of their flesh
nor touch their carcasses; they are unclean to you.
LEV 11:9 'These you may eat, whatever is in
the water: all that have fins and scales, those in
the water, in the seas or in the rivers, you may
eat.
LEV 11:10 'But whatever is in the seas and in
the rivers, that do not have fins and scales among
all the teeming life of the water, and among all the
living creatures that are in the water, they are
detestable things to you,
LEV 11:11 and they shall be abhorrent to you;
you may not eat of their flesh, and their carcasses
you shall detest.
LEV 11:12 'Whatever in the water does not
have fins and scales is abhorrent to you.
LEV 11:13 'These, moreover, you shall detest
among the birds; they are abhorrent, not to be
eaten: the eagle and the vulture and the buzzard,
LEV 11:14 and the kite and the falcon in its
kind,
LEV 11:15 every raven in its kind,
LEV 11:16 and the ostrich and the owl and the
sea gull and the hawk in its kind,
LEV 11:17 and the little owl and the
cormorant and the great owl,
LEV 11:18 and the #663300 owl and the pelican
and the carrion vulture,
LEV 11:19 and the stork, the heron in its
kinds, and the hoopoe, and the bat.
LEV 11:20 'All the winged insects that walk
on {all} fours are detestable to you.
LEV 11:21 'Yet these you may eat among all
the winged insects which walk on {all} fours: those
which have above their feet jointed legs with which
to jump on the earth.
LEV 11:22 'These of them you may eat: the
locust in its kinds, and the devastating locust in
its kinds, and the cricket in its kinds, and the
grasshopper in its kinds.
LEV 11:23 'But all other winged insects which
are four-footed are detestable to you.
LEV 11:24 'By these, moreover, you will be
made unclean: whoever touches their carcasses
becomes unclean until evening,
LEV 11:25 and whoever picks up any of their
carcasses shall wash his clothes and be unclean
until evening.
LEV 11:26 'Concerning all the animals which
divide the hoof, but do not make a split {hoof}, or
which do not chew cud, they are unclean to you:
whoever touches them becomes unclean.
LEV 11:27 'Also whatever walks on its paws,
among all the creatures that walk on {all} fours,
are unclean to you; whoever touches their carcasses
becomes unclean until evening,
LEV 11:28 and the one who picks up their
carcasses shall wash his clothes and be unclean
until evening; they are unclean to you.
LEV 11:29 'Now these are to you the unclean
among the swarming things which swarm on the earth:
the mole, and the mouse, and the great lizard in its
kinds,
LEV 11:30 and the gecko, and the crocodile,
and the lizard, and the sand reptile, and the
chameleon.
LEV 11:31 'These are to you the unclean among
all the swarming things; whoever touches them when
they are dead becomes unclean until evening.
LEV 11:32 'Also anything on which one of them
may fall when they are dead, becomes unclean,
including any wooden article, or clothing, or a
skin, or a sack - - any article of which use is made
- - it shall be put in the water and be unclean
until evening, then it becomes clean.
LEV 11:33 'As for any earthenware vessel into
which one of them may fall, whatever is in it
becomes unclean and you shall break the vessel.
LEV 11:34 'Any of the food which may be
eaten, on which water comes, shall become unclean;
and any liquid which may be drunk in every vessel
shall become unclean.
LEV 11:35 'Everything, moreover, on which
part of their carcass may fall becomes unclean; an
oven or a stove shall be smashed; they are unclean
and shall continue as unclean to you.
LEV 11:36 'Nevertheless a spring or a cistern
collecting water shall be clean, though the one who
touches their carcass shall be unclean.
LEV 11:37 'And if a part of their carcass
falls on any seed for sowing which is to be sown, it
is clean.
LEV 11:38 'Though if water is put on the
seed, and a part of their carcass falls on it, it is
unclean to you.
LEV 11:39 'Also if one of the animals dies
