Holman Christian Standard Bible (33 page)

11
 “But if he cannot afford two turtledoves or two young pigeons, he may bring two quarts of fine flour as an offering for his sin. He must not put olive oil or frankincense on it, for it is a sin offering.
12
 He is to bring it to the priest, who will take a handful from it as its memorial portion and burn it on the altar along with the fire offerings to the
Lord
; it is a sin offering.
13
 In this way the priest will make atonement on his behalf concerning the sin he has committed in any of these cases, and he will be forgiven. The rest will belong to the priest, like the
•grain
offering.” 

The Restitution Offering

14
 Then the
Lord
spoke to Moses:
15
 “If someone offends by sinning unintentionally in regard to any of the
Lord
's holy things, he must bring his
•restitution
offering to the
Lord
: an unblemished ram from the flock (based on your assessment of its value in silver
•shekels
, according to the sanctuary shekel ) as a restitution offering.
16
 He must make restitution for his sin regarding any holy thing, adding a fifth of its value to it, and give it to the priest. Then the priest will make atonement on his behalf with the ram of the restitution offering, and he will be forgiven. 

17
 “If someone sins and without knowing it violates any of the
Lord
's commands concerning anything prohibited, he bears the consequences of his guilt.
18
 He must bring an unblemished ram from the flock according to your assessment of its value as a restitution offering to the priest. Then the priest will make atonement on his behalf for the error he has committed unintentionally, and he will be forgiven.
19
 It is a restitution offering; he is indeed guilty before the
Lord
.”

Leviticus

Chapter 6 

1
The
Lord
spoke to Moses:
2
 “When someone sins and offends the
Lord
by deceiving his neighbor in regard to a deposit, a security, or a robbery; or defrauds his neighbor;
3
 or finds something lost and lies about it; or swears falsely about any of the sinful things a person may do —
4
 once he has sinned and acknowledged his
•guilt
  — he must return what he stole or defrauded, or the deposit entrusted to him, or the lost item he found,
5
 or anything else about which he swore falsely. He must make full restitution for it and add a fifth of its value to it. He is to pay it to its owner on the day he acknowledges his guilt. 
6
 Then he must bring his
•restitution
offering to the
Lord
: an unblemished ram from the flock according to your assessment of its value as a restitution offering to the priest.
7
 In this way the priest will make
•atonement
on his behalf before the
Lord
, and he will be forgiven for anything he may have done to incur guilt.” 

The Burnt Offering

8
 The
Lord
spoke to Moses:
9
 “Command Aaron and his sons: This is the law of the
•burnt
offering; the burnt offering itself must remain on the altar's hearth all night until morning, while the fire of the altar is kept burning on it.
10
 The priest is to put on his linen robe and linen undergarments. He is to remove the ashes of the burnt offering the fire has consumed on the altar, and place them beside the altar.
11
 Then he must take off his garments, put on other clothes, and bring the ashes outside the camp to a ceremonially
•clean
place.
12
 The fire on the altar is to be kept burning; it must not go out. Every morning the priest will burn wood on the fire. He is to arrange the burnt offering on the fire and burn the fat portions from the
•fellowship
offerings on it.
13
 Fire must be kept burning on the altar continually; it must not go out.

The Grain Offering

14
 “Now this is the law of the
•grain
offering: Aaron's sons will present it before the
Lord
in front of the altar.
15
 The priest is to remove a handful of fine flour and olive oil from the grain offering, with all the frankincense that is on the offering, and burn its memorial portion on the altar as a pleasing aroma to the
Lord
.
16
 Aaron and his sons may eat the rest of it. It is to be eaten in the form of unleavened bread in a holy place; they are to eat it in the courtyard of the tent of meeting.
17
 It must not be baked with yeast; I have assigned it as their portion from My fire offerings. It is especially holy, like the
•sin
offering and the restitution offering.
18
 Any male among Aaron's descendants may eat it. It is a permanent portion throughout your generations from the fire offerings to the
Lord
. Anything that touches the offerings will become holy.” 

19
 The
Lord
spoke to Moses:
20
 “This is the offering that Aaron and his sons must present to the
Lord
on the day that he is anointed: two quarts of fine flour as a regular grain offering, half of it in the morning and half in the evening.
21
 It is to be prepared with oil on a griddle; you are to bring it well-kneaded. You must present it as a grain offering of baked pieces, a pleasing aroma to the
Lord
.
22
 The priest, who is one of Aaron's sons and will be anointed to take his place, is to prepare it. It must be completely burned as a permanent portion for the
Lord
.
23
 Every grain offering for a priest will be a whole burnt offering; it is not to be eaten.”

The Sin Offering

24
 The
Lord
spoke to Moses:
25
 “Tell Aaron and his sons: This is the law of the sin offering. The sin offering is most holy and must be slaughtered before the
Lord
at the place where the burnt offering is slaughtered.
26
 The priest who offers it as a sin offering is to eat it. It must be eaten in a holy place, in the courtyard of the tent of meeting.
27
 Anything that touches its flesh will become holy, and if any of its blood spatters on a garment, then you must wash that garment in a holy place.
28
 A clay pot in which the sin offering is boiled must be broken; if it is boiled in a bronze vessel, it must be scoured and rinsed with water.
29
 Any male among the priests may eat it; it is especially holy.
30
 But no sin offering may be eaten if its blood has been brought into the tent of meeting to make atonement in the holy place; it must be burned up.

Leviticus

The Restitution Offering

7
“Now this is the law of the
•restitution
offering; it is especially holy.
2
 The restitution offering must be slaughtered at the place where the
•burnt
offering is slaughtered, and the priest is to sprinkle its blood on all sides of the altar.
3
 The offerer must present all the fat from it: the fat tail, the fat surrounding the entrails, 
4
 and the two kidneys with the fat on them at the loins; he will also remove the fatty lobe of the liver with the kidneys.
5
 The priest will burn them on the altar as a fire offering to the
Lord
; it is a restitution offering.
6
 Any male among the priests may eat it. It is to be eaten in a holy place; it is especially holy. 

7
 “The restitution offering is like the
•sin
offering; the law is the same for both. It belongs to the priest who makes
•atonement
 with it.
8
 As for the priest who presents someone's burnt offering, the hide of the burnt offering he has presented belongs to him; it is the priest's.
9
 Any
•grain
offering that is baked in an oven or prepared in a pan or on a griddle belongs to the priest who presents it; it is his.
10
 But any grain offering, whether dry or mixed with oil, belongs equally to all of Aaron's sons.

The Fellowship Sacrifice

11
 “Now this is the law of the
•fellowship
sacrifice that someone may present to the
Lord
:
12
 If he presents it for thanksgiving, in addition to the thanksgiving sacrifice, he is to present unleavened cakes mixed with olive oil, unleavened wafers coated with oil, and well-kneaded cakes of fine flour mixed with oil.
13
 He is to present as his offering cakes of leavened bread with his thanksgiving sacrifice of fellowship.
14
 From the cakes he must present one portion of each offering as a contribution to the
Lord
. It will belong to the priest who sprinkles the blood of the fellowship offering; it is his.
15
 The meat of his thanksgiving sacrifice of fellowship must be eaten on the day he offers it; he may not leave any of it until morning. 

16
 “If the sacrifice he offers is a vow or a freewill offering, it is to be eaten on the day he presents his sacrifice, and what is left over may be eaten on the next day.
17
 But what remains of the sacrificial meat by the third day must be burned up. 
18
 If any of the meat of his fellowship sacrifice is eaten on the third day, it will not be accepted. It will not be credited to the one who presents it; it is repulsive. The person who eats any of it will be responsible for his sin. 

19
 “Meat that touches anything
•unclean
must not be eaten; it is to be burned up. Everyone who is
•clean
may eat any other meat.
20
 But the one who eats meat from the
Lord
's fellowship sacrifice while he is unclean, that person must be cut off from his people. 
21
 If someone touches anything unclean, whether human uncleanness, an unclean animal, or any unclean, detestable creature, and eats meat from the
Lord
's fellowship sacrifice, that person must be cut off from his people.”

Fat and Blood Prohibited

22
 The
Lord
spoke to Moses:
23
 “Tell the Israelites: You are not to eat any fat of an ox, a sheep, or a goat.
24
 The fat of an animal that dies naturally or is mauled by wild beasts may be used for any purpose, but you must not eat it. 
25
 If anyone eats animal fat from a fire offering presented to the
Lord
, the person who eats it must be cut off from his people.
26
 Wherever you live, you must not eat the blood of any bird or animal.
27
 Whoever eats any blood, that person must be cut off from his people.”

The Portion for the Priests

28
 The
Lord
spoke to Moses:
29
 “Tell the Israelites: The one who presents a fellowship sacrifice to the
Lord
must bring an offering to the
Lord
from his sacrifice.
30
 His own hands will bring the fire offerings to the
Lord
. He will bring the fat together with the breast. The breast is to be waved as a presentation offering before the
Lord
.
31
 The priest is to burn the fat on the altar, but the breast belongs to Aaron and his sons.
32
 You are to give the right thigh to the priest as a contribution from your fellowship sacrifices.
33
 The son of Aaron who presents the blood of the fellowship offering and the fat will have the right thigh as a portion.
34
 I have taken from the Israelites the breast of the presentation offering and the thigh of the contribution from their fellowship sacrifices, and have assigned them to Aaron the priest and his sons as a permanent portion from the Israelites.”

35
 This is the portion from the fire offerings to the
Lord
for Aaron and his sons since the day they were presented to serve the
Lord
as priests.
36
 The
Lord
commanded this to be given to them by the Israelites on the day He anointed them. It is a permanent portion throughout their generations.

37
 This is the law for the burnt offering, the grain offering, the sin offering, the restitution offering, the ordination offering, and the fellowship sacrifice,
38
 which the
Lord
commanded Moses on Mount Sinai on the day He commanded the Israelites to present their offerings to the
Lord
in the Wilderness of Sinai. 

Leviticus

Ordination of Aaron and His Sons

8
The
Lord
spoke to Moses:
2
 “Take Aaron, his sons with him, the garments, the anointing oil, the bull of the
•sin
 offering, the two rams, and the basket of unleavened bread,
3
 and assemble the whole community at the entrance to the tent of meeting.”
4
 So Moses did as the
Lord
commanded him, and the community assembled at the entrance to the tent of meeting.
5
 Moses said to them, “This is what the
Lord
has commanded to be done.”

6
 Then Moses presented Aaron and his sons and washed them with water.
7
 He put the tunic on Aaron, wrapped the sash around him, clothed him with the robe, and put the
•ephod
 on him. He put the woven band of the ephod around him and fastened it to him.
8
 Then he put the breastpiece on him and placed the
•Urim
and Thummim into the breastpiece.
9
 He also put the turban on his head and placed the gold medallion, the holy diadem, on the front of the turban, as the
Lord
had commanded Moses.