Holman Christian Standard Bible (34 page)

10
 Then Moses took the anointing oil and anointed the tabernacle and everything in it to consecrate them.
11
 He sprinkled some of the oil on the altar seven times, anointing the altar with all its utensils, and the basin with its stand, to consecrate them. 
12
 He poured some of the anointing oil on Aaron's head and anointed and consecrated him. 
13
 Then Moses presented Aaron's sons, clothed them with tunics, wrapped sashes around them, and fastened headbands on them, as the
Lord
had commanded Moses.

14
 Then he brought the bull near for the sin offering, and Aaron and his sons laid their hands on the head of the bull for the sin offering.
15
 Then Moses slaughtered it, took the blood, and applied it with his finger to the horns of the altar on all sides, purifying the altar. He poured out the blood at the base of the altar and consecrated it so that
•atonement
can be made on it.
16
 Moses took all the fat that was on the entrails, the fatty lobe of the liver, and the two kidneys with their fat, and he burned them on the altar. 
17
 He burned up the bull with its hide, flesh, and dung outside the camp, as the
Lord
had commanded Moses.

18
 Then he presented the ram for the
•burnt
offering, and Aaron and his sons laid their hands on the head of the ram.
19
 Moses slaughtered it and sprinkled the blood on all sides of the altar.
20
 Moses cut the ram into pieces and burned the head, the pieces, and the suet, 
21
 but he washed the entrails and shanks with water. He then burned the entire ram on the altar. It was a burnt offering for a pleasing aroma, a fire offering to the
Lord
as He had commanded Moses.

22
 Next he presented the second ram, the ram of ordination, and Aaron and his sons laid their hands on the head of the ram.
23
 Moses slaughtered it, took some of its blood, and put it on Aaron's right earlobe, on the thumb of his right hand, and on the big toe of his right foot. 
24
 Moses also presented Aaron's sons and put some of the blood on their right earlobes, on the thumbs of their right hands, and on the big toes of their right feet. Then Moses sprinkled the blood on all sides of the altar.
25
 He took the fat — the fat tail, all the fat that was on the entrails, the fatty lobe of the liver, and the two kidneys with their fat — as well as the right thigh.
26
 From the basket of unleavened bread that was before the
Lord
he took one cake of unleavened bread, one cake of bread made with oil, and one wafer, and placed them on the fat portions and the right thigh. 
27
 He put all these in the hands of Aaron and his sons and waved them before the
Lord
as a presentation offering.
28
 Then Moses took them from their hands and burned them on the altar with the burnt offering. This was an ordination offering for a pleasing aroma, a fire offering to the
Lord
.
29
 He also took the breast and waved it before the
Lord
as a presentation offering; it was Moses' portion of the ordination ram as the
Lord
had commanded him.

30
 Then Moses took some of the anointing oil and some of the blood that was on the altar and sprinkled them on Aaron and his garments, as well as on his sons and their garments. In this way he consecrated Aaron and his garments, as well as his sons and their garments. 

31
 Moses said to Aaron and his sons, “Boil the meat at the entrance to the tent of meeting and eat it there with the bread that is in the basket for the ordination offering as I commanded: Aaron and his sons are to eat it. 
32
 You must burn up what remains of the meat and bread. 
33
 You must not go outside the entrance to the tent of meeting for seven days, until the time your days of ordination are completed, because it will take seven days to ordain you. 
34
 The
Lord
commanded what has been done today in order to make atonement for you. 
35
 You must remain at the entrance to the tent of meeting day and night for seven days and keep the
Lord
's charge so that you will not die, for this is what I was commanded.”
36
 So Aaron and his sons did everything the
Lord
had commanded through Moses.

Leviticus

The Priestly Ministry Inaugurated

9
On the eighth day Moses summoned Aaron, his sons, and the elders of Israel. 
2
 He said to Aaron, “Take a young bull for a
•sin
 offering and a ram for a
•burnt
offering, both without blemish, and present them before the
Lord
.
3
 And tell the Israelites: Take a male goat for a sin offering; a calf and a lamb, male yearlings without blemish, for a burnt offering;
4
 an ox and a ram for a
•fellowship
offering to sacrifice before the
Lord
; and a
•grain
offering mixed with oil. For today the
Lord
is going to appear to you. ”

5
 They brought what Moses had commanded to the front of the tent of meeting, and the whole community came forward and stood before the
Lord
.
6
 Moses said, “This is what the
Lord
commanded you to do, that the glory of the
Lord
 may appear to you.”
7
 Then Moses said to Aaron, “Approach the altar and sacrifice your sin offering and your burnt offering; make
•atonement
for yourself and the people. Sacrifice the people's offering and make atonement for them, as the
Lord
commanded.”

8
 So Aaron approached the altar and slaughtered the calf as a sin offering for himself.
9
 Aaron's sons brought the blood to him, and he dipped his finger in the blood and applied it to the horns of the altar. He poured out the blood at the base of the altar.
10
 He burned the fat, the kidneys, and the fatty lobe of the liver from the sin offering on the altar, as the
Lord
had commanded Moses.
11
 He burned up the flesh and the hide outside the camp. 

12
 Then he slaughtered the burnt offering. Aaron's sons brought him the blood, and he sprinkled it on all sides of the altar.
13
 They brought him the burnt offering piece by piece, along with the head, and he burned them on the altar.
14
 He washed the entrails and the shanks and burned them with the burnt offering on the altar.

15
 Aaron presented the people's offering. He took the male goat for the people's sin offering, slaughtered it, and made a sin offering with it as he did before.
16
 He presented the burnt offering and sacrificed it according to the regulation. 
17
 Next he presented the grain offering, took a handful of it, and burned it on the altar in addition to the morning burnt offering. 

18
 Finally, he slaughtered the ox and the ram as the people's fellowship sacrifice. Aaron's sons brought him the blood, and he sprinkled it on all sides of the altar.
19
 They also brought the fat portions from the ox and the ram — the fat tail, the fat surrounding the entrails, the kidneys, and the fatty lobe of the liver —
20
 and placed these on the breasts. Aaron burned the fat portions on the altar,
21
 but he waved the breasts and the right thigh as a presentation offering before the
Lord
, as Moses had commanded. 

22
 Aaron lifted up his hands toward the people and blessed them. He came down after sacrificing the sin offering, the burnt offering, and the fellowship offering.
23
 Moses and Aaron then entered the tent of meeting. When they came out, they blessed the people, and the glory of the
Lord
appeared to all the people.
24
 Fire came from the
Lord
and consumed the burnt offering and the fat portions on the altar. And when all the people saw it, they shouted and fell facedown on the ground. 

Leviticus

Nadab and Abihu

10
Aaron's sons Nadab and Abihu each took his own firepan, put fire in it, placed incense on it, and presented unauthorized fire before the
Lord
, which He had not commanded them to do.
2
 Then fire came from the
Lord
 and burned them to death before the
Lord
. 
3
 So Moses said to Aaron, “This is what the
Lord
meant when He said:

But Aaron remained silent.

4
 Moses summoned Mishael and Elzaphan, sons of Aaron's uncle Uzziel, and said to them, “Come here and carry your relatives away from the front of the sanctuary to a place outside the camp.” 
5
 So they came forward and carried them in their tunics outside the camp, as Moses had said.

6
 Then Moses said to Aaron and his sons Eleazar and Ithamar, “Do not let your hair hang loose and do not tear your garments, or else you will die, and the
Lord
will become angry with the whole community. However, your brothers, the whole house of Israel, may mourn over that tragedy when the
Lord
sent the fire.
7
 You must not go outside the entrance to the tent of meeting or you will die, for the
Lord
's anointing oil is on you.” So they did as Moses said.

Regulations for Priests

8
 The
Lord
spoke to Aaron:
9
 “You and your sons are not to drink wine or beer when you enter the tent of meeting, or else you will die; this is a permanent statute throughout your generations.
10
 You must distinguish between the holy and the common, and the
•clean
and the
•unclean
, 
11
 and teach the Israelites all the statutes that the
Lord
has given to them through Moses.”

12
 Moses spoke to Aaron and his remaining sons, Eleazar and Ithamar: “Take the
•grain
offering that is left over from the fire offerings to the
Lord
, and eat it prepared without yeast beside the altar, because it is especially holy.
13
 You must eat it in a holy place because it is your portion and your sons' from the fire offerings to the
Lord
, for this is what I was commanded.
14
 But you and your sons and your daughters may eat the breast of the presentation offering and the thigh of the contribution in any ceremonially clean place, because these portions have been assigned to you and your children from the Israelites'
•fellowship
sacrifices.
15
 They are to bring the thigh of the contribution and the breast of the presentation offering, together with the offerings of fat portions made by fire, to wave as a presentation offering before the
Lord
. It will belong permanently to you and your children, as the
Lord
commanded.”

16
 Later, Moses inquired about the male goat of the
•sin
offering, but it had already been burned up. He was angry with Eleazar and Ithamar, Aaron's surviving sons, and asked,
17
 “Why didn't you eat the sin offering in the sanctuary area? For it is especially holy, and He has assigned it to you to take away the
•guilt
 of the community and make
•atonement
for them before the
Lord
.
18
 Since its blood was not brought inside the sanctuary, you should have eaten it in the sanctuary area, as I commanded.” 

19
 But Aaron replied to Moses, “See, today they presented their sin offering and their
•burnt
offering before the
Lord
. Since these things have happened to me, if I had eaten the sin offering today, would it have been acceptable in the
Lord
's sight? ”
20
 When Moses heard this, it was acceptable to him. 

Leviticus

Clean and Unclean Land Animals

11
The
Lord
spoke to Moses and Aaron:
2
 “Tell the Israelites: You may eat all these kinds of land animals. 
3
 You may eat any animal with divided hooves and that chews the cud.
4
 But among the ones that chew the cud or have divided hooves you are not to eat these:

8
 Do not eat any of their meat or touch their carcasses — they are unclean for you. 

Clean and Unclean Aquatic Animals

9
 “This is what you may eat from all that is in the water: You may eat everything in the water that has fins and scales, whether in the seas or streams.
10
 But these are to be detestable to you: everything in the seas or streams that does not have fins and scales among all the swarming things and other living creatures in the water.
11
 They are to remain detestable to you; you must not eat any of their meat, and you must detest their carcasses.
12
 Everything in the water that does not have fins and scales will be detestable to you.