Leviticus 9
1 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 defect, and present them before the LORD.
3 Tell the Israelites: ‘Take a male goat for a sin offering, and a year-old bull and lamb, both without defect, for a burnt offering;
4 and an ox and a ram for peace offerings, to sacrifice before the LORD, and a grain offering mixed with oil, because today the LORD will appear to you.’”
5 They brought what Moses had commanded to the front of the tent of meeting. The whole community came near and stood before the LORD.
6 Moses said, “This is what the LORD commanded you to do, so that the glory of the LORD may appear to you.”
7 Moses said to Aaron, “Come near to the altar. Prepare your sin offering and your burnt offering, and make atonement for yourself and for the people. Prepare the people’s offering too, and make atonement for them, as the LORD commanded.”
8 Aaron came near to the altar and slaughtered the young bull for his own sin offering.
9 Aaron’s sons brought him the blood. He dipped his finger in the blood and put it on the horns of the altar, then poured the blood out at the base of the altar.
10 He burned the fat, the kidneys, and the lobe of the liver from the sin offering on the altar, as the LORD had commanded Moses.
11 He burned the meat and the hide in the fire outside the camp.
12 He slaughtered the burnt offering, and Aaron’s sons handed him the blood. He splashed it all around the altar.
13 They handed him the burnt offering in pieces, along with the head, and he burned them on the altar.
14 He washed the entrails and the legs and burned them on the burnt offering on the altar.
15 Then he presented the people’s offering. He took the goat for the people’s sin offering, slaughtered it, and offered it as a sin offering, as he had done with the first.
16 He presented the burnt offering and prepared it according to the prescribed procedure.
17 He presented the grain offering, took a handful of it, and burned it on the altar, in addition to the morning burnt offering.
18 He slaughtered the ox and the ram as the people’s peace offering. Aaron’s sons handed him the blood, and he splashed it all around the altar.
19 They brought the fat from the ox, and from the ram the fat tail, the covering fat, the kidneys, and the lobe of the liver.
20 They placed the fat on the breasts, and he burned the fat on the altar.
21 Aaron presented the breasts and the right thigh as a wave offering before the LORD, as Moses had commanded.
22 Aaron raised his hands toward the people and blessed them. Then he came down after making the sin offering, the burnt offering, and the peace offerings.
23 Moses and Aaron 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 out from before the LORD and consumed the burnt offering and the fat on the altar. All the people saw it, shouted for joy, and fell facedown.
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