³And to the children of Israel thou shalt say: Take ye a he goat for sin, and a calf, and a lamb, both of a year old, and without blemish for a holocaust.

⁴Also a bullock and a ram for peace offerings. And immolate them before the Lord, offering for the sacrifice of every one of them flour tempered with oil: for to day the Lord will appear to you.

⁵They brought therefore all things that Moses had commanded before the door of the tabernacle: where when all the multitude stood,

⁶Moses said: This is the word, which the Lord hath commanded. Do it, and his glory will appear to you.

⁷And he said to Aaron: Approach to the altar, and offer sacrifice for thy sin. Offer the holocaust, and pray for thyself and for the people: and when thou hast slain the people’s victim, pray for them, as the Lord hath commanded.

⁸And forthwith Aaron, approaching to the altar, immolated the calf for his sin.

⁹And his sons brought him the blood of it: and he dipped his finger therein, and touched the horns of the altar, and poured the rest at the foot thereof.

¹⁰And the fat, and the little kidneys, and the caul of the liver, which are for sin, he burnt upon the altar, as the Lord had commanded Moses.

¹¹But the flesh and skins thereof he burnt with fire without the camp.

¹²He immolated also the victim of holocaust: and his sons brought him the blood thereof, which he poured round about on the altar.

¹³And the victim being cut into pieces, they brought to him the head and all the members: all which he burnt with fire upon the altar.

¹⁴Having first washed the entrails and the feet with water.

¹⁵Then offering for the sin of the people, he slew the he goat: and expiating the altar,

¹⁶He offered the holocaust.

¹⁷Adding in the sacrifice the libations, which are offered withal, and burning them upon the altar, besides the ceremonies of the morning holocaust.

¹⁸He immolated also the bullock and the ram, and peace offerings of the people: and his sons brought him the blood, which he poured upon the altar round about.

¹⁹The fat also of the bullock, and the rump of the ram, and the two little kidneys with their fat, and the caul of the liver,

²⁰They put upon the breasts. And after the fat was burnt upon the altar,

²¹Aaron separated their breasts, and the right shoulders, elevating them before the Lord, as Moses had commanded.

²²And stretching forth his hands to the people, he blessed them. And so the victims for sin, and the holocausts, and the peace offerings being finished, he came down.

²³And Moses and Aaron went into the tabernacle of the testimony, and afterwards came forth and blessed the people. And the glory of the Lord appeared to all the multitude.

²⁴And, behold, a fire, coming forth from the Lord, devoured the holocaust, and the fat that was upon the altar: which when the multitude saw, they praised the Lord, falling on their faces.

Chapter 10

And Nadab and Abiu, the sons of Aaron, taking their censers, put fire therein, and incense on it, offering before the Lord strange fire: which was not commanded them.

²And fire coming out from the Lord destroyed them: and they died before the Lord.

³And Moses said to Aaron: This is what the Lord hath spoken. I will be sanctified in them that approach to me: and I will be glorified in the sight of all the people. And when Aaron heard this, he held his peace.

⁴And Moses called Misael and Elisaphan, the sons of Oziel, the uncle of Aaron, and said to them: Go and take away your brethren from before the sanctuary, and carry them without the camp.

⁵And they went forthwith and took them as they lay, vested with linen tunicks, and cast them forth, as had been commanded them.

⁶And Moses said to Aaron, and to Eleazar and Ithamar, his sons: Uncover not your heads, and rend not your garments, lest perhaps you die, and indignation come upon all the congregation. Let your brethren, and all the house of Israel, bewail the burning which the Lord has kindled.

⁷But you shall not go out of the door of the tabernacle: otherwise you shall perish, for the oil of the holy unction is on you. And they did all things according to the precept of Moses.

⁸The Lord also said to Aaron:

⁹You shall not drink wine nor any thing that may make drunk, thou nor thy sons, when you enter into the tabernacle of the testimony, lest you die. Because it is an everlasting precept; through your generations:

¹⁰And that you may have knowledge to discern between holy and unholy, between unclean and clean:

¹¹And may teach the children of Israel all my ordinances which the Lord hath spoken to them by the hand of Moses.

¹²And Moses spoke to Aaron, and to Eleazar and Ithamar, his sons that were left: Take the sacrifice that is remaining of the oblation of the Lord, and eat it without leaven beside the altar, because it is holy of holies.

¹³And you shall eat it in a holy place: which is given to thee and thy sons of the oblations of the Lord, as it hath been commanded me.

¹⁴The breast also that is offered, and the shoulder that is separated, you shall eat in a most clean place, thou and thy sons, and thy daughters with thee. For they are set aside for thee and thy children, of the victims of peace offerings of the children of Israel.

¹⁵Because they have elevated before the Lord the shoulder and the breast, and the fat that is burnt on the altar: and they belong to thee and to thy sons by a perpetual law, as the Lord hath commanded.

¹⁶While these things were a doing, when Moses sought for the buck goat, that had been offered for sin, he found it burnt. And being angry with Eleazar and Ithamar, the sons of Aaron that were left, he said:

¹⁷Why did you not eat in the holy place the sacrifice for sin, which is most holy, and given to you, that you may bear the iniquity of the people, and may pray for them in the sight of the Lord.

¹⁸Especially, whereas none of the blood thereof hath been carried within the holy places: and you ought to have eaten it in the sanctuary, as was commanded me?

¹⁹Aaron answered: This day hath been offered the victim for sin, and the holocaust before the Lord: and to me what thou seest has happened. How could I eat it, or please the Lord in the ceremonies, having a sorrowful heart?

²⁰Which when Moses had heard he was satisfied.

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