Leviticus 8–12

Chapter 8

The Consecration of Aaron and His Sons

¹Then the Lord spoke to Moses, saying,

²“^aTake Aaron and his sons with him, and the ^bgarments and ^cthe anointing oil and the bull of the sin offering, and the two rams and the basket of unleavened bread,

³and assemble all the congregation at the doorway of the tent of meeting.”

⁴So Moses did just as the Lord commanded him. When the congregation was assembled at the doorway of the tent of meeting,

⁵Moses said to the congregation, “This is the thing which the Lord has commanded to do.”

⁶Then ^aMoses had Aaron and his sons come near and ^bwashed them with water.

⁷He ^aput 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, ¹with which he tied it to him.

⁸He then placed the ¹breastpiece on him, and in the breastpiece he put ^2athe Urim and the Thummim.

⁹He also placed the turban on his head, and on the turban, at its front, he placed ^athe golden plate, the holy crown, just as the Lord had commanded Moses.

¹⁰Moses then took ^athe anointing oil and anointed the ¹tabernacle and all that was in it, and consecrated them.

¹¹He sprinkled some of it on the altar seven times and anointed the altar and all its utensils, and the basin and its stand, to ^aconsecrate them.

¹²Then he poured some of the ^aanointing oil on Aaron’s head and anointed him, to consecrate him.

^13aNext Moses had Aaron’s sons come near and clothed them with tunics, and girded them with sashes and bound ¹caps on them, just as the Lord had commanded Moses.

¹⁴Then he brought ^athe bull of the sin offering, and Aaron and his sons laid their hands on the head of the bull of the sin offering.

¹⁵Next ¹Moses slaughtered it and took the blood and with his finger ^aput 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.

¹⁶He also ^atook all the fat that was on the entrails and the ¹lobe of the liver, and the two kidneys and their fat; and Moses offered it up in smoke on the altar.

^17aBut 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.

¹⁸Then he presented ^athe ram of the burnt offering, and Aaron and his sons laid their hands on the head of the ram.

¹⁹¹Moses slaughtered it and sprinkled the blood around on the altar.

²⁰When he had cut the ram into its pieces, Moses ^aoffered up the head and the pieces and the suet in smoke.

²¹After he had washed the entrails and the legs with water, Moses ^aoffered 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.

²²Then he presented the second ram, ^athe ram of ¹ordination, and Aaron and his sons laid their hands on the head of the ram.

²³¹Moses slaughtered it and took some of its blood and ^aput 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.

²⁴He 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 ^asprinkled the rest of the blood around on the altar.

²⁵He took the fat, and the fat tail, and all the fat that was on the entrails, and the ¹lobe of the liver and the two kidneys and their fat and the right thigh.

^26aFrom 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.

²⁷He then ^aput all these on the hands of Aaron and on the hands of his sons and presented them as a wave offering before the Lord.

²⁸Then Moses ^atook them from their hands and offered them up in smoke on the altar with the burnt offering. They were an ordination offering for ^ba soothing aroma; it was an offering by fire to the Lord.

²⁹Moses also took ^athe breast and presented it for a wave offering before the Lord; it was ^bMoses’ portion of the ram of ordination, just as the Lord had commanded Moses.

³⁰So Moses ^atook 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.

³¹Then Moses said to Aaron and to his sons, “^aBoil 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, ^bsaying, ‘Aaron and his sons shall eat it.’

³²“^aThe remainder of the flesh and of the bread you shall burn in the fire.

³³“^aYou 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 ¹ordain you through seven days.

³⁴“The Lord has commanded to do as has been done this day, to make atonement on your behalf.

³⁵“At the doorway of the tent of meeting, moreover, you shall remain day and night for seven days and ^akeep the charge of the Lord, so that you will not die, for so I have been commanded.”

³⁶Thus Aaron and his sons did all the things which the Lord had commanded through Moses.

Chapter 9

Aaron Offers Sacrifices

¹Now it came about ^aon the eighth day that Moses called Aaron and his sons and the elders of Israel;

²and he said to Aaron, “^aTake 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.

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,

⁴and an ox and a ram for peace offerings, to sacrifice before the Lord, and a grain offering mixed with oil; for today ^athe Lord will appear to you.’ ”

⁵So 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.

⁶Moses said, “This is the thing which the Lord has commanded you to do, that ^athe glory of the Lord may appear to you.”

⁷Moses then said to Aaron, “Come near to the altar and ^1aoffer your sin offering and your burnt offering, that you may make atonement for yourself and for the people; then make the offering ²for the people, that you may make atonement for them, just as the Lord has commanded.”

^8aSo Aaron came near to the altar and slaughtered the calf of the sin offering which was for himself.

^9aAaron’s sons presented the blood to him; and he dipped his finger in the blood and ^bput some on the horns of the altar, and poured out the rest of the blood at the base of the altar.

¹⁰The fat and the kidneys and the ¹lobe of the liver of the sin offering, he then offered up in smoke on the altar just as the Lord had commanded Moses.

^11aThe flesh and the skin, however, he burned with fire outside the camp.

¹²Then he slaughtered the burnt offering; and Aaron’s sons handed the blood to him and he sprinkled it around on the altar.

¹³They handed the burnt offering to him in ¹pieces, with the head, and he offered them up in smoke on the altar.

¹⁴He also washed the entrails and the legs, and offered them up in smoke with the burnt offering on the altar.

¹⁵Then he presented the people’s offering, and took the ^agoat of the sin offering which was for the people, and slaughtered it and offered it for sin, like the first.

¹⁶He also presented the burnt offering, and ¹offered it according to ^athe ordinance.

¹⁷Next he presented ^athe grain offering, and filled his ¹hand with some of it and offered it up in smoke on the altar, ^bbesides the burnt offering of the morning.

¹⁸Then ^ahe 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.

¹⁹As for the portions of fat from the ox and from the ram, the fat tail, and the fat ^acovering, and the kidneys and the ¹lobe of the liver,

²⁰they now placed the portions of fat on the breasts; and he offered ¹them up in smoke on the altar.

²¹But ^athe breasts and the right thigh Aaron ¹presented as a wave offering before the Lord, just as Moses had commanded.

²²Then Aaron lifted up his hands toward the people and ^ablessed them, and he stepped down after making the sin offering and the burnt offering and the peace offerings.

²³Moses and Aaron went into the tent of meeting. When they came out and blessed the people, ^athe glory of the Lord appeared to all the people.

^24aThen 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.

Chapter 10

The Sin of Nadab and Abihu

¹Now ^aNadab and Abihu, the sons of Aaron, took their respective ^bfirepans, and after putting fire in them, placed incense on it and offered strange fire before the Lord, which He had not commanded them.

^2aAnd fire came out from the presence of the Lord and consumed them, and they died before the Lord.

³Then Moses said to Aaron, “It is what the Lord spoke, saying,

‘By those who ^acome near Me I ^1bwill be treated as holy,

And before all the people I will ^cbe honored.’ ”

So Aaron, therefore, kept silent.

⁴Moses called also to ^aMishael and Elzaphan, the sons of Aaron’s uncle Uzziel, and said to them, “Come forward, carry your ¹relatives away from the front of the sanctuary to the outside of the camp.”

⁵So they came forward and carried them still in their ^atunics to the outside of the camp, as Moses had said.

⁶Then Moses said to Aaron and to his sons Eleazar and Ithamar, “^aDo not ¹uncover your heads nor tear your clothes, so that you will not die and that He will not ^bbecome wrathful against all the congregation. But your ²kinsmen, the whole house of Israel, shall bewail the burning which the …