Leviticus 9–10

¹And it cometh to pass on the eighth day, Moses hath called for Aaron and for his sons, and for the elders of Israel, ²and he saith unto Aaron, ‘Take to thyself a calf, a son of the herd, for a sin-offering, and a ram for a burnt-offering, perfect ones, and bring near before Jehovah.

³‘And unto the sons of Israel thou dost speak, saying, Take ye a kid of the goats for a sin-offering, and a calf, and a lamb, sons of a year, perfect ones, for a burnt-offering, ⁴and a bullock and a ram for peace-offerings, to sacrifice before Jehovah, and a present mixed with oil; for to-day Jehovah hath appeared unto you.’ ⁵And they take that which Moses hath commanded unto the front of the tent of meeting, and all the company draw near and stand before Jehovah; ⁶and Moses saith, ‘This is the thing which Jehovah hath commanded; do it, and the honour of Jehovah doth appear unto you.’ ⁷And Moses saith unto Aaron, ‘Draw near unto the altar, and make thy sin-offering, and thy burnt-offering, and make atonement for thyself, and for the people, and make the offering of the people, and make atonement for them, as Jehovah hath commanded.’

⁸And Aaron draweth near unto the altar, and slaughtereth the calf of the sin-offering, which is for himself; ⁹and the sons of Aaron bring the blood near unto him, and he dippeth his finger in the blood, and putteth it on the horns of the altar, and the blood he hath poured out at the foundation of the altar; ¹⁰and the fat, and the kidneys, and the redundance of the liver, of the sin-offering, he hath made a perfume on the altar, as Jehovah hath commanded Moses; ¹¹and the flesh and the skin he hath burnt with fire, at the outside of the camp. ¹²And he slaughtereth the burnt-offering, and the sons of Aaron have presented unto him the blood, and he sprinkleth it on the altar round about; ¹³and the burnt-offering they have presented unto him, by its pieces, and the head, and he maketh perfume on the altar; ¹⁴and he washeth the inwards and the legs, and maketh perfume for the burnt-offering on the altar. ¹⁵And he bringeth near the offering of the people, and taketh the goat of the sin-offering which is for the people, and slaughtered it, and maketh it a sin-offering, like the first; ¹⁶and he bringeth near the burnt-offering, and maketh it, according to the ordinance; ¹⁷and he bringeth near the present, and filleth his palm with it, and maketh perfume on the altar, apart from the burnt-offering of the morning. ¹⁸And he slaughtereth the bullock and the ram, a sacrifice of the peace-offerings, which are for the people, and sons of Aaron present the blood unto him (and he sprinkleth it on the altar round about), ¹⁹and the fat of the bullock, and of the ram, the fat tail, and the covering of the inwards, and the kidneys, and the redundance above the liver, ²⁰and they set the fat on the breasts, and he maketh perfume with the fat on the altar; ²¹and the breasts, and the right leg hath Aaron waved—a wave-offering before Jehovah, as He hath commanded Moses. ²²And Aaron lifteth up his hand towards the people, and blesseth them, and cometh down from making the sin-offering, and the burnt-offering, and the peace-offerings.

²³And Moses goeth in—Aaron also—unto the tent of meeting, and they come out, and bless the people, and the honour of Jehovah appeareth unto all the people; ²⁴and fire cometh out from before Jehovah, and consumeth on the altar the burnt-offering, and the fat; and all the people see, and cry aloud, and fall on their faces.

Chapter 10

¹And the sons of Aaron, Nadab and Abihu, take each his censer, and put in them fire, and put on it perfume, and bring near before Jehovah strange fire, which He hath not commanded them; ²and fire goeth out from before Jehovah, and consumeth them, and they die before Jehovah.

³And Moses saith unto Aaron, ‘It is that which Jehovah hath spoken, saying, By those drawing near to Me I am sanctified, and in the face of all the people I am honoured;’ and Aaron is silent. ⁴And Moses calleth unto Mishael and unto Elzaphan, sons of Uzziel, uncle of Aaron, and saith unto them, ‘Come near, bear your brethren from the front of the sanctuary unto the outside of the camp;’ ⁵and they come near, and bear them in their coats unto the outside of the camp, as Moses hath spoken. ⁶And Moses saith unto Aaron, and to Eleazar, and to Ithamar his sons, ‘Your heads ye do not uncover, and your garments ye do not rend, that ye die not, and on all the company He be wroth; as to your brethren, the whole house of Israel, they bewail the burning which Jehovah hath kindled; ⁷and from the opening of the tent of meeting ye do not go out, lest ye die, for the anointing oil of Jehovah is upon you;’ and they do according to the word of Moses.

⁸And Jehovah speaketh unto Aaron, saying, ⁹‘Wine and strong drink thou dost not drink, thou, and thy sons with thee, in your going in unto the tent of meeting, and ye die not—a statute age-during to your generations; ¹⁰so as to make a separation between the holy and the common, and between the unclean and the pure; ¹¹and to teach the sons of Israel all the statutes which Jehovah hath spoken unto them by the hand of Moses.’

¹²And Moses speaketh unto Aaron, and unto Eleazar, and unto Ithamar his sons, who are left, ‘Take ye the present that is left from the fire-offerings of Jehovah, and eat it unleavened near the altar, for it is most holy, ¹³and ye have eaten it in the holy place, for it is thy portion, and the portion of thy sons, from the fire-offerings of Jehovah; for so I have been commanded.

¹⁴‘And the breast of the wave-offering, and the leg of the heave-offering, ye do eat in a clean place, thou, and thy sons, and thy daughters with thee; for thy portion and the portion of thy sons they have been given, out of the sacrifices of peace-offerings of the sons of Israel; ¹⁵the leg of the heave-offering, and breast of the wave-offering, besides fire-offerings of the fat, they do bring in to wave a wave-offering before Jehovah, and it hath been to thee, and to thy sons with thee, by a statute age-during, as Jehovah hath commanded.’ ¹⁶And the goat of the sin-offering hath Moses diligently sought, and lo, it is burnt, and he is wroth against Eleazar, and against Ithamar, sons of Aaron, who are left, saying, ¹⁷‘Wherefore have ye not eaten the sin-offering in the holy place, for it is most holy—and it He hath given to you to take away the iniquity of the company, to make atonement for them before Jehovah? ¹⁸lo, its blood hath not been brought in unto the holy place within; eating ye do eat it in the holy place, as I have commanded.’ ¹⁹And Aaron speaketh unto Moses, ‘Lo, to-day they have brought near their sin-offering and their burnt-offering before Jehovah; and things like these meet me, yet I have eaten a sin-offering to-day; is it good in the eyes of Jehovah?’ ²⁰And Moses hearkeneth, and it is good in his eyes.

Chapter 11