Consecration Offerings

8:14 Then he brought near the sin offering bull18 and Aaron and his sons laid their hands on the head of the sin offering bull, 8:15 and he slaughtered it.19 Moses then took the blood and put it all around on the horns of the altar with his finger and decontaminated the altar,20 and he poured out the rest of the blood at the base of the altar and so consecrated it to make atonement on it.21 8:16 Then he22 took all the fat on the entrails, the protruding lobe of the liver, and the two kidneys and their fat,23 and Moses offered it all up in smoke on the altar,24 8:17 but the rest of the bull—its hide, its flesh, and its dung—he completely burned up25 outside the camp just as the Lord had commanded Moses.26

8:18 Then he presented the burnt offering ram and Aaron and his sons laid their hands on the head of the ram, 8:19 and he slaughtered it.27 Moses then splashed the blood against the altar’s sides. 8:20 Then he28 cut the ram into parts,29 and Moses offered the head, the parts, and the suet up in smoke, 8:21 but the entrails and the legs he washed with water,30 and Moses offered the whole ram up in smoke on the altar—it was a burnt offering for a soothing aroma, a gift to the Lord, just as the Lord had commanded Moses.31

8:22 Then he presented the second ram, the ram of ordination,32 and Aaron and his sons laid their hands on the head of the ram 8:23 and he slaughtered it.33 Moses then took some of its blood and put it on Aaron’s right earlobe,34 on the thumb of his right hand, and on the big toe35 of his right foot. 8:24 Next he brought Aaron’s sons forward, and Moses put some of the blood on their right earlobes, on their right thumbs, and on the big toes of their right feet, and Moses splashed the rest of the blood against the altar’s sides.

8:25 Then he took the fat (the fatty tail,36 all the fat on the entrails, the protruding lobe of the liver, and the two kidneys and their fat37) and the right thigh,38 8:26 and from the basket of unleavened bread that was before the Lord he took one unleavened loaf, one loaf of bread mixed with olive oil, and one wafer,39 and placed them on the fat parts and on the right thigh. 8:27 He then put all of them on the palms40 of Aaron and his sons, who waved41 them as a wave offering before the Lord.42 8:28 Moses then took them from their palms and offered them up in smoke on the altar43 on top of the burnt offering—they were an ordination offering for a soothing aroma; it was a gift to the Lord. 8:29 Finally, Moses took the breast and waved it as a wave offering before the Lord from the ram of ordination. It was Moses’ share just as the Lord had commanded Moses.