Consecration of the Priests (Leviticus 8:1–13)
1 UDB "Do the following things to dedicate Aaron and his sons to serve me by being priests. Select one young bull and two rams that do not have any defects. BSB BSB: “Now this is what you are to do to consecrate Aaron and his sons to serve Me as priests: Take a young bull and two rams without blemish,
2 UDB Bake three kinds of bread using finely ground wheat flour without yeast. Bake some buns that do not have any olive oil in them, bake some buns that have olive oil in the dough, and bake some thin wafers that will be smeared with olive oil after they are baked. BSB BSB: along with unleavened bread, unleavened cakes mixed with oil, and unleavened wafers anointed with oil. Make them out of fine wheat flour,
3 UDB Put them in a basket and offer them to me when you sacrifice the young bull and the two rams. BSB BSB: put them in a basket, and present them in the basket, along with the bull and the two rams.
4 UDB Take Aaron and his sons to the entrance of the sacred tent, and wash them with water. BSB BSB: Then present Aaron and his sons at the entrance to the Tent of Meeting and wash them with water.
5 UDB Then put the special clothes on Aaron—the long-sleeved tunic, the robe that will be worn underneath the sacred apron, the sacred apron, the sacred pouch, and the sash. BSB BSB: Take the garments and clothe Aaron with the tunic, the robe of the ephod, the ephod itself, and the breastplate. Fasten the ephod on him with its woven waistband.
6 UDB Put the turban on his head, and fasten to the turban the ornament that has the words 'Dedicated to Yahweh' engraved on it. BSB BSB: Put the turban on his head and attach the holy diadem to the turban.
7 UDB Then take the oil and pour some on his head to dedicate him. BSB BSB: Then take the anointing oil and anoint him by pouring it on his head.
8 UDB Then bring his sons and put the long-sleeved tunics on them. BSB BSB: Present his sons as well and clothe them with tunics.
9 UDB Put the sashes around their waists and the caps on their heads. That is the ritual by which you are to dedicate them to be priests. Aaron and his male descendants must serve me by being priests forever. BSB BSB: Wrap the sashes around Aaron and his sons and tie headbands on them. The priesthood shall be theirs by a permanent statute. In this way you are to ordain Aaron and his sons.
The Order of the Sacrifices (Leviticus 8:22–36)
10 UDB Then bring the young bull to the entrance of the sacred tent. Tell Aaron and his sons to put their hands on the head of the young bull. BSB BSB: You are to present the bull at the front of the Tent of Meeting, and Aaron and his sons are to lay their hands on its head.
11 UDB Then, while they are doing that, kill the young bull by slitting its throat and catch the blood in a bowl. BSB BSB: And you shall slaughter the bull before the LORD at the entrance to the Tent of Meeting.
12 UDB Take some of that blood with your finger and smear it on the projections of the altar. Throw the rest of the blood against the base of the altar. BSB BSB: Take some of the blood of the bull and put it on the horns of the altar with your finger; then pour out the rest of the blood at the base of the altar.
13 UDB Take all the fat that covers the inner organs of the young bull, the fatty covering of the liver and the two kidneys with the fat on them, and burn all these on the altar as an offering to me. BSB BSB: Take all the fat that covers the entrails and the lobe of the liver, and both kidneys with the fat on them, and burn them on the altar.
14 UDB But the meat of the young bull and its hide and intestines must be burned outside the camp. That will be an offering for your sins. BSB BSB: But burn the flesh of the bull and its hide and dung outside the camp; it is a sin offering.
15 UDB Then select one of the rams, and tell Aaron and his sons to put their hands on its head. BSB BSB: Take one of the rams, and Aaron and his sons shall lay their hands on its head.
16 UDB Then kill the ram by slitting its throat. Catch some of the blood and sprinkle it upon all four sides of the altar. BSB BSB: You are to slaughter the ram, take its blood, and splatter it on all sides of the altar.
17 UDB Then cut the ram into pieces. Wash its inner organs and its legs, and put those with the head. BSB BSB: Cut the ram into pieces, wash the entrails and legs, and place them with its head and other pieces.
18 UDB Then burn them completely on the altar with the rest of the ram. That will be a burnt offering to me, Yahweh, and the smell will please me. BSB BSB: Then burn the entire ram on the altar; it is a burnt offering to the LORD, a pleasing aroma, a food offering to the LORD.
19 UDB Take the other ram that was selected for these rituals, and tell Aaron and his sons to put their hands on its head. BSB BSB: Take the second ram, and Aaron and his sons are to lay their hands on its head.
20 UDB Then kill the ram by slitting its throat, and catch some of the blood in a bowl. Smear some of the blood on the lobe of the right ears of Aaron and his sons, and on the thumbs of their right hands, and on the big toes of their right feet. Throw the rest of the blood against the four sides of the altar. BSB BSB: Slaughter the ram, take some of its blood, and put it on the right earlobes of Aaron and his sons, on the thumbs of their right hands, and on the big toes of their right feet. Splatter the remaining blood on all sides of the altar.
21 UDB Wipe up some of the blood that is on the altar, mix it with some of the oil for anointing, and sprinkle it on Aaron and his clothes, and on his sons and their clothes. By doing this, you will dedicate them and their clothes to me. BSB BSB: And take some of the blood on the altar and some of the anointing oil and sprinkle it on Aaron and his garments, as well as on his sons and their garments. Then he and his garments will be consecrated, as well as his sons and their garments.
22 UDB Also, cut off the ram's fat, its fat tail, and the fat that covers the inner organs, the covering of the liver, the two kidneys with the fat on them, and the right thigh. (This ram is for setting Aaron and his sons apart for me as priests.) BSB BSB: Take the fat from the ram, the fat tail, the fat covering the entrails, the lobe of the liver, both kidneys with the fat on them, and the right thigh (since this is a ram for ordination),
23 UDB From the basket, also take one of each of the kinds of bread that was baked without yeast—one made with no oil, one with oil, and one thin wafer. BSB BSB: along with one loaf of bread, one cake of bread made with oil, and one wafer from the basket of unleavened bread that is before the LORD.
24 UDB Put all these things in the hands of Aaron and his sons. Then tell them to lift them up high to dedicate them to me. BSB BSB: Put all these in the hands of Aaron and his sons and wave them before the LORD as a wave offering.
25 UDB Then take them from their hands and burn them on the altar, on top of the other things that were placed there. That also will be an offering to me, and its smell will please me. BSB BSB: Then take them from their hands and burn them on the altar atop the burnt offering as a pleasing aroma before the LORD; it is a food offering to the LORD.
26 UDB Then take the breast of the second ram that was killed, and lift it up high for an offering to me. But then this part of the animal will be for you to eat. BSB BSB: Take the breast of the ram of Aaron’s ordination and wave it before the LORD as a wave offering, and it will be your portion.
27 UDB Set apart for me the ram's breast that you lifted high to offer to me. Also set apart for me the ram's thigh that you presented to me, both of these pieces that came from the ram that was slaughtered when you set apart for me Aaron and his sons as priests. BSB BSB: Consecrate for Aaron and his sons the breast of the wave offering that is waved and the thigh of the heave offering that is lifted up from the ram of ordination.
28 UDB In the future, whenever the Israelite people present to me, Yahweh, offerings to restore fellowship with each other, the breast and the thigh of animals that they present to me will be for Aaron and his male descendants to eat. BSB BSB: This will belong to Aaron and his sons as a regular portion from the Israelites, for it is the heave offering the Israelites will make to the LORD from their peace offerings.
29 UDB After Aaron dies, the special clothes that he wore will belong to his sons. They are to wear those clothes when they are set apart to become priests. BSB BSB: The holy garments that belong to Aaron will belong to his sons after him, so they can be anointed and ordained in them.
30 UDB Aaron's son who becomes priest and enters the sacred tent and performs rituals in the holy place must stay in the sacred tent, wearing these special clothes, for seven days. BSB BSB: The son who succeeds him as priest and enters the Tent of Meeting to minister in the Holy Place must wear them for seven days.
Food for the Priests 31 UDB Take the meat of the other ram that was sacrificed to set apart Aaron and his sons, and boil it in the courtyard. BSB BSB: You are to take the ram of ordination and boil its flesh in a holy place.
32 UDB After it is cooked, Aaron and his sons must eat it, along with the bread that is left in the basket, at the entrance to the sacred tent. BSB BSB: At the entrance to the Tent of Meeting, Aaron and his sons are to eat the meat of the ram and the bread that is in the basket.
33 UDB They must eat the meat of the ram that was sacrificed to cover your sins when they were dedicated to do this work. They are the only ones who are permitted to eat this meat. Those who are not priests are not allowed to eat it, because it is reserved for the priests. BSB BSB: They must eat those things by which atonement was made for their ordination and consecration. But no outsider may eat them, because these things are sacred.
34 UDB If any of this meat or some of the bread is not eaten that night, no one is permitted to eat any of it the next day. It must be completely burned because it is sacred. BSB BSB: And if any of the meat of ordination or any bread is left until the morning, you are to burn up the remainder. It must not be eaten, because it is sacred.
35 UDB These are the rituals that you must follow during those seven days when you dedicate Aaron and his sons for this work. You must do all that I have commanded you. BSB BSB: This is what you are to do for Aaron and his sons based on all that I have commanded you, taking seven days to ordain them.
36 UDB Each of those seven days you must also sacrifice a young bull for an offering to me in order that I may forgive sins. Also you must make another offering to make the altar pure in my sight. You must also anoint the altar with olive oil to set it apart. BSB BSB: Sacrifice a bull as a sin offering each day for atonement. Purify the altar by making atonement for it, and anoint it to consecrate it.
37 UDB Perform these rituals every day for seven days to set apart the altar and make it pure. Then the altar will be most holy, and whatever touches it must be treated as holy. BSB BSB: For seven days you shall make atonement for the altar and consecrate it. Then the altar will become most holy; whatever touches the altar will be holy.
The Daily Offerings (Numbers 28:1–8)
38 UDB You must also sacrifice lambs and burn them on the altar. Each of those seven days you must sacrifice two lambs. BSB BSB: This is what you are to offer regularly on the altar, each day: two lambs that are a year old.
39 UDB One lamb must be sacrificed in the morning, and one must be sacrificed in the evening. BSB BSB: Offer one lamb in the morning and the other at twilight.
40 UDB With the first lamb, also offer two liters of finely ground wheat flour mixed with a liter of the best kind of olive oil, and one liter of wine as an offering. BSB BSB: With the first lamb offer a tenth of an ephah of fine flour, mixed with a quarter hin of oil from pressed olives, and a drink offering of a quarter hin of wine.
41 UDB In the evening, when you sacrifice the other lamb, offer the same amounts of flour, olive oil, and wine as you did in the morning. This will be an offering to me, Yahweh, that will be burned, and its smell will please me. BSB BSB: And offer the second lamb at twilight with the same grain offering and drink offering as in the morning, as a pleasing aroma, a food offering to the LORD.
42 UDB You and your descendants must continue making these offerings to me, Yahweh, throughout all future generations. You must offer them at the entrance to the sacred tent. That is where I will meet with you and speak to you. BSB BSB: For the generations to come, this burnt offering shall be made regularly at the entrance to the Tent of Meeting before the LORD, where I will meet you to speak with you.
43 UDB That is where I will meet with the Israelite people, and the brilliant light of my presence will cause that place to be holy. BSB BSB: I will also meet with the Israelites there, and that place will be consecrated by My glory.
44 UDB I will dedicate the sacred tent and the altar. I will also dedicate Aaron and his sons to serve me by being priests. BSB BSB: So I will consecrate the Tent of Meeting and the altar, and I will consecrate Aaron and his sons to serve Me as priests.
God Will Dwell among the People 45 UDB I will live among the Israelite people, and I will be their God. BSB BSB: Then I will dwell among the Israelites and be their God.
46 UDB They will know that I am Yahweh God, the one who brought them out of Egypt in order that I might live among them. I am Yahweh, the God whom they worship." BSB BSB: And they will know that I am the LORD their God, who brought them out of the land of Egypt so that I might dwell among them. I am the LORD their God.
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