Aaron’s First Offerings 1 UDB Eight days later Moses summoned the elders of Israel. BSB BSB: On the eighth day Moses summoned Aaron and his sons and the elders of Israel.
2 UDB Then he said to Aaron, "Take a young bull so you can offer it for your sins, and a ram so that you can burn it whole on the altar, both of them without any defects, and offer them to Yahweh. BSB BSB: He said to Aaron, “Take for yourself a young bull for a sin offering and a ram for a burnt offering, both without blemish, and present them before the LORD.
3 UDB Then say to the Israelite people, 'Take a male goat to offer it for your sins. Also take a calf and a lamb that have no defects, so that you can burn them whole on the altar. BSB BSB: Then speak to the Israelites and say, ‘Take a male goat for a sin offering, a calf and a lamb—both a year old and without blemish—for a burnt offering,
4 UDB Also take an ox and a ram to offer them, so you may promise friendship with Yahweh, along with an offering of flour mixed with olive oil. Do this because today Yahweh is going to appear to you.'" BSB BSB: an ox and a ram for a peace offering to sacrifice before the LORD, and a grain offering mixed with oil. For today the LORD will appear to you.’”
5 UDB After Moses gave these instructions to the Israelites, some of them brought these things and went to the courtyard in front of the sacred tent. Then all the people came near and stood in front of Yahweh. BSB BSB: So they took what Moses had commanded to the front of the Tent of Meeting, and the whole congregation drew near and stood before the LORD.
6 UDB Then Moses said, "This is what Yahweh has commanded you to do, in order that his glory will appear to you." BSB BSB: And Moses said, “This is what the LORD has commanded you to do, so that the glory of the LORD may appear to you.”
7 UDB Then Moses said to Aaron, "Come to the altar and sacrifice the animal that is your offering to enable you to be forgiven for the sins you have committed. Also bring the animal that you will burn whole on the altar. Because of those offerings, God will forgive you and the people for the sins that you have committed. Do these things that Yahweh has commanded you to do." BSB BSB: Then Moses said to Aaron, “Approach the altar and sacrifice your sin offering and your burnt offering to make atonement for yourself and for the people. And sacrifice the people’s offering to make atonement for them, as the LORD has commanded.”
8 UDB So Aaron came up to the altar and slaughtered the calf as an offering for his sins. BSB BSB: So Aaron approached the altar and slaughtered the calf as a sin offering for himself.
9 UDB His sons brought its blood to him in a bowl. He dipped his finger into the blood and put some of it on the projections at the corners of the altar. He poured out the rest of the blood at the base of the altar. BSB BSB: The sons of Aaron brought the blood to him, and he dipped his finger in the blood and applied it to the horns of the altar. And he poured out the rest of the blood at the base of the altar.
10 UDB He burned the fat, including that which covered the kidneys and the liver, as Yahweh had commanded him. BSB BSB: On the altar he burned the fat, the kidneys, and the lobe of the liver from the sin offering, as the LORD had commanded Moses.
11 UDB Then Aaron went outside the camp and there burned the rest of the meat and the hide. BSB BSB: But he burned up the flesh and the hide outside the camp.
12 UDB Then Aaron slaughtered the animal that he was going to burn whole on the altar. His sons handed him the bowl containing its blood, and he sprinkled the blood on all sides of the altar. BSB BSB: Then Aaron slaughtered the burnt offering. His sons brought him the blood, and he splattered it on all sides of the altar.
13 UDB Then they handed him the head and the pieces of the animal that would be burned, and he burned them on the altar. BSB BSB: They brought him the burnt offering piece by piece, including the head, and he burned them on the altar.
14 UDB He washed the inner parts and the legs of the animal, and he burned them on the altar, on top of the other pieces of the animal. BSB BSB: He washed the entrails and the legs and burned them atop the burnt offering on the altar.
15 UDB Then Aaron brought the animals that would be sacrifices for the Israelite people. He took a goat and slaughtered it for the people's sins, as he had done with the goat for his own offering. BSB BSB: Aaron then presented the people’s offering. He took the male goat for the people’s sin offering, slaughtered it, and offered it for sin like the first one.
16 UDB Then he brought the animal for the offering in order to burn it whole. He slaughtered it and offered it in the way that Yahweh had commanded him to do. BSB BSB: He presented the burnt offering and offered it according to the ordinance.
17 UDB He also brought the offering made from flour. He took a handful of it and burned it on the altar, as he had done with the animal that he had sacrificed earlier that morning. BSB BSB: Next he presented the grain offering, took a handful of it, and burned it on the altar in addition to the morning’s burnt offering.
18 UDB Then he slaughtered the ox and the ram to be an offering for the Israelite people to promise friendship with Yahweh. His sons handed him the bowl containing the blood, and he sprinkled the blood against all sides of the altar. BSB BSB: Then he slaughtered the ox and the ram as the people’s peace offering. His sons brought him the blood, and he splattered it on all sides of the altar.
19 UDB But he took the fat from the ox and the ram, including their fat tails that were cut close to the backbone, and all the fat that covered the livers and the kidneys. BSB BSB: They also brought the fat portions from the ox and the ram—the fat tail, the fat covering the entrails, the kidneys, and the lobe of the liver—
20 UDB He put these parts on top of the breasts of those animals and carried them to the altar to burn them. BSB BSB: and placed these on the breasts. Aaron burned the fat portions on the altar,
21 UDB Then, doing what Moses had commanded, he lifted up in front of Yahweh the breast and the right thigh of those animals to show that those two animals completely belonged to Yahweh. BSB BSB: but he waved the breasts and the right thigh as a wave offering before the LORD, as Moses had commanded.
22 UDB Then Aaron lifted his arms toward the people and asked Yahweh to bless them. Then having finished making all those offerings, he stepped down from the place where the altar was. BSB BSB: Aaron lifted up his hands toward the people and blessed them. And having made the sin offering, the burnt offering, and the peace offering, he stepped down.
23 UDB Then Aaron and Moses entered the sacred tent. When they came out later, they asked Yahweh to bless the people. And suddenly the glory of Yahweh appeared to all the people. BSB BSB: Moses and Aaron then entered the Tent of Meeting. When they came out, they blessed the people, and the glory of the LORD appeared to all the people.
24 UDB A fire from Yahweh appeared and burned up the entire offering, together with the fat that was on the altar. When all the people saw this happen, they shouted joyfully and prostrated themselves on the ground to worship Yahweh. BSB BSB: Fire came out from the presence of the LORD and consumed the burnt offering and the fat portions on the altar. And when all the people saw it, they shouted for joy and fell facedown.
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