Aaron’s First Offerings 1 UST Eight days later, Moses summoned Aaron, his sons, and the oldest and most respected people of Israel. BSB BSB: On the eighth day Moses summoned Aaron and his sons and the elders of Israel.
2 UST He said to Aaron,“Take a totally healthy calf from the domesticated bulls that you own and offer it as a purifying sacrifice along with a totally healthy ram that you will offer as a wholly burned sacrifice. Present these animals 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 UST Then tell the Israelite people to take a male goat and offer it as a purifying sacrifice, along with a calf and a lamb that they will offer as a wholly burned sacrifice. Tell them to make sure that both animals are a year old and totally healthy. 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 UST Also tell the Israelite people to take an ox and a ram and offer them as fellowship sacrifices when they sacrifice in Yahweh’ s presence. They should offer these animals along with a grain offering that consists of wheat flour that they have combined with olive oil. Tell them that they should bring these offerings because Yahweh himself is going to appear to them today.” 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 UST { After Aaron relayed these instructions to the Israelite people,} the people brought before the sacred tent everything that Moses told them to bring. Then all the people presented the animals and the offerings, and they stood together in Yahweh’ s presence. 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 UST Then Moses said,“This is exactly what Yahweh told you to do. Now you will see how glorious he is.” 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 UST Then Moses said to Aaron,“Approach the altar and perform the purifying sacrifice and the wholly burned sacrifice that Yahweh told you to offer. Do this so that Yahweh will remove your sins from you and restore you and the people to relationship with him. Then perform the sacrifices that Yahweh told the people to offer. Do this so that Yahweh will remove the peoples’ sins from them and restore them to relationship with him. Perform these sacrifices exactly as Yahweh instructed.” 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 UST So Aaron approached the altar and killed the calf that he would offer as a purifying sacrifice{ to cleanse the holy space dedicated to Yahweh from the impurity of his own sin}. BSB BSB: So Aaron approached the altar and slaughtered the calf as a sin offering for himself.
9 UST Then,{ after they collected some of the calf’ s blood in a bowl,} Aaron’ s sons presented the blood to their father. Aaron dipped one of his fingers into the blood and applied some of it to the four projections on the corners of the altar. He poured the rest of the blood onto 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 UST He then burned the calf’ s fat, including the kidneys and the lobe of the liver of the calf that Aaron sacrificed as a purifying sacrifice, on the altar in a way that caused smoke to go up Aaron did this exactly as Yahweh told Moses. 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 UST But someone else completely burned the rest of the calf’ s meat and its skin{ at a clean place} outside of the camp. BSB BSB: But he burned up the flesh and the hide outside the camp.
12 UST Then Aaron killed the ram that he was going to offer as a wholly burned sacrifice.{ After collecting some of the blood of the ram,} his sons brought him some of the blood, and he splattered it on every side 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 UST Then,{ after cutting the ram into its appropriate portions,} Aaron’ s sons brought him the appropriate portions of the ram’ s meat, fat, and internal organs, including the animal’ s head. Aaron burned them on the altar in a way that caused smoke to go up. BSB BSB: They brought him the burnt offering piece by piece, including the head, and he burned them on the altar.
14 UST Then Aaron washed the ram’ s intestines and legs, and he burned them on the altar in a way that caused smoke to go up. He placed them on top of the other portions of the sacrifices that he was already burning on the altar. BSB BSB: He washed the entrails and the legs and burned them atop the burnt offering on the altar.
15 UST Then Aaron brought the animals that the Israelite people offered to Yahweh. He took the goat that the people required for their purifying sacrifice, and he killed it. By offering it, Aaron cleansed the people from the impurity of their sin, just as he had done with the goat that he offered for himself. 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 UST In this way, he presented the animal that the people required for their sacrifice. Aaron offered this sacrifice in the way that Yahweh had instructed Moses. BSB BSB: He presented the burnt offering and offered it according to the ordinance.
17 UST Then Aaron presented the offering that consisted of a sacrifice of harvested grain. He took a handful of it and burned it on the altar in a way that caused smoke to go up, in addition to the animal sacrifices that he had prepared and completely burned on the altar in the 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 UST Then Aaron killed the ox and the ram that the Israelite people required for their sacrifice that promised friendship with Yahweh.{ After catching some of the blood of the animals,} his sons brought him the blood, and he flicked the blood against every side 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 UST He took the fat portions from the ox and the ram, including their fatty tails, their visceral fat that was attached to the animals’ internal organs, their kidneys, and the lobes of their livers. 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 UST Then his sons placed all these portions of fat and internal organs on top of the breast meat of those animals, and Aaron burned these portions on the altar in a way that caused smoke to go up. BSB BSB: and placed these on the breasts. Aaron burned the fat portions on the altar,
21 UST Next, Aaron fanned the breast meat and the right thigh of those animals in Yahweh’ s presence, exactly as Yahweh told Moses. BSB BSB: but he waved the breasts and the right thigh as a wave offering before the LORD, as Moses had commanded.
22 UST When he had finished offering all the sacrifices, Aaron lifted his hands over the people, and he asked Yahweh to bless them. Then, he came down from the altar where he had offered the purifying sacrifices, the wholly burned sacrifices, and the fellowship sacrifices that he and the people had required. 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 UST Then Moses and Aaron entered into the Holy Place in the sacred tent. When they came out later, they asked Yahweh to bless the people again. When they did this, all the people saw how glorious Yahweh was. 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 UST Fire came out from the sacred precincts, where Yahweh lived among the Israelites, and completely burned everything that was on the altar, including the wholly burned offerings and all the portions of fat. When all the people saw this happen, they shouted joyfully and bowed themselves down 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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