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LEVITICUS: CHAPTER
8-10
LEVITICUS: CHAPTER
8
The Consecration
of Aaron and His Sons
1 Then the LORD spoke
to Moses, saying,
2 "Take Aaron and his sons with him, and the
garments and the anointing oil and the bull of the sin offering, and
the two rams and the basket of unleavened bread,
3 and assemble all the congregation at the doorway
of the tent of meeting."
4 So Moses did just as the LORD
commanded him. When the congregation was assembled at the doorway of
the tent of meeting,
5 Moses said to the congregation, "This is the
thing which the LORD has commanded to do."
6 Then Moses had Aaron and his sons come
near and washed them with water.
7 He put the tunic on him and girded him with
the sash, and clothed him with the robe and put the ephod on him; and
he girded him with the artistic band of the ephod, with which he tied
it to him.
8 He then placed the breastpiece on him, and
in the breastpiece he put the Urim and the Thummim.
9 He also placed the turban on his head, and
on the turban, at its front, he placed the golden plate, the holy crown,
just as the LORD had commanded Moses.
10 Moses then took the anointing oil and
anointed the tabernacle and all that was in it, and consecrated them.
11 He sprinkled some of it on the altar seven
times and anointed the altar and all its utensils, and the basin and
its stand, to consecrate them.
12 Then he poured some of the anointing oil on
Aaron's head and anointed him, to consecrate him.
13 Next Moses had Aaron's sons come near and
clothed them with tunics, and girded them with sashes and bound caps
on them, just as the LORD had commanded Moses.
14 Then he brought the bull of the sin
offering, and Aaron and his sons laid their hands on the head of the
bull of the sin offering.
15 Next Moses slaughtered it and took
the blood and with his finger put some of it around on the horns
of the altar, and purified the altar. Then he poured out the rest
of the blood at the base of the altar and consecrated it, to make
atonement for it.
16 He also took all the fat that was on the entrails
and the lobe of the liver, and the two kidneys and their fat; and Moses
offered it up in smoke on the altar.
17 But the bull and its hide and its flesh and
its refuse he burned in the fire outside the camp, just as the LORD
had commanded Moses.
18 Then he presented the ram of the burnt
offering, and Aaron and his sons laid their hands on the head of the
ram.
19 Moses slaughtered it and sprinkled
the blood around on the altar.
20 When he had cut the ram into its pieces, Moses
offered up the head and the pieces and the suet in smoke.
21 After he had washed the entrails and the legs
with water, Moses offered up the whole ram in smoke on the altar. It
was a burnt offering for a soothing aroma; it was an offering by fire
to the LORD, just as the LORD
had commanded Moses.
22 Then he presented the second ram, the
ram of ordination, and Aaron and his sons laid their hands on the head
of the ram.
23 Moses slaughtered it and took some
of its blood and put it on the lobe of Aaron's right ear, and on the
thumb of his right hand and on the big toe of his right foot.
24 He also had Aaron's sons come near; and Moses
put some of the blood on the lobe of their right ear, and on the thumb
of their right hand and on the big toe of their right foot. Moses then
sprinkled the rest of the blood around on the altar.
25 He took the fat, and the fat tail, and all
the fat that was on the entrails, and the lobe of the liver and the
two kidneys and their fat and the right thigh.
26 From the basket of unleavened bread that was
before the LORD, he took one unleavened cake
and one cake of bread mixed with oil and one wafer, and placed
them on the portions of fat and on the right thigh.
27 He then put all these on the hands
of Aaron and on the hands of his sons and presented them as a wave offering
before the LORD.
28 Then Moses took them from their hands and
offered them up in smoke on the altar with the burnt offering. They
were an ordination offering for a soothing aroma; it was an offering
by fire to the LORD.
29 Moses also took the breast and presented it
for a wave offering before the LORD; it was Moses'
portion of the ram of ordination, just as the LORD
had commanded Moses.
30 So Moses took some of the anointing
oil and some of the blood which was on the altar and sprinkled it on
Aaron, on his garments, on his sons, and on the garments of his sons
with him; and he consecrated Aaron, his garments, and his sons, and
the garments of his sons with him.
31 Then Moses said to Aaron and to his
sons, "Boil the flesh at the doorway of the tent of meeting, and eat
it there together with the bread which is in the basket of the ordination
offering, just as I commanded, saying, 'Aaron and his sons shall eat
it.'
32 "The remainder of the flesh and of the bread
you shall burn in the fire.
33 "You shall not go outside the doorway of the
tent of meeting for seven days, until the day that the period of your
ordination is fulfilled; for he will ordain you through seven days.
34 "The LORD has commanded
to do as has been done this day, to make atonement on your behalf.
35 "At the doorway of the tent of meeting, moreover,
you shall remain day and night for seven days and keep the charge of
the LORD, so that you will not die, for so I
have been commanded."
36 Thus Aaron and his sons did all the things
which the LORD had commanded through Moses.
LEVITICUS: CHAPTER
9
Aaron Offers
Sacrifices
1 Now it came about on the eighth day that Moses
called Aaron and his sons and the elders of Israel;
2 and he said to Aaron, "Take for yourself a
calf, a bull, for a sin offering and a ram for a burnt offering, both
without defect, and offer them before the LORD.
3 "Then to the sons of Israel you shall speak,
saying, 'Take a male goat for a sin offering, and a calf and a lamb,
both one year old, without defect, for a burnt offering,
4 and an ox and a ram for peace offerings, to
sacrifice before the LORD, and a grain offering
mixed with oil; for today the LORD will appear
to you.' "
5 So they took what Moses had commanded to the
front of the tent of meeting, and the whole congregation came near and
stood before the LORD.
6 Moses said, "This is the thing which the LORD
has commanded you to do, that the glory of the LORD
may appear to you."
7 Moses then said to Aaron, "Come near to the
altar and offer your sin offering and your burnt offering, that you
may make atonement for yourself and for the people; then make the offering
for the people, that you may make atonement for them, just as the LORD
has commanded."
8 So Aaron came near to the altar and
slaughtered the calf of the sin offering which was for himself.
9 Aaron's sons presented the blood to him; and
he dipped his finger in the blood and put some on the horns of
the altar, and poured out the rest of the blood at the base of
the altar.
10 The fat and the kidneys and the lobe of the
liver of the sin offering, he then offered up in smoke on the altar
just as the LORD had commanded Moses.
11 The flesh and the skin, however, he burned
with fire outside the camp.
12 Then he slaughtered the burnt offering;
and Aaron's sons handed the blood to him and he sprinkled it around
on the altar.
13 They handed the burnt offering to him in pieces,
with the head, and he offered them up in smoke on the altar.
14 He also washed the entrails and the legs,
and offered them up in smoke with the burnt offering on the altar.
15 Then he presented the people's offering,
and took the goat of the sin offering which was for the people, and
slaughtered it and offered it for sin, like the first.
16 He also presented the burnt offering, and
offered it according to the ordinance.
17 Next he presented the grain offering, and
filled his hand with some of it and offered it up in smoke on
the altar, besides the burnt offering of the morning.
18 Then he slaughtered the ox and the
ram, the sacrifice of peace offerings which was for the people; and
Aaron's sons handed the blood to him and he sprinkled it around on the
altar.
19 As for the portions of fat from the ox and
from the ram, the fat tail, and the fat covering, and the kidneys
and the lobe of the liver,
20 they now placed the portions of fat on the
breasts; and he offered them up in smoke on the altar.
21 But the breasts and the right thigh Aaron
presented as a wave offering before the LORD,
just as Moses had commanded.
22 Then Aaron lifted up his hands toward
the people and blessed them, and he stepped down after making the sin
offering and the burnt offering and the peace offerings.
23 Moses and Aaron went into the tent of meeting.
When they came out and blessed the people, the glory of the LORD
appeared to all the people.
24 Then fire came out from before the LORD
and consumed the burnt offering and the portions of fat on the altar;
and when all the people saw it, they shouted and fell on their
faces.
LEVITICUS: CHAPTER
10
The Sin of
Nadab and Abihu
1 Now Nadab and Abihu, the sons of Aaron, took
their respective firepans, and after putting fire in them, placed incense
on it and offered strange fire before the LORD,
which He had not commanded them.
2 And fire came out from the presence of the
LORD and consumed them, and they died before
the LORD.
3 Then Moses said to Aaron, "It is what the LORD
spoke, saying,
'By those who come near Me I will be treated as holy,
And before all the people I will be honored.' "
So Aaron, therefore, kept silent.
4 Moses called also to Mishael and Elzaphan,
the sons of Aaron's uncle Uzziel, and said to them, "Come forward, carry
your relatives away from the front of the sanctuary to the outside of
the camp."
5 So they came forward and carried them still
in their tunics to the outside of the camp, as Moses had said.
6 Then Moses said to Aaron and to his sons Eleazar
and Ithamar, "Do not uncover your heads nor tear your clothes, so that
you will not die and that He will not become wrathful against all the
congregation. But your kinsmen, the whole house of Israel, shall bewail
the burning which the LORD has brought about.
7 "You shall not even go out from the doorway
of the tent of meeting, or you will die; for the LORD'S
anointing oil is upon you." So they did according to the word of Moses.
8 The LORD then
spoke to Aaron, saying,
9 "Do not drink wine or strong drink, neither
you nor your sons with you, when you come into the tent of meeting,
so that you will not die—it is a perpetual statute throughout your
generations—
10 and so as to make a distinction between the
holy and the profane, and between the unclean and the clean,
11 and so as to teach the sons of Israel all
the statutes which the LORD has spoken to them
through Moses."
12 Then Moses spoke to Aaron, and to his
surviving sons, Eleazar and Ithamar, "Take the grain offering that is
left over from the LORD'S
offerings by fire and eat it unleavened beside the altar, for it is
most holy.
13 "You shall eat it, moreover, in a holy place,
because it is your due and your sons' due out of the LORD'S
offerings by fire; for thus I have been commanded.
14 "The breast of the wave offering, however,
and the thigh of the offering you may eat in a clean place, you and
your sons and your daughters with you; for they have been given as your
due and your sons' due out of the sacrifices of the peace offerings
of the sons of Israel.
15 "The thigh offered by lifting up and the breast
offered by waving they shall bring along with the offerings by fire
of the portions of fat, to present as a wave offering before the LORD;
so it shall be a thing perpetually due you and your sons with you, just
as the LORD has commanded."
16 But Moses searched carefully for the
goat of the sin offering, and behold, it had been burned up! So he was
angry with Aaron's surviving sons Eleazar and Ithamar, saying,
17 "Why did you not eat the sin offering at the
holy place? For it is most holy, and He gave it to you to bear away
the guilt of the congregation, to make atonement for them before the
LORD.
18 "Behold, since its blood had not been brought
inside, into the sanctuary, you should certainly have eaten it in the
sanctuary, just as I commanded."
19 But Aaron spoke to Moses, "Behold, this very
day they presented their sin offering and their burnt offering before
the LORD. When things like these happened to
me, if I had eaten a sin offering today, would it have been good in
the sight of the LORD?"
20 When Moses heard that, it seemed good
in his sight. |
