5 “If anyone sins in that he hears a public ^eadjuration to testify, and though he is a witness, whether he has seen or come to know the matter, yet does not speak, he shall ^fbear his iniquity; 2 or ^gif anyone touches an unclean thing, whether a carcass of an unclean wild animal or a carcass of unclean livestock or a carcass of unclean swarming things, and it is hidden from him and he has become unclean, and he realizes his guilt; 3 or if he touches ^hhuman uncleanness, of whatever sort the uncleanness may be with which one becomes unclean, and it is hidden from him, when he comes to know it, and realizes his guilt; 4 or if anyone utters with his lips a ⁱrash oath to do evil or to do good, any sort of rash oath that people ^jswear, and it is hidden from him, when he comes to know it, and he realizes his guilt in any of these; 5 when he realizes his guilt in any of these and ^kconfesses the sin he has committed, 6 he shall bring to the Lord as his compensation¹ for the sin that he has committed, a female from the flock, a lamb or a goat, for a sin offering. And the priest shall make atonement for him for his sin.

7 “But ^lif he cannot afford a lamb, then he shall bring to the Lord as his compensation for the sin that he has committed two ^mturtledoves or two pigeons,² one for a sin offering and the other for a burnt offering. 8 He shall bring them to the priest, who shall offer first the one for the sin offering. He shall ⁿwring its head from its neck ⁿbut shall not sever it completely, 9 and he shall sprinkle some of the blood of the sin offering on the side of the altar, while ^othe rest of the blood shall be drained out ^pat the base of the altar; it is a sin offering. 10 Then he shall offer the second for a burnt offering according to the rule. ^qAnd the priest shall make atonement for him for the sin that he has committed, and he shall be forgiven.

11 “But if he cannot afford two turtledoves or two pigeons, then he shall bring as his offering for the sin that he has committed a ^rtenth of an ephah³ of fine flour for a sin offering. He ^rshall put no oil on it and shall put no frankincense on it, for it is a sin offering. 12 And he shall bring it to ^sthe priest, and the priest shall take a handful of it as its memorial portion and ^tburn this on the altar, on the Lord’s food offerings; it is a sin offering. 13 Thus ^qthe priest shall make atonement for him for the sin which he has committed in any one of these things, and he shall be forgiven. And the remainder⁴ shall be for the priest, as in the grain offering.”

Laws for Guilt Offerings

14 The Lord spoke to Moses, saying, 15 ^u“If anyone commits a breach of faith and sins unintentionally in any of the holy things of the Lord, ^vhe shall bring to the Lord as his compensation, a ram without blemish out of the flock, valued⁵ in silver shekels,⁶ according to the ^wshekel of the sanctuary, for a guilt offering. 16 He shall also make restitution for what he has done amiss in the holy thing and ^xshall add a fifth to it and give it to the priest. ^qAnd the priest shall make atonement for him with the ram of the guilt offering, and he shall be forgiven.

17 ^y“If anyone sins, doing any of the things that by the Lord’s commandments ought not to be done, ^zthough he did not know it, then realizes his guilt, he shall bear his iniquity. 18 ^aHe shall bring to the priest a ram without blemish out of the flock, or its equivalent, for a guilt offering, and ^qthe priest shall make atonement for him for the mistake that he made unintentionally, and he shall be forgiven. 19 It is a guilt offering; he has indeed incurred guilt before⁷ the Lord.”

6 ¹ The Lord spoke to Moses, saying, 2 “If anyone sins and ^bcommits a breach of faith against the Lord by ^cdeceiving his neighbor in ^da matter of deposit or security, or through robbery, or ^eif he has oppressed his neighbor 3 or ^fhas found something lost and lied about it, ^gswearing falsely—in any of all the things that people do and sin thereby— 4 if he has sinned and has realized his guilt and will restore ^ewhat he took by robbery or what he got by oppression or the deposit that was committed to him or the lost thing that he found 5 or anything about which he has sworn falsely, he shall ^hrestore it in full and shall add a fifth to it, and give it to him to whom it belongs on the day he realizes his guilt. 6 And he shall bring to the priest as his compensation to the Lord ⁱa ram without blemish out of the flock, or its equivalent, for a guilt offering. 7 ^jAnd the priest shall make atonement for him before the Lord, and he shall be forgiven for any of the things that one may do and thereby become guilty.”

The Priests and the Offerings

8 ² The Lord spoke to Moses, saying, 9 “Command Aaron and his sons, saying, This is the law of the burnt offering. The burnt offering shall be on the hearth on the altar all night until the morning, and the fire of the altar shall be kept burning on it. 10 And ^kthe priest shall put on his linen garment and put his linen undergarment on his body, and he shall take up the ashes to which the fire has reduced the burnt offering on the altar and put them ^lbeside the altar. 11 Then ^mhe shall take off his garments and put on other garments and carry the ashes ⁿoutside the camp to a clean place. 12 The fire on the altar shall be kept burning on it; it shall not go out. The priest shall burn wood on it every morning, and he shall arrange the burnt offering on it and shall burn on it ^othe fat of the peace offerings. 13 Fire shall be kept burning on the altar continually; it shall not go out.

14 “And this is the law of ^pthe grain offering. The sons of Aaron shall offer it before the Lord in front of the altar. 15 And one shall take from it a handful of the fine flour of the grain offering and its oil and all the frankincense that is on the grain offering and burn this as its ^qmemorial portion on the altar, a pleasing aroma to the Lord. 16 And ^rthe rest of it Aaron and his sons shall eat. It shall be eaten unleavened ^sin a holy place. In the court of the tent of meeting they shall eat it. 17 ^tIt shall not be baked with leaven. ^uI have given it as their portion of my food offerings. ^vIt is a thing most holy, like the sin offering and the guilt offering. 18 Every male among the children of Aaron may eat of it, as decreed forever throughout your generations, from the Lord’s food offerings. Whatever touches them shall become holy.”

19 The Lord spoke to Moses, saying, 20 ^w“This is the offering that Aaron and his sons shall offer to the Lord on the day when he is anointed: a ^xtenth of an ephah³ of fine flour as a regular grain offering, half of it in the morning and half in the evening. 21 It shall be made with oil ^yon a griddle. You shall bring it ^zwell mixed, in baked⁴ pieces like a grain offering, and offer it for a pleasing aroma to the Lord. 22 The priest from among Aaron’s sons, who is anointed to succeed him, shall offer it to the Lord as decreed forever. ^aThe whole of it shall be burned. 23 Every grain offering of a priest shall be wholly burned. It shall not be eaten.”

24 The Lord spoke to Moses, saying, 25 “Speak to Aaron and his sons, saying, ^bThis is the law of the sin offering. ^cIn the place where the burnt offering is killed shall the sin offering be killed before the Lord; ^dit is most holy. 26 ^eThe priest who offers it for sin shall eat it. ^fIn a holy place it shall be eaten, in the court of the tent of meeting. 27 Whatever touches its flesh shall be holy, and when any of its blood is splashed on a garment, you shall wash that on which it was splashed in a holy place. 28 And ^gthe earthenware vessel in which it is boiled ^hshall be broken. But if it is boiled in a bronze vessel, that shall be scoured and rinsed in water. 29 Every male among the priests may eat of it; ^dit is most holy. 30 ⁱBut no sin offering shall be eaten from which any blood is brought into the tent of meeting to make atonement in the Holy Place; it shall be burned up with fire.

7 ^j“This is the law of the ^kguilt offering. ^lIt is most holy. 2 ^mIn the place where they kill the burnt offering they shall kill the guilt offering, and its blood shall be thrown against the sides of the altar. 3 And ⁿall its fat shall be offered, the fat tail, the fat that covers the entrails, 4 the two kidneys with the fat that is on them at the loins, and the long lobe of the liver that he shall remove ^owith the kidneys. 5 The priest shall burn them on the altar as a food offering to the Lord; it is a guilt offering. 6 ^pEvery male among the priests may eat of it. It shall be eaten in a holy place. ^qIt is most holy. 7 The ^rguilt offering is just like the sin offering; there is one law for them. The priest who makes atonement with it shall have it. 8 And the priest who offers any man’s burnt offering shall have for himself the skin of the burnt offering that he has offered. 9 And ^severy grain offering baked ^tin the oven and all that is prepared ^uon a pan or a griddle shall belong to the priest who offers it. 10 And every grain offering, mixed with oil or dry, shall be shared equally among all the sons of Aaron.

11 “And this is the law of the sacrifice of peace offerings that one may offer to the Lord. 12 If he offers it for a thanksgiving, then he shall offer with the thanksgiving sacrifice ^vunleavened loaves mixed with oil, unleavened wafers smeared with oil, and loaves of fine flour ^wwell mixed with oil. 13 ^xWith the sacrifice of his peace offerings for thanksgiving he shall bring his offering with loaves of leavened bread. 14 And from it he shall offer one loaf from each offering, as a ^ygift to the Lord. ^zIt shall belong to the priest who throws the blood of the peace offerings. 15 And the flesh of the sacrifice of his peace offerings ^afor thanksgiving shall be eaten on the day of his offering. He shall not leave any of it until the morning. 16 But ^bif the sacrifice of his offering is a vow offering or a freewill offering, it shall be eaten on the day that he offers his sacrifice, and on the next day what remains of it shall be eaten. 17 But what remains of the flesh of the sacrifice on the third day shall be burned up with fire. 18 If any of the flesh of the sacrifice of his peace offering is eaten on the third day, he who offers it shall not be accepted, neither shall it be credited to him. It is ^ctainted, and he who eats of it shall bear his iniquity.

19 “Flesh that touches any unclean thing shall not be eaten. It shall be burned up with fire. All who are clean may eat flesh, 20 but the person who eats of the flesh of the sacrifice of the Lord’s peace offerings ^dwhile an uncleanness is on him, that person shall be cut off from his people. 21 And if anyone touches an unclean thing, whether ^ehuman uncleanness or an ^funclean beast or any ^gunclean detestable creature, and then eats some flesh from the sacrifice of the Lord’s peace offerings, that person shall be cut off from his people.”

22 The Lord spoke to Moses, saying, 23 “Speak to the people of Israel, saying, ^hYou shall eat no fat, of ox or sheep or goat. 24 The fat of an animal ⁱthat dies of itself and the fat of one that is torn by beasts may be put to any other use, but on no account shall you eat it. 25 For every person who eats of the fat of an animal of which a food offering may be made to the Lord shall be cut off from his people. 26 Moreover, ^jyou shall eat no blood whatever, whether of fowl or of animal, in any of your dwelling places. 27 Whoever eats any blood, that person shall be cut off from his people.”

28 The Lord spoke to Moses, saying, 29 “Speak to the people of Israel, saying, ^kWhoever offers the sacrifice of his peace offerings to the Lord shall bring his offering to the Lord from the sacrifice of his peace offerings. 30 ^lHis own hands shall bring the Lord’s food offerings. He shall bring the fat with ^mthe breast, that the breast may be waved as a wave offering before the Lord. 31 ⁿThe priest shall burn the fat on the altar, but ^othe breast shall be for Aaron and his sons. 32 And ^othe right thigh you shall give to the priest as a contribution from the sacrifice of your peace offerings. 33 Whoever among the sons of Aaron offers the blood of the peace offerings and the fat shall have the right thigh for a portion. 34 For the breast that is ^owaved and the thigh that is ^ocontributed I have taken from the people of Israel, out of the sacrifices of their peace offerings, and ^phave given them to Aaron the priest and to his sons, as a perpetual due from the people of Israel. 35 This is the portion of Aaron and of his sons from the Lord’s food offerings, from the day they were presented to serve as priests of the Lord. 36 The Lord commanded this to be given them by the people of Israel, ^qfrom the day that he anointed them. It is a perpetual due throughout their generations.”

37 This is the law ^rof the burnt offering, of the grain offering, of the sin offering, ^sof the guilt offering, ^tof the ordination offering, and ^uof the peace offering, 38 which the Lord commanded Moses on Mount Sinai, on the day that he commanded the people of Israel ^vto bring their offerings to the Lord, in the wilderness of Sinai.

Consecration of Aaron and His Sons

8 ^wThe Lord spoke to Moses, saying, 2 “Take Aaron and his sons with him, and ^xthe garments and ^ythe 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 entrance of the tent of meeting.” 4 And Moses did as the Lord commanded him, and the congregation was assembled at the entrance of the tent of meeting.

5 And Moses said to the congregation, ^z“This is the thing that the Lord has commanded to be done.” 6 And Moses brought Aaron and his sons and washed them with water. 7 And he put ^athe coat on him and tied the sash around his waist and clothed him with the robe and put the ephod on him and tied the skillfully woven band of the ephod around him, binding it to him with the band.¹ 8 And he placed the breastpiece on him, and ^bin the breastpiece he put the Urim and the Thummim. 9 And he set ^athe turban on his head, and ^con the turban, in front, he set the golden plate, the holy crown, as the Lord commanded Moses.

10 ^dThen Moses took the anointing oil and anointed the tabernacle and all that was in it, and consecrated them. 11 And 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 And ^ehe poured some of the anointing oil on Aaron’s head and anointed him to consecrate him. 13 And Moses brought Aaron’s sons and clothed them with coats and tied sashes around their waists and bound caps on them, as the Lord commanded Moses.

14 Then he brought ^fthe bull of the sin offering, and Aaron and his sons ^glaid their hands on the head of the bull of the sin offering. 15 And he² killed it, and ^hMoses took the blood, and with his finger put it on the horns of the altar around it and purified the altar and poured out the blood at the base of the altar and consecrated it to make atonement for it. 16 ⁱAnd he took all the fat that was on the entrails and the long lobe of the liver and the two kidneys with their fat, and Moses burned them on the altar. 17 But ^jthe bull and its skin and its flesh and its dung he burned up with fire outside the camp, as the Lord commanded Moses.

18 ^kThen he presented the ram of the burnt offering, and Aaron and his sons laid their hands on the head of the ram. 19 And he killed it, and Moses threw the blood against the sides of the altar. 20 He cut the ram into pieces, and Moses burned ^lthe head and the pieces and the fat. 21 He washed the entrails and the legs with water, and Moses burned the whole ram on the altar. It was a burnt offering with a pleasing aroma, a food offering for the Lord, as the Lord commanded Moses.

22 Then ^mhe presented the other ram, the ram of ordination, and Aaron and his sons laid their hands on the head of the ram. 23 And he killed it, and Moses took some of its blood and ⁿput 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 Then he presented Aaron’s sons, and Moses put some of the blood on the lobes of their right ears and on the thumbs of their right hands and on the big toes of their right feet. And Moses threw the blood against the sides of the altar. 25 Then he took the fat and the fat tail and all the fat that was on the entrails and the long lobe of the liver and the two kidneys with their fat and the right thigh, 26 and out of the basket of unleavened bread that was before the Lord he took one unleavened loaf and one loaf of bread with oil and one wafer and placed them on the pieces of fat and on the right thigh. 27 And he put all these in the hands of Aaron and in the hands of his sons and waved them as a wave offering before the Lord. 28 Then Moses took them from their hands and burned them on the altar with the burnt offering. This was an ordination offering with a pleasing aroma, a food offering to the Lord. 29 And Moses took the breast and waved it for a wave offering before the Lord. It was Moses’ portion of the ram of ordination, as the Lord commanded Moses.

30 Then ^oMoses took some of the anointing oil and of the blood that was on the altar and sprinkled it on Aaron and his garments, and also on his sons and his sons’ garments. So he consecrated Aaron and his garments, and his sons and his sons’ garments with him.

31 And Moses said to Aaron and his sons, “Boil the flesh at the entrance of the tent of meeting, and there eat it and the bread that is in the basket of ordination offerings, as I commanded, saying, ‘Aaron and his sons shall eat it.’ 32 And what remains of the flesh and the bread you shall burn up with fire. 33 And you shall not go outside the entrance of the tent of meeting for seven days, until the days of your ordination are completed, for it ^pwill take seven days to ordain you. 34 As has been done today, the Lord has commanded to be done to make atonement for you. 35 At the entrance of the tent of meeting you shall remain day and night for seven days, performing what the Lord has ^qcharged, so that you do not die, for so I have been commanded.” 36 And Aaron and his sons did all the things that the Lord commanded by Moses.