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UST LEV Chapter 6

6 Then Yahweh told Moses, 2 “It may happen that a person does wrong and breaks one of the commandments that I have given to the people of Israel. He might deceive another Israelite by failing to fulfill an oath that he swore he would keep by receiving a deposit or a pledge. Or he might deceive another Israelite by stealing his property or by extorting money from him. 3 Or he might mistreat another Israelite by finding someone's lost property and then lying about it. If someone does any of these various things that people do wrong, he has taken an oath falsely. 4 If this happens, when the person does wrong in any of these ways and becomes guilty, then he should first return the property that he stole or repay the money that he extorted from another Israelite. Or if he received a deposit, he should return the deposit that another Israelite gave to him as a sign that he would fulfill the oath between them. Or if he found someone’s lost property, he should return the lost property. 5 This same principle applies for any other way in which a person might swear an oath falsely. That person should restore the full monetary value of whatever he has stolen or found or the amount that he withheld. Moreover, he should add a fifth of that monetary value to the total amount. He should give it to whomever the amount properly belongs on the day that he recognizes that he is guilty of wrongdoing. 6 Then, to the precincts of the sacred tent where Yahweh lives among the Israelites, that individual should bring an animal to sacrifice. He should offer the animal as a restoring sacrifice. To offer this sacrifice, he should bring a totally healthy male ram to the priest from the flock animals that he owns. He should also determine its monetary value in silver. 7 When this happens, the priest will be able to offer in Yahweh’s presence a sacrifice that Yahweh will accept for the sake of the individual. And Yahweh will remove the guilt of the individual’s wrongdoing. Yahweh will also forgive the individual for whatever way he becomes guilty out of all the ways that people acquire guilt.”

8 Then Yahweh told Moses, 9 “Make sure that Aaron and his sons know that this is the way that a person should offer a wholly burned sacrifice. This kind of sacrifice must remain on the burning fire that is on the altar throughout the entire night. You should make sure that the fire on the altar is always burning. 10 In the morning, make sure that the priest puts on his linen coat and that he wears his linen undergarments on his bare skin. Then he should remove the ashes from the fat of other sacrifices that have accumulated where the fire has totally burned the sacrifices that are left on the altar. The priest should put the ashes in a pile beside the altar. 11 After he has done this, the priest should remove those sacred linen clothes and put on other, everyday clothes. Then he should take the ashes outside of the camp and dispose of them in a place that is ceremonially clean. This is so that the impurities of these parts of the animal do not cause the people to become impure accidentally. 12 Now, make sure that the fire on the altar is always burning. It must never go out. Rather, each and every morning, the priest should put more firewood on the fire. Then he should arrange more offerings on the fire. He should burn the fat of the fellowship sacrifices on that fire, doing it in a way that causes smoke to go up. 13 Make sure that the fire on the altar is continually burning. Remember, it must never go out!

14 And this is the way a person should offer a grain offering. The descendants of Aaron who are priests should present this kind of sacrifice in the precincts of the sacred tent where Yahweh lives among the Israelites, in front of the altar that is at the entrance of the sacred tent. 15 Then, with as large a handful as he can pick up, the priest should scoop out of the offering a handful of the wheat flour with its olive oil, as well as all the incense that is on the offering. The priest should burn the portion of the offering that he scooped out with his hand. He should burn it in a way that causes smoke to go up on the altar. Yahweh will enjoy the smell of the smoke of the offering. 16 Aaron and his sons who are priests may eat the rest of the grain offerings that you offer to Yahweh. They should eat any unleavened loaf of bread in a sacred place, inside the courtyard of the sacred tent. 17 Make sure that no one offers a grain offering that consists of a loaf of bread that he made with leaven. I have given this part of the grain offerings to the priests as their portion of the gifts that people offer to me. Out of all those gifts, the portion of the sacrifice that the priests keep for themselves for food is specially set apart. It is separated from all the sacred gifts that people offer to me, just like the priests’ portions of the purifying sacrifices and the priests’ portions of the restoring sacrifices. 18 Any male descendant of Aaron may eat these portions of the sacrifices. In fact, this practice is a permanent and enduring part of the portion of the gifts that people offer to Yahweh that belongs to the priests for every generation of the people of Israel. These gifts are so sacred that whoever or whatever touches them becomes just as sacred as the gifts themselves.”

19 Then Yahweh told Moses, 20 “On the day when one of the male descendants of Aaron is consecrated as a priest, this is what he should offer. He should present to Yahweh about two liters of wheat flour, constituting a grain offering that will always be in Yahweh’s presence. He should bring half of the wheat flour in the morning and half of the wheat flour in the evening. 21 The priest who offers the grain offering should pan-fry the wheat flour on a griddle in olive oil after having combined it with the oil. He should then offer the broken pieces of the offering. He should burn them on the altar in a way that causes smoke to go up so that Yahweh will enjoy the smell of the smoke of the offering. 22 The high priest who is in line to succeed the current high priest should perform the grain offering in this way. These instructions are a permanent and enduring regulation. Make sure that the priests burn these kinds of sacrifices in their entirety in a way that causes smoke to go up to Yahweh. 23 The priests should offer every part of these grain offerings. No priest should eat any portion of this particular sacrifice.”

24 Then Yahweh told Moses 25 to tell Aaron and his sons, “This is the way a person should offer a purifying sacrifice. The individual should kill the animal that an individual selects for this kind of sacrifice at the same place where individuals kill the animals that someone might offer as a wholly burned sacrifice. This location is within the precincts of the sacred tent where Yahweh lives among the Israelites. Aaron and his descendants should consider this kind of sacrifice as specially set apart for the priests among all the sacred offerings that people offer to Yahweh that are set apart for him. 26 The priest who performs the purifying sacrifice may eat its meat. However, the priest should only eat it in the place in the courtyard of the sacred tent that the priests have set apart for such sacred acts. 27 The meat of these sacrifices is so sacred that whoever or whatever touches the meat of the sacrifice becomes just as sacred as the meat itself. And whoever splatters the blood of the purifying sacrifice on any clothing should wash the spots where the blood came into contact with the clothing. They should wash their clothing in a location that the priests have set apart for such sacred acts. 28 If the priest boils the meat of the purifying sacrifice in a pot made from clay or potsherds, the priest must smash the pot afterward. However, if the priest boils the meat in a bronze pot, the priest may thoroughly scrub the pot with scalding water and rinse the pot with water. 29 Any male in a priest’s family may eat the boiled meat of the purifying sacrifice. The people should consider that meat to be especially set apart for the priests out of all the gifts that people offer to Yahweh that are set apart for him. 30 But there is one kind of sacrifice that neither the priests nor their family members should eat. Instead, the priests should completely burn such a sacrifice over the fire. They should not eat any purifying sacrifice that requires the priest to bring some of the blood of the animal into the sacred tent. The priest does this in the sacred space that priests have set apart for such sacred acts in order to offer a sacrifice that Yahweh will accept for the sake of an individual.

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