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Leviticus 8:1-10:20

Ordination of priests of Aaron's line. (Lv.8.1-36)

8¹Yahweh spoke to Moses and said: ²'Take Aaron and with him his sons, the vestments, the anointing oil, the bull for the sacrifice for sin, the two rams and the basket of unleavened bread. ³Then call the whole community together at the entrance to the Tent of Meeting.' ⁴Moses did as Yahweh ordered; the community gathered at the entrance to the Tent of Meeting, ⁵and Moses said to them, 'This is what Yahweh has ordered to be done.' ⁶He made Aaron and his sons come forward and washed them with water. ⁷He then dressed him in the tunic, passed the waistband round his waist, vested him in the robe and put the ephod on him. He then put the waistband of the ephod round his waist, fastening it to him. ⁸He put the breastplate on him, and placed the urim and thummim in it. ⁹He put the turban on his head, and on the front of the turban, the golden flower; this was the symbol of holy consecration, which Yahweh had prescribed to Moses. ¹⁰Moses then took the anointing oil and anointed the Dwelling and everything inside it, to consecrate them. ¹¹He sprinkled the altar seven times and anointed the altar and its accessories, the basin and its stand, to consecrate them. ¹²He then poured some of the anointing oil on Aaron's head and anointed him to consecrate him. ¹³Moses then made Aaron's sons come forward; he dressed them in tunics, passed the waistbands round their waists and put on their head-dresses, as Yahweh had ordered him. ¹⁴He then had the bull for the sacrifice for sin brought forward. Aaron and his sons laid their hands on the victim's head ¹⁵and Moses slaughtered it. He then took the blood and with his finger put some of it on the horns on the corners of the altar to purify the altar. He then poured the rest of the blood at the foot of the altar, which he consecrated by performing the rite of expiation over it. ¹⁶He then took all the fat covering the entrails, the mass of fat over the liver, both kidneys and their fat; and he burnt this on the altar, ¹⁷but the bull's skin, its meat and its offal he burnt outside the camp, as Yahweh had ordered Moses. ¹⁸He then had the ram for the burnt offering brought forward. Aaron and his sons laid their hands on the ram's head ¹⁹and Moses slaughtered it. He poured its blood all around the altar. ²⁰He then quartered the ram and burned the head, the quarters and the fat. ²¹He then washed the entrails and shins, and burnt the whole ram on the altar, as a burnt offering, offered to be a pleasing smell, as food burnt for Yahweh, as Yahweh had ordered Moses. ²²He then had the other ram brought forward, the ram for the investiture sacrifice. Aaron and his sons laid their hands on its head ²³and Moses slaughtered it. He took some of its blood and put it on the lobe of Aaron's right ear, on the thumb of his right hand, and on the big toe of his right foot. ²⁴He then made Aaron's sons come forward and he put some of the blood on the lobes of their right ears, on the thumbs of their right hands and on the big toes of their right feet. Next, Moses poured the rest of the blood all around the altar. ²⁵He then took the fat: the tail, all the fat covering the entrails, the mass of fat over the liver, both kidneys and their fat, and the right thigh. ²⁶From the basket of unleavened bread placed before Yahweh, he took an unleavened cake, a cake of bread made with oil, and a wafer; he placed these on the fat and the right thigh, ²⁷and put it all into Aaron's hands and those of his sons, and made the gesture of offering before Yahweh. ²⁸Moses then took them away from them and burned them on the altar, with the burnt offering. This was the investiture sacrifice, offered to be a pleasing smell, as food burnt for Yahweh. ²⁹Moses then took the forequarter and made the gesture of offering before Yahweh. This was the portion of the ram of investiture that reverted to Moses, as Yahweh had ordered Moses. ³⁰Moses then took some of the anointing oil and some of the blood that was on the altar and sprinkled Aaron and his vestments, and his sons and their vestments, with it. In this way he consecrated Aaron and his vestments and his sons and their vestments. ³¹Moses then said to Aaron and his sons, 'Cook the meat at the entrance to the Tent of Meeting, and eat it there, as also the bread of the investiture sacrifice still in the basket of the investiture offerings, as I ordered, when I said, 'Aaron and his sons must eat it.' ³²What remains of the meat and bread you will burn. ³³For seven days you will not leave the entrance to the Tent of Meeting, until the time of your investiture is complete; for your investiture will require seven days. ³⁴Yahweh has ordered us to do as we have done today to perform the rite of expiation for you; ³⁵hence, for seven days, day and night, you will remain at the entrance to the Tent of Meeting observing Yahweh's ritual; do this, and you will not incur death. For this was the order I received.' ³⁶So Aaron and his sons did everything that Yahweh had ordered through Moses.

Aaron offers sacrifice. (Lv.9.1-24)

9¹On the eighth day Moses summoned Aaron and his sons and the elders of Israel; ²he said to Aaron, 'Take a calf to offer a sacrifice for sin, and a ram for a burnt offering, both without blemish, and bring them before Yahweh. ³Then say to the Israelites, 'Take a goat to be offered as a sacrifice for sin, a calf and a lamb one year old (both without blemish) for a burnt offering, ⁴a bull and a ram for communion sacrifices to be slaughtered before Yahweh, and a cereal offering mixed with oil. For Yahweh will appear to you today.' ' ⁵They brought what Moses had ordered in front of the Tent of Meeting; then the whole community approached and stood before Yahweh. ⁶Moses then said, 'This is what Yahweh has ordered you to do, so that his glory may be visible to you.' ⁷Moses then addressed Aaron, 'Go to the altar and offer your sacrifice for sin and your burnt offering, and so perform the rite of expiation for yourself and your family. Then present the people's offering and perform the rite of expiation for them, as Yahweh has ordered.' ⁸Aaron went to the altar and slaughtered the calf as a sacrifice for his own sin. ⁹Aaron's sons then presented the blood to him; he dipped his finger in it and put some on the horns of the altar, and then poured the rest of the blood at the foot of the altar. ¹⁰The fat of the sacrifice for sin and the kidneys and the mass of fat over the liver he burned on the altar, as Yahweh had ordered Moses, ¹¹and the meat and the skin he burned outside the camp. ¹²He then slaughtered the burnt offering; Aaron's sons then handed him the blood, which he poured all around the altar. ¹³They then handed him the quartered victim and the head, and he burned these on the altar. ¹⁴He then washed the entrails and shins and burned them with the burnt offering on the altar. ¹⁵He then presented the people's offering. He took the goat for the people's sacrifice for sin, slaughtered it, and made a sacrifice for sin with it in the same way as with the first. ¹⁶He then had the burnt offering brought forward and proceeded according to the ritual. ¹⁷He then had the cereal offering brought forward, took a handful of it and burned it on the altar in addition to the morning burnt offering. ¹⁸Then he slaughtered the bull and the ram as a communion sacrifice for the people. Aaron's sons handed him the blood and he poured it all around the altar. ¹⁹The fat of the bull and the ram, the tail, the covering fat, the kidneys, the mass of fat over the liver, ²⁰he placed on the ribs and then burned on the altar. ²¹With the ribs and the right thigh Aaron made the gesture of offering as Yahweh had ordered Moses. ²²Aaron then raised his hands towards the people and blessed them. Having thus performed the sacrifice for sin, the burnt offering and the communion sacrifice, he came down ²³and entered the Tent of Meeting with Moses. Then they came out together to bless the people and the glory of Yahweh appeared to the entire people: ²⁴a flame leapt out from Yahweh's presence and consumed the burnt offering and fat on the altar. At this sight the entire people shouted for joy and fell on their faces.

The sin of Nadab and Abihu. (Lv.10.1-7)

10¹Aaron's sons Nadab and Abihu each took his censer, put fire in it and incense on the fire, and presented unauthorised fire before Yahweh, which was not in accordance with his orders. ²At this a flame leapt out from Yahweh's presence and swallowed them up, and they perished before Yahweh. ³Moses then said to Aaron, 'That is what Yahweh meant when he said:

In those who are close to me I show my holiness,
and before all the people I show my glory.'

Aaron remained silent. ⁴Moses summoned Mishael and Elzaphan, sons of Aaron's uncle Uzziel, and said to them, 'Come here and take your brothers away from the sanctuary, out of the camp.' ⁵They came and carried them away, still in their tunics, out of the camp, as Moses had said. ⁶Moses said to Aaron and his sons Eleazar and Ithamar, 'Do not disorder your hair or tear your clothes; or you may incur death and his retribution may overtake the whole community. No, it is for the entire House of Israel to lament your brothers who have been the victims of Yahweh's fire. ⁷To avoid incurring death, do not leave the entrance to the Tent of Meeting, for Yahweh's anointing oil is on you.' And they did as Moses said.

Rules for priests. (Lv.10.8-20)

⁸Yahweh spoke to Aaron and said: ⁹'When you come to the Tent of Meeting, you and your sons with you, to avoid incurring death you may not drink wine or any other fermented liquor. This is a perpetual law for all your descendants. ¹⁰And so shall it be also when you separate the sacred from the profane, the unclean from the clean, ¹¹and when you teach the Israelites any of the decrees that Yahweh has pronounced for them through Moses.' ¹²Moses said to Aaron and his surviving sons, Eleazar and Ithamar, 'Take the cereal offering left over from the food burnt for Yahweh. Eat the unleavened part of it beside the altar, since it is especially holy. ¹³Eat it in the holy place, since it is the portion of the food burnt for Yahweh that is prescribed for you and your sons; this is the order I have received. ¹⁴'You, your sons and daughters with you, will eat in a clean place the forequarter offered and the thigh presented, for these have been given to you and your children as your due from the Israelites' communion sacrifices. ¹⁵The thigh presented and the forequarter offered, once the fat has been burnt, revert to you and your sons with you, after they have been presented before Yahweh with the gesture of offering, in virtue of a perpetual law as Yahweh has ordered.' ¹⁶Moses then enquired carefully about the goat offered as a sacrifice for sin, and found that they had burnt it. He was angry with Eleazar and Ithamar, Aaron's surviving sons, and said, ¹⁷'Why did you not eat this victim for sin in the holy place, since it is especially holy and was given to you to take away the community's guilt, by performing the rite of expiation for them before Yahweh? ¹⁸Since its blood was not taken inside the sanctuary, you should have eaten its meat there, as I ordered you.' ¹⁹Aaron said to Moses, 'Look, today they offered their sacrifice for sin and their burnt offering before Yahweh, and these disasters have befallen me. If I had eaten the sin offering today, would this have met with Yahweh's approval?' ²⁰And when Moses heard this, he was satisfied.