Aaron’s First Offerings
1. On the eighth day Moses summoned Aaron and his sons and the elders of Israel,
2. and he said to Aaron, “Take a bull calf for your sin offering and a ram for your burnt offering, both without blemish, and present them before the LORD.
3. Then tell the Israelites: ‘Take a male goat for a sin offering, a calf and a lamb, yearlings without blemish, for a burnt offering,
4. and an ox and a ram for a peace offering, to sacrifice before the LORD, together with a grain offering mixed with oil; for today the LORD will appear to you.’”
5. So they brought what Moses had commanded to the front of the Tent of Meeting, and the whole congregation approached and stood before the LORD.
6. Then Moses said, “This is what the LORD has commanded you to do, so that the glory of the LORD may appear to you.”
7. Moses then said to Aaron, “Approach the altar and sacrifice your sin offering and your burnt offering; make atonement for yourself and the people. Sacrifice the offering that is for the people and make atonement for them, as the LORD has commanded.”
8. So Aaron approached the altar and slaughtered the calf as a sin offering for himself.
9. Then Aaron’s sons brought the blood to him, and he dipped his finger in the blood and put it on the horns of the altar; he poured out the rest of the blood at the base of the altar.
10. He burned the fat, the kidneys, and the long lobe of the liver from the sin offering on the altar, as the LORD had commanded Moses.
11. But he burned the flesh and the hide outside the camp.
12. Next, Aaron slaughtered the burnt offering. His sons brought him the blood, and he sprinkled it on all sides of the altar.
13. They brought him the burnt offering piece by piece, along with the head, and he burned them on the altar.
14. He washed the entrails and the legs and burned them on top of the burnt offering on the altar.
15. Then Aaron presented the people’s offering. He took the goat for the people’s sin offering, slaughtered it, and offered it for sin like the first one.
16. He also presented the burnt offering and sacrificed it according to the regulation.
17. Next, he presented the grain offering, took a handful of it, and burned it on the altar in addition to the morning burnt offering.
18. He slaughtered the ox and the ram as the peace offerings for the people. Aaron’s sons brought him the blood, and he sprinkled it on all sides of the altar.
19. They also brought the fat portions from the ox and the ram—the fat tail, the fat covering the entrails, the kidneys, and the long lobe of the liver.
20. They placed these fat portions on the breasts and burned them on the altar.
21. Aaron waved the breasts and the right thigh as a wave offering before the LORD, as Moses had commanded.
22. Then Aaron lifted up his hands toward the people and blessed them. And having sacrificed the sin offering, the burnt offering, and the peace offering, he stepped down.
23. 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. 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.