Leviticus 9Book 3 of 66 · 24 verses · MBT primary, NKJV fallback where MBT pending

  1. After the ordination ceremony, on the eighth day, Moses called together Aaron and his sons and the elders of Israel.
  2. And he said to Aaron, "Take for yourself a young bull calf as a sin offering and a ram as a burnt offering, without blemish, and present them before the LORD.
  3. And to the children of Israel you shall speak, saying, 'Take a male goat as a sin offering, and a calf and a lamb, both a year old, without blemish, as a burnt offering,
  4. Also a bull and a ram for fellowship offerings, to sacrifice before the LORD, and a grain offering mixed with oil, for today the LORD is going to appear to you.
  5. So they brought what Moses commanded to the front of the tabernacle of meeting, and all the congregation drew near and stood before the LORD.
  6. Then Moses said, "This is what the LORD commanded you to do so that the glory of the LORD may appear to you."
  7. Then Moses said to Aaron, "Draw near to the altar and sacrifice your sin offering and your burnt offering, and make atonement for yourself and for the people. Then present the offering of the people and make atonement for them, as the LORD has commanded."
  8. Aaron therefore drew near to the altar and slaughtered the calf of the sin offering, which was for himself.
  9. Then the sons of Aaron brought the blood to him, and he dipped his finger in the blood and applied it to the horns of the altar, and poured out the rest of the blood at the base of the altar.
  10. But the fat, the kidneys, and the long lobe of the liver from the sin offering he burned on the altar, just as the LORD had commanded Moses.
  11. The flesh and the skin he burned with fire outside the camp.
  12. Then he killed the burnt offering, and Aaron's sons handed him the blood, which he splattered all around on the altar.
  13. Then they presented the burnt offering to him piece by piece, along with the head, and he burned them on the altar.
  14. And he washed the internal organs and the legs, and burned them with the burnt offering on the altar.
  15. Then he presented the people's offering and took the goat which was the sin offering for the people, and slaughtered it and offered it for sin, just as he had done with the first one.
  16. And he brought the burnt offering and offered it according to the prescribed ordinance.
  17. Then he presented the grain offering, filled his hand with some of it, and burned it on the altar in addition to the burnt offering of the morning.
  18. He also killed the bull and the ram as the sacrifice of peace offerings which were for the people, and Aaron's sons handed him the blood, which he splattered all around on the altar.
  19. And the fat portions from the bull and the ram—the fat tail, what covers the internal organs and the kidneys, and the long lobe attached to the liver;
  20. They put the fat portions on the breasts, and he burned the fat 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, the burnt offering, and the peace offerings.
  23. And Moses and Aaron went into the tabernacle of meeting, and when they came out they blessed the people, and the glory of the LORD appeared to all the people.
  24. And fire came out from before the LORD and consumed the burnt offering and the fat on the altar, and when all the people saw this they shouted with joy and fell on their faces.