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Aaron Offers Sacrifices

^1 (C1)And it happened on the eighth day that Moses called Aaron and his sons and the elders of Israel;² and he said to Aaron, "^(C1)Take a bull calf as a sin offering and a ram as a burnt offering, each without blemish, and offer both before the LORD. ^(VR1)3 "Then say to the Israelites, 'Take a male goat as a sin offering, and a calf and a lamb, both one year old, without blemish, as a burnt offering,⁴ and a bull and a ram as peace offerings to sacrifice before the LORD, and a grain offering mixed with olive oil, for today ^(C1)the LORD will appear to you.'"⁵ So they took what Moses had commanded to the front of the Tent of Meeting, and all the congregation approached and stood before the LORD.⁶ Moses said, "This is the thing which the LORD has commanded you to do, so that ^(C1)the glory of the LORD may appear to you."⁷ Moses said to Aaron, "Approach the altar and ^(C1)present your sin offering and your burnt offering and make atonement for yourself and for the people; and present the offering of the people and make atonement for them, just as the LORD has commanded." ^(VR1)

^8 (C1)So Aaron approached the altar and killed the calf as the sin offering, which was designated for himself.⁹ The ^(C1)sons of Aaron presented the blood to him; he dipped his finger in the blood and ^(C2)put some of it on the horns of the altar, and poured out the rest of the blood at the altar's base;¹⁰ but the fat, the kidneys, and the lobe of the liver from the sin offering he offered up in smoke on the altar, just as the LORD had commanded Moses.¹¹ And Aaron burned ^(C1)the meat and the hide in the fire outside the camp.

¹² Then he killed the burnt offering; and Aaron's sons handed the blood to him and he sprinkled it around on the altar.¹³ They brought the burnt offering to him piece by piece, with the head, and Aaron offered them up in smoke on the altar.¹⁴ He also washed the entrails and the legs, and offered them up in smoke with the burnt offering on the altar.

¹⁵ Then Aaron presented the people's offering. He took the ^(C1)goat for the sin offering of the people, and killed it and offered it for sin, as he did the first. ^(VR1)16 He also presented the burnt offering and offered it according to ^(C1)the ordinance.¹⁷ Next Aaron presented ^(C1)the grain offering and took a handful of it and offered it up in smoke on the altar ^(C2)in addition to the burnt offering of the morning.

^18 (C1)He also killed the bull and the ram, the sacrifice of peace offerings which was for the people; and Aaron's sons handed the blood to him and he sprinkled it around on the altar,¹⁹ As for the portions of fat from the bull and from the ram—the fat tail, and the fat ^(C1)covering the internal organs, and the kidneys, and the lobe of the liver—²⁰ they now put the portions of fat on the breasts; and Aaron offered the fat up in smoke on the altar.²¹ But ^(C1)the breasts and the right thigh Aaron presented as a wave offering before the LORD, just as Moses had commanded.

²² Then Aaron lifted his hands toward the people and ^(C1)blessed them, and came down from the altar of burnt offering after presenting the sin offering, the burnt offering, and the peace offerings.²³ Moses and Aaron went into the Tent of Meeting, and when they came out they blessed the people, and ^(C1)the glory and brilliance of the LORD the Shekinah cloud appeared to all the people as promised. ^{(VR1)24 (C1)}Then fire came out from before the LORD and consumed the burnt offering and the portions of fat on the altar; and when all the people saw it, they shouted and fell face downward in awe and worship.