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The Lord Accepts Aaron's Offering

^1 (a)On the eighth day Moses called Aaron and his sons and the elders of Israel, ² and he said to Aaron, ^(b)"Take for yourself a bull calf for a sin offering and ^(c)a ram for a burnt offering, both without blemish, and offer them before the Lord. ³ And say to the people of Israel, ^(d)‘Take a male goat for a sin offering, and a calf and a lamb, both a year old without blemish, for a burnt offering, ⁴ and an ox and a ram for peace offerings, to sacrifice before the Lord, and ^(e)a grain offering mixed with oil, for ^(f)today the Lord will appear to you.'" ⁵ And they brought what Moses commanded in front of the tent of meeting, and all the congregation drew near and stood before the Lord. ⁶ And Moses said, "This is the thing that the Lord commanded you to do, that the glory of the Lord may appear to you." ⁷ Then Moses said to Aaron, "Draw near to the altar and ^(g)offer your sin offering and your burnt offering and ^(h)make atonement for yourself and for the people, and bring the offering of the people and make atonement for them, as the Lord has commanded."

⁸ So Aaron drew near to the altar and killed the calf of the sin offering, which was for himself. ^9 (i)And the sons of Aaron presented the blood to him, and he dipped his finger in the blood and ^(j)put it on the horns of the altar and poured out the blood at the base of the altar. ^10 (k)But the fat and the kidneys and the long lobe of the liver from the sin offering he burned on the altar, ^(l)as the Lord commanded Moses. ^11 (m)The flesh and the skin he burned up with fire outside the camp.

¹² Then he killed the burnt offering, and Aaron's sons handed him the blood, and he ⁽ⁿ⁾threw it against the sides of the altar. ^13 (o)And they handed the burnt offering to him, piece by piece, and the head, and he burned them on the altar. ^14 (p)And he washed the entrails and the legs and burned them with the burnt offering on the altar.

^15 (q)Then he presented the people's offering and took the goat of the sin offering that was for the people and killed it and ^(r)offered it as a sin offering, ^(s)like the first one. ¹⁶ And he presented the burnt offering and offered it ^(t)according to the ^(u)rule. ¹⁷ And he presented the ^(v)grain offering, took a handful of it, and burned it on the altar, ^(w)besides the burnt offering of the morning.

¹⁸ Then he killed the ox and the ram, ^(x)the sacrifice of peace offerings for the people. And Aaron's sons handed him the blood, and he threw it against the sides of the altar. ¹⁹ But the fat pieces of the ox and of the ram, the fat tail and that which covers ^(y)the entrails and the kidneys and the long lobe of the liver— ²⁰ they put the fat pieces on the breasts, ^(z)and he burned the fat pieces on the altar, ²¹ but the breasts and the right thigh Aaron waved ^(aa)for a wave offering before the Lord, as Moses commanded.

²² Then Aaron ^(ab)lifted up his hands toward the people and ^(ac)blessed them, and he came down from offering the sin offering and the burnt offering and the peace offerings. ²³ And Moses and Aaron went into the tent of meeting, and when they came out they blessed the people, and ^(ad)the glory of the Lord appeared to all the people. ²⁴ And ^(ae)fire came out from before the Lord and consumed the burnt offering and the pieces of fat on the altar, and when all the people saw it, ^(af)they shouted and ^(ag)fell on their faces.