Day 35 of 364

^8:1The LORD spoke to Moses, saying, ^8:2“Take Aaron and his sons with him, and the garments, and the anointing oil, and the bull of the sin offering, and the two rams, and the basket of unleavened bread; ^8:3and assemble all the congregation at the door of the Tent of Meeting.” ^8:4Moses did as the LORD commanded him; and the congregation was assembled at the door of the Tent of Meeting. ^8:5Moses said to the congregation, “This is the thing which the LORD has commanded to be done.” ^8:6Moses brought Aaron and his sons, and washed them with water. ^8:7He put the tunic on him, tied the sash on him, clothed him with the robe, put the ephod on him, and he tied the skillfully woven band of the ephod on him and fastened it to him with it. ^8:8He placed the breastplate on him. He put the Urim and Thummim in the breastplate. ^8:9He set the turban on his head. He set the golden plate, the holy crown, on the front of the turban, as the LORD commanded Moses. ^8:10Moses took the anointing oil, and anointed the tabernacle and all that was in it, and sanctified them. ^8:11He sprinkled it on the altar seven times, and anointed the altar and all its vessels, and the basin and its base, to sanctify them. ^8:12He poured some of the anointing oil on Aaron’s head, and anointed him, to sanctify him. ^8:13Moses brought Aaron’s sons, and clothed them with tunics, and tied sashes on them, and put headbands on them, as the LORD commanded Moses. ^8:14He brought the bull of the sin offering, and Aaron and his sons laid their hands on the head of the bull of the sin offering. ^8:15He killed it; and Moses took the blood, and put it around on the horns of the altar with his finger, and purified the altar, and poured out the blood at the base of the altar, and sanctified it, to make atonement for it. ^8:16He took all the fat that was on the innards, and the cover of the liver, and the two kidneys, and their fat; and Moses burned it on the altar. ^8:17But the bull, and its skin, and its meat, and its dung, he burned with fire outside the camp, as the LORD commanded Moses. ^8:18He presented the ram of the burnt offering. Aaron and his sons laid their hands on the head of the ram. ^8:19He killed it; and Moses sprinkled the blood around on the altar. ^8:20He cut the ram into its pieces; and Moses burned the head, and the pieces, and the fat. ^8:21He washed the innards and the legs with water; and Moses burned the whole ram on the altar. It was a burnt offering for a pleasant aroma. It was an offering made by fire to the LORD, as the LORD commanded Moses. ^8:22He presented the other ram, the ram of consecration. Aaron and his sons laid their hands on the head of the ram. ^8:23He killed it; and Moses took some of its blood, and put it on the tip of Aaron’s right ear, and on the thumb of his right hand, and on the great toe of his right foot. ^8:24He brought Aaron’s sons; and Moses put some of the blood on the tip of their right ear, and on the thumb of their right hand, and on the great toe of their right foot; and Moses sprinkled the blood around on the altar. ^8:25He took the fat, the fat tail, all the fat that was on the innards, the cover of the liver, the two kidneys and their fat, and the right thigh; ^8:26and out of the basket of unleavened bread that was before the LORD, he took one unleavened cake, one cake of oiled bread, and one wafer, and placed them on the fat and on the right thigh. ^8:27He put all these in Aaron’s hands and in his sons’ hands, and waved them for a wave offering before the LORD. ^8:28Moses took them from their hands, and burned them on the altar on the burnt offering. They were a consecration offering for a pleasant aroma. It was an offering made by fire to the LORD. ^8:29Moses took the breast, and waved it for a wave offering before the LORD. It was Moses’ portion of the ram of consecration, as the LORD commanded Moses. ^8:30Moses took some of the anointing oil, and some of the blood which was on the altar, and sprinkled it on Aaron, on his garments, and on his sons, and on his sons’ garments with him, and sanctified Aaron, his garments, and his sons, and his sons’ garments with him. ^8:31Moses said to Aaron and to his sons, “Boil the meat at the door of the Tent of Meeting, and there eat it and the bread that is in the basket of consecration, as I commanded, saying, ‘Aaron and his sons shall eat it.’ ^8:32What remains of the meat and of the bread you shall burn with fire. ^8:33You shall not go out from the door of the Tent of Meeting for seven days, until the days of your consecration are fulfilled: for he shall consecrate you seven days. ^8:34What has been done today, so the LORD has commanded to do, to make atonement for you. ^8:35You shall stay at the door of the Tent of Meeting day and night seven days, and keep the LORD’s command, that you don’t die: for so I am commanded.” ^8:36Aaron and his sons did all the things which the LORD commanded by Moses. ^9:1On the eighth day, Moses called Aaron and his sons, and the elders of Israel; ^9:2and he said to Aaron, “Take a calf from the herd for a sin offering, and a ram for a burnt offering, without defect, and offer them before the LORD. ^9:3You shall speak to the children of Israel, saying, ‘Take a male goat for a sin offering; and a calf and a lamb, both a year old, without defect, for a burnt offering; ^9:4and a bull and a ram for peace offerings, to sacrifice before the LORD; and a meal offering mixed with oil: for today the LORD appears to you.’” ^9:5They brought what Moses commanded before the Tent of Meeting. All the congregation came near and stood before the LORD. ^9:6Moses said, “This is the thing which the LORD commanded that you should do; and the LORD’s glory shall appear to you.” ^9:7Moses said to Aaron, “Draw near to the altar, and offer your sin offering, and your burnt offering, and make atonement for yourself, and for the people; and offer the offering of the people, and make atonement for them, as the LORD commanded.” ^9:8So Aaron came near to the altar, and killed the calf of the sin offering, which was for himself. ^9:9The sons of Aaron presented the blood to him; and he dipped his finger in the blood, and put it on the horns of the altar, and poured out the blood at the base of the altar; ^9:10but the fat, and the kidneys, and the cover from the liver of the sin offering, he burned upon the altar, as the LORD commanded Moses. ^9:11The meat and the skin he burned with fire outside the camp. ^9:12He killed the burnt offering; and Aaron’s sons delivered the blood to him, and he sprinkled it around on the altar. ^9:13They delivered the burnt offering to him, piece by piece, and the head. He burned them upon the altar. ^9:14He washed the innards and the legs, and burned them on the burnt offering on the altar. ^9:15He presented the people’s offering, and took the goat of the sin offering which was for the people, and killed it, and offered it for sin, like the first. ^9:16He presented the burnt offering, and offered it according to the ordinance. ^9:17He presented the meal offering, and filled his hand from there, and burned it upon the altar, in addition to the burnt offering of the morning. ^9:18He also killed the bull and the ram, the sacrifice of peace offerings, which was for the people. Aaron’s sons delivered to him the blood, which he sprinkled around on the altar; ^9:19and the fat of the bull and of the ram, the fat tail, and that which covers the innards, and the kidneys, and the cover of the liver; ^9:20and they put the fat upon the breasts, and he burned the fat on the altar. ^9:21Aaron waved the breasts and the right thigh for a wave offering before the LORD, as Moses commanded. ^9:22Aaron lifted up his hands toward the people, and blessed them; and he came down from offering the sin offering, and the burnt offering, and the peace offerings. ^9:23Moses and Aaron went into the Tent of Meeting, and came out, and blessed the people; and the LORD’s glory appeared to all the people. ^9:24Fire came out from before the LORD, and consumed the burnt offering and the fat upon the altar. When all the people saw it, they shouted, and fell on their faces. ^10:1Nadab and Abihu, the sons of Aaron, each took his censer, and put fire in it, and laid incense on it, and offered strange fire before the LORD, which he had not commanded them. ^10:2Fire came out from before the LORD, and devoured them, and they died before the LORD. ^10:3Then Moses said to Aaron, “This is what the LORD spoke of, saying, ‘I will show myself holy to those who come near me, and before all the people I will be glorified.’” Aaron held his peace. ^10:4Moses called Mishael and Elzaphan, the sons of Uzziel the uncle of Aaron, and said to them, “Draw near, carry your brothers from before the sanctuary out of the camp.” ^10:5So they came near, and carried them in their tunics out of the camp, as Moses had said. ^10:6Moses said to Aaron, and to Eleazar and to Ithamar, his sons, “Don’t let the hair of your heads go loose, and don’t tear your clothes, so that you don’t die, and so that he will not be angry with all the congregation; but let your brothers, the whole house of Israel, bewail the burning which the LORD has kindled. ^10:7You shall not go out from the door of the Tent of Meeting, lest you die; for the anointing oil of the LORD is on you.” They did according to the word of Moses. ^10:8Then the LORD said to Aaron, ^10:9“You and your sons are not to drink wine or strong drink whenever you go into the Tent of Meeting, or you will die. This shall be a statute forever throughout your generations. ^10:10You are to make a distinction between the holy and the common, and between the unclean and the clean. ^10:11You are to teach the children of Israel all the statutes which the LORD has spoken to them by Moses.” ^10:12Moses spoke to Aaron, and to Eleazar and to Ithamar, his sons who were left, “Take the meal offering that remains of the offerings of the LORD made by fire, and eat it without yeast beside the altar; for it is most holy; ^10:13and you shall eat it in a holy place, because it is your portion, and your sons’ portion, of the offerings of the LORD made by fire; for so I am commanded. ^10:14The waved breast and the heaved thigh you shall eat in a clean place, you, and your sons, and your daughters with you: for they are given as your portion, and your sons’ portion, out of the sacrifices of the peace offerings of the children of Israel. ^10:15They shall bring the heaved thigh and the waved breast with the offerings made by fire of the fat, to wave it for a wave offering before the LORD. It shall be yours, and your sons’ with you, as a portion forever, as the LORD has commanded.” ^10:16Moses diligently inquired about the goat of the sin offering, and, behold, it was burned. He was angry with Eleazar and with Ithamar, the sons of Aaron who were left, saying, ^10:17“Why haven’t you eaten the sin offering in the place of the sanctuary, since it is most holy, and he has given it to you to bear the iniquity of the congregation, to make atonement for them before the LORD? ^10:18Behold, its blood was not brought into the inner part of the sanctuary. You certainly should have eaten it in the sanctuary, as I commanded.” ^10:19Aaron spoke to Moses, “Behold, today they have offered their sin offering and their burnt offering before the LORD; and such things as these have happened to me. If I had eaten the sin offering today, would it have been pleasing in the LORD’s sight?” ^10:20When Moses heard that, it was pleasing in his sight.