Leviticus 9

New American Standard Bible

Aaron Offers Sacrifices

9 Now it came about ^(A)on the eighth day that Moses called Aaron and his sons and the elders of Israel; ² and he said to Aaron, “^(B)Take for yourself a calf, a bull, as a sin offering and a ram as a burnt offering, both without defect, and offer them before the Lord. ³ Then you shall speak to the sons of Israel, saying, ‘Take a male goat as a sin offering, and a calf and a lamb, both one year old, without defect, as a burnt offering, ⁴ and an ox and a ram for peace offerings, to sacrifice before the Lord, and a grain offering mixed with oil; for today ^(C)the Lord will appear to you.’” ⁵ So they took what Moses had commanded to the front of the tent of meeting, and the whole congregation came near and stood before the Lord. ⁶ And Moses said, “This is the thing which the Lord has commanded you to do, so that ^(D)the glory of the Lord may appear to you.” ⁷ Moses then said to Aaron, “Come near to the altar and ^[a](E)offer your sin offering and your burnt offering, so that you may make atonement for yourself and for the people; then make the offering ^[b]for the people, so that you may make atonement for them, just as the Lord has commanded.”

^8 (F)So Aaron came near to the altar and slaughtered the calf of the sin offering which was for himself. ^9 (G)Aaron’s sons then presented the blood to him; and he dipped his finger in the blood and ^(H)put some on the horns of the altar, and poured out the rest of the blood at the base of the altar. ¹⁰ The fat and the kidneys and the ^[c]lobe of the liver of the sin offering he then offered up in smoke on the altar, just as the Lord had commanded Moses. ^11 (I)The flesh and the hide, however, he burned with fire outside the camp.

¹² Then he slaughtered the burnt offering; and Aaron’s sons brought the blood to him, and he sprinkled it around on the altar. ¹³ They brought the burnt offering to him in ^[d]pieces, with the head, and he 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 he presented the people’s offering, and took the ^(J)goat of the sin offering which was for the people, and slaughtered it and offered it for sin, like the first. ¹⁶ He also presented the burnt offering, and ^[e]offered it according to ^(K)the ordinance. ¹⁷ Next he presented ^(L)the grain offering, and filled his ^[f]hand with some of it and offered it up in smoke on the altar, ^(M)besides the burnt offering of the morning.

¹⁸ Then ^(N)he slaughtered the ox and the ram, the sacrifice of peace offerings which was for the people; and Aaron’s sons brought the blood to him, and he sprinkled it around on the altar. ¹⁹ As for the portions of fat from the ox and from the ram, the fat tail, the fat ^(O)covering, the kidneys, and the ^[g]lobe of the liver, ²⁰ they now placed the portions of fat on the breasts; and he offered ^[h]them up in smoke on the altar. ²¹ But ^(P)the breasts and the right thigh Aaron ^[i]presented as a wave offering before the Lord, just as Moses had commanded.

²² Then Aaron lifted up his hands toward the people and ^(Q)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 tent of meeting. When they came out and blessed the people, ^(R)the glory of the Lord appeared to all the people. ^24 (S)Then fire went out from 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 ^[j]face downward.