“Speak to the Israelites and say to them: ‘When anyone among you brings an offering to the Lord, bring as your offering an animal from either the herd or the flock.

“‘Every grain offering you bring to the Lord must be made without yeast, for you are not to burn any yeast or honey in a food offering presented to the Lord.

“‘If anyone sins because they do not speak up when they hear a public charge to testify regarding something they have seen or learned about, they will be held responsible.

The fire on the altar must be kept burning; it must not go out. Every morning the priest is to add firewood and arrange the burnt offering on the fire and burn the fat of the fellowship offerings on it.

Every grain offering of a priest shall be burned completely; it must not be eaten.”

Every grain offering baked in an oven or cooked in a pan or on a griddle belongs to the priest who offers it,

and every grain offering, whether mixed with olive oil or dry, belongs equally to all the sons of Aaron.

Then Moses took the anointing oil and anointed the tabernacle and everything in it, and so consecrated them.

So Aaron and his sons did everything the Lord commanded through Moses.

“‘Every animal that does not have a divided hoof or that does not chew the cud is unclean for you; whoever touches the carcass of any of them will be unclean.

If one of them falls into a clay pot, everything in it will be unclean, and you must break the pot.

“‘Every creature that moves along the ground is to be regarded as unclean; it is not to be eaten.

“‘These are the regulations concerning animals, birds, every living thing that moves about in the water and every creature that moves along the ground.

“Speak to the Israelites and say to them: ‘When any man has an unusual bodily discharge, such a discharge is unclean.

“‘Everything the man sits on when riding will be unclean,

“Speak to Aaron and his sons and to all the Israelites and say to them: ‘This is what the Lord has commanded:

because the life of every creature is its blood. That is why I have said to the Israelites, “You must not eat the blood of any creature, because the life of every creature is its blood; anyone who eats it must be cut off.”

“Speak to the Israelites and say to them: ‘I am the Lord your God.

“‘Everyone who does any of these detestable things—such persons must be cut off from their people.

“Speak to the entire assembly of Israel and say to them: ‘Be holy because I, the Lord your God, am holy.

Rules for Priests

The Lord said to Moses, “Speak to the priests, the sons of Aaron, and say to them: ‘A priest must not make himself ceremonially unclean for any of his people who die,

“Speak to Aaron and his sons and to all the Israelites and say to them: ‘If any of you—whether an Israelite or a foreigner residing in Israel—presents a gift for a burnt offering to the Lord, either to fulfill a vow or as a freewill offering,

“Speak to the Israelites and say to them: ‘These are my appointed festivals, the appointed festivals of the Lord, which you are to proclaim as sacred assemblies.

“Speak to the Israelites and say to them: ‘When you enter the land I am going to give you and you reap its harvest, bring to the priest a sheaf of the first grain you harvest.

“Speak to the Israelites and say to them: ‘When you enter the land I am going to give you, the land itself must observe a sabbath to the Lord.