Leviticus
Chapter 9
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Leningrad Codex, through the Open Scriptures Westminster Leningrad Codex. The written consonants are printed. A Masoretic reading is footnoted when it differs. No Dead Sea reading was substituted unless it was read from a fragment. The Samaritan Pentateuch and the Greek, Syriac, and Latin versions are witnesses, not the default.
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1On the eighth day Moses called Aaron and his sons and the elders of Israel.
2He said to Aaron, Take yourself a calf, a son of the herd, for an offense offering, and a ram for a whole offering, both whole, and bring them near before God’s own name. The Hebrew writes YHWH. See the glossary..
3To the sons of Israel you shall speak: Take a male goat of the goats for an offense offering, and a calf and a lamb, sons of a year, whole, for a whole offering,
4and an ox and a ram for sacrifices of well-being, to sacrifice before God’s own name. The Hebrew writes YHWH. See the glossary., and a grain gift mixed with oil, because today God’s own name. The Hebrew writes YHWH. See the glossary. will appear to you.
5They took what Moses had commanded to the front of the tent of meeting, and the whole congregation came near and stood before God’s own name. The Hebrew writes YHWH. See the glossary..
6Moses said, This is the thing that God’s own name. The Hebrew writes YHWH. See the glossary. has commanded. Do it, and the glory of God’s own name. The Hebrew writes YHWH. See the glossary. will appear to you.
7Moses said to Aaron, Come near to the altar and make your offense offering and your whole offering, and make Making someone right with God after a wrong. for yourself and for the people, and make the A gift brought close to God. of the people and make Making someone right with God after a wrong. for them, as God’s own name. The Hebrew writes YHWH. See the glossary. has commanded.
8Aaron came near to the altar and slaughtered the calf of the offense offering that was his.
9The sons of Aaron brought the blood to him, and he dipped his finger in the blood and put it on the horns of the altar, and he poured the blood at the base of the altar.
10The fat, the kidneys, and the lobe from the liver, from the offense offering, he turned into smoke on the altar, as God’s own name. The Hebrew writes YHWH. See the glossary. had commanded Moses.
11The meat and the hide he burned in fire outside the camp.
12He slaughtered the whole offering, and the sons of Aaron handed the blood to him, and he dashed it on the altar all around.
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Himtzi is to hand something over, to make it reach. The sons handed him the blood.
13They handed him the whole offering in its pieces, and the head, and he turned them into smoke on the altar.
14He washed the innards and the legs and turned them into smoke on the whole offering, on the altar.
15He brought the A gift brought close to God. of the people. He took the goat of the offense offering that was for the people, slaughtered it, and purged it as the first one.
16He brought the whole offering and made it according to the rule.
17He brought the grain gift, filled his palm from it, and turned it into smoke on the altar, besides the morning’s whole offering.
18He slaughtered the ox and the ram, the sacrifice of well-being that was for the people, and the sons of Aaron handed the blood to him, and he dashed it on the altar all around.
19The fats from the ox and from the ram, the fat tail, the covering fat, the kidneys, and the lobe of the liver,
20they set the fats on the breasts, and he turned the fats into smoke on the altar.
21The breasts and the right thigh Aaron raised as a raised offering before God’s own name. The Hebrew writes YHWH. See the glossary., as Moses had commanded.
22Aaron lifted his hand toward the people and blessed them, and he came down from making the offense offering, the whole offering, and the sacrifices of well-being.
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The written consonants are ידו, “his hand.” The Masoretic reading is ידיו, “his hands.” The written form is printed.
23Moses and Aaron went into the tent of meeting, came out, and blessed the people, and the glory of God’s own name. The Hebrew writes YHWH. See the glossary. appeared to all the people.
24Fire came out from before God’s own name. The Hebrew writes YHWH. See the glossary. and consumed the whole offering and the fats on the altar. All the people saw, they shouted, and they fell on their faces.