Leviticus 8:14-30

Living Bible

¹⁴ Then he took the young bull for the sin offering, and Aaron and his sons laid their hands upon its head ^15-16 as Moses killed it. He smeared some of the blood with his finger upon the four horns of the altar and upon the altar itself, to sanctify it, and poured out the rest of the blood at the base of the altar; thus he sanctified the altar, making atonement for it. He took all the fat covering the entrails, the fatty mass above the liver, and the two kidneys and their fat, and burned them all on the altar. ¹⁷ The carcass of the young bull, with its hide and dung, was burned outside the camp, as the Lord had commanded Moses.

¹⁸ Then he presented to the Lord the ram for the burnt offering. Aaron and his sons laid their hands upon its head, ¹⁹ and Moses killed it and sprinkled the blood back and forth upon the altar. ²⁰ Next he quartered the ram and burned the pieces, the head and the fat. ²¹ He then washed the insides and the legs with water, and burned them upon the altar, so that the entire ram was consumed before the Lord; it was a burnt offering that pleased the Lord very much, for Jehovah’s directions to Moses were followed in every detail.

²² Then Moses presented the other ram, the ram of consecration; Aaron and his sons laid their hands upon its head. ²³ Moses killed it and took some of its blood and smeared it upon the lobe of Aaron’s right ear and the thumb of his right hand and upon the big toe of his right foot. ²⁴ Next he smeared some of the blood upon Aaron’s sons—upon the lobes of their right ears, upon their right thumbs, and upon the big toes of their right feet. The rest of the blood he sprinkled back and forth upon the altar.^[a]

²⁵ Then he took the fat, the tail, the fat upon the inner organs, the gall bladder, the two kidneys with their fat, and the right shoulder, ²⁶ and placed on top of these one unleavened wafer, one wafer spread with olive oil, and a slice of bread, all taken from the basket that had been placed there before the Lord. ²⁷ All this was placed in the hands of Aaron and his sons to present to the Lord by a gesture of waving them before the altar. ²⁸ Moses then took it all back from them and burned it upon the altar, along with the burnt offering^[b] to the Lord; and Jehovah was pleased by the offering. ²⁹ Now Moses took the breast and presented it to the Lord by waving it before the altar; this was Moses’ portion of the ram of consecration, just as the Lord had instructed him.

³⁰ Next he took some of the anointing oil and some of the blood that had been sprinkled upon the altar, and sprinkled it upon Aaron and upon his clothes and upon his sons and upon their clothes, thus consecrating to the Lord’s use Aaron and his sons and their clothes.