9Leviticus 9

Aaron Offers Sacrifices

1The day after the ordination rites were completed, Moses called Aaron and his sons and the leaders of Israel.Select Leviticus 9:1

2He said to Aaron, “Take a young bull and a ram without any defects and offer them to the Lord, the bull for a sin offering and the ram for a burnt offering.Select Leviticus 9:2

3Then tell the people of Israel to take a male goat for a sin offering, a one-year-old calf, and a one-year-old lamb without any defects for a burnt offering,Select Leviticus 9:3

4and a bull and a ram for a fellowship offering. They are to sacrifice them to the Lord with the grain offering mixed with oil. They must do this because the Lord will appear to them today.”Select Leviticus 9:4

5They brought to the front of the Tent everything that Moses had commanded, and the whole community assembled there to worship the Lord.Select Leviticus 9:5

6Moses said, “The Lord has commanded you to do all this, so that the dazzling light of his presence can appear to you.”Select Leviticus 9:6

7Then he said to Aaron, “Go to the altar and offer the sin offering and the burnt offering to take away your sins and the sins of the people. Present this offering to take away the sins of the people, just as the Lord commanded.”Select Leviticus 9:7

8Aaron went to the altar and killed the young bull which was for his own sin offering.Select Leviticus 9:8

9His sons brought him the blood, and he dipped his finger in it, put some of it on the projections at the corners of the altar, and poured out the rest of it at the base of the altar.Select Leviticus 9:9

10Then he burned on the altar the fat, the kidneys, and the best part of the liver, just as the Lord had commanded Moses.Select Leviticus 9:10

11But he burned the meat and the skin outside the camp.Select Leviticus 9:11

12He killed the animal which was for his own burnt offering. His sons brought him the blood, and he threw it on all four sides of the altar.Select Leviticus 9:12

13They handed him the head and the other pieces of the animal, and he burned them on the altar.Select Leviticus 9:13

14Then he washed the internal organs and the hind legs and burned them on the altar on top of the rest of the burnt offering.Select Leviticus 9:14

15After that, he presented the people's offerings. He took the goat that was to be offered for the people's sins, killed it, and offered it, as he had done with his own sin offering.Select Leviticus 9:15

16He also brought the animal for the burnt offering and offered it according to the regulations.Select Leviticus 9:16

17He presented the grain offering and took a handful of flour and burned it on the altar. (This was in addition to the daily burnt offering.)Select Leviticus 9:17

18He killed the bull and the ram as a fellowship offering for the people. His sons brought him the blood, and he threw it on all four sides of the altar.Select Leviticus 9:18

19Aaron put the fat parts of the bull and the ramSelect Leviticus 9:19

20on top of the breasts of the animals and carried it all to the altar. He burned the fat on the altarSelect Leviticus 9:20

21and presented the breasts and the right hind legs as the special gift to the Lord for the priests, as Moses had commanded.Select Leviticus 9:21

22When Aaron had finished all the sacrifices, he raised his hands over the people and blessed them, and then stepped down.Select Leviticus 9:22

23Moses and Aaron went into the Tent of the Lord's presence, and when they came out, they blessed the people, and the dazzling light of the Lord's presence appeared to all the people.Select Leviticus 9:23

24Suddenly the Lord sent a fire, and it consumed the burnt offering and the fat parts on the altar. When the people saw it, they all shouted and bowed down with their faces to the ground.Select Leviticus 9:24