Leviticus — Chapter 6

GOD spoke to Moses, saying:

Command Aaron and his sons thus:This is the ritual of the burnt offering: The burnt offering itself shall remain where it is burned upon the altar all night until morning, while the fire on the altar is kept going on it.

The priest shall dress in linen raiment, with linen breeches next to his body; and he shall take up the ashes to which the fire has reduced the burnt offering on the altar and place them beside the altar.

He shall then take off his vestments and put on other vestments, and carry the ashes outside the camp to a pure place.

The fire on the altar shall be kept burning, not to go out: every morning the priest shall feed wood to it, lay out the burnt offering on it, and turn into smoke the fat parts of the offerings of well-being.

A perpetual fire shall be kept burning on the altar, not to go out.

And this is the ritual of the grain offering: Aaron’s sons shall present it before GOD, in front of the altar.

A handful of the choice flour and oil of the grain offering shall be taken from it, with all the frankincense that is on the grain offering, and this token portion shall be turned into smoke on the altar as a pleasing odor to GOD.

What is left of it shall be eaten by Aaron and his sons; it shall be eaten as unleavened cakes, in the sacred precinct; they shall eat it in the enclosure of the Tent of Meeting.

It shall not be baked with leaven; I have given it as their portion from My offerings by fire; it is most holy, like the purgation offering and the reparation offering.

Only the males among Aaron’s descendants may eat of it, as their due for all time throughout the ages from GOD’s offerings by fire. Anything that touches these shall become holy.

GOD spoke to Moses, saying:

This is the offering that Aaron and his sons shall offer to GOD on the occasion of hisahis Or “their.” anointment: a tenth of an ephah of choice flour as a regular grain offering, half of it in the morning and half of it in the evening,

shall be prepared with oil on a griddle. You shall bring it well soaked, and offer it as a grain offering of bakedbbaked Meaning of Heb. tuphine uncertain. slices, of pleasing odor to GOD.

And so shall the priest, anointed from among his sons to succeed him, prepare it; it is GOD’s—a law for all time—to be turned entirely into smoke.

So, too, every grain offering of a priest shall be a whole offering: it shall not be eaten.

GOD spoke to Moses, saying:

Speak to Aaron and his sons thus: This is the ritual of the purgation offering: the purgation offering shall be slaughtered before GOD, at the spotcthe spot Cf. 1.11. where the burnt offering is slaughtered: it is most holy.

The priest who offers it as a purgation offering shall eat of it; it shall be eaten in the sacred precinct, in the enclosure of the Tent of Meeting.

Anything that touches its flesh shall become holy; and if any of its blood is spattered upon a garment, you shall wash the bespattered part in the sacred precinct.

An earthen vessel in which it was boiled shall be broken; if it was boiled in a copper vessel, [the vessel] shall be scoured and rinsed with water.

Only the males in the priestly line may eat of it: it is most holy.

But no purgation offering may be eaten from which any blood is brought into the Tent of Meeting for expiation in the sanctuary; any such shall be consumed in fire.