1. Then the Lord called Moses and spoke to him from the tabernacle of the testimony, saying:
2. Speak to the sons of Israel, and you shall say to them: The man among you who will offer to the Lord a sacrifice from the cattle, that is, an offering of victims of oxen or sheep:
3. if his offering will be a holocaust, as well as from the herd, he shall offer an immaculate male at the door of the tabernacle of the testimony, to make himself pleasing to the Lord.
4. And he shall place his hand on the head of the sacrifice, and so it shall be acceptable and effective, in its expiation.
5. And he shall immolate the calf in the sight of the Lord. And the priests, the sons of Aaron, shall offer its blood, pouring it all around the altar, which is before the door of the tabernacle.
6. And having pulled away the skin of the victim, they shall cut up the joints into pieces,
7. and they shall toss fire under the altar, having arranged beforehand a stack of wood.
8. And they shall lay the parts which are cut up in order upon it: namely, the head, and all the things that adjoin to the liver,
9. the intestines and feet having been washed with water. And the priest shall burn them on the altar as a holocaust and as a sweet odor to the Lord.
10. But if the offering is from the flocks, a holocaust either of sheep or goats, he shall offer a male without blemish.