Common English Bible

Leviticus 9:4-18 Common English Bible (CEB)

4. an ox and a ram as a well-being sacrifice before the Lord; and a grain offering mixed with oil, because today the Lord will appear to you.’"

5. They brought what Moses had commanded to the front of the meeting tent. Then the whole community came forward and stood before the Lord.

6. Moses said, "The Lord has ordered you to do this so that the Lord’s glorious presence will appear to you."

7. Moses said to Aaron, "Come up to the altar and perform your purification offering and your entirely burned offering, making reconciliation for yourself and the people. Then perform the people’s offering in order to make reconciliation for them, just as the Lord commanded."

8. Aaron went to the altar and slaughtered the young bull for his purification offering.

9. Then Aaron’s sons presented the blood to him, and he dipped his finger into the blood and put it on the altar’s horns. He poured the rest of the blood out at the altar’s base.

10. He completely burned on the altar the fat, kidneys, and lobe of the liver from the purification offering, just as the Lord commanded Moses.

11. But he burned the flesh and hide with fire outside the camp.

12. Then Aaron slaughtered the entirely burned offering. Aaron’s sons handed him the blood, and he tossed it against all sides of the altar.

13. They handed him the entirely burned offering in pieces, including the head, and he completely burned them on the altar.

14. Then he washed the insides and lower legs and completely burned them on the altar along with the rest of the entirely burned offering.

15. Next, Aaron presented the people’s offering. He took the male goat for the people’s purification offering, slaughtered it, and offered it as a purification offering like the first purification offering.

16. He presented the entirely burned offering and did with it according to the regulation.

17. Then he presented the grain offering, took a handful from it, and completely burned it on the altar, in addition to the morning’s entirely burned offering.

18. Aaron then slaughtered the ox and the ram—the people’s communal sacrifice of well-being. Aaron’s sons handed him the blood, which he tossed against all sides of the altar,