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Leviticus 6:7-22 Good News Bible (GNB)

7. The priest shall offer the sacrifice for the man's sin, and he will be forgiven.

8. The Lord commanded Moses

9. to give Aaron and his sons the following regulations for burnt offerings. A burnt offering is to be left on the altar all night long, and the fire is to be kept burning.

10. Then the priest, wearing his linen robe and linen shorts, shall remove the greasy ashes left on the altar and put them at the side of the altar.

11. Then he shall change his clothes and take the ashes outside the camp to a ritually clean place.

12. The fire on the altar must be kept burning and never allowed to go out. Every morning the priest shall put firewood on it, arrange the burnt offering on it, and burn the fat of the fellowship offering.

13. The fire must always be kept burning on the altar and never allowed to go out.

14. The following are the regulations for grain offerings. An Aaronite priest shall present the grain offering to the Lord in front of the altar.

15. Then he shall take a handful of the flour and oil, and the incense on it, and burn it on the altar as a token that all of it has been offered to the Lord. The smell of this offering is pleasing to the Lord.

16-17. The priests shall eat the rest of it. It shall be made into bread baked without yeast and eaten in a holy place, the courtyard of the Tent of the Lord's presence. The Lord has given it to the priests as their part of the food offerings. It is very holy, like the sin offerings and the repayment offerings.

18. For all time to come any of the male descendants of Aaron may eat it as their continuing share of the food offered to the Lord. Anyone else who touches a food offering will be harmed by the power of its holiness.

19. The Lord gave Moses the following regulations

20. for the ordination of an Aaronite priest. On the day he is ordained, he shall present as an offering to the Lord one kilogramme of flour (the same amount as the daily grain offering), half in the morning and half in the evening.

21. It is to be mixed with oil and cooked on a griddle and then crumbled and presented as a grain offering, a smell pleasing to the Lord.

22. For all time to come this offering is to be made by every descendant of Aaron who is serving as High Priest. It shall be completely burnt as a sacrifice to the Lord.