1. The Lord called Moses, and spoke to him from the tent of meeting:
2. Speak to the Israelites and tell them: When any one of you brings an offering of livestock to the Lord, you shall bring your offering from the herd or from the flock.
3. If a person’s offering is a burnt offering from the herd, the offering must be a male without blemish. The individual shall bring it to the entrance of the tent of meeting to find favor with the Lord,
4. and shall lay a hand on the head of the burnt offering, so that it may be acceptable to make atonement for the one who offers it.
5. The bull shall then be slaughtered before the Lord, and Aaron’s sons, the priests, shall offer its blood by splashing it on all the sides of the altar which is at the entrance of the tent of meeting.