New English Translation

Leviticus 8:8-22 New English Translation (NET)

8. He then set the breastpiece on him and put the Urim and Thummim into the breastpiece.

9. Finally, he set the turban on his head and attached the gold plate, the holy diadem, to the front of the turban just as the Lord had commanded Moses.

10. Then Moses took the anointing oil and anointed the tabernacle and everything in it, and so consecrated them.

11. Next he sprinkled some of it on the altar seven times and so anointed the altar, all its vessels, and the wash basin and its stand to consecrate them.

12. He then poured some of the anointing oil on the head of Aaron and anointed him to consecrate him.

13. Moses also brought forward Aaron’s sons, clothed them with tunics, wrapped sashes around them, and wrapped headbands on them just as the Lord had commanded Moses.

14. Then he brought near the sin offering bull and Aaron and his sons laid their hands on the head of the sin offering bull,

15. and he slaughtered it. Moses then took the blood and put it all around on the horns of the altar with his finger and decontaminated the altar, and he poured out the rest of the blood at the base of the altar and so consecrated it to make atonement on it.

16. Then he took all the fat on the entrails, the protruding lobe of the liver, and the two kidneys and their fat, and Moses offered it all up in smoke on the altar,

17. but the rest of the bull – its hide, its flesh, and its dung – he completely burned up outside the camp just as the Lord had commanded Moses.

18. Then he presented the burnt offering ram and Aaron and his sons laid their hands on the head of the ram,

19. and he slaughtered it. Moses then splashed the blood against the altar’s sides.

20. Then he cut the ram into parts, and Moses offered the head, the parts, and the suet up in smoke,

21. but the entrails and the legs he washed with water, and Moses offered the whole ram up in smoke on the altar – it was a burnt offering for a soothing aroma, a gift to the Lord, just as the Lord had commanded Moses.

22. Then he presented the second ram, the ram of ordination, and Aaron and his sons laid their hands on the head of the ram