Chapter 9

Octave of the Ordination. ¹ On the eighth day^[a](A) Moses summoned Aaron and his sons, together with the elders of Israel, ² and said to Aaron, “Take a calf of the herd for a purification offering and a ram for a burnt offering, both without blemish, and offer them before the Lord. ^3 [b]Tell the Israelites, too: Take a he-goat for a purification offering, a calf and a lamb, both unblemished yearlings, for a burnt offering, ⁴ and an ox and a ram for a communion sacrifice, to sacrifice before the Lord, along with a grain offering mixed with oil; for today the Lord will appear to you.” ⁵ So they brought what Moses had ordered before the tent of meeting. When the whole community had come forward and stood before the Lord, ^6 [c]Moses said, “This is what the Lord orders you to do, that the glory of the Lord may appear to you. ⁷ Approach the altar,” Moses then told Aaron, “and make your purification offering and your burnt offering in atonement for yourself and for your household;^[d] then make the offering of the people in atonement for them, as the Lord has commanded.”^(B)

⁸ Approaching the altar, Aaron first slaughtered the calf of the purification offering that was his own offering. ⁹ When his sons presented the blood to him, he dipped his finger in the blood and put it on the horns of the altar.^(C) The rest of the blood he poured out at the base of the altar. ¹⁰ He then burned on the altar the fat, the kidneys and the lobe of the liver from the purification offering, as the Lord had commanded Moses; ¹¹ but the flesh and the hide he burned in the fire outside the camp.^{(D) 12} Then Aaron slaughtered the burnt offering. When his sons brought him the blood, he splashed it on all sides of the altar. ¹³ They then brought him the pieces and the head of the burnt offering, and he burned them on the altar. ¹⁴ Having washed the inner organs and the shanks, he burned these also with the burnt offering on the altar.^(E)

¹⁵ Then he had the people’s offering brought. Taking the goat that was for the people’s purification offering, he slaughtered it and offered it as a purification offering as before. ¹⁶ Then he brought forward the burnt offering and offered it according to procedure. ¹⁷ He then presented the grain offering; taking a handful of it, he burned it on the altar, in addition to the morning burnt offering.^{(F) 18} Finally he slaughtered the ox and the ram, the communion sacrifice of the people. When his sons brought him the blood, Aaron splashed it on all sides of the altar.^{(G) 19} The portions of fat from the ox and from the ram, the fatty tail, the covering fat, the kidneys, and the lobe of the liver ²⁰ they placed on top of the briskets. Aaron burned the fat pieces on the altar, ²¹ but the briskets and the right thigh he raised as an elevated offering^(H) before the Lord, as the Lord had commanded Moses.

Revelation of the Lord’s Glory. ^22 [e]Aaron then raised his hands over the people and blessed^(I) them. When he came down from offering the purification offering, the burnt offering, and the communion offering, ²³ Moses and Aaron went into the tent of meeting. On coming out they blessed the people. Then the glory of the Lord appeared to all the people. ^24 [f]Fire came forth from the Lord’s presence and consumed the burnt offering and the fat on the altar.^(J) Seeing this, all the people shouted with joy and fell prostrate.