Lê-vi Ký 6

Instructions for the burnt and grain offerings

¹The LORD spoke to Moses. He said,^{a 2}“Give Aaron and his sons this command: ‘These are the instructions for the burnt offering. The burnt offering is to stay on the hearth of the altar all night, until morning, and the altar fire must be kept burning on it. ³The priest is to put on his linen robe, with linen undergarments next to his body. Then he is to take up the ashes left when the fire has burned up the burnt offering on the altar, and put them beside the altar. ⁴Then he is to take off these clothes, put on other clothes, and carry the ashes out of the camp to a ceremonially clean place. ⁵The fire on the altar must be kept burning and must not go out. Every morning the priest is to put more wood on it, lay out the burnt offering on it, and burn on it the fat from the peace offerings. ⁶Fire is to burn on the altar at all times, never going out. ⁷These are the instructions for the grain offering. Aaron’s sons are to present it before the LORD, in front of the altar. ⁸The priest is to take up a handful of the fine flour of the grain offering with some of its oil, along with all the frankincense on it, and burn it on the altar as its memorial portion, a soothing aroma to the LORD. ⁹What is left of it belongs to Aaron and his sons as food. They must eat it as bread made without yeast, and in a holy place: the courtyard of the tent of meeting is where they must eat it. ¹⁰It must not be baked with yeast. I have given it to them as their share of my food offerings. It is most holy, like the sin offering and the guilt offering. ¹¹Any male descendant of Aaron may eat it. It is their permanent share of the food offerings to the LORD, for all your generations. Whoever touches these offerings will become holy.’”^b

The priests’ daily grain offering

¹²The LORD spoke to Moses. He said, ¹³“This is the offering that Aaron and his sons are to present to the LORD from the day he is anointed: about 2 quarts of fine flour as a regular grain offering, half in the morning and half in the evening.^{c 14}It is to be made with oil on a griddle. Bring it in well soaked, and present it as a grain offering broken into pieces, a soothing aroma to the LORD.^{d 15}The son who succeeds him as the anointed priest is to prepare it. This is the LORD’s permanent due: it must be burned completely. ¹⁶Every grain offering a priest brings for himself is to be burned whole; it must not be eaten.”

Instructions for the sin offering

¹⁷The LORD spoke to Moses. He said, ¹⁸“Speak to Aaron and his sons and tell them: ‘These are the instructions for the sin offering. The sin offering is to be slaughtered before the LORD at the same place where the burnt offering is slaughtered. It is most holy. ¹⁹The priest who offers it for sin is to eat it. It must be eaten in a holy place, in the courtyard of the tent of meeting. ²⁰Whatever touches its meat will become holy. If any of its blood spatters on a garment, you must wash the stained part in a holy place. ²¹Any clay pot it is boiled in must be broken. If it is boiled in a bronze pot, the pot must be scrubbed and rinsed with water. ²²Any male of priestly descent may eat it. It is most holy. ²³But no sin offering is to be eaten if any of its blood has been brought into the tent of meeting to make atonement in the holy place. It must be burned in the fire.