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Aaron offers the first sacrifices

¹When the eighth day came, Moses called for Aaron and his sons and for the elders of Israel. ²He told Aaron, “Choose a young calf from the herd as a sin offering for yourself, and a ram as a burnt offering, each without defect, and bring them before the LORD. ³And say to the Israelites, ‘Bring a male goat for a sin offering, and for a burnt offering a calf and a lamb, year-old animals without defect, ⁴and an ox and a ram to be sacrificed before the LORD as a peace offering, and a grain offering mixed with oil. For the LORD will appear to you today.’” ⁵So they brought everything Moses had commanded to the area in front of the tent of meeting, and the whole congregation approached and stood there before the LORD. ⁶Moses said, “Do this, as the LORD has commanded, and the glory of the LORD will appear to you.” ⁷Then Moses told Aaron, “Approach the altar. Offer your sin offering and your burnt offering, and so make atonement for yourself and for the people. Then present the people’s offering and make atonement for them, just as the LORD has commanded.”^{a 8}So Aaron went to the altar and slaughtered the calf for his own sin offering. ⁹Aaron’s sons handed him the blood. He dipped his finger in it and put some on the horns of the altar, and he poured out the rest of the blood at the base of the altar. ¹⁰Then on the altar he burned the fat, the kidneys and the long lobe of the liver from the sin offering, as the LORD had commanded Moses. ¹¹He burned the meat and the hide in a fire outside the camp. ¹²Then Aaron slaughtered the burnt offering. When his sons passed the blood to him, he splashed it on every side of the altar. ¹³His sons passed him the pieces of the burnt offering one by one, and the head as well, and he burned it all on the altar. ¹⁴The internal organs and the legs he washed, then burned them on the altar on top of the rest of the burnt offering. ¹⁵After that Aaron brought the people’s offering forward. He took the goat for their sin offering, slaughtered it, and offered it as a sin offering in the same way as the first. ¹⁶He also brought forward the burnt offering and offered it as the rule required. ¹⁷Then he presented the grain offering. He filled his hand with some of it and burned that on the altar, in addition to the morning burnt offering. ¹⁸Next he slaughtered the ox and the ram, the peace offering for the people. When Aaron’s sons passed him the blood, he splashed it on every side of the altar. ¹⁹The fat portions from the ox and the ram, the fat tail, the fat that covers the internal organs, the kidneys and the long lobe of the liver, ²⁰these fat portions they laid on top of the breasts. Then Aaron burned the fat on the altar. ²¹As for the breasts and the right thigh, Aaron waved them before the LORD as a wave offering, following Moses’ command.^{b 22}Aaron then held out his hands toward the people and blessed them. And when he had finished presenting the sin offering, the burnt offering and the peace offering, he came down from the altar.^{c 23}Moses and Aaron entered the tent of meeting, and on coming out again they blessed the people. Then the glory of the LORD appeared to all the people. ²⁴Fire went out from before the LORD and devoured the burnt offering and the fat portions lying on the altar. When all the people saw it, they cried out with joy and bowed down with their faces to the ground.^d