SECTION XXV.
VAIYIKRA TSAV.
And
the Lord spake with Mosheh, saying: Instruct Aharon and his sons, saying: This
is the law of the Burnt Offering. It is burnt offering, because burned upon the
altar all night until morning, and the fire of the altar shall be burning in
it. And the priest shall dress himself with the vestments of linen, and wear
drawers of linen upon his flesh; and he shall separate the ashes which the fire
hath consumed with the burnt offering upon the altar, and set them beside the
altar. And he shall take off his vestments, and dress himself with other
garments, and carry forth the ashes without the camp unto a clean place. But
the fire upon the altar shall be burning on it, and never be extinguished; and
the priest shall burn wood on it from morning to morning, and lay the burnt
offering in order upon it, and burn upon it the fat of the sanctified
oblations. The fire shall be ever burning on the altar, it shall not be
extinguished.
And
this is the law of the Mincha which the sons of Aharon shall offer in the
presence of the Lord before the altar. And he shall separate therefrom his
handful lof the flour of the mincha and of its oil, and all the frankincense
that is upon the mincha, and burn it at the altar as its memorial to be
accepted with favour before the Lord. And the remainder of it may Aharon and
his sons eat, unleavened shall it be eaten in the holy place, in the court of
the tabernacle of ordinance shall they eat it. It shall not be baked with
leaven. I have given it as their portion of my oblations; it is most sacred, as
the sin offering and as the trespass offering. All the males of the children of
Aharon may eat it. (This) is an everlasting statute[1]
for your generations concerning the oblations of the Lord: every one who
toucheth them shall be holy.
And
the Lord spake with Mosheh, saying, This is the oblation of Aharon and his sons
which they shall present before the Lord on the day when they anoint him. The
tenth of three seahs of flour for a mincha perpetually, a half in the morning,
and a half at eventide. It shall be made in a pan with oil; while soft it shall
be brought a baken mincha offered in pieces[2]
to be accepted with favour before the Lord. And of his sons, the priest who
shall be anointed in his stead shall perform it. (This is) an everlasting
statute before the Lord: it shall be burned entirely, and every mincha of the
priest shall be entirely (burned); it is not to be eaten.
And
the Lord spake with Mosheh, saying: Speak with Aharon and with his sons, saying,
This is the law of the sin offering: In the place where the burnt offering is
killed, there shall the sin offering be killed before the Lord; it is most
sacred. The priest who maketh atonement with its blood shall eat it; in the
holy place it shall be eaten, in the court of the tabernacle of ordinance.
Every one who toucheth the flesth thereof must be holy. And if he drop some of
its blood upon a vestment, that which is bedropped shall be purified in the
holy place. But the earthen vessel in which it was sodden shall be broken; and
if it be sodden in a vessel of brass, (that) shall be scoured and washed in
water. Any man of the priests may eat thereof: it is most sacred. But no sin
offering whose blood is brought into the tabernacle of ordinance to make
atonement in the sanctuary may be eaten, but shall be burned with fire.
VII.
And this is the law of the Trespass Offering; it is most holy. In the place
where they kill the burnt offering, there shall they kill the trespass offering
and sprinkle its blood round about; and all the fat of it shall be offered,
with the tail and the fat which covereth the inwards. And the two kidneys and
the fat which is upon them, upon the inwards, and the caul that is upon the
liver, with the kidneys, he shall take away. And the priest shall burn them at
the altar, an oblation before the Lord; it is a trespass offering. Every man of
the priests may eat thereof in the holy place; it is most sacred. As the sin
offering, so the trespass offering; they have one law; to the priest who maketh
atonement therewith shall it be. And when the priest offereth a manÕs burnt
sacrifice, the skin of the sacrifice that he priest offereth shall be his. And
every mincha that is baken in the oven, or made in the pan, or upon the baking
pan, to the priest who offereth it shall it belong. And every mincha sprinkled
with oil, and that which is not sprinkled, shall belong to all the sons of
Aharon, to the one man as to his brother.
And
this is the law of the Sanctified Oblations[3]
which he shall offer before the Lord. If he present it as a thanksgiving, he
shall offer as the sacrifice of the thanksgiving unleavened cakes sprinkled
with oil, and unleavened wafers anointed with oil, and baken biscuits of flour
sprinkled with oil. With the cakes he may offer his oblation of leavened bread
for his sanctified oblation of thanksgiving. And of it he shall offer one of
all the separated oblatons before the Lord: (the remainder) shall belong to the
priest who sprinkleth the blood of the sanctified oblations. And the flesh of
his consecrated thank offering shall be eaten on the day that it is offered,
none of it shall be covered over till the morning. But if the offering of his
oblation be a vow, or a voluntary gift, it may be eaten (partly) on the day
that his sacrifice is offered, and that which remaineth of it may be eaten on
the day after it, but what remaineth of the flesh of the sacrifice on the third
day shall be burned with fire. If the flesh of his consecrated sacrifice be
indeed eaten on the third day, it shall not be accepted form him who offered
it, neither shall it be reckoned to him; it is an abomination,[4]
and the man who ate of it shall bear his sin. And if flesh that is consecrated
touch any thing unclean, it shall not be eaten, but he burned with fire. Every
one who is clean by sanctification to eat the consecrated flesh may eat the
flesh that is consecrated. But the man who eateth of the flesh of sacrifices
consecrated before the Lord with his uncleanness upon him, that man shall be
destroyed from his people. And the man who toucheth any thing unclean, whether
the uncleanness of man or the uncleanness of beast, or of any unclean reptile,
and eateth of the flesh of sacrifices consecrated before the Lord, that man
shall perish form his people.
And
the Lord spake with Mosheh, saying: Speak with the sons of Israel, saying: You
may not eat the fat of the ox or sheep or goat. But the fat of a dead carcase
and the fat of an animal torn by a wild beast may be used in any manner of
work, but of it you shall not eat. For whosoever eateth the fat of an animal
that they offer as an oblation before the Lord, the man who eateth shall perish
from his people. Nor in any of your habitations may you eat the blood of fowl
or of beast: every man who eateth any kind of blood, that man shall be
destroyed[5]
from his people.
And
the Lord spake with Mosheh, saying: Speak with the sons of Israel, saying:
Whosoever offereth his sanctified victim before the Lord, let him bring the
oblation of his sanctified victim (himself) before the Lord, his own hands
shall bring the oblations of the Lord: let him bring the fat with the breast,
that the breast may be lifted up an uplifting before the Lord. And the priest
shall burn the fat at the altar; but the breast shall be fore Aharon and his
sons. And the right shoulder (also) of your sanctified victims you shall give
for a separation unto the priest. He of AharonÕs sons who offereth the blood
and the fat of the sanctified victims shall have the right shoulder for a
portion. For the uplifted breast and the shoulder of separation of the
sacrifices of the Beni Israel I have given to Aharon the priest and to his sons
by and everlasting statue[6]
form the sons of Israel.
This
is the anointing of Aharon, and the anointing of his sons and of the LordÕs
oblations, in the day that they that they present them to minister before the
Lord, which the Lord commanded to give them in the day that they consecrate
them from the sons of Israel, an everlasting statute unto your generations.
This is the law of the burnt offering, of the mincha, nad of the sin-offering,
and of the trespass offering, and of the oblation of the sanctified victims
which the Lord commanded the sons of Israel to offer their oblations before the
Lord in the wilderness of Sinai.
VIII.
And the Lord spake with Mosheh, saying: Bring Aharon near, and his sons with
him, with the vestments, and the oil of consecration, and the bullock for the
sin offering, and the two rams, and the basket of unleavened (cakes); and let
all the congregation gather together at the gate of the tabernacle of
ordinance. And Mosheh did as the Lord commanded him, and the congregation was
gathered together at the gate of the tabernacle of ordinance. And Mosheh said
to the congregation, This is the thing which the Lord hath commanded to be
done.
And
Mosheh brought Aharon and his sons near, and washed them with water; and he put
upon him the vestment, and girded him with the girdle, and dressed him with the
robe, and set upon him the ephod, and bound him with the band of the ephod, and
ordained him therewith; and set upon him the breast plate, and put in the
breast plate the uraia an the thummaia. And he set the mitre upon his head, and
place on the mitre, on the forehead of his face, the plate of gold, the diadem
of Holiness, as the Lord had commanded Mosheh.
And
Mosheh took the consecrating oil, and anointed the tabernacle and all that was
in it, and sanctified them. And he sprinkled of it upon the altar seven times,
and anointed the altar and all its vessels, and the laver and its base, to
sanctify them. And he poured the oil of consecration upon AharonÕs head, and
anointed him to consecrate him.
And
Mosheh brought the sons of Aharon near, and dressed them in vestments, and
girded them with girdles, and appointed them with mitres, as the Lord had
commanded Mosheh. And he brought the bullock near for the sin offering, and
Aharon and his sons laid their hands upon the head of the bullock which was the
sin offering. And Mosheh took the blood, and put it upon the horns of the altar
round about, with his finger, and purified the altar, and the blood he poured
out at the base of the altar, and consecrated it to make atonement upon it. And
he took all the fat which was upon the inwards, and the caul of the liver, and
the two kidneys with their fat; and Mosheh burned them at the altar. But the
bullock, with his skin, and his flesh, and his food, he burned with fire
without the camp, as the Lord commanded Mosheh. And he brought the ram for the
burnt offering, and Aharon and his sons laid their hands upon the head of the
ram, and he killed it, and Mosheh sprinkled the blood upon the altar round
about. And the ram he divided by his members; and Mosheh burned the head and
the members with the fat. And the inwards and the legs he washed with water:
and Mosheh burned all the ram at the altar: it was a whole burnt offering
before the Lord, as the Lord had commanded Mosheh. And he brought the second
ram of the oblations;[7]
and Aharon and his sons laid their hands on the head of the ram, and he killed
it; and Mosheh took of its blood, and put it upon the tip of AharonÕs right
ear, and upon the thumb of his right hand, and upon the toe of his right foot;
and Mosheh sprinkled the blood upon the altar round about. And he took the fat
and the tail, and all the fat which is upon the inwards, and the caul of the
liver, and the two kidneys and their fat, and the right shoulder: and from the
basket of unleavened cakes that was before the Lord he took one unleavened
cake, and one cake of bread (anointed with) oil, and one wafer, and set them
upon the fat and upon the right shoulder, and put the whole upon AharonÕs hands
and upon the hands of his sons, and uplifted them, an elevation before the
Lord. And Mosheh took them form off their hands, and burned (them) at the altar
upon the burnt offering: they were offerings to be received with acceptance, an
oblation before the Lord. And Mosheh took the breast, and uplifted it, an
elevation before the Lord: of the ram of the oblations it was the portion of
Mosheh, as the Lord had commanded Mosheh. And Mosheh took of the oil of
consecration, and of the blood that was upon the altar, and sprinkled upon
Aharon, upon his vestments, and upon his sons, and upon his sonsÕ vestments
with him, [and sanctified Aharon and his garments, and his sons and his sonsÕ
garments with him.][8]
And
Mosheh spake to Aharon and to his sons: Boil the flesh at the gate of the
tabernacle of ordinance, and eat it there with the bread which is in the basket
of oblations, as I was commanded, saying, Aharon and his sons shall eat it. And
that which remaineth of the flesh and of the bread, you shall burn in the fire.
And form the door of the tabernacle of ordinance ye shall not go forth (for)
seven days, until the day that the days of your oblation be completed; for
seven days shall your oblations be offered, as hath been done this day, (as)
the Lord commanded to be done to make atonement for you. And at the door of the
tabernacle of ordinance ye shall dwell seven days and nights, and watch the
watches of the Word of the Lord, that you die not; for so am I commanded. And
Aharon and his sons did all the things which the Lord had commanded by the hand
of Mosheh.
[1] Sam. Vers., ÒIt is an everlasting portion.Ó
[2] Sam. Vers., Òthou shalt divide it in pieces.Ó
[3] Peace Offerings.
[4] Sam. Vers., Òa rejected thing.Ó
[5] Or, Òshall cease from.Ó Sam. Vers., Òshall be rooted out.Ó Heb. Text, Òbe cut off from,Ó Òbe excommunicated.Ó
[6] Sam. Vers., Òfor a perpetual portion.Ó
[7] Sam. Vers., Òof the completion.Ó
[8] The clause in brackets is not found in some copies.