SECTION XXV.

VAIYIKRA TSAV.

               Andthe Lord spake with Mosheh, saying: Instruct Aharon and his sons, saying: Thisis the law of the Burnt Offering. It is burnt offering, because burned upon thealtar all night until morning, and the fire of the altar shall be burning init. And the priest shall dress himself with the vestments of linen, and weardrawers of linen upon his flesh; and he shall separate the ashes which the firehath consumed with the burnt offering upon the altar, and set them beside thealtar. And he shall take off his vestments, and dress himself with othergarments, and carry forth the ashes without the camp unto a clean place. Butthe fire upon the altar shall be burning on it, and never be extinguished; andthe priest shall burn wood on it from morning to morning, and lay the burntoffering in order upon it, and burn upon it the fat of the sanctifiedoblations. The fire shall be ever burning on the altar, it shall not beextinguished.

               Andthis is the law of the Mincha which the sons of Aharon shall offer in thepresence of the Lord before the altar. And he shall separate therefrom hishandful lof the flour of the mincha and of its oil, and all the frankincensethat is upon the mincha, and burn it at the altar as its memorial to beaccepted with favour before the Lord. And the remainder of it may Aharon andhis sons eat, unleavened shall it be eaten in the holy place, in the court ofthe tabernacle of ordinance shall they eat it. It shall not be baked withleaven. I have given it as their portion of my oblations; it is most sacred, asthe sin offering and as the trespass offering. All the males of the children ofAharon may eat it. (This) is an everlasting statute[1]for your generations concerning the oblations of the Lord: every one whotoucheth them shall be holy.

               Andthe Lord spake with Mosheh, saying, This is the oblation of Aharon and his sonswhich they shall present before the Lord on the day when they anoint him. Thetenth 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 shallbe brought a baken mincha offered in pieces[2]to be accepted with favour before the Lord. And of his sons, the priest whoshall be anointed in his stead shall perform it. (This is) an everlastingstatute before the Lord: it shall be burned entirely, and every mincha of thepriest shall be entirely (burned); it is not to be eaten.

               Andthe 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 iskilled, there shall the sin offering be killed before the Lord; it is mostsacred. The priest who maketh atonement with its blood shall eat it; in theholy 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 ofits blood upon a vestment, that which is bedropped shall be purified in theholy place. But the earthen vessel in which it was sodden shall be broken; andif it be sodden in a vessel of brass, (that) shall be scoured and washed inwater. Any man of the priests may eat thereof: it is most sacred. But no sinoffering whose blood is brought into the tabernacle of ordinance to makeatonement 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 placewhere they kill the burnt offering, there shall they kill the trespass offeringand 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 andthe fat which is upon them, upon the inwards, and the caul that is upon theliver, with the kidneys, he shall take away. And the priest shall burn them atthe altar, an oblation before the Lord; it is a trespass offering. Every man ofthe priests may eat thereof in the holy place; it is most sacred. As the sinoffering, so the trespass offering; they have one law; to the priest who makethatonement therewith shall it be. And when the priest offereth a man’s burntsacrifice, the skin of the sacrifice that he priest offereth shall be his. Andevery mincha that is baken in the oven, or made in the pan, or upon the bakingpan, to the priest who offereth it shall it belong. And every mincha sprinkledwith oil, and that which is not sprinkled, shall belong to all the sons ofAharon, to the one man as to his brother.

               Andthis is the law of the Sanctified Oblations[3]which he shall offer before the Lord. If he present it as a thanksgiving, heshall offer as the sacrifice of the thanksgiving unleavened cakes sprinkledwith oil, and unleavened wafers anointed with oil, and baken biscuits of floursprinkled with oil. With the cakes he may offer his oblation of leavened breadfor his sanctified oblation of thanksgiving. And of it he shall offer one ofall the separated oblatons before the Lord: (the remainder) shall belong to thepriest who sprinkleth the blood of the sanctified oblations. And the flesh ofhis 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 hisoblation be a vow, or a voluntary gift, it may be eaten (partly) on the daythat his sacrifice is offered, and that which remaineth of it may be eaten onthe day after it, but what remaineth of the flesh of the sacrifice on the thirdday shall be burned with fire. If the flesh of his consecrated sacrifice beindeed eaten on the third day, it shall not be accepted form him who offeredit, 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 consecratedtouch any thing unclean, it shall not be eaten, but he burned with fire. Everyone who is clean by sanctification to eat the consecrated flesh may eat theflesh that is consecrated. But the man who eateth of the flesh of sacrificesconsecrated before the Lord with his uncleanness upon him, that man shall bedestroyed from his people. And the man who toucheth any thing unclean, whetherthe 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 manshall perish form his people.

               Andthe Lord spake with Mosheh, saying: Speak with the sons of Israel, saying: Youmay not eat the fat of the ox or sheep or goat. But the fat of a dead carcaseand the fat of an animal torn by a wild beast may be used in any manner ofwork, but of it you shall not eat. For whosoever eateth the fat of an animalthat they offer as an oblation before the Lord, the man who eateth shall perishfrom his people. Nor in any of your habitations may you eat the blood of fowlor of beast: every man who eateth any kind of blood, that man shall bedestroyed[5]from his people.

               Andthe Lord spake with Mosheh, saying: Speak with the sons of Israel, saying:Whosoever offereth his sanctified victim before the Lord, let him bring theoblation of his sanctified victim (himself) before the Lord, his own handsshall 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 priestshall burn the fat at the altar; but the breast shall be fore Aharon and hissons. And the right shoulder (also) of your sanctified victims you shall givefor a separation unto the priest. He of Aharon’s sons who offereth the bloodand the fat of the sanctified victims shall have the right shoulder for aportion. For the uplifted breast and the shoulder of separation of thesacrifices of the Beni Israel I have given to Aharon the priest and to his sonsby and everlasting statue[6]form the sons of Israel.

               Thisis the anointing of Aharon, and the anointing of his sons and of the Lord’soblations, in the day that they that they present them to minister before theLord, which the Lord commanded to give them in the day that they consecratethem 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 victimswhich the Lord commanded the sons of Israel to offer their oblations before theLord in the wilderness of Sinai.

               VIII.And the Lord spake with Mosheh, saying: Bring Aharon near, and his sons withhim, with the vestments, and the oil of consecration, and the bullock for thesin offering, and the two rams, and the basket of unleavened (cakes); and letall the congregation gather together at the gate of the tabernacle ofordinance. And Mosheh did as the Lord commanded him, and the congregation wasgathered together at the gate of the tabernacle of ordinance. And Mosheh saidto the congregation, This is the thing which the Lord hath commanded to bedone.

               AndMosheh brought Aharon and his sons near, and washed them with water; and he putupon him the vestment, and girded him with the girdle, and dressed him with therobe, and set upon him the ephod, and bound him with the band of the ephod, andordained him therewith; and set upon him the breast plate, and put in thebreast plate the uraia an the thummaia. And he set the mitre upon his head, andplace on the mitre, on the forehead of his face, the plate of gold, the diademof Holiness, as the Lord had commanded Mosheh.

               AndMosheh took the consecrating oil, and anointed the tabernacle and all that wasin 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, tosanctify them. And he poured the oil of consecration upon Aharon’s head, andanointed him to consecrate him.

               AndMosheh brought the sons of Aharon near, and dressed them in vestments, andgirded them with girdles, and appointed them with mitres, as the Lord hadcommanded Mosheh. And he brought the bullock near for the sin offering, andAharon and his sons laid their hands upon the head of the bullock which was thesin offering. And Mosheh took the blood, and put it upon the horns of the altarround about, with his finger, and purified the altar, and the blood he pouredout at the base of the altar, and consecrated it to make atonement upon it. Andhe took all the fat which was upon the inwards, and the caul of the liver, andthe two kidneys with their fat; and Mosheh burned them at the altar. But thebullock, with his skin, and his flesh, and his food, he burned with firewithout the camp, as the Lord commanded Mosheh. And he brought the ram for theburnt offering, and Aharon and his sons laid their hands upon the head of theram, and he killed it, and Mosheh sprinkled the blood upon the altar roundabout. And the ram he divided by his members; and Mosheh burned the head andthe 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 offeringbefore the Lord, as the Lord had commanded Mosheh. And he brought the secondram of the oblations;[7]and Aharon and his sons laid their hands on the head of the ram, and he killedit; and Mosheh took of its blood, and put it upon the tip of Aharon’s rightear, 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 fatand the tail, and all the fat which is upon the inwards, and the caul of theliver, and the two kidneys and their fat, and the right shoulder: and from thebasket of unleavened cakes that was before the Lord he took one unleavenedcake, and one cake of bread (anointed with) oil, and one wafer, and set themupon the fat and upon the right shoulder, and put the whole upon Aharon’s handsand upon the hands of his sons, and uplifted them, an elevation before theLord. And Mosheh took them form off their hands, and burned (them) at the altarupon the burnt offering: they were offerings to be received with acceptance, anoblation before the Lord. And Mosheh took the breast, and uplifted it, anelevation before the Lord: of the ram of the oblations it was the portion ofMosheh, as the Lord had commanded Mosheh. And Mosheh took of the oil ofconsecration, and of the blood that was upon the altar, and sprinkled uponAharon, upon his vestments, and upon his sons, and upon his sons’ vestmentswith him, [and sanctified Aharon and his garments, and his sons and his sons’garments with him.][8] 

               AndMosheh spake to Aharon and to his sons: Boil the flesh at the gate of thetabernacle of ordinance, and eat it there with the bread which is in the basketof oblations, as I was commanded, saying, Aharon and his sons shall eat it. Andthat 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; forseven 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 thetabernacle of ordinance ye shall dwell seven days and nights, and watch thewatches of the Word of the Lord, that you die not; for so am I commanded. AndAharon and his sons did all the things which the Lord had commanded by the handof Mosheh.