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1 On the eighth day Moses summoned Aaron and his sons and the elders of Israel.
2 He said to Aaron, "Take a bull calf for a sin offering and a ram for a burnt offering, without blemish, and offer them before the LORD.
3 And say to the people of Israel, 'Take a male goat for a sin offering; a calf and a lamb, yearlings without blemish, for a burnt offering;
4 and an ox and a ram for an offering of well-being to sacrifice before the LORD; and a grain offering mixed with oil. For today the LORD will appear to you.'"
5 They brought what Moses commanded to the front of the tent of meeting; and the whole congregation drew near and stood before the LORD.
6 And Moses said, "This is the thing that the LORD commanded you to do, so that the glory of the LORD may appear to you."
7 Then Moses said to Aaron, "Draw near to the altar and sacrifice your sin offering and your burnt offering, and make atonement for yourself and for the people; and sacrifice the offering of the people, and make atonement for them; as the LORD has commanded."
8 Aaron drew near to the altar, and slaughtered the calf of the sin offering, which was for himself.
9 The sons of Aaron presented the blood to him, and he dipped his finger in the blood and put it on the horns of the altar; and the rest of the blood he poured out at the base of the altar.
10 But the fat, the kidneys, and the appendage of the liver from the sin offering he turned into smoke on the altar, as the LORD commanded Moses;
11 and the flesh and the skin he burned with fire outside the camp.
12 Then he slaughtered the burnt offering. Aaron's sons brought him the blood, and he dashed it against all sides of the altar.
13 And they brought him the burnt offering piece by piece, and the head, which he turned into smoke on the altar.
14 He washed the entrails and the legs and, with the burnt offering, turned them into smoke on the altar.
15 Next he presented the people's offering. He took the goat of the sin offering that was for the people, and slaughtered it, and presented it as a sin offering like the first one.
16 He presented the burnt offering, and sacrificed it according to regulation.
17 He presented the grain offering, and, taking a handful of it, he turned it into smoke on the altar, in addition to the burnt offering of the morning.
18 He slaughtered the ox and the ram as a sacrifice of well-being for the people. Aaron's sons brought him the blood, which he dashed against all sides of the altar,
19 and the fat of the ox and of the ram-- the broad tail, the fat that covers the entrails, the two kidneys and the fat on them, and the appendage of the liver.
20 They first laid the fat on the breasts, and the fat was turned into smoke on the altar;
21 and the breasts and the right thigh Aaron raised as an elevation offering before the LORD, as Moses had commanded.
22 Aaron lifted his hands toward the people and blessed them; and he came down after sacrificing the sin offering, the burnt offering, and the offering of well-being.
23 Moses and Aaron entered the tent of meeting, and then came out and blessed the people; and the glory of the LORD appeared to all the people.
24 Fire came out from the LORD and consumed the burnt offering and the fat on the altar; and when all the people saw it, they shouted and fell on their faces.
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