Shabbat Hagadol

This translation was taken from the JPS Tanakh

Leviticus 9:1-16

¹ On the eighth day Moses called Aaron and his sons, and the elders of Israel. ² He said to Aaron: “Take a calf of the herd for a sin offering and a ram for a burnt offering, without blemish, and bring them before the Lord. ³ And speak to the Israelites, saying: Take a he-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 meal offering with oil mixed in. For today the Lord will appear to you.”

⁵ They brought to the front of the Tent of Meeting the things that Moses had commanded, and the whole community came forward and stood before the Lord. ⁶ Moses said: “This is what the Lord has commanded that you do, that the Presence of the Lord may appear to you.” ⁷ Then Moses said to Aaron: “Come forward to the altar and sacrifice your sin offering and your burnt offering, making expiation for yourself and for the people; and sacrifice the people’s offering and make expiation for them, as the Lord has commanded.”

⁸ Aaron came forward to the altar and slaughtered his calf of sin offering. ⁹ Aaron’s sons brought the blood to him; he dipped his finger in the blood and put it on the horns of the altar; and he poured out the rest of the blood at the base of the altar. ¹⁰ The fat, the kidneys, and the protuberance of the liver from the sin offering he turned into smoke on the altar — as the Lord had commanded Moses;¹¹ and the flesh and the skin were consumed in fire outside the camp. ¹² Then he slaughtered the burnt offering. Aaron’s sons passed the blood to him, and he dashed it against all sides of the altar. ¹³They passed the burnt offering to him in sections, as well as the head, and he turned it into smoke on the altar. ¹⁴ He washed the entrails and the legs, and turned them into smoke on the altar with the burnt offering.

¹⁵ Next he brought forward the people’s offering. He took the goat for the people’s sin offering, and slaughtered it, and presented it as a sin offering like the previous one. ¹⁶ He brought forward the burnt offering and sacrificed it according to regulation.

Taken from Tanakh, The Holy Scriptures, (Philadelphia, Jerusalem: Jewish Publication Society) 1985.
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