Leviticus Chapters 1-5

Leviticus


Chapters 1-5



1[1-6] Yahweh called to Moses out of the Meeting Place, and told him, “Tell the children of Israel, 'When any of you makes an offering to Yahweh, you’ll make your offering from the herds and flocks of the animals. “'If your offering is a burnt offering from the herd, you’ll offer a male without anything wrong with it. You’ll offer it at the door of the Meeting Place, that you may be accepted by Yahweh. You’ll put your hand on the head of the burnt offering, and it will be accepted to cover your sins for you. You’ll kill the bull to Yahweh. Aaron's sons, the priests, will present the blood and sprinkle the blood around on the altar that is at the door of the Meeting Place. You’ll skin the burnt offering, and cut it into pieces.

[7- 9] The sons of Aaron the priest will put fire on the altar, and put the wood in order on the fire; and Aaron's sons, the priests, will put the pieces, the head, and the fat in order on the firewood which is on the altar; but its insides and its legs you’ll wash with water. The priest will burn it all on the altar for a burnt offering, an offering of fire that smells good to Yahweh.

[10-13] If your offering is from the flock, from the sheep, or from the goats, for a burnt offering, you’ll offer a male without anything wrong with it. You’ll kill it on the north side of the altar to Yahweh. Aaron's sons, the priests, will sprinkle its blood around on the altar. You’ll cut it into pieces, along with its head and its fat. The priest will put them in order on the fire wood that is on the altar, but the insides and the legs you’ll wash with water. The priest will offer it all, and burn it on the altar. It’s a burnt offering, an offering of fire that smells good to Yahweh.

[14-17] If your offering to Yahweh is a burnt offering of birds, then you’ll bring your offering of doves, or of young pigeons. The priest will bring it to the altar, and wring off its head, and burn it on the altar; and its blood will be drained out on the side of the altar; and you’ll take away its insides and feathers, and throw it beside the altar on the east side, where the ashes go. You’ll break it open at its wings, but not cut it in half. The priest will burn it on the altar, putting it on the fire wood. It’s a burnt offering, an offering of fire that smells good to Yahweh.

2[1-3] When anyone brings a meal offering to Yahweh, your offering will be of fine flour; and you’ll pour oil on it, and put frankincense on it. They’ll bring it to Aaron's sons the priests; and you’ll take a handful of its fine flour and oil, with all its frankincense; and the priest will burn it on the altar for a reminder, an offering of fire that smells good to Yahweh. That which is left of the meal offering will be for Aaron and his sons. It’s most holy of all the burnt offerings to Yahweh.

[4-10] When you bring an offering of a meal offering baked in the oven, it will be made without yeast, cakes of fine flour mixed with oil, or wafers made without yeast rubbed with oil. If your offering is a meal offering of the baking pan, it will be made without yeast of fine flour mixed with oil. You’ll break it in pieces, and pour oil on it, because it’s a meal offering. If your offering is a meal offering of the frying pan, it will be made of fine flour with oil. They’ll bring the meal offering that is made of these things to Yahweh and it will be given to the priest to bring to the altar. The priest will take a part of the meal offering for a reminder, and will burn it on the altar, an offering of fire that smells good to Yahweh. That which is left of the meal offering will be for Aaron and his sons. It’s most holy of all the burnt offerings to Yahweh.

[11-16] No meal offering, which you offer to Yahweh, will be made with yeast; for you’ll burn no yeast, nor honey, as a burnt offering to Yahweh. You may offer them to Yahweh as an offering of the first of your food: but they won’t be burnt on the altar to smell good. Add salt to every offering of your meal offering; Don’t let the meal offering of the promise of your God be lacking salt. With all your offerings you’ll offer salt. If you offer a meal offering of the first of your foods to Yahweh, you’ll offer for the meal offering of your first foods new grain roasted with fire, beaten from the head of grain. You’ll put oil on it, and put frankincense on it because it’s a meal offering. The priest will burn it as a reminder, part of its beaten grain, and part of its oil, along with all its frankincense because it’s an offering of fire to Yahweh.

3[1-5] If your offering is a sacrifice of peace offerings; if you offer it from the herd, whether male or female, you’ll offer one without anything wrong with it to Yahweh. You’ll put your hand on the head of your offering, and kill it at the door of the Meeting Place: and Aaron's sons the priests will sprinkle the blood around on the altar. You’ll offer of the sacrifice of peace offerings an offering of fire to Yahweh; the fat that covers the insides, and all the fat that is on the insides, and the two kidneys, and the fat that is on them, which is by the hips, and the cover on the liver, with the kidneys, you’ll take away. Aaron's sons will burn it on the altar for a burnt offering, which is on the firewood: It’s an offering of fire that smells good to Yahweh.

[6-11] If your offering for a sacrifice of peace offerings to Yahweh is from the flock; whether male or female, you’ll offer one without anything wrong with it. If you bring a lamb for your offering, when you offer it to Yahweh you’ll put your hand on the head of your offering, and kill it in front of the Meeting Place: and Aaron's sons will sprinkle its blood around on the altar. You’ll offer from the sacrifice of peace offerings an offering of fire to Yahweh; its fat, all the tail fat, you’ll take away close to the backbone; and the fat that covers the insides, and all the fat that is on the insides, and the two kidneys, and the fat that is on them, which is by the hips, and the cover on the liver, with the kidneys, you’ll take away. The priest will burn it on the altar: It’s the food of the offering of fire to Yahweh.

[12-] If your offering is a goat, when you offer it to Yahweh you’ll put your hand on its head, and kill it before the Meeting Place; and the sons of Aaron will sprinkle its blood around on the altar. You’ll offer part of it as your offering, an offering of fire to Yahweh; the fat that covers the insides, and all the fat that is on the insides, and the two kidneys, and the fat that is on them, which is by the hips, and the cover on the liver, with the kidneys, you’ll take away. The priest will burn them on the altar: It’s the food of the offering of fire that smells good; all the fat is Yahweh's. It will be a law forever throughout your generations in all your homes, that you’ll eat neither fat nor blood.'”

4[1-12] Then Yahweh told Moses, “Tell the children of Israel, 'If anyone sins by mistake, in anything which Yahweh has told them not to do, and does any one of them: if the anointed priest sins so as to bring guilt on the people, then let him offer for his sin, which he has sinned, a young bull without anything wrong with it to Yahweh for a sin offering. He’ll bring the bull to the door of the Meeting Place to Yahweh; and put his hand on the head of the bull, and kill the bull before Yahweh. The anointed priest will take some of the blood of the bull, and bring it to the Meeting Place. The priest will dip a finger in the blood, and sprinkle some of the blood seven times before Yahweh, before the veil of the place of worship. The priest will put some of the blood on the horns of the altar of sweet incense to Yahweh, which is in the Meeting Place, and pour out all of rest of the blood of the bull at the base of the altar of burnt offering, which is at the door of the Meeting Place. Take all the fat of the bull of the sin offering off of it; the fat that covers the insides, and all the fat that is on the insides, and the two kidneys, and the fat that is on them, which is by the hips, and the cover on the liver, with the kidneys, you’ll take away, as it’s taken off of the bull of the sacrifice of peace offerings. The priest will burn them on the altar of burnt offering. The bull's skin, all its meat, with its head, and legs, its insides, and its wastes, carry the whole bull outside the camp to a clean place, where the ashes are poured out, and burn it on wood with fire. Burn it where the ashes are poured out.

[13-21] If all the people of Israel sin without anyone knowing they have sinned, and they have done anything which Yahweh has told them not to do, and are guilty; when the sin they have done is known, then offer a young bull for a sin offering, and bring it before the Meeting Place. The elders of the people will put their hands on the head of the bull before Yahweh; and the bull will be killed before Yahweh. The anointed priest will bring of the blood of the bull to the Meeting Place and will dip a finger in the blood, and sprinkle it seven times before Yahweh, before the veil. Put some of the blood on the horns of the altar which is before Yahweh that is in the Meeting Place; and pour out the rest of the blood at the base of the altar of burnt offering, which is at the door of the Meeting Place. All its fat you’ll take from it, and burn it on the altar. Do this with the bull as you did with the bull of the sin offering; and the priest will cover their sins for them, and they’ll be forgiven. Carry the bull outside the camp, and burn it as you burned the first bull. It’s the sin offering for the people.

[22-26] When a ruler sins without knowing it, and does anything which Yahweh your God has told them not to do, and is guilty; if the sin that has been done is made known to the ruler, they’ll bring an offering of a goat, a male without anything wrong with it. They’ll put their hand on the head of the goat, and kill it in the place where they kill the burnt offering to Yahweh. It’s a sin offering. The priest will dip a finger in some of the blood of the sin offering, and put it on the horns of the altar of burnt offering and pour out the rest of its blood at the base of the altar of burnt offering. All its fat will be burned on the altar, like the fat of the sacrifice of peace offerings; and the priest will cover their sins for them, and they’ll be forgiven.

[27-31] “'If any of the common people sins without knowing it, and does anything which Yahweh has told them not to do, and is guilty; if the sin, which has been done, is made known to them, then they’ll bring an offering of a goat, a female without anything wrong with it, for the sin they have done. They’ll put their hand on the head of the sin offering, and kill the sin offering in the place of burnt offering. The priest will dip a finger in some of its blood, and put it on the horns of the altar of burnt offering; and pour out the rest of its blood at the base of the altar. All its fat will be taken away, like the fat is taken away from off of the sacrifice of peace offerings; and the priest will burn it on the altar for an offering that smells good to Yahweh; and the priest will cover their sins for them for what they have done, and they’ll be forgiven.

[32-35] If they bring a lamb for a sin offering, they’ll bring a female without anything wrong it. They’ll put their hand on the head of the sin offering, and kill it for a sin offering in the place where they kill the burnt offering. The priest will dip a finger in some of the blood of the sin offering, and put it on the horns of the altar of burnt offering; and pour out all the rest of its blood at the base of the altar. All its fat will be taken away, like the fat of the lamb is taken away from the sacrifice of peace offerings; and the priest will burn it on the altar, on the offerings of Yahweh made by fire; and the priest will cover their sins for them for what they have done, and they’ll be forgiven.

5[1-3] If anyone sins, who makes a promise, and is a witness, whether they have seen it or knew of it, but didn’t tell what they knew, then they’ll be guilty of sin. Or if anyone touches anything unhealthy, whether it’s the dead body of a wild animal, or the dead body of tame animals, or the dead body of small animals that run around, without knowing it, and they’re unhealthy, then they’ll be guilty. Or if anyone touches anything unhealthy of human beings, whatever it is, without knowing it; when they know it, then they’ll be guilty.

[4-6] Or if anyone promises to do something, whether evil or good, without thinking about it, whatever it is that someone might promise without thinking; when they know of it, then they’ll be guilty of it. When they’re guilty of one of these, they’ll admit what they have done that made them sin and bring a guilt offering to Yahweh for the sin which they did, a female from the flock, a lamb or a goat, for a sin offering; and the priest will cover their sin for them.

[7-13] If they can't afford a lamb, then they’ll bring to Yahweh two doves, or two young pigeons for their guilt offering for what they did; one for a sin offering, and the other for a burnt offering. They’ll bring them to the priest, who will first offer the one which is for the sin offering, and wring its head from off its neck, but won’t completely break it off. The priest will sprinkle some of the blood of the sin offering on the side of the altar; and the rest of the blood will be drained out at the base of the altar. It’s a sin offering. The priest will offer the second for a burnt offering, according to the rule; and the priest will cover their sins for them for whatever they have done, and they’ll be forgiven. But if they can't afford two doves, or two young pigeons, then they’ll bring an offering for whatever they have done, ten percent of a 3-quart jar of fine flour for a sin offering. You’ll put no oil on it, neither will you put any frankincense on it, because it’s a sin offering. They’ll bring it to the priest, and the priest will take a handful of it as a reminder, and burn it on the altar, on the offerings of Yahweh made by fire. It’s a sin offering. The priest will cover their sins for them for whatever they have done of any of these things, and they’ll be forgiven; and the rest will be the priest's, as the meal offering.'”

[14-16] The Yahweh told Moses, “If anyone is guilty of sin, and sins without knowing it, in the holy things of Yahweh; then they’ll bring their guilt offering to Yahweh, a ram without anything wrong with it from the flock, by the value of silver dollars, after the dollar of the place of worship, for a guilt offering. They’ll pay for what they have done wrong in the holy thing, and will add five percent to it, and give it to the priest; and the priest will cover their sins for them with the ram of the guilt offering, and they’ll be forgiven.

[17-19] If anyone sins, and does anything which Yahweh has told them not to do without knowing it, they’re guilty of sin. They’ll bring a ram without anything wrong with it from of the flock, by your value, for a guilt offering, to the priest; and the priest will cover their sins for them for what they have done and didn't know it, and they’ll be forgiven. It’s a guilt offering and they’re without a doubt guilty to Yahweh.”