Leviticus 6

Additional Laws for Burnt Offerings

1Then Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying,[#Leviticus 6:1–30 in the English Bible is 5:20–6:23 in the Hebrew Bible; #Or “And”]

2“When a person displays infidelity against Yahweh and he deceives his fellow citizen regarding something entrusted or a pledge or stealing or he exploits his fellow citizen,[#Or “a soul”; #Literally “acts unfaithfully infidelity” or “is unfaithful in unfaithfulness”; #Literally “in”; #Literally “a pledge of a hand”]

3or he finds lost property and lies about it and swears falsely in regard to any one of these things by which a person might commit sin,[#Literally “in accordance with deception”; #Literally “on” or “upon”; #Literally “the man”]

4and when he sins and is guilty, then he shall bring back the things he had stolen or what he had extorted or something with which he had been entrusted or the lost property that he had found,[#Literally “and it will be when”; #Or “and”; #Literally “the robbed things that he had stolen”; #Literally “the extortion that he had extorted”; #Literally “something entrusted that had been entrusted to him”]

5or regarding anything about which he has sworn falsely, then he shall repay it according to its value and shall add one-fifth of its value to it—he must give it to whom it belongs on the day of his guilt offering.[#Literally “from”; #Literally “in accordance with deception”; #Or “and”; #Literally “in”; #Literally “to whom it is to him”]

6And he must bring as his guilt offering to Yahweh a ram without defect from the flock by your valuation as a guilt offering to the priest,[#The Hebrew term refers collectively to both sheep and goats (small livestock animals); #See 5:15 and 18]

7and the priest shall make atonement for him before Yahweh, and he shall be forgiven anything from all that he might do by which he might incur guilt.”[#Literally “to the faces of”; #Literally “one”; #Literally “which he might do for incurring guilt by it”]

8Then Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying,[#Or “And”]

9“Command Aaron and his sons, saying, ‘This is the regulation of the burnt offering: The burnt offering must remain on the hearth on the altar all night until the morning, and the altar’s fire must be kept burning on it.[#Literally “It shall be the burnt offering on a hearth”]

10And the priest shall put on his linen robe, and he must put his linen undergarments on his body, and he shall take away the fatty ashes of the burnt offering that the fire has consumed on the altar, and he shall place them beside the altar.[#Hebrew “him/it”—plural required by the English “fatty ashes”]

11And he shall take off his garments and put on other garments, and he shall bring out the fatty ashes outside the camp to a ceremonially clean place,[#Literally “to from an outside place of the camp”]

12but the fire on the altar must be kept burning on it; it must not be quenched. And the priest must burn wood every morning on it, and he shall arrange the burnt offering on it, and he shall turn into smoke the fat portions of the fellowship offerings on it.[#Or “and”; #Literally “in the morning in the morning”; #Antecedent for this 3fs suffix is “fire” (“altar” is ms); #Antecedent for this 3fs suffix is “fire” (“altar” is ms); #Antecedent for this 3fs suffix is “fire” (“altar” is ms)]

13A perpetual fire must be kept burning on the altar; it must not be quenched.

Additional Laws for Grain Offerings

14“ ‘And this is the regulation of the grain offering. Aaron’s sons shall present it before Yahweh in front of the altar,[#Literally “to the faces of”; #Literally “to the faces of”]

15and he in his fist shall take away from it some of the grain offering’s finely milled flour, and some of its oil and all of the frankincense that is on the grain offering, and he shall turn into smoke its token portion on the altar as an appeasing fragrance to Yahweh.[#That is, the priest; understood by context and 3ms verb; #Literally “from”; #Literally “from”]

16And Aaron and his sons must eat the remainder of it; they must eat it as unleavened bread in a holy place—in the tent of assembly’s courtyard they must eat it.

17It must not be baked with yeast. I have given it as their share from my offerings made by fire. It is a most holy thing, like the sin offering and like the guilt offering.[#Literally “a holiness of holinesses”]

18Every male among Aaron’s sons may eat it as a lasting rule among your generations from the offerings made by fire belonging to Yahweh. Anything that touches them will become holy.’ ”[#Literally “of”; #Or “Everyone who”]

19Then Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying,[#Or “And”]

20“This is the offering of Aaron and his sons that they shall present to Yahweh on the day of his being anointed: a tenth of an ephah of finely milled flour as a perpetual grain offering, half of it in the morning and half of it in the evening.[#Hebrew “the”]

21It must be made in oil on a flat baking pan; you must bring it well-mixed; you must present pieces of a grain offering’s baked goods as an appeasing fragrance to Yahweh.[#Or “prepared”; #Or “with”; #Singular masculine; #Or “broken bits” (JPS, NET, NIV)]

22And the anointed priest taking his place from among his sons must do it. As a lasting rule, it must be turned into smoke totally for Yahweh.

23And every grain offering of a priest must be a whole burnt offering; it must not be eaten.”

Additional Laws for Sin Offerings

24Then Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying,[#Or “And”]

25“Speak to Aaron and his sons, saying, ‘This is the regulation of the sin offering: In the place where the sin offering is slaughtered, the sin offering must be slaughtered before Yahweh; it is a most holy thing.[#Literally “to the faces of”; #Literally “a holiness of holinesses”]

26The priest who offers the sin offering must eat it in a holy place—in the tent of assembly’s courtyard.[#Literally “one who offers it a sin offering”]

27Anything that touches its flesh will become holy, and when some of its blood spatters on a garment, what was spattered on it you shall wash in a holy place.[#Or “Everyone who”; #Literally “from”; #Hebrew “the”; #Singular masculine]

28And a clay vessel in which it was boiled must be broken, but if it was boiled in a bronze vessel, then it shall be thoroughly scoured and rinsed with water.[#Or “and”; #Or “and”]

29Any male among the priests may eat it; it is a most holy thing.[#Literally “a holiness of holinesses”]

30But any sin offering from which some of its blood is brought to the tent of assembly to make atonement in the sanctuary must not be eaten; it must be burned in the fire.’ ”[#Or “And”; #Literally “from”]

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