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Leviticus 7

Reparation Offerings.

1^*a This is the ritual for the reparation offering. It is most holy.

2At the place where the burnt offering is slaughtered, the reparation offering shall also be slaughtered.^b Its blood shall be splashed on all the sides of the altar.

3^c All of its fat shall be offered: the fatty tail, the fat that covers the inner organs, and all the fat that adheres to them,

4as well as the two kidneys with the fat on them near the loins, and the lobe of the liver, which is removed with the kidneys.

5The priest shall burn these on the altar as an oblation to the LORD. It is a reparation offering.

6Every male of the priestly line may eat of it; but it must be eaten in a sacred place.^d It is most holy.^e

7Because the purification offering and the reparation offering are alike, both have the same ritual. The reparation offering belongs to the priest who makes atonement with it.

8As for the priest who offers someone’s burnt offering, to him belongs the hide of the burnt offering that is offered.

9^{* f} Also, every grain offering that is baked in an oven or made in a pan or on a griddle shall belong to the priest who offers it,

10whereas all grain offerings^g that are mixed with oil or are dry shall belong to all of Aaron’s sons without distinction.

Communion Sacrifices.^*

11^h This is the ritual for the communion sacrifice that is offered to the LORD.

12^* If someone offers it for thanksgiving, that person shall offer it with unleavened cakes mixed with oil, unleavened wafers spread with oil, and cakes made of bran flour mixed with oil and well kneaded.

13One shall present this offering together with loaves of leavened bread along with the thanksgiving communion sacrifice.

14From this the individual shall offer one bread of each type of offering as a contribution^* to the LORD; this shall belong to the priest who splashes the blood of the communion offering.

15^{* i} The meat of the thanksgiving communion sacrifice shall be eaten on the day it is offered; none of it may be kept till the next morning.^j

16However, if the sacrifice offered is a votive or a voluntary offering,^* it shall be eaten on the day the sacrifice is offered, and on the next day what is left over may be eaten.^k

17But what is left over of the meat of the sacrifice on the third day must be burned in the fire.

18If indeed any of the flesh of the communion sacrifice is eaten on the third day, it shall not be accepted; it will not be reckoned to the credit of the one offering it. Rather it becomes a desecrated meat. Anyone who eats of it shall bear the penalty.^*

19^* Should the meat touch anything unclean, it may not be eaten, but shall be burned in the fire.^l As for other meat, all who are clean may eat of it.

20If, however, someone in a state of uncleanness eats the meat of a communion sacrifice belonging to the LORD, that person shall be cut off^{* m} from the people.

21Likewise, if someone touches anything unclean, whether it be human uncleanness or an unclean animal or an unclean loathsome creature, and then eats the meat of the communion sacrifice belonging to the LORD, that person, too, shall be cut off from the people.

Prohibition Against Blood and Fat.

22The LORD said to Moses:

23Tell the Israelites: You shall not eat the fat of any ox or sheep or goat.ⁿ

24Although the fat of an animal that has died a natural death or has been killed by wild beasts may be put to any other use, you may not eat it.^o

25If anyone eats the fat of an animal from which an oblation is made to the LORD, that person shall be cut off from the people.

26^p Wherever you dwell, you shall not eat any blood, whether of bird or of animal.

27Every person who eats any blood shall be cut off from the people.

Portions from the Communion Sacrifice for Priests.

28The LORD said to Moses:

29Tell the Israelites: The person who offers a communion sacrifice to the LORD shall be the one to bring from it the offering to the LORD.

30The offerer’s own hands shall carry the oblations for the LORD: the person shall bring the fat together with the brisket, which is to be raised as an elevated^q offering^* before the LORD.

31The priest shall burn the fat on the altar,^r but the brisket belongs to Aaron and his sons.

32Moreover, from your communion sacrifices you shall give to the priest the right leg as a contribution.

33The one among Aaron’s sons who offers the blood and the fat of the communion offering shall have the right leg as his portion,

34for from the communion sacrifices of the Israelites I have taken the brisket that is elevated and the leg that is a contribution, and I have given them to Aaron, the priest, and to his sons as their due from the Israelites forever.^s

35This is the priestly share from the oblations for the LORD, allotted to Aaron and his sons on the day they were brought forth to be the priests of the LORD,

36which the LORD ordered to be given them from the Israelites on the day they were anointed, as their due throughout their generations forever.

Summary.

37This is the ritual for the burnt offering, the grain offering, the purification offering, the reparation offering, the ordination offering,^t and the communion sacrifice,

38which the LORD enjoined on Moses at Mount Sinai at the time when he commanded the Israelites in the wilderness of Sinai to bring their offerings to the LORD.^u

Leviticus 8

Ordination of Aaron and His Sons.^*

1^a The LORD said to Moses:

2Take Aaron along with his sons, the vestments, the anointing oil, the bull for a purification offering, the two rams, and the basket of unleavened bread,

3then assemble the whole community^* at the entrance of the tent of meeting.

4Moses did as the LORD had commanded. When the community^b had assembled at the entrance of the tent of meeting,

5Moses told them: “This is what the LORD has ordered to be done.”

6Bringing forward Aaron and his sons, Moses first washed them with water.

7^* Then he put the tunic on Aaron,^c girded him with the sash, clothed him with the robe, placed the ephod on him, and girded him with the ephod’s embroidered belt, fastening the ephod on him with it.

8He then set the breastpiece on him, putting the Urim and Thummim^* in it.

9He put the turban on his head, attaching the gold medallion, the sacred headband,^* on the front of the turban, as the LORD had commanded Moses to do.

10^* Taking the anointing oil, Moses anointed and consecrated the tabernacle and all that was in it.^d

11Then he sprinkled some of the oil seven times on the altar, and anointed the altar, with all its utensils, and the laver, with its base, to consecrate them.

12He also poured some of the anointing oil on Aaron’s head and anointed him, to consecrate him.^e

13Moses likewise brought forward Aaron’s sons, clothed them with tunics, girded them with sashes, and put skullcaps on them, as the LORD had commanded him to do.

Ordination Sacrifices.

14He brought forward the bull for a purification offering, and Aaron and his sons laid their hands on its head.

15When it was slaughtered, Moses took the blood^* and with his finger he put it on the horns around the altar, thus purifying the altar.^f He poured out the rest of the blood at the base of the altar. Thus he consecrated it so that atonement could be made on it.

16Taking all the fat that was over the inner organs, as well as the lobe of the liver and the two kidneys with their fat,^g Moses burned them on the altar.

17The bull, however, with its hide and flesh and dung he burned in the fire outside the camp, as the LORD had commanded Moses to do.^h

18He next brought forward the ram of the burnt offering,ⁱ and Aaron and his sons laid their hands on its head.

19When it was slaughtered, Moses splashed the blood on all sides of the altar.

20After the ram was cut up into pieces, Moses burned the head, the cut-up pieces and the suet.

21After the inner organs and the shanks were washed with water, Moses burned these remaining parts of the ram on the altar. It was a burnt offering for a sweet aroma, an oblation to the LORD, as the LORD had commanded Moses.

22^* Then he brought forward the second ram, the ordination ram,^j and Aaron and his sons laid their hands on its head.

23When it was slaughtered, Moses took some of its blood and put it on the lobe of Aaron’s right ear, on the thumb of his right hand, and on the big toe^* of his right foot.^k

24Moses had the sons of Aaron also come forward, and he put some of the blood on the lobes of their right ears, on the thumbs of their right hands, and on the big toes of their right feet. The rest of the blood he splashed on all the sides of the altar.

25He then took the fat: the fatty tail and all the fat over the inner organs, the lobe of the liver and the two kidneys with their fat, and likewise the right thigh;

26from the basket of unleavened bread that was set before the LORD he took one unleavened cake, one loaf of bread made with oil, and one wafer; these he placed on top of the portions of fat and the right thigh.

27He then put all these things upon the palms of Aaron and his sons, whom he had raise them as an elevated offering before the LORD.^l

28When Moses had removed them from their palms, he burned them on the altar with the burnt offering. They were an ordination offering for a sweet aroma, an oblation to the LORD.

29He then took the brisket and raised it as an elevated offering before the LORD; this was Moses’ own portion of the ordination ram, as the LORD had commanded Moses.

30Taking some of the anointing oil and some of the blood that was on the altar, Moses sprinkled it upon Aaron and his vestments, as well as his sons and their vestments, thus consecrating both Aaron and his vestments and his sons and their vestments.^m

31Moses said to Aaron and his sons, “Boil the meat at the entrance of the tent of meeting, and there eat it with the bread that is in the basket of the ordination offering, in keeping with the command I have received: ‘Aaron and his sons shall eat of it.’

32What is left over of the meat and the bread you shall burn in the fire.

33Moreover, you are not to depart^* from the entrance of the tent of meeting for seven days, until the days of your ordination are completed; for your ordination is to last for seven days.

34What has been done today the LORD has commanded be done, to make atonement for you.

35You must remain at the entrance of the tent of meeting day and night for seven days, carrying out the prescriptions of the LORD, so that you do not die, for this is the command I have received.”ⁿ

36So Aaron and his sons did all that the LORD had commanded through Moses.

Leviticus 9

Octave of the Ordination.

1On the eighth day^{* a} Moses summoned Aaron and his sons, together with the elders of Israel,

2and said to Aaron, “Take a calf of the herd for a purification offering and a ram for a burnt offering, both without blemish, and offer them before the LORD.

3^* Tell the Israelites, too: Take a he-goat for a purification offering, a calf and a lamb, both unblemished yearlings, for a burnt offering,

4and an ox and a ram for a communion sacrifice, to sacrifice before the LORD, along with a grain offering mixed with oil; for today the LORD will appear to you.”

5So they brought what Moses had ordered before the tent of meeting. When the whole community had come forward and stood before the LORD,

6^* Moses said, “This is what the LORD orders you to do, that the glory of the LORD may appear to you.

7Approach the altar,” Moses then told Aaron, “and make your purification offering and your burnt offering in atonement for yourself and for your household;^* then make the offering of the people in atonement for them, as the LORD has commanded.”^b

8Approaching the altar, Aaron first slaughtered the calf of the purification offering that was his own offering.

9When his sons presented the blood to him, he dipped his finger in the blood and put it on the horns of the altar.^c The rest of the blood he poured out at the base of the altar.

10He then burned on the altar the fat, the kidneys and the lobe of the liver from the purification offering, as the LORD had commanded Moses;

11but the flesh and the hide he burned in the fire outside the camp.^d

12Then Aaron slaughtered the burnt offering. When his sons brought him the blood, he splashed it on all sides of the altar.

13They then brought him the pieces and the head of the burnt offering, and he burned them on the altar.

14Having washed the inner organs and the shanks, he burned these also with the burnt offering on the altar.^e

15Then he had the people’s offering brought. Taking the goat that was for the people’s purification offering, he slaughtered it and offered it as a purification offering as before.

16Then he brought forward the burnt offering and offered it according to procedure.

17He then presented the grain offering; taking a handful of it, he burned it on the altar, in addition to the morning burnt offering.^f

18Finally he slaughtered the ox and the ram, the communion sacrifice of the people. When his sons brought him the blood, Aaron splashed it on all sides of the altar.^g

19The portions of fat from the ox and from the ram, the fatty tail, the covering fat, the kidneys, and the lobe of the liver

20they placed on top of the briskets. Aaron burned the fat pieces on the altar,

21but the briskets and the right thigh he raised as an elevated offering^h before the LORD, as the LORD had commanded Moses.

Revelation of the Lord’s Glory.

22^* Aaron then raised his hands over the people and blessedⁱ them. When he came down from offering the purification offering, the burnt offering, and the communion offering,

23Moses and Aaron went into the tent of meeting. On coming out they blessed the people. Then the glory of the LORD appeared to all the people.

24^* Fire came forth from the LORD’s presence and consumed the burnt offering and the fat on the altar.^j Seeing this, all the people shouted with joy and fell prostrate.

Romans 2:1-16

God’s Just Judgment.

1^* Therefore, you are without excuse,^a every one of you who passes judgment.^* For by the standard by which you judge another you condemn yourself, since you, the judge, do the very same things.

2We know that the judgment of God on those who do such things is true.

3Do you suppose, then, you who judge those who engage in such things and yet do them yourself, that you will escape the judgment of God?^b

4Or do you hold his priceless kindness, forbearance, and patience in low esteem, unaware that the kindness of God would lead you to repentance?^c

5By your stubbornness and impenitent heart,^d you are storing up wrath for yourself for the day of wrath and revelation of the just judgment of God,

6^e who will repay everyone according to his works:^*

7eternal life to those who seek glory, honor, and immortality through perseverance in good works,

8but wrath and fury to those who selfishly disobey the truth and obey wickedness.^f

9Yes, affliction and distress will come upon every human being who does evil, Jew first and then Greek.

10^g But there will be glory, honor, and peace for everyone who does good, Jew first and then Greek.

11^{* h} There is no partiality with God.

Judgment by the Interior Law.^*

12All who sin outside the law will also perish without reference to it, and all who sin under the law will be judged in accordance with it.ⁱ

13For it is not those who hear the law who are just in the sight of God; rather, those who observe the law will be justified.^j

14For when the Gentiles who do not have the law by nature observe the prescriptions of the law, they are a law for themselves even though they do not have the law.^k

15They show that the demands of the law are written in their hearts,^* while their conscience also bears witness and their conflicting thoughts accuse or even defend them

16on the day when, according to my gospel, God will judge people’s hidden works through Christ Jesus.^l

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