Sinai & The Law

Moshe said to Aharon and his sons, "Boil the meat at the door of the tent of meeting; and eat it there with the bread that is in the basket of consecration, as I ordered when I said that Aharon and his sons are to eat it.

Whatever is left over of the meat and bread you are to burn up completely.

You are not to go out from the entrance to the tent of meeting for seven days, until the days of your consecration are over; since ADONAI will be consecrating you for seven days.

He ordered done what has been done today, in order to make atonement for you.

You are to remain at the entrance to the tent of meeting day and night for seven days, thereby obeying what ADONAI ordered done, so that you may not die. For this is what I was ordered."

Aharon and his sons did all the things which ADONAI ordered through Moshe. Suggested readings for Parashah Tzav from the B'rit Hadashah: Mark

On the eighth day, Moshe called Aharon, his sons and the leaders of Isra'el,

and said to Aharon, "Take a male calf for a sin offering and a ram for a burnt offering, both without defect, and offer them before ADONAI.

Then tell the people of Isra'el, 'Take a male goat for a sin offering and a calf and a lamb, both a year old and without defect, for a burnt offering,

and an ox and a ram for peace offerings, to sacrifice before ADONAI; also a grain offering mixed with olive oil -because today ADONAI is going to appear to you.'"

They brought what Moshe had ordered before the tent of meeting, and the whole community approached and stood before ADONAI.

Moshe said, "This is what ADONAI has ordered you to do, so that the glory of ADONAI will appear to you."

Moshe told Aharon, "Approach the altar, offer your sin offering and burnt offering, and make atonement for yourself and the people. Then present the offering of the people and make atonement for them, as ADONAI ordered."

So Aharon approached the altar and slaughtered the calf of the sin offering which was for himself.

The sons of Aharon presented the blood to him; and he dipped his finger in the blood and put it on the horns of the altar; then he poured out the blood at the base of the altar.

But the fat, the kidneys and the covering of the liver of the sin offering he made go up in smoke on the altar, as ADONAI had ordered Moshe.

The meat and the skin were burned up completely outside the camp.

Next he slaughtered the burnt offering; Aharon's sons brought him the blood, and he splashed it against all sides of the altar.

They brought him the burnt offering, piece by piece, and the head; and he made them go up in smoke on the altar.

He washed the inner organs and the lower parts of the legs and made them go up in smoke on top of the burnt offering on the altar.

Then the people's offering was presented. He took the goat of the sin offering which was for the people, slaughtered it and offered it for sin, like the earlier sin offering.

The burnt offering was presented, and he offered it in the prescribed manner.

The grain offering was presented; he took a handful of it and made it go up in smoke on the altar, in addition to the morning's burnt offering.

He slaughtered the ox and the ram, the people's sacrifice as peace offerings; Aharon's sons brought him the blood, which he splashed against all sides of the altar,

and the fat of the ox and of the ram - the fat tail, the fat which covers the inner organs, the kidneys and the covering of the liver.