Leviticus 6

₁The Lord said to Moses: ₂‘If a person cheats another Israelite, then he is guilty, and he is disobedient to the Lord. Or if someone gives something to a person to keep but he says he does not have it, or if he robs another person or steals from him, ₃or when he finds something that belongs to another Israelite but he says he does not have it, or if he says the Lord is his Witness but he is lying, he is guilty. If someone does any of these things, then he has sinned. ₄If he has done that and sinned, he is guilty and he must give back the things that he took, or that he had to keep for someone. He must give back the things that he found but which belong to another person. ₅He must give back everything that he lied about and said that the Lord was his Witness. If people say that he did it and is guilty, then he must give back everything and he must also give one 5th more than what he took. ₆He must also sacrifice a guilt-offering to the Lord. He must bring a healthy sheep ram to the priest as a guilt-offering. The priest must say how big the ram must be. ₇The priest must then make atonement for him, and the Lord will forgive all the sin that he has done.’

₈The Lord said to Moses: ₉‘You must tell Aaron and his sons what they must do with the burnt-offerings. The burnt-offering must stay in the fireplace on the altar for the night until the next morning and the fire must burn all the time. ₁₀The next morning the priest must put on his linen clothes and his linen trousers. He must take the fat that is left over after the burnt-offering has burnt on the altar and he must put the fat next to the altar. ₁₁Then he must take off his clothes and put on other clothes and he must take the fat to a place that is pure, outside the camp. ₁₂The fire on the altar must always burn. It may not go out. The priest must put wood on the fire every morning. He must put the burnt-offering on the fire and also the fat from the meal-offering. ₁₃There must always be fire at the altar. It may never go out.’

₁₄The Lord said to Moses: ‘This is what the priests must do with the grain-offering. A priest who is a descendant of Aaron must bring the offering to the altar before the Lord. ₁₅He must take a handful of flour and olive oil and all the incense on top of the grain-offering, then he must burn it. The handful of flour shows that all of the flour belongs to the Lord. This is an offering that pleases the Lord. ₁₆The descendants of Aaron may eat the flour which is left over. They must bake flat bread with the flour and they must eat it in a holy place, in the courtyard near the temple. ₁₇They may not bake bread with yeast in it. This is what the priests get from the fire-offerings. It is most_holy, like the sin-offering and the guilt-offering. ₁₈Every man and boy who is a descendant of Aaron may eat this bread. It comes from the fire-offerings to the Lord. Everything that touches it becomes holy.’

₁₉The Lord said to Moses: ₂₀‘On the day when you anoint Aaron, he and his sons must give an offering to the Lord of one 10th of an ephah of the best flour. He must always bring this offering, half of the offering in the morning and the other half in the evening. ₂₁He must mix the flour with olive oil and then bake it on a plate. Then he must break the bread into pieces and give it to the Lord. This is a grain-offering that pleases the Lord.

₂₂You must anoint a priest, who is a descendant of Aaron, to be the high-priest. He must always sacrifice the grain-offering. The offering belongs to the Lord and he must burn all of it. ₂₃All the grain-offerings of the priests must be burnt completely. They may not eat them.’

₂₄The Lord said to Moses: ₂₅‘You must tell Aaron and his sons what they must do with the sin-offering. They must kill the animal which is for the sin-offering before the Lord at the same place where they kill the animals for the burnt-offerings. The sin-offering is most_holy. ₂₆The priest who sacrifices the animal as a sin-offering must eat the meat in a holy place, in the courtyard near the tent of the Lord. ₂₇Anyone who touches the animal's meat must be holy. If some drops of the animal's blood fall onto someone's clothes, those clothes must be washed in a holy place. ₂₈If they have cooked the meat in a clay pot, they must break the pot. If they have cooked the meat in a bronze pot, they must wash the pot very well and pour water over it.

₂₉The meat is most_holy. Only the male priests may eat it. ₃₀But if they bring the blood of a sin-offering into the tent where God appears to the Israelites and they use that blood for atonement in the temple, then they may not eat the meat. They must burn all of it.’