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The Guilt Offering

¹“Now this is the law of the guilt offering, which is most holy: ²The guilt offering must be slaughtered in the place where the burnt offering is slaughtered, and the priest shall splatter its blood on all sides of the altar. ³And all the fat from it shall be offered: the fat tail, the fat that covers the entrails, ⁴both kidneys with the fat on them near the loins, and the lobe of the liver, which is to be removed with the kidneys. ⁵The priest shall burn them on the altar as a food offering to the LORD; it is a guilt offering. ⁶Every male among the priests may eat of it. It must be eaten in a holy place; it is most holy.

⁷The guilt offering is like the sin offering; the same law applies to both. It belongs to the priest who makes atonement with it. ⁸As for the priest who presents a burnt offering for anyone, the hide of that offering belongs to him. ⁹Likewise , every grain offering that is baked in an oven or cooked in a pan or on a griddle belongs to the priest who presents it, ¹⁰and every grain offering, whether dry or mixed with oil, belongs equally to all the sons of Aaron.

The Peace Offering

¹¹Now this is the law of the peace offering that one may present to the LORD: ¹²If he offers it in thanksgiving, then along with the sacrifice of thanksgiving he shall offer unleavened cakes mixed with olive oil, unleavened wafers coated with oil, and well-kneaded cakes of fine flour mixed with oil.

¹³Along with his peace offering of thanksgiving he is to present an offering with cakes of leavened bread. ¹⁴From the cakes he must present one portion of each offering as a contribution to the LORD. It belongs to the priest who sprinkles the blood of the peace offering. ¹⁵The meat of the sacrifice of his peace offering of thanksgiving must be eaten on the day he offers it; none of it may be left until morning.

¹⁶If, however, the sacrifice he offers is a vow or a freewill offering, it shall be eaten on the day he presents his sacrifice, but the remainder may be eaten on the next day. ¹⁷But any meat of the sacrifice remaining until the third day must be burned up. ¹⁸If any of the meat from his peace offering is eaten on the third day, it will not be accepted. It will not be credited to the one who presented it; it shall be an abomination, and the one who eats of it shall bear his iniquity.

¹⁹Meat that touches anything unclean must not be eaten; it is to be burned up. As for any other meat, anyone who is ceremonially clean may eat it. ²⁰But if anyone who is unclean eats meat from the peace offering that belongs to the LORD, that person must be cut off from his people. ²¹If one touches anything unclean, whether human uncleanness, an unclean animal, or any unclean, detestable thing, and then eats any of the meat of the peace offering that belongs to the LORD, that person must be cut off from his people.”

Fat and Blood Forbidden

²²Then the LORD said to Moses, ²³“Speak to the Israelites and say, ‘You are not to eat any of the fat of an ox, a sheep, or a goat. ²⁴The fat of an animal found dead or mauled by wild beasts may be used for any other purpose, but you must not eat it.

²⁵If anyone eats the fat of an animal from which a food offering may be presented to the LORD, the one who eats it must be cut off from his people. ²⁶You must not eat the blood of any bird or animal in any of your dwellings. ²⁷If anyone eats blood, that person must be cut off from his people.’”

The Priests’ Portion

²⁸Then the LORD said to Moses, ²⁹“Speak to the Israelites and say, ‘Anyone who presents a peace offering to the LORD must bring it as his sacrifice to the LORD. ³⁰With his own hands he is to bring the food offerings to the LORD; he shall bring the fat, together with the breast, and wave the breast as a wave offering before the LORD.

³¹The priest is to burn the fat on the altar, but the breast belongs to Aaron and his sons. ³²And you are to give the right thigh to the priest as a contribution from your peace offering. ³³The son of Aaron who presents the blood and fat of the peace offering shall have the right thigh as a portion.

³⁴I have taken from the sons of Israel the breast of the wave offering and the thigh of the contribution of their peace offerings, and I have given them to Aaron the priest and his sons as a permanent portion from the sons of Israel.’”

³⁵This is the portion of the food offerings to the LORD for Aaron and his sons since the day they were presented to serve the LORD as priests. ³⁶On the day they were anointed, the LORD commanded that this be given them by the sons of Israel. It is a permanent portion for the generations to come.

³⁷This is the law of the burnt offering, the grain offering, the sin offering, the guilt offering, the ordination offering, and the peace offering, ³⁸which the LORD gave Moses on Mount Sinai on the day He commanded the Israelites to present their offerings to the LORD in the Wilderness of Sinai.

Moses Consecrates Aaron and His Sons

¹Then the LORD said to Moses, ²“Take Aaron and his sons, their garments, the anointing oil, the bull of the sin offering, the two rams, and the basket of unleavened bread, ³and assemble the whole congregation at the entrance to the Tent of Meeting.”

⁴So Moses did as the LORD had commanded him, and the assembly gathered at the entrance to the Tent of Meeting. ⁵And Moses said to them, “This is what the LORD has commanded to be done.”

⁶Then Moses presented Aaron and his sons and washed them with water. ⁷He put the tunic on Aaron, tied the sash around him, clothed him with the robe, and put the ephod on him. He tied the woven band of the ephod around him and fastened it to him. ⁸Then he put the breastpiece on him and placed the Urim and Thummim in the breastpiece. ⁹Moses also put the turban on Aaron’s head and set the gold plate, the holy diadem, on the front of the turban, as the LORD had commanded him.

¹⁰Next, Moses took the anointing oil and anointed the tabernacle and everything in it; and so he consecrated them. ¹¹He sprinkled some of the oil on the altar seven times, anointing the altar and all its utensils, and the basin with its stand, to consecrate them.

¹²He also poured some of the anointing oil on Aaron’s head and anointed him to consecrate him. ¹³Then Moses presented Aaron’s sons, put tunics on them, wrapped sashes around them, and tied headbands on them, just as the LORD had commanded him.

The Priests’ Sin Offering

¹⁴Moses then brought the bull near for the sin offering, and Aaron and his sons laid their hands on its head. ¹⁵Moses slaughtered the bull, took some of the blood, and applied it with his finger to all four horns of the altar, purifying the altar. He poured out the rest of the blood at the base of the altar and consecrated it so that atonement could be made on it.

¹⁶Moses also took all the fat that was on the entrails, the lobe of the liver, and both kidneys and their fat, and burned it all on the altar. ¹⁷But the bull with its hide, flesh, and dung he burned outside the camp, as the LORD had commanded him.

The Priests’ Burnt Offering

¹⁸Then Moses presented the ram for the burnt offering, and Aaron and his sons laid their hands on its head. ¹⁹Moses slaughtered the ram and splattered the blood on all sides of the altar. ²⁰He cut the ram into pieces and burned the head, the pieces, and the fat. ²¹He washed the entrails and legs with water and burned the entire ram on the altar as a burnt offering, a pleasing aroma, a food offering to the LORD, just as the LORD had commanded Moses.

The Ram of Ordination

²²After that, Moses presented the other ram, the ram of ordination, and Aaron and his sons laid their hands on its head. ²³Moses slaughtered the ram and took some of its blood and put it on Aaron’s right earlobe, on the thumb of his right hand, and on the big toe of his right foot. ²⁴Moses also presented Aaron’s sons and put some of the blood on their right earlobes, on the thumbs of their right hands, and on the big toes of their right feet. Then he splattered the blood on all sides of the altar.

²⁵And Moses took the fat— the fat tail, all the fat that was on the entrails, the lobe of the liver, and both kidneys with their fat— as well as the right thigh. ²⁶And from the basket of unleavened bread that was before the LORD, he took one cake of unleavened bread, one cake of bread made with oil, and one wafer, and he placed them on the fat portions and on the right thigh. ²⁷He put all these in the hands of Aaron and his sons and waved them before the LORD as a wave offering.

²⁸Then Moses took these from their hands and burned them on the altar with the burnt offering. This was an ordination offering, a pleasing aroma, a food offering to the LORD. ²⁹He also took the breast — Moses’ portion of the ram of ordination — and waved it before the LORD as a wave offering, as the LORD had commanded him.

³⁰Next, Moses took some of the anointing oil and some of the blood that was on the altar and sprinkled them on Aaron and his garments, and on his sons and their garments. So he consecrated Aaron and his garments, as well as Aaron’s sons and their garments.

³¹And Moses said to Aaron and his sons, “Boil the meat at the entrance to the Tent of Meeting and eat it there with the bread that is in the basket of ordination offerings, as I commanded, saying, ‘Aaron and his sons are to eat it.’ ³²Then you must burn up the remainder of the meat and bread.

³³You must not go outside the entrance to the Tent of Meeting for seven days, until the days of your ordination are complete; for it will take seven days to ordain you. ³⁴What has been done today has been commanded by the LORD in order to make atonement on your behalf. ³⁵You must remain at the entrance to the Tent of Meeting day and night for seven days and keep the LORD’s charge so that you will not die, for this is what I have been commanded.”

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

Sing to the LORD, All the Earth

¹Sing to the LORD a new song;

sing to the LORD, all the earth.

²Sing to the LORD, bless His name;

proclaim His salvation day after day.

³Declare His glory among the nations,

His wonders among all peoples.

⁴For great is the LORD, and greatly to be praised;

He is to be feared above all gods.

⁵For all the gods of the nations are idols,

but it is the LORD who made the heavens.

⁶Splendor and majesty are before Him;

strength and beauty fill His sanctuary.

⁷Ascribe to the LORD, O families of the nations,

ascribe to the LORD glory and strength.

⁸Ascribe to the LORD the glory due His name;

bring an offering and enter His courts.

⁹Worship the LORD in the splendor of His holiness;

tremble before Him, all the earth.

¹⁰Declare among the nations: “The LORD reigns!”

The world is firmly established; it cannot be moved;

He will judge the peoples with equity.

¹¹Let the heavens be glad

and the earth rejoice;

let the sea resound,

and all that fills it.

¹²Let the fields exult,

and all that is in them.

Then all the trees of the forest

will sing for joy ¹³before the LORD,

for He is coming—

He is coming to judge the earth.

He will judge the world in righteousness

and the peoples in His faithfulness.

Persecution Foretold

¹“I have told you these things so that you will not fall away. ²They will put you out of the synagogues. In fact, a time is coming when anyone who kills you will think he is offering a service to God. ³They will do these things because they have not known the Father or Me. ⁴But I have told you these things so that when their hour comes, you will remember that I told you about them. I did not tell you these things from the beginning, because I was with you.

The Promise of the Holy Spirit

⁵Now, however, I am going to Him who sent Me; yet none of you asks Me, ‘Where are You going?’ ⁶Instead, your hearts are filled with sorrow because I have told you these things. ⁷But I tell you the truth, it is for your benefit that I am going away. Unless I go away, the Advocate will not come to you; but if I go, I will send Him to you.

⁸And when He comes, He will convict the world in regard to sin and righteousness and judgment: ⁹in regard to sin, because they do not believe in Me; ¹⁰in regard to righteousness, because I am going to the Father and you will no longer see Me; ¹¹and in regard to judgment, because the prince of this world has been condemned.

¹²I still have much to tell you, but you cannot yet bear to hear it. ¹³However, when the Spirit of truth comes, He will guide you into all truth. For He will not speak on His own, but He will speak what He hears, and He will declare to you what is to come. ¹⁴He will glorify Me by taking from what is Mine and disclosing it to you. ¹⁵Everything that belongs to the Father is Mine. That is why I said that the Spirit will take from what is Mine and disclose it to you.

¹⁶In a little while you will see Me no more, and then after a little while you will see Me.”

Grief Will Turn to Joy

¹⁷Then some of His disciples asked one another, “Why is He telling us, ‘In a little while you will not see Me, and then after a little while you will see Me’ and ‘Because I am going to the Father’?” ¹⁸They kept asking, “Why is He saying, ‘a little while’? We do not understand what He is saying.”

¹⁹Aware that they wanted to question Him, Jesus said to them, “Are you asking one another why I said, ‘In a little while you will not see Me, and then after a little while you will see Me’? ²⁰Truly, truly, I tell you, you will weep and wail while the world rejoices. You will grieve, but your grief will turn to joy. ²¹A woman has pain in childbirth because her time has come; but when she brings forth her child, she forgets her anguish because of her joy that a child has been born into the world. ²²So also you have sorrow now, but I will see you again and your hearts will rejoice, and no one will take away your joy.

Ask in My Name

²³In that day you will no longer ask Me anything. Truly, truly, I tell you, whatever you ask the Father in My name, He will give you. ²⁴Until now you have not asked for anything in My name. Ask and you will receive, so that your joy may be complete.

²⁵I have spoken these things to you in figures of speech. An hour is coming when I will no longer speak to you this way, but will tell you plainly about the Father. ²⁶In that day you will ask in My name. I am not saying that I will ask the Father on your behalf. ²⁷For the Father Himself loves you, because you have loved Me and have believed that I came from God. ²⁸I came from the Father and entered the world. In turn, I will leave the world and go to the Father.”

²⁹His disciples said, “See, now You are speaking plainly and without figures of speech. ³⁰Now we understand that You know all things and that You have no need for anyone to question You. Because of this, we believe that You came from God.”

³¹“Do you finally believe?” Jesus replied. ³²“Look, an hour is coming and has already come when you will be scattered, each to his own home, and you will leave Me all alone. Yet I am not alone, because the Father is with Me. ³³I have told you these things so that in Me you may have peace. In the world you will have tribulation. But take courage; I have overcome the world!”