Bible in 90 Days Plan

¹Moses assembled the entire Israelite community and said to them, “These are the things that the LORD has commanded you to do:

²For six days work is to be done, but on the seventh day you are to have a holy day, a Sabbath of complete rest to the LORD. Anyone who does work on it must be executed.

³Do not light a fire in any of your homes on the Sabbath day.”

⁴Then Moses said to the entire Israelite community, “This is what the LORD has commanded:

⁵Take up an offering among you for the LORD. Let everyone whose heart is willing bring this as the LORD’s offering: gold, silver, and bronze;

⁶blue, purple, and scarlet yarn; fine linen and goat hair;

⁷ram skins dyed red and fine leather; acacia wood;

⁸oil for the light; spices for the anointing oil and for the fragrant incense;

⁹and onyx with gemstones to mount on the ephod and breastpiece.

¹⁰“Let all the skilled artisans among you come and make everything that the LORD has commanded:

¹¹the tabernacle — its tent and covering, its clasps and supports, its crossbars, its pillars and bases;

¹²the ark with its poles, the mercy seat, and the curtain for the screen;

¹³the table with its poles, all its utensils, and the Bread of the Presence;

¹⁴the lampstand for light with its utensils and lamps as well as the oil for the light;

¹⁵the altar of incense with its poles; the anointing oil and the fragrant incense; the entryway screen for the entrance to the tabernacle;

¹⁶the altar of burnt offering with its bronze grate, its poles, and all its utensils; the basin with its stand;

¹⁷the hangings of the courtyard, its posts and bases, and the screen for the gate of the courtyard;

¹⁸the tent pegs for the tabernacle and the tent pegs for the courtyard, along with their ropes;

¹⁹and the specially woven garments for ministering in the sanctuary — the holy garments for the priest Aaron and the garments for his sons to serve as priests.”

²⁰Then the entire Israelite community left Moses’s presence.

²¹Everyone whose heart was moved and whose spirit prompted him came and brought an offering to the LORD for the work on the tent of meeting, for all its services, and for the holy garments.

²²Both men and women came; all who had willing hearts brought brooches, earrings, rings, necklaces, and all kinds of gold jewelry — everyone who presented a presentation offering of gold to the LORD.

²³Everyone who possessed blue, purple, or scarlet yarn, fine linen or goat hair, ram skins dyed red or fine leather, brought them.

²⁴Everyone making an offering of silver or bronze brought it as a contribution to the LORD. Everyone who possessed acacia wood useful for any task in the work brought it.

²⁵Every skilled woman spun yarn with her hands and brought it: blue, purple, and scarlet yarn, and fine linen.

²⁶And all the women whose hearts were moved spun the goat hair by virtue of their skill.

²⁷The leaders brought onyx and gemstones to mount on the ephod and breastpiece,

²⁸as well as the spice and oil for the light, for the anointing oil, and for the fragrant incense.

²⁹So the Israelites brought a freewill offering to the LORD, all the men and women whose hearts prompted them to bring something for all the work that the LORD, through Moses, had commanded to be done.

³⁰Moses then said to the Israelites: “Look, the LORD has appointed by name Bezalel son of Uri, son of Hur, of the tribe of Judah.

³¹He has filled him with God’s Spirit, with wisdom, understanding, and ability in every kind of craft

³²to design artistic works in gold, silver, and bronze,

³³to cut gemstones for mounting, and to carve wood for work in every kind of artistic craft.

³⁴He has also given both him and Oholiab son of Ahisamach, of the tribe of Dan, the ability to teach others.

³⁵He has filled them with skill to do all the work of a gem cutter; a designer; an embroiderer in blue, purple, and scarlet yarn and fine linen; and a weaver. They can do every kind of craft and design artistic designs.

¹Bezalel, Oholiab, and all the skilled people are to work based on everything the LORD has commanded. The LORD has given them wisdom and understanding to know how to do all the work of constructing the sanctuary.”

²So Moses summoned Bezalel, Oholiab, and every skilled person in whose heart the LORD had placed wisdom, all whose hearts moved them, to come to the work and do it.

³They took from Moses’s presence all the contributions that the Israelites had brought for the task of making the sanctuary. Meanwhile, the people continued to bring freewill offerings morning after morning.

⁴Then all the artisans who were doing all the work for the sanctuary came one by one from the work they were doing

⁵and said to Moses, “The people are bringing more than is needed for the construction of the work the LORD commanded to be done.”

⁶After Moses gave an order, they sent a proclamation throughout the camp: “Let no man or woman make anything else as an offering for the sanctuary.” So the people stopped.

⁷The materials were sufficient for them to do all the work. There was more than enough.

⁸All the skilled artisans among those doing the work made the tabernacle with ten curtains. Bezalel made them of finely spun linen, as well as blue, purple, and scarlet yarn, with a design of cherubim worked into them.

⁹Each curtain was forty-two feet long and six feet wide; all the curtains had the same measurements.

¹⁰He joined five of the curtains to each other, and the other five curtains he joined to each other.

¹¹He made loops of blue yarn on the edge of the last curtain in the first set and did the same on the edge of the outermost curtain in the second set.

¹²He made fifty loops on the one curtain and fifty loops on the edge of the curtain in the second set, so that the loops lined up with each other.

¹³He also made fifty gold clasps and joined the curtains to each other, so that the tabernacle became a single unit.

¹⁴He made curtains of goat hair for a tent over the tabernacle; he made eleven of them.

¹⁵Each curtain was forty-five feet long and six feet wide. All eleven curtains had the same measurements.

¹⁶He joined five of the curtains together, and the other six together.

¹⁷He made fifty loops on the edge of the outermost curtain in the first set and fifty loops on the edge of the corresponding curtain in the second set.

¹⁸He made fifty bronze clasps to join the tent together as a single unit.

¹⁹He also made a covering for the tent from ram skins dyed red and a covering of fine leather on top of it.

²⁰He made upright supports of acacia wood for the tabernacle.

²¹Each support was fifteen feet long and twenty-seven inches wide.

²²Each support had two tenons for joining one to another. He did the same for all the supports of the tabernacle.

²³He made supports for the tabernacle as follows: twenty for the south side,

²⁴and he made forty silver bases to put under the twenty supports, two bases under the first support for its two tenons, and two bases under each of the following supports for their two tenons;

²⁵for the second side of the tabernacle, the north side, he made twenty supports,

²⁶with their forty silver bases, two bases under the first support and two bases under each of the following ones;

²⁷and for the back of the tabernacle, on the west side, he made six supports.

²⁸He also made two additional supports for the two back corners of the tabernacle.

²⁹They were paired at the bottom and joined together at the top in a single ring. This is what he did with both of them for the two corners.

³⁰So there were eight supports with their sixteen silver bases, two bases under each one.

³¹He made five crossbars of acacia wood for the supports on one side of the tabernacle,

³²five crossbars for the supports on the other side of the tabernacle, and five crossbars for those at the back of the tabernacle on the west.

³³He made the central crossbar run through the middle of the supports from one end to the other.

³⁴He overlaid them with gold and made their rings out of gold as holders for the crossbars. He also overlaid the crossbars with gold.

³⁵Then he made the curtain with blue, purple, and scarlet yarn, and finely spun linen. He made it with a design of cherubim worked into it.

³⁶He made four pillars of acacia wood for it and overlaid them with gold; their hooks were of gold. And he cast four silver bases for the pillars.

³⁷He made a screen embroidered with blue, purple, and scarlet yarn, and finely spun linen for the entrance to the tent,

³⁸together with its five pillars and their hooks. He overlaid the tops of the pillars and their bands with gold, but their five bases were bronze.

¹Bezalel made the ark of acacia wood, forty-five inches long, twenty-seven inches wide, and twenty-seven inches high.

²He overlaid it with pure gold inside and out and made a gold molding all around it.

³He cast four gold rings for it, for its four feet, two rings on one side and two rings on the other side.

⁴He made poles of acacia wood and overlaid them with gold.

⁵He inserted the poles into the rings on the sides of the ark for carrying the ark.

⁶He made a mercy seat of pure gold, forty-five inches long and twenty-seven inches wide.

⁷He made two cherubim of gold; he made them of hammered work at the two ends of the mercy seat,

⁸one cherub at one end and one cherub at the other end. At each end, he made a cherub of one piece with the mercy seat.

⁹They had wings spread out. They faced each other and covered the mercy seat with their wings. The faces of the cherubim were looking toward the mercy seat.

¹⁰He constructed the table of acacia wood, thirty-six inches long, eighteen inches wide, and twenty-seven inches high.

¹¹He overlaid it with pure gold and made a gold molding all around it.

¹²He made a three-inch frame all around it and made a gold molding all around its frame.

¹³He cast four gold rings for it and attached the rings to the four corners at its four legs.

¹⁴The rings were next to the frame as holders for the poles to carry the table.

¹⁵He made the poles for carrying the table from acacia wood and overlaid them with gold.

¹⁶He also made the utensils that would be on the table out of pure gold: its plates and cups, as well as its bowls and pitchers for pouring drink offerings.

¹⁷Then he made the lampstand out of pure hammered gold. He made it all of one piece: its base and shaft, its ornamental cups, and its buds and petals.

¹⁸Six branches extended from its sides, three branches of the lampstand from one side and three branches of the lampstand from the other side.

¹⁹There were three cups shaped like almond blossoms, each with a bud and petals, on one branch, and three cups shaped like almond blossoms, each with a bud and petals, on the next branch. It was this way for the six branches that extended from the lampstand.

²⁰There were four cups shaped like almond blossoms on the lampstand shaft along with its buds and petals.

²¹For the six branches that extended from it, a bud was under the first pair of branches from it, a bud under the second pair of branches from it, and a bud under the third pair of branches from it.

²²Their buds and branches were of one piece with it. All of it was a single hammered piece of pure gold.

²³He also made its seven lamps, snuffers, and firepans of pure gold.

²⁴He made it and all its utensils of seventy-five pounds of pure gold.

²⁵He made the altar of incense out of acacia wood. It was square, eighteen inches long and eighteen inches wide; it was thirty-six inches high. Its horns were of one piece with it.

²⁶He overlaid it, its top, all around its sides, and its horns with pure gold. Then he made a gold molding all around it.

²⁷He made two gold rings for it under the molding on two of its sides; he put these on opposite sides of it to be holders for the poles to carry it with.

²⁸He made the poles of acacia wood and overlaid them with gold.

²⁹He also made the holy anointing oil and the pure, fragrant, and expertly blended incense.

¹Bezalel constructed the altar of burnt offering from acacia wood. It was square, 7½ feet long and 7½ feet wide, and was 4½ feet high.

²He made horns for it on its four corners; the horns were of one piece with it. Then he overlaid it with bronze.

³He made all the altar’s utensils: the pots, shovels, basins, meat forks, and firepans; he made all its utensils of bronze.

⁴He constructed for the altar a grate of bronze mesh under its ledge, halfway up from the bottom.

⁵He cast four rings at the four corners of the bronze grate as holders for the poles.

⁶He made the poles of acacia wood and overlaid them with bronze.

⁷Then he inserted the poles into the rings on the sides of the altar in order to carry it with them. He constructed the altar with boards so that it was hollow.

⁸He made the bronze basin and its stand from the bronze mirrors of the women who served at the entrance to the tent of meeting.

⁹Then he made the courtyard. The hangings on the south side of the courtyard were of finely spun linen, 150 feet long,

¹⁰including their twenty posts and their twenty bronze bases, with silver hooks and silver bands for the posts.

¹¹The hangings on the north side were also 150 feet long, including their twenty posts and twenty bronze bases. The hooks and bands of the posts were silver.

¹²The hangings on the west side were 75 feet long, including their ten posts and their ten bases, with silver hooks and silver bands for the posts.

¹³And for the east side toward the sunrise, 75 feet long,

¹⁴the hangings on one side of the gate were 22½ feet, including their three posts and their three bases.

¹⁵It was the same for the other side of the courtyard gate. The hangings were 22½ feet, including their three posts and their three bases.

¹⁶All the hangings around the courtyard were of finely spun linen.

¹⁷The bases for the posts were bronze; the hooks and bands of the posts were silver; and the plating for the tops of the posts was silver. All the posts of the courtyard were banded with silver.

¹⁸The screen for the gate of the courtyard was made of finely spun linen, expertly embroidered with blue, purple, and scarlet yarn. It was 30 feet long, and like the hangings of the courtyard, 7½ feet high.

¹⁹It had four posts with their four bronze bases. Their hooks were silver, and their top plating and their bands were silver.

²⁰All the tent pegs for the tabernacle and for the surrounding courtyard were bronze.

²¹This is the inventory for the tabernacle, the tabernacle of the testimony, that was recorded at Moses’s command. It was the work of the Levites under the direction of Ithamar son of Aaron the priest.

²²Bezalel son of Uri, son of Hur, of the tribe of Judah, made everything that the LORD commanded Moses.

²³With him was Oholiab son of Ahisamach, of the tribe of Dan, a gem cutter, a designer, and an embroiderer with blue, purple, and scarlet yarn, and fine linen.

²⁴All the gold of the presentation offering that was used for the project in all the work on the sanctuary, was 2,193 pounds, according to the sanctuary shekel.

²⁵The silver from those of the community who were registered was 7,544 pounds, according to the sanctuary shekel —

²⁶two-fifths of an ounce per man, that is, half a shekel according to the sanctuary shekel, from everyone twenty years old or more who had crossed over to the registered group, 603,550 men.

²⁷There were 7,500 pounds of silver used to cast the bases of the sanctuary and the bases of the curtain — one hundred bases from 7,500 pounds, 75 pounds for each base.

²⁸With the remaining 44 pounds he made the hooks for the posts, overlaid their tops, and supplied bands for them.

²⁹The bronze of the presentation offering totaled 5,310 pounds.

³⁰He made with it the bases for the entrance to the tent of meeting, the bronze altar and its bronze grate, all the utensils for the altar,

³¹the bases for the surrounding courtyard, the bases for the gate of the courtyard, all the tent pegs for the tabernacle, and all the tent pegs for the surrounding courtyard.

¹They made specially woven garments for ministry in the sanctuary, and the holy garments for Aaron from the blue, purple, and scarlet yarn, just as the LORD had commanded Moses.

²Bezalel made the ephod of gold, of blue, purple, and scarlet yarn, and of finely spun linen.

³They hammered out thin sheets of gold, and he cut threads from them to interweave with the blue, purple, and scarlet yarn, and the fine linen in a skillful design.

⁴They made shoulder pieces for attaching it; it was joined together at its two edges.

⁵The artistically woven waistband that was on the ephod was of one piece with the ephod, according to the same workmanship of gold, of blue, purple, and scarlet yarn, and of finely spun linen, just as the LORD had commanded Moses.

⁶Then they mounted the onyx stones surrounded with gold filigree settings, engraved with the names of Israel’s sons as a gem cutter engraves a seal.

⁷He fastened them on the shoulder pieces of the ephod as memorial stones for the Israelites, just as the LORD had commanded Moses.

⁸He also made the embroidered breastpiece with the same workmanship as the ephod of gold, of blue, purple, and scarlet yarn, and of finely spun linen.

⁹They made the breastpiece square and folded double, nine inches long and nine inches wide.

¹⁰They mounted four rows of gemstones on it. The first row was a row of carnelian, topaz, and emerald;

¹¹the second row, a turquoise, a lapis lazuli, and a diamond;

¹²the third row, a jacinth, an agate, and an amethyst;

¹³and the fourth row, a beryl, an onyx, and a jasper. They were surrounded with gold filigree in their settings.

¹⁴The twelve stones corresponded to the names of Israel’s sons. Each stone was engraved like a seal with one of the names of the twelve tribes.

¹⁵They made braided chains of pure gold cord for the breastpiece.

¹⁶They also fashioned two gold filigree settings and two gold rings and attached the two rings to its two corners.

¹⁷Then they attached the two gold cords to the two gold rings on the corners of the breastpiece.

¹⁸They attached the other ends of the two cords to the two filigree settings, and in this way they attached them to the ephod’s shoulder pieces in front.

¹⁹They made two other gold rings and put them at the two other corners of the breastpiece on the edge that is next to the inner border of the ephod.

²⁰They made two more gold rings and attached them to the bottom of the ephod’s two shoulder pieces on its front, close to its seam, above the ephod’s woven waistband.

²¹Then they tied the breastpiece from its rings to the rings of the ephod with a cord of blue yarn, so that the breastpiece was above the ephod’s waistband and did not come loose from the ephod. They did just as the LORD had commanded Moses.

²²They made the woven robe of the ephod entirely of blue yarn.

²³There was an opening in the center of the robe like that of body armor with a collar around the opening so that it would not tear.

²⁴They made pomegranates of finely spun blue, purple, and scarlet yarn on the lower hem of the robe.

²⁵They made bells of pure gold and attached the bells between the pomegranates, all around the hem of the robe between the pomegranates,

²⁶a bell and a pomegranate alternating all around the lower hem of the robe to be worn for ministry. They made it just as the LORD had commanded Moses.

²⁷They made the tunics of fine woven linen for Aaron and his sons.

²⁸They made the turban and the ornate headbands of fine linen, the linen undergarments of finely spun linen,

²⁹and the sash of finely spun linen expertly embroidered with blue, purple, and scarlet yarn. They did just as the LORD had commanded Moses.

³⁰They made a medallion, the holy diadem, out of pure gold and wrote on it an inscription like the engraving on a seal: HOLY TO THE LORD.

³¹They attached a cord of blue yarn to it in order to mount it on the turban, just as the LORD had commanded Moses.

³²So all the work for the tabernacle, the tent of meeting, was finished. The Israelites did everything just as the LORD had commanded Moses.

³³They brought the tabernacle to Moses: the tent with all its furnishings, its clasps, its supports, its crossbars, and its pillars and bases;

³⁴the covering of ram skins dyed red and the covering of fine leather; the curtain for the screen;

³⁵the ark of the testimony with its poles and the mercy seat;

³⁶the table, all its utensils, and the Bread of the Presence;

³⁷the pure gold lampstand, with its lamps arranged and all its utensils, as well as the oil for the light;

³⁸the gold altar; the anointing oil; the fragrant incense; the screen for the entrance to the tent;

³⁹the bronze altar with its bronze grate, its poles, and all its utensils; the basin with its stand;

⁴⁰the hangings of the courtyard, its posts and bases, the screen for the gate of the courtyard, its ropes and tent pegs, and all the furnishings for the service of the tabernacle, the tent of meeting;

⁴¹and the specially woven garments for ministering in the sanctuary, the holy garments for the priest Aaron and the garments for his sons to serve as priests.

⁴²The Israelites had done all the work according to everything the LORD had commanded Moses.

⁴³Moses inspected all the work they had accomplished. They had done just as the LORD commanded. Then Moses blessed them.

¹The LORD spoke to Moses:

²“You are to set up the tabernacle, the tent of meeting, on the first day of the first month.

³Put the ark of the testimony there and screen off the ark with the curtain.

⁴Then bring in the table and lay out its arrangement; also bring in the lampstand and set up its lamps.

⁵Place the gold altar for incense in front of the ark of the testimony. Put up the screen for the entrance to the tabernacle.

⁶Position the altar of burnt offering in front of the entrance to the tabernacle, the tent of meeting.

⁷Place the basin between the tent of meeting and the altar, and put water in it.

⁸Assemble the surrounding courtyard and hang the screen for the gate of the courtyard.

⁹“Take the anointing oil and anoint the tabernacle and everything in it; consecrate it along with all its furnishings so that it will be holy.

¹⁰Anoint the altar of burnt offering and all its utensils; consecrate the altar so that it will be especially holy.

¹¹Anoint the basin and its stand and consecrate it.

¹²“Then bring Aaron and his sons to the entrance to the tent of meeting and wash them with water.

¹³Clothe Aaron with the holy garments, anoint him, and consecrate him, so that he can serve me as a priest.

¹⁴Have his sons come forward and clothe them in tunics.

¹⁵Anoint them just as you anointed their father, so that they may also serve me as priests. Their anointing will serve to inaugurate a permanent priesthood for them throughout their generations.”

¹⁶Moses did everything just as the LORD had commanded him.

¹⁷The tabernacle was set up in the first month of the second year, on the first day of the month.

¹⁸Moses set up the tabernacle: He laid its bases, positioned its supports, inserted its crossbars, and set up its pillars.

¹⁹Then he spread the tent over the tabernacle and put the covering of the tent on top of it, just as the LORD had commanded Moses.

²⁰Moses took the testimony and placed it in the ark, and attached the poles to the ark. He set the mercy seat on top of the ark.

²¹He brought the ark into the tabernacle, put up the curtain for the screen, and screened off the ark of the testimony, just as the LORD had commanded him.

²²Moses placed the table in the tent of meeting on the north side of the tabernacle, outside the curtain.

²³He arranged the bread on it before the LORD, just as the LORD had commanded him.

²⁴He put the lampstand in the tent of meeting opposite the table on the south side of the tabernacle

²⁵and set up the lamps before the LORD, just as the LORD had commanded him.

²⁶Moses installed the gold altar in the tent of meeting, in front of the curtain,

²⁷and burned fragrant incense on it, just as the LORD had commanded him.

²⁸He put up the screen at the entrance to the tabernacle.

²⁹He placed the altar of burnt offering at the entrance to the tabernacle, the tent of meeting, and offered the burnt offering and the grain offering on it, just as the LORD had commanded him.

³⁰He set the basin between the tent of meeting and the altar and put water in it for washing.

³¹Moses, Aaron, and his sons washed their hands and feet from it.

³²They washed whenever they came to the tent of meeting and approached the altar, just as the LORD had commanded Moses.

³³Next Moses set up the surrounding courtyard for the tabernacle and the altar and hung a screen for the gate of the courtyard. So Moses finished the work.

³⁴The cloud covered the tent of meeting, and the glory of the LORD filled the tabernacle.

³⁵Moses was unable to enter the tent of meeting because the cloud rested on it, and the glory of the LORD filled the tabernacle.

³⁶The Israelites set out whenever the cloud was taken up from the tabernacle throughout all the stages of their journey.

³⁷If the cloud was not taken up, they did not set out until the day it was taken up.

³⁸For the cloud of the LORD was over the tabernacle by day, and there was a fire inside the cloud by night, visible to the entire house of Israel throughout all the stages of their journey.

¹Then the LORD summoned Moses and spoke to him from the tent of meeting:

²“Speak to the Israelites and tell them: When any of you brings an offering to the LORD from the livestock, you may bring your offering from the herd or the flock.

³“If his offering is a burnt offering from the herd, he is to bring an unblemished male. He will bring it to the entrance to the tent of meeting so that he may be accepted by the LORD.

⁴He is to lay his hand on the head of the burnt offering so it can be accepted on his behalf to make atonement for him.

⁵He is to slaughter the bull before the LORD; Aaron’s sons the priests are to present the blood and splatter it on all sides of the altar that is at the entrance to the tent of meeting.

⁶Then he is to skin the burnt offering and cut it into pieces.

⁷The sons of Aaron the priest will prepare a fire on the altar and arrange wood on the fire.

⁸Aaron’s sons the priests are to arrange the pieces, the head, and the fat on top of the burning wood on the altar.

⁹The offerer is to wash its entrails and legs with water. Then the priest will burn all of it on the altar as a burnt offering, a fire offering of a pleasing aroma to the LORD.

¹⁰“But if his offering for a burnt offering is from the flock, from sheep or goats, he is to present an unblemished male.

¹¹He will slaughter it on the north side of the altar before the LORD. Aaron’s sons the priests will splatter its blood against the altar on all sides.

¹²He will cut the animal into pieces with its head and its fat, and the priest will arrange them on top of the burning wood on the altar.

¹³But he is to wash the entrails and legs with water. The priest will then present all of it and burn it on the altar; it is a burnt offering, a fire offering of a pleasing aroma to the LORD.

¹⁴“If his offering to the LORD is a burnt offering of birds, he is to present his offering from the turtledoves or young pigeons.

¹⁵Then the priest is to bring it to the altar, and will twist off its head and burn it on the altar; its blood should be drained at the side of the altar.

¹⁶He will remove its digestive tract, cutting off the tail feathers, and throw it on the east side of the altar at the place for ashes.

¹⁷He will tear it open by its wings without dividing the bird. Then the priest is to burn it on the altar on top of the burning wood. It is a burnt offering, a fire offering of a pleasing aroma to the LORD.

¹“When anyone presents a grain offering as an offering to the LORD, it is to consist of fine flour. He is to pour olive oil on it, put frankincense on it,

²and bring it to Aaron’s sons the priests. The priest will take a handful of fine flour and oil from it, along with all its frankincense, and will burn this memorial portion of it on the altar, a fire offering of a pleasing aroma to the LORD.

³But the rest of the grain offering will belong to Aaron and his sons; it is the holiest part of the fire offerings to the LORD.

⁴“When you present a grain offering baked in an oven, it is to be made of fine flour, either unleavened cakes mixed with oil or unleavened wafers coated with oil.

⁵If your offering is a grain offering prepared on a griddle, it is to be unleavened bread made of fine flour mixed with oil.

⁶Break it into pieces and pour oil on it; it is a grain offering.

⁷If your offering is a grain offering prepared in a pan, it is to be made of fine flour with oil.

⁸When you bring to the LORD the grain offering made in any of these ways, it is to be presented to the priest, and he will take it to the altar.

⁹The priest will remove the memorial portion from the grain offering and burn it on the altar, a fire offering of a pleasing aroma to the LORD.

¹⁰But the rest of the grain offering will belong to Aaron and his sons; it is the holiest part of the fire offerings to the LORD.

¹¹“No grain offering that you present to the LORD is to be made with yeast, for you are not to burn any yeast or honey as a fire offering to the LORD.

¹²You may present them to the LORD as an offering of firstfruits, but they are not to be offered on the altar as a pleasing aroma.

¹³You are to season each of your grain offerings with salt; you must not omit from your grain offering the salt of the covenant with your God. You are to present salt with each of your offerings.

¹⁴“If you present a grain offering of firstfruits to the LORD, you are to present fresh heads of grain, crushed kernels, roasted on the fire, for your grain offering of firstfruits.

¹⁵You are to put oil and frankincense on it; it is a grain offering.

¹⁶The priest will then burn some of its crushed kernels and oil with all its frankincense as a fire offering to the LORD.

¹“If his offering is a fellowship sacrifice, and he is presenting an animal from the herd, whether male or female, he is to present one without blemish before the LORD.

²He is to lay his hand on the head of his offering and slaughter it at the entrance to the tent of meeting. Then Aaron’s sons the priests will splatter the blood on all sides of the altar.

³He will present part of the fellowship sacrifice as a fire offering to the LORD: the fat surrounding the entrails, all the fat that is on the entrails,

⁴and the two kidneys with the fat on them at the loins; he will also remove the fatty lobe of the liver with the kidneys.

⁵Aaron’s sons will burn it on the altar along with the burnt offering that is on the burning wood, a fire offering of a pleasing aroma to the LORD.

⁶“If his offering as a fellowship sacrifice to the LORD is from the flock, he is to present a male or female without blemish.

⁷If he is presenting a lamb for his offering, he is to present it before the LORD.

⁸He must lay his hand on the head of his offering, then slaughter it before the tent of meeting. Aaron’s sons will splatter its blood on all sides of the altar.

⁹He will then present part of the fellowship sacrifice as a fire offering to the LORD consisting of its fat and the entire fat tail, which he is to remove close to the backbone. He will also remove the fat surrounding the entrails, all the fat on the entrails,

¹⁰the two kidneys with the fat on them at the loins, and the fatty lobe of the liver above the kidneys.

¹¹Then the priest will burn the food on the altar, as a fire offering to the LORD.

¹²“If his offering is a goat, he is to present it before the LORD.

¹³He must lay his hand on its head and slaughter it before the tent of meeting. Aaron’s sons will splatter its blood on all sides of the altar.

¹⁴He will present part of his offering as a fire offering to the LORD: the fat surrounding the entrails, all the fat that is on the entrails,

¹⁵and the two kidneys with the fat on them at the loins; he will also remove the fatty lobe of the liver with the kidneys.

¹⁶Then the priest will burn the food on the altar, as a fire offering for a pleasing aroma. “All fat belongs to the LORD.

¹⁷This is a permanent statute throughout your generations, wherever you live: you must not eat any fat or any blood.”

¹Then the LORD spoke to Moses:

²“Tell the Israelites: When someone sins unintentionally against any of the LORD’s commands and does anything prohibited by them —

³“If the anointed priest sins, bringing guilt on the people, he is to present to the LORD a young, unblemished bull as a sin offering for the sin he has committed.

⁴He is to bring the bull to the entrance to the tent of meeting before the LORD, lay his hand on the bull’s head, and slaughter it before the LORD.

⁵The anointed priest will then take some of the bull’s blood and bring it into the tent of meeting.

⁶The priest is to dip his finger in the blood and sprinkle some of it seven times before the LORD in front of the curtain of the sanctuary.

⁷The priest is to apply some of the blood to the horns of the altar of fragrant incense that is before the LORD in the tent of meeting. He must pour out the rest of the bull’s blood at the base of the altar of burnt offering that is at the entrance to the tent of meeting.

⁸He is to remove all the fat from the bull of the sin offering: the fat surrounding the entrails, all the fat that is on the entrails,

⁹and the two kidneys with the fat on them at the loins. He will also remove the fatty lobe of the liver with the kidneys,

¹⁰just as the fat is removed from the ox of the fellowship sacrifice. The priest is to burn them on the altar of burnt offering.

¹¹But the hide of the bull and all its flesh, with its head and legs, and its entrails and waste —

¹²all the rest of the bull — he must bring to a ceremonially clean place outside the camp to the ash heap, and must burn it on a wood fire. It is to be burned at the ash heap.

¹³“Now if the whole community of Israel errs, and the matter escapes the notice of the assembly, so that they violate any of the LORD’s commands and incur guilt by doing what is prohibited,

¹⁴then the assembly must present a young bull as a sin offering. They are to bring it before the tent of meeting when the sin they have committed in regard to the command becomes known.

¹⁵The elders of the community are to lay their hands on the bull’s head before the LORD and it is to be slaughtered before the LORD.

¹⁶The anointed priest will bring some of the bull’s blood into the tent of meeting.

¹⁷The priest is to dip his finger in the blood and sprinkle it seven times before the LORD in front of the curtain.

¹⁸He is to apply some of the blood to the horns of the altar that is before the LORD in the tent of meeting. He will pour out the rest of the blood at the base of the altar of burnt offering that is at the entrance to the tent of meeting.

¹⁹He is to remove all the fat from it and burn it on the altar.

²⁰He is to offer this bull just as he did with the bull in the sin offering; he will offer it the same way. So the priest will make atonement on their behalf, and they will be forgiven.

²¹Then he will bring the bull outside the camp and burn it just as he burned the first bull. It is the sin offering for the assembly.

²²“When a leader sins and unintentionally violates any of the commands of the LORD his God by doing what is prohibited, and incurs guilt,

²³or someone informs him about the sin he has committed, he is to bring an unblemished male goat as his offering.

²⁴He is to lay his hand on the head of the goat and slaughter it at the place where the burnt offering is slaughtered before the LORD. It is a sin offering.

²⁵Then the priest is to take some of the blood from the sin offering with his finger and apply it to the horns of the altar of burnt offering. The rest of its blood he is to pour out at the base of the altar of burnt offering.

²⁶He must burn all its fat on the altar, like the fat of the fellowship sacrifice. In this way the priest will make atonement on his behalf for that person’s sin, and he will be forgiven.

²⁷“Now if any of the common people sins unintentionally by violating one of the LORD’s commands, does what is prohibited, and incurs guilt,

²⁸or if someone informs him about the sin he has committed, then he is to bring an unblemished female goat as his offering for the sin that he has committed.

²⁹He is to lay his hand on the head of the sin offering and slaughter it at the place of the burnt offering.

³⁰Then the priest is to take some of its blood with his finger and apply it to the horns of the altar of burnt offering. He is to pour out the rest of its blood at the base of the altar.

³¹He is to remove all its fat just as the fat is removed from the fellowship sacrifice. The priest is to burn it on the altar as a pleasing aroma to the LORD. In this way the priest will make atonement on his behalf, and he will be forgiven.

³²“Or if the offering that he brings as a sin offering is a lamb, he is to bring an unblemished female.

³³He is to lay his hand on the head of the sin offering and slaughter it as a sin offering at the place where the burnt offering is slaughtered.

³⁴Then the priest is to take some of the blood of the sin offering with his finger and apply it to the horns of the altar of burnt offering. He is to pour out the rest of its blood at the base of the altar.

³⁵He is to remove all its fat just as the fat of the lamb is removed from the fellowship sacrifice. The priest will burn it on the altar along with the fire offerings to the LORD. In this way the priest will make atonement on his behalf for the sin he has committed, and he will be forgiven.

¹“When someone sins in any of these ways: If he has seen, heard, or known about something he has witnessed, and did not respond to a public call to testify, he will bear his iniquity.

²Or if someone touches anything unclean  — a carcass of an unclean wild animal, or unclean livestock, or an unclean swarming creature  — without being aware of it, he is unclean and incurs guilt.

³Or if he touches human uncleanness  — any uncleanness by which one can become defiled  — without being aware of it, but later recognizes it, he incurs guilt.

⁴Or if someone swears rashly to do what is good or evil — concerning anything a person may speak rashly in an oath — without being aware of it, but later recognizes it, he incurs guilt in such an instance.

⁵If someone incurs guilt in one of these cases, he is to confess he has committed that sin.

⁶He must bring his penalty for guilt for the sin he has committed to the LORD: a female lamb or goat from the flock as a sin offering. In this way the priest will make atonement on his behalf for his sin.

⁷“But if he cannot afford an animal from the flock, then he may bring to the LORD two turtledoves or two young pigeons as penalty for guilt for his sin — one as a sin offering and the other as a burnt offering.

⁸He is to bring them to the priest, who will first present the one for the sin offering. He is to twist its head at the back of the neck without severing it.

⁹Then he will sprinkle some of the blood of the sin offering on the side of the altar, while the rest of the blood is to be drained out at the base of the altar; it is a sin offering.

¹⁰He will prepare the second bird as a burnt offering according to the regulation. In this way the priest will make atonement on his behalf for the sin he has committed, and he will be forgiven.

¹¹“But if he cannot afford two turtledoves or two young pigeons, he may bring two quarts of fine flour as an offering for his sin. He must not put olive oil or frankincense on it, for it is a sin offering.

¹²He is to bring it to the priest, who will take a handful from it as its memorial portion and burn it on the altar along with the fire offerings to the LORD; it is a sin offering.

¹³In this way the priest will make atonement on his behalf concerning the sin he has committed in any of these cases, and he will be forgiven. The rest will belong to the priest, like the grain offering.”

¹⁴Then the LORD spoke to Moses:

¹⁵“If someone offends by sinning unintentionally in regard to any of the LORD’s holy things, he must bring his penalty for guilt to the LORD: an unblemished ram from the flock (based on your assessment of its value in silver shekels, according to the sanctuary shekel ) as a guilt offering.

¹⁶He is to make restitution for his sin regarding any holy thing, adding a fifth of its value to it, and give it to the priest. Then the priest will make atonement on his behalf with the ram of the guilt offering, and he will be forgiven.

¹⁷“If someone sins and without knowing it violates any of the LORD’s commands concerning anything prohibited, he is guilty, and he will bear his iniquity.

¹⁸He must bring an unblemished ram from the flock according to your assessment of its value as a guilt offering to the priest. Then the priest will make atonement on his behalf for the error he has committed unintentionally, and he will be forgiven.

¹⁹It is a guilt offering; he is indeed guilty before the LORD.”

¹The LORD spoke to Moses:

²“When someone sins and offends the LORD by deceiving his neighbor in regard to a deposit, a security, or a robbery; or defrauds his neighbor;

³or finds something lost and lies about it; or swears falsely about any of the sinful things a person may do —

⁴once he has sinned and acknowledged his guilt  — he must return what he stole or defrauded, or the deposit entrusted to him, or the lost item he found,

⁵or anything else about which he swore falsely. He will make full restitution for it and add a fifth of its value to it. He is to pay it to its owner on the day he acknowledges his guilt.

⁶Then he is to bring his guilt offering to the LORD: an unblemished ram from the flock according to your assessment of its value as a guilt offering to the priest.

⁷In this way the priest will make atonement on his behalf before the LORD, and he will be forgiven for anything he may have done to incur guilt.”

⁸The LORD spoke to Moses:

⁹“Command Aaron and his sons: This is the law of the burnt offering; the burnt offering itself must remain on the altar’s hearth all night until morning, while the fire of the altar is kept burning on it.

¹⁰The priest is to put on his linen robe and linen undergarments. He is to remove the ashes of the burnt offering the fire has consumed on the altar, and place them beside the altar.

¹¹Then he will take off his garments, put on other clothes, and bring the ashes outside the camp to a ceremonially clean place.

¹²The fire on the altar is to be kept burning; it must not go out. Every morning the priest will burn wood on the fire. He is to arrange the burnt offering on the fire and burn the fat portions from the fellowship offerings on it.

¹³Fire must be kept burning on the altar continually; it must not go out.

¹⁴“Now this is the law of the grain offering: Aaron’s sons will present it before the LORD in front of the altar.

¹⁵The priest is to remove a handful of fine flour and olive oil from the grain offering, with all the frankincense that is on the offering, and burn its memorial portion on the altar as a pleasing aroma to the LORD.

¹⁶Aaron and his sons may eat the rest of it. It is to be eaten in the form of unleavened bread in a holy place; they are to eat it in the courtyard of the tent of meeting.

¹⁷It must not be baked with yeast; I have assigned it as their portion from my fire offerings. It is especially holy, like the sin offering and the guilt offering.

¹⁸Any male among Aaron’s descendants may eat it. It is a permanent portion throughout your generations from the fire offerings to the LORD. Anything that touches the offerings will become holy.”

¹⁹The LORD spoke to Moses:

²⁰“This is the offering that Aaron and his sons are to present to the LORD on the day that he is anointed: two quarts of fine flour as a regular grain offering, half of it in the morning and half in the evening.

²¹It is to be prepared with oil on a griddle; you are to bring it well-kneaded. You are to present it as a grain offering of baked pieces, a pleasing aroma to the LORD.

²²The priest, who is one of Aaron’s sons and will be anointed to take his place, is to prepare it. It must be completely burned as a permanent portion for the LORD.

²³Every grain offering for a priest will be a whole burnt offering; it is not to be eaten.”

²⁴The LORD spoke to Moses:

²⁵“Tell Aaron and his sons: This is the law of the sin offering. The sin offering is most holy and must be slaughtered before the LORD at the place where the burnt offering is slaughtered.

²⁶The priest who offers it as a sin offering will eat it. It is to be eaten in a holy place, in the courtyard of the tent of meeting.

²⁷Anything that touches its flesh will become holy, and if any of its blood spatters on a garment, then you must wash that garment in a holy place.

²⁸A clay pot in which the sin offering is boiled is to be broken; if it is boiled in a bronze vessel, it is to be scoured and rinsed with water.

²⁹Any male among the priests may eat it; it is especially holy.

³⁰But no sin offering may be eaten if its blood has been brought into the tent of meeting to make atonement in the holy place; it must be burned.

¹“Now this is the law of the guilt offering; it is especially holy.

²The guilt offering is to be slaughtered at the place where the burnt offering is slaughtered, and the priest is to splatter its blood on all sides of the altar.

³The offerer is to present all the fat from it: the fat tail, the fat surrounding the entrails,

⁴and the two kidneys with the fat on them at the loins; he will also remove the fatty lobe of the liver with the kidneys.

⁵The priest will burn them on the altar as a fire offering to the LORD; it is a guilt offering.

⁶Any male among the priests may eat it. It is to be eaten in a holy place; it is especially holy.

⁷“The guilt offering is like the sin offering; the law is the same for both. It belongs to the priest who makes atonement with it.

⁸As for the priest who presents someone’s burnt offering, the hide of the burnt offering he has presented belongs to him; it is the priest’s.

⁹Any grain offering that is baked in an oven or prepared in a pan or on a griddle belongs to the priest who presents it; it is his.

¹⁰But any grain offering, whether dry or mixed with oil, belongs equally to all of Aaron’s sons.

¹¹“Now this is the law of the fellowship sacrifice that someone may present to the LORD:

¹²If he presents it for thanksgiving, in addition to the thanksgiving sacrifice, he is to present unleavened cakes mixed with olive oil, unleavened wafers coated with oil, and well-kneaded cakes of fine flour mixed with oil.

¹³He is to present as his offering cakes of leavened bread with his thanksgiving sacrifice of fellowship.

¹⁴From the cakes he is to present one portion of each offering as a contribution to the LORD. It will belong to the priest who splatters the blood of the fellowship offering; it is his.

¹⁵The meat of his thanksgiving sacrifice of fellowship must be eaten on the day he offers it; he may not leave any of it until morning.

¹⁶“If the sacrifice he offers is a vow or a freewill offering, it is to be eaten on the day he presents his sacrifice, and what is left over may be eaten on the next day.

¹⁷But what remains of the sacrificial meat by the third day must be burned.

¹⁸If any of the meat of his fellowship sacrifice is eaten on the third day, it will not be accepted. It will not be credited to the one who presents it; it is repulsive. The person who eats any of it will bear his iniquity.

¹⁹“Meat that touches anything unclean must not be eaten; it is to be burned. Everyone who is clean may eat any other meat.

²⁰But the one who eats meat from the LORD’s fellowship sacrifice while he is unclean, that person must be cut off from his people.

²¹If someone touches anything unclean, whether human uncleanness, an unclean animal, or any unclean, abhorrent creature, and eats meat from the LORD’s fellowship sacrifice, that person is to be cut off from his people.”

²²The LORD spoke to Moses:

²³“Tell the Israelites: You are not to eat any fat of an ox, a sheep, or a goat.

²⁴The fat of an animal that dies naturally or is mauled by wild beasts may be used for any other purpose, but you must not eat it.

²⁵If anyone eats animal fat from a fire offering presented to the LORD, the person who eats it is to be cut off from his people.

²⁶Wherever you live, you must not eat the blood of any bird or animal.

²⁷Whoever eats any blood is to be cut off from his people.”

²⁸The LORD spoke to Moses:

²⁹“Tell the Israelites: The one who presents a fellowship sacrifice to the LORD is to bring an offering to the LORD from his sacrifice.

³⁰His own hands will bring the fire offerings to the LORD. He will bring the fat together with the breast. The breast is to be presented as a presentation offering before the LORD.

³¹The priest is to burn the fat on the altar, but the breast belongs to Aaron and his sons.

³²You are to give the right thigh to the priest as a contribution from your fellowship sacrifices.

³³The son of Aaron who presents the blood of the fellowship offering and the fat will have the right thigh as a portion.

³⁴I have taken from the Israelites the breast of the presentation offering and the thigh of the contribution from their fellowship sacrifices, and have assigned them to the priest Aaron and to his sons as a permanent portion from the Israelites.”

³⁵This is the portion from the fire offerings to the LORD for Aaron and his sons since the day they were presented to serve the LORD as priests.

³⁶The LORD commanded this to be given to them by the Israelites on the day he anointed them. It is a permanent portion throughout their generations.

³⁷This is the law for the burnt offering, the grain offering, the sin offering, the guilt offering, the ordination offering, and the fellowship sacrifice,

³⁸which the LORD commanded Moses on Mount Sinai on the day he commanded the Israelites to present their offerings to the LORD in the Wilderness of Sinai.

¹The LORD spoke to Moses:

²“Take Aaron, his sons with him, the garments, the anointing oil, the bull of the sin offering, the two rams, and the basket of unleavened bread,

³and assemble the whole community at the entrance to the tent of meeting.”

⁴So Moses did as the LORD commanded him, and the community assembled at the entrance to the tent of meeting.

⁵Moses 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, wrapped the sash around him, clothed him with the robe, and put the ephod on him. He put 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 into the breastpiece.

⁹He also put the turban on his head and placed the gold medallion, the holy diadem, on the front of the turban, as the LORD had commanded Moses.

¹⁰Then Moses took the anointing oil and anointed the tabernacle and everything in it to consecrate them.

¹¹He sprinkled some of the oil on the altar seven times, anointing the altar with all its utensils, and the basin with its stand, to consecrate them.

¹²He poured some of the anointing oil on Aaron’s head and anointed and consecrated him.

¹³Then Moses presented Aaron’s sons, clothed them with tunics, wrapped sashes around them, and fastened headbands on them, as the LORD had commanded Moses.

¹⁴Then he brought the bull near for the sin offering, and Aaron and his sons laid their hands on the head of the bull for the sin offering.

¹⁵Then Moses slaughtered it, took the blood, and applied it with his finger to the horns of the altar on all sides, purifying the altar. He poured out the blood at the base of the altar and consecrated it so that atonement can be made on it.

¹⁶Moses took all the fat that was on the entrails, the fatty lobe of the liver, and the two kidneys with their fat, and he burned them on the altar.

¹⁷He burned the bull with its hide, flesh, and waste outside the camp, as the LORD had commanded Moses.

¹⁸Then he presented the ram for the burnt offering, and Aaron and his sons laid their hands on the head of the ram.

¹⁹Moses slaughtered it and splattered the blood on all sides of the altar.

²⁰Moses cut the ram into pieces and burned the head, the pieces, and the fat,

²¹but he washed the entrails and legs with water. He then burned the entire ram on the altar. It was a burnt offering for a pleasing aroma, a fire offering to the LORD as he had commanded Moses.

²²Next he presented the second ram, the ram of ordination, and Aaron and his sons laid their hands on the head of the ram.

²³Moses slaughtered it, 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 Moses splattered the blood on all sides of the altar.

²⁵He took the fat — the fat tail, all the fat that was on the entrails, the fatty lobe of the liver, and the two kidneys with their fat — as well as the right thigh.

²⁶From 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 placed them on the fat portions and the right thigh.

²⁷He put all these in the hands of Aaron and his sons and presented them before the LORD as a presentation offering.

²⁸Then Moses took them from their hands and burned them on the altar with the burnt offering. This was an ordination offering for a pleasing aroma, a fire offering to the LORD.

²⁹He also took the breast and presented it before the LORD as a presentation offering; it was Moses’s portion of the ordination ram as the LORD had commanded him.

³⁰Then 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, as well as on his sons and their garments. In this way he consecrated Aaron and his garments, as well as his sons and their garments.

³¹Moses 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 for the ordination offering as I commanded: Aaron and his sons are to eat it.

³²Burn up what remains of the meat and bread.

³³Do not go outside the entrance to the tent of meeting for seven days, until the time your days of ordination are completed, because it will take seven days to ordain you.

³⁴The LORD commanded what has been done today in order to make atonement for you.

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 was commanded.”

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