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They shall put on the fire the pieces of the animal, including the head and the fat.

He shall do the same thing with this bull as he does with the bull for the sin offering, and in this way he shall make the sacrifice for the people's sin, and they will be forgiven.

This is the part of the food offered to the Lord that was given to Aaron and his sons on the day they were ordained as priests.

He put all of this food in the hands of Aaron and his sons, and they presented it as a special gift to the Lord .

and a bull and a ram for a fellowship offering. They are to sacrifice them to the Lord with the grain offering mixed with oil. They must do this because the Lord will appear to them today."

They brought to the front of the Tent everything that Moses had commanded, and the whole community assembled there to worship the Lord .

They handed him the head and the other pieces of the animal, and he burned them on the altar.

Moses and Aaron went into the Tent of the Lord 's presence, and when they came out, they blessed the people, and the dazzling light of the Lord 's presence appeared to all the people.

Suddenly the Lord sent a fire, and it consumed the burnt offering and the fat parts on the altar. When the people saw it, they all shouted and bowed down with their faces to the ground.

So they came and took hold of the clothing on the corpses and carried them outside the camp, just as Moses had commanded.

They shall bring the hind leg and the breast at the time the fat is presented as a food offering to the Lord . These parts belong to you and your children forever, just as the Lord commanded."

Aaron answered, "If I had eaten the sin offering today, would the Lord have approved? The people presented their sin offering to the Lord today, and they brought their burnt offering, but still these terrible things have happened to me."

If you touch the dead bodies of the following animals, you will be unclean until evening: all animals with hoofs, unless their hoofs are divided and they chew the cud, and all four-footed animals with paws. If you carry their dead bodies, you must wash your clothes, but you will still be unclean until evening.

After sexual intercourse both the man and the woman must take a bath, and they remain unclean until evening.

Any who touch her bed or anything on which she has sat must wash their clothes and take a bath, and they remain unclean until evening.

Any who touch them are unclean and must wash their clothes and take a bath; they remain unclean until evening.

That day is to be a very holy day, one on which they fast and do no work at all. These regulations are to be observed for all time to come.

Any Israelites who kill a cow or a sheep or a goat as an offering to the Lord anywhere except at the entrance of the Tent of the Lord 's presence have broken the Law. They have shed blood and shall no longer be considered God's people.

The meaning of this command is that the people of Israel shall now bring to the Lord the animals which they used to kill in the open country. They shall now bring them to the priest at the entrance of the Tent and kill them as fellowship offerings.

If any Israelites or any foreigners living in the community catch an animal or a bird which is ritually clean, they must pour its blood out on the ground and cover it with dirt.