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If you break any of my commands without meaning to, you are still guilty, and you can be punished. When you realize what you have done, you must either bring to the priest a ram that has nothing wrong with it or else pay him for one. The priest will then offer it as a sacrifice to make things right, and you will be forgiven.

In addition, you must either bring to the priest a ram that has nothing wrong with it or else pay him for one. The priest will then offer it as a sacrifice to make things right, and you will be forgiven for what you did wrong.

The Lord told Moses to tell Aaron and his sons how to offer the daily sacrifices that are sent up in smoke to please the Lord : You must put the animal for the sacrifice on the altar in the evening and let it stay there all night. But make sure the fire keeps burning.

The rest of it is to be baked without yeast and eaten by the priests in the sacred courtyard of the sacred tent. This bread is very holy, just like the sacrifices for sin or for making things right, and I have given this part to the priests from what is offered to me on the altar.

how the priests from Aaron's family were to offer the sacrifice for sin: This sacrifice is very sacred, and the animal must be killed in my presence at the north side of the bronze altar.

None of the meat may be eaten from the sacrifices for sin that require blood to be brought into the sacred tent. These sacrifices must be completely burned.

This sacrifice for making things right is very holy. Only the priests may eat it, and they must eat it in a holy place.

The ceremony for this sacrifice and the one for sin are just alike, and the meat may be eaten only by the priest who performs this ceremony of forgiveness.

The Lord said: Here are the instructions for offering a sacrifice to ask my blessing:

The upper joint of the right hind leg is for the priest who offers the blood and the fat of the animal.

These are the ceremonies for sacrifices to please the Lord , to give him thanks, and to ask his blessing or his forgiveness, as well as the ceremonies for those sacrifices that demand a payment and for the sacrifices that are offered when priests are ordained.

Send for Aaron and his sons, as well as their priestly clothes, the oil for ordination, the bull for the sin offering, the two rams, and a basket of bread made without yeast.

Moses then dedicated the sacred tent and everything in it to the Lord by sprinkling them with some of the oil for ordination.

Moses led out the bull that was to be sacrificed for sin, and Aaron and his sons laid their hands on its head.

After it was killed, Moses dipped a finger in the blood and smeared some of it on each of the four corners of the bronze altar, before pouring out the rest at the foot of the altar. This purified the altar and made it a fit place for offering the sacrifice for sin.

Moses led out the ram for the sacrifice to please the Lord . After Aaron and his sons had laid their hands on its head,

Moses led out the ram for the ceremony of ordination. Aaron and his sons laid their hands on its head,

Moses did the same thing for Aaron's sons, before splattering the rest of the blood against the four sides of the altar.

Finally, Moses sprinkled the priestly clothes of Aaron and his sons with some of the oil for ordination and with some of the blood from the altar. So Aaron and his sons, together with their priestly clothes, were dedicated to the Lord .

The Lord has told me that you must stay near the entrance to the tent for seven days and nights, or else you will die.