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For a guilt offering, you must bring to the priest your own ram with no defects, or you may buy one of equal value. Through this process the priest will purify you from your unintentional sin, making you right with the Lord , and you will be forgiven.

This is a guilt offering, for you have been guilty of an offense against the Lord ."

Through this process, the priest will purify you before the Lord , making you right with him, and you will be forgiven for any of these sins you have committed."

"Give Aaron and his sons the following instructions regarding the sin offering. The animal given as an offering for sin is a most holy offering, and it must be slaughtered in the Lord 's presence at the place where the burnt offerings are slaughtered.

But the offering for sin may not be eaten if its blood was brought into the Tabernacle as an offering for purification in the Holy Place. It must be completely burned with fire.

"These are the instructions for the guilt offering. It is most holy.

Any male from a priest's family may eat the meat. It must be eaten in a sacred place, for it is most holy.

The meat of the peace offering of thanksgiving must be eaten on the same day it is offered. None of it may be saved for the next morning.

If any of the meat from the peace offering is eaten on the third day, the person who presented it will not be accepted by the Lord . You will receive no credit for offering it. By then the meat will be contaminated; if you eat it, you will be punished for your sin.

The fat of an animal found dead or torn to pieces by wild animals must never be eaten, though it may be used for any other purpose.

For I have reserved the breast of the special offering and the right thigh of the sacred offering for the priests. It is the permanent right of Aaron and his descendants to share in the peace offerings brought by the people of Israel.

This is their rightful share. The special gifts presented to the Lord have been reserved for Aaron and his descendants from the time they were set apart to serve the Lord as priests.

These are the instructions for the burnt offering, the grain offering, the sin offering, and the guilt offering, as well as the ordination offering and the peace offering.

"Bring Aaron and his sons, along with their sacred garments, the anointing oil, the bull for the sin offering, the two rams, and the basket of bread made without yeast,

Then he poured some of the anointing oil on Aaron's head, anointing him and making him holy for his work.

Then Moses presented the bull for the sin offering. Aaron and his sons laid their hands on the bull's head,

Then Moses presented the ram for the burnt offering. Aaron and his sons laid their hands on the ram's head,

Then Moses said to Aaron and his sons, "Boil the remaining meat of the offerings at the Tabernacle entrance, and eat it there, along with the bread that is in the basket of offerings for the ordination, just as I commanded when I said, ‘Aaron and his sons will eat it.'

You must not leave the Tabernacle entrance for seven days, for that is when the ordination ceremony will be completed.

Now stay at the entrance of the Tabernacle day and night for seven days, and do everything the Lord requires. If you fail to do this, you will die, for this is what the Lord has commanded."