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He ordered done what has been done today, in order to make atonement for you.

You are to remain at the entrance to the tent of meeting day and night for seven days, thereby obeying what Adonai ordered done, so that you may not die. For this is what I was ordered."

Aharon and his sons did all the things which Adonai ordered through Moshe. Haftarah Tzav: Yirmeyahu (Jeremiah) 7:21–8:3; 9:22(23)–23(24) Suggested readings for Parashah Tzav from the B'rit Hadashah: Mark 12:28–34; Romans 12:1–2; 1 Corinthians 10:14–23

and said to Aharon, "Take a male calf for a sin offering and a ram for a burnt offering, both without defect, and offer them before Adonai .

Then tell the people of Isra'el, ‘Take a male goat for a sin offering and a calf and a lamb, both a year old and without defect, for a burnt offering,

and an ox and a ram for peace offerings, to sacrifice before Adonai ; also a grain offering mixed with olive oil — because today Adonai is going to appear to you.'"

Moshe told Aharon, "Approach the altar, offer your sin offering and burnt offering, and make atonement for yourself and the people. Then present the offering of the people and make atonement for them, as Adonai ordered."

So Aharon approached the altar and slaughtered the calf of the sin offering which was for himself.

Then the people's offering was presented. He took the goat of the sin offering which was for the people, slaughtered it and offered it for sin, like the earlier sin offering.

(iv) Moshe said to Aharon and to El‘azar and Itamar, his remaining sons, "Take the grain offering left from the offerings for Adonai made by fire, and eat it without leaven next to the altar, because it is especially holy.

Eat it in a holy place, because it is your and your sons' share of the offerings for Adonai made by fire; for this is what I have been ordered.

The breast that was waved and the thigh that was raised you are to eat in a clean place — you, your sons and your daughters with you; for these are given as your and your children's share of the sacrifices of the peace offerings presented by the people of Isra'el.

"Why didn't you eat the sin offering in the area of the sanctuary, since it is especially holy? He gave it to you to take away the guilt of the community, to make atonement for them before Adonai .

But you are not to eat those that only chew the cud or only have a separate hoof. For example, the camel, the coney and the hare are unclean for you, because they chew the cud but don't have a separate hoof;

while the pig is unclean for you, because, although it has a separate and completely divided hoof, it doesn't chew the cud.

You are not to eat meat from these or touch their carcasses; they are unclean for you.

But everything in the seas and rivers without both fins and scales, of all the small water-creatures and of all the living creatures in the water, is a detestable thing for you.

Yes, these will be detestable for you — you are not to eat their meat, and you are to detest their carcasses.

Whatever lacks fins and scales in the water is a detestable thing for you.

"‘The following creatures of the air are to be detestable for you — they are not to be eaten, they are a detestable thing: the eagle, the vulture, the osprey,