Leviticus 9:3-13

3 And tell the Israelites:^[a] 'Take a male goat for a sin offering; a calf and a lamb, male yearlings without blemish, for a burnt offering;

4 an ox and a ram for a fellowship offering to sacrifice before the Lord; and a grain offering mixed with oil. For today the Lord is going to appear to you.' "^[b]

5 They brought what Moses had commanded to the front of the tent of meeting, and the whole community came forward and stood before the Lord.

6 Moses said, "This is what the Lord commanded you to do, that the glory of the Lord may appear to you."^[c]

7 Then Moses said to Aaron, "Approach the altar and sacrifice your sin offering and your burnt offering; make atonement for yourself and the people.^[d] Sacrifice the people's offering and make atonement for them, as the Lord commanded."^[e]

8 So Aaron approached the altar and slaughtered the calf as a sin offering for himself.

9 Aaron's sons brought the blood to him, and he dipped his finger in the blood and applied it to the horns of the altar. He poured out the blood at the base of the altar.

10 He burned the fat, the kidneys, and the fatty lobe of the liver from the sin offering on the altar, as the Lord had commanded Moses.

11 He burned up the flesh and the hide outside the camp.^[f]

12 Then he slaughtered the burnt offering. Aaron's sons brought him the blood, and he sprinkled it on all sides of the altar.

13 They brought him the burnt offering piece by piece, along with the head, and he burned [them] on the altar.

Leviticus 9:3-13 Meaning and Commentary

INTRODUCTION TO LEVITICUS 9

Aaron and his sons, being consecrated to and invested with the priest's office, are called upon to the exercise of it, to offer a sin offering and a burnt offering for themselves, and all sorts of offerings, a sin offering, a burnt offering, peace offerings, and a meat offering, for the people; and a promise is made for their encouragement, that the glory of the Lord would appear to them, Le 9:1-7 and which were in their course accordingly offered; first, Aaron's sin offering for himself, Le 9:8-11 then his burnt offering, Le 9:12-14 after that the several offerings of the people before mentioned, Le 9:15-21 when Aaron and Moses blessed the people, the one as soon as he had done offering, and both together when they came out of the tabernacle, Le 9:22,23 upon which a fire came forth from the Lord, and consumed the burnt offering upon the altar, Le 9:24.

Footnotes

• [a] Sam, LXX read elders of Israel
• [b] Ex 24:11,17
• [c] Ex 16:7,10; 24:16-17
• [d] LXX reads and your household
• [e] Heb 5:1-3; 7:26-27
• [f] Lv 4:8-10,12,21; 16:27; Ex 29:14