(1) [GOD] called to Moses and spoke to him from the Tent of Meeting, saying: (2) Speak to the Israelite people, and say to them:
When any of you presents an offering of cattle to GOD: You shall choose your offering from the herd or from the flock. (3) If your offering is a burnt offering from the herd, you shall make your offering a male without blemish. You shall bring it to the entrance of the Tent of Meeting, for acceptance in your behalf before GOD. (4) You shall lay a hand upon the head of the burnt offering, that it may be acceptable in your behalf, in expiation for you.

(5) The bull shall be slaughtered before GOD; and Aaron’s sons, the priests, shall offer the blood, dashing the blood against all sides of the altar that is at the entrance of the Tent of Meeting. (6) The burnt offering shall be flayed and cut up into sections. (7) The sons of Aaron the priest shall put fire on the altar and lay out wood upon the fire; (8) and Aaron’s sons, the priests, shall lay out the sections, with the head and the suet, on the wood that is on the fire upon the altar. (9) Its entrails and legs shall be washed with water, and the priest shall turn the whole into smoke on the altar as a burnt offering, an offering by fire of pleasing odor to GOD.

(10) If your offering for a burnt offering is from the flock, of sheep or of goats, you shall make your offering a male without blemish. (11) It shall be slaughtered before GOD on the north side of the altar, and Aaron’s sons, the priests, shall dash its blood against all sides of the altar. (12) When it has been cut up into sections, the priest shall lay them out, with the head and the suet, on the wood that is on the fire upon the altar. (13) The entrails and the legs shall be washed with water; the priest shall offer up and turn the whole into smoke on the altar. It is a burnt offering, an offering by fire, of pleasing odor to GOD.

(14) If your offering to GOD is a burnt offering of birds, you shall choose your offering from turtledoves or pigeons. (15) The priest shall bring it to the altar, pinch off its head, and turn it into smoke on the altar; and its blood shall be drained out against the side of the altar. (16) He shall remove its crop with its contents, and cast it into the place of the ashes, at the east side of the altar. (17) The priest shall tear it open by its wings, without severing it, and turn it into smoke on the altar, upon the wood that is on the fire. It is a burnt offering, an offering by fire, of pleasing odor to GOD.

(1) When a person presents an offering of grain to GOD: The offering shall be of choice flour; [the offerer] shall pour oil upon it, lay frankincense on it, (2) and present it to Aaron’s sons, the priests. The priest shall scoop out of it a handful of its choice flour and oil, as well as all of its frankincense; and this token portion he shall turn into smoke on the altar, as an offering by fire, of pleasing odor to GOD. (3) And the remainder of the grain offering shall be for Aaron and his sons, a most holy portion from GOD’s offerings by fire. (4) When you present an offering of grain baked in the oven, [it shall be of] choice flour: unleavened cakes with oil mixed in, or unleavened wafers spread with oil. (5) If your offering is a grain offering on a griddle, it shall be of choice flour with oil mixed in, unleavened. (6) Break it into bits and pour oil on it; it is a grain offering.

(7) If your offering is a grain offering in a pan, it shall be made of choice flour in oil. (8) When you present to GOD a grain offering that is made in any of these ways, it shall be brought to the priest, who shall take it up to the altar. (9) The priest shall remove the token portion from the grain offering and turn it into smoke on the altar as an offering by fire, of pleasing odor to GOD. (10) And the remainder of the grain offering shall be for Aaron and his sons, a most holy portion from GOD’s offerings by fire. (11) No grain offering that you offer to GOD shall be made with leaven, for no leaven or honey may be turned into smoke as an offering by fire to GOD. (12) You may bring them to GOD as an offering of choice products; but they shall not be offered up on the altar for a pleasing odor. (13) You shall season your every offering of grain with salt; you shall not omit from your grain offering the salt of your covenant with God; with all your offerings you must offer salt.

(14) If you bring a grain offering of first fruits to GOD, you shall bring new ears parched with fire, grits of the fresh grain, as your grain offering of first fruits. (15) You shall add oil to it and lay frankincense on it; it is a grain offering. (16) And the priest shall turn a token portion of it into smoke: some of the grits and oil, with all of the frankincense, as an offering by fire to GOD.

(14) If you bring a grain offering of first fruits to GOD, you shall bring new ears parched with fire, grits of the fresh grain, as your grain offering of first fruits. (15) You shall add oil to it and lay frankincense on it; it is a grain offering. (16) And the priest shall turn a token portion of it into smoke: some of the grits and oil, with all of the frankincense, as an offering by fire to GOD.

(21)The people I formed for MyselfThat they might declare My praise.(22)But you have not worshiped Me, O Jacob,That you should be weary of Me, O Israel.(23)You have not brought Me your sheep for burnt offerings,Nor honored Me with your sacrifices.I have not burdened you with grain offerings,Nor wearied you about frankincense.(24)You have not bought Me fragrant reed with money,Nor sated Me with the fat of your sacrifices.Instead, you have burdened Me with your sins,You have wearied Me with your iniquities.(25)It is I, I who—for My own sake—
Wipe your transgressions awayAnd remember your sins no more.(26)Help me remember!Let us join in argument,Tell your version,That you may be vindicated.(27)Your earliest ancestor sinned,And your spokesmen transgressed against Me.(28)So I profaned the holy princes;I abandoned Jacob to proscriptionAnd Israel to mockery.(1)But hear, now, O Jacob My servant,Israel whom I have chosen!(2)Thus said GOD, your Maker,
Your Creator who has helped you since birth:Fear not, My servant Jacob,Jeshurun whom I have chosen, (3)Even as I pour water on thirsty soil,And rain upon dry ground,So will I pour My spirit on your offspring,My blessing upon your posterity.(4)And they shall sprout like grass,
Like willows by watercourses.(5)One shall say, “I am GOD’s,”
Another shall use the name of “Jacob,”Another shall mark his arm “of GOD”
And adopt the name of “Israel.”(6)Thus said GOD, the Sovereign of Israel,
Their Redeemer, GOD of Hosts:
I am the first and I am the last,And there is no god but Me.(7)Who like Me can announce,
Can foretell it—and match Me thereby?Even as I told the future to an ancient people,So let anyone foretell coming events to them.(8)Do not be frightened, do not be shaken!Have I not from of old predicted to you?I foretold, and you are My witnesses.Is there any god, then, but Me?“There is no other rock; I know none!”(9)The makers of idolsAll work to no purpose;And the things they treasureCan do no good,As they themselves can testify.They neither look nor think,And so they shall be shamed.(10)Who would fashion a godOr cast a statueThat can do no good?(11)Lo, all its adherents shall be shamed;They are craftsmen, are merely human.Let them all assemble and stand up!They shall be cowed, and they shall be shamed.(12)The craftsman in iron, with his tools,
Works it over charcoal
And fashions it by hammering,Working with the strength of his arm.Should he go hungry, his strength would ebb;Should he drink no water, he would grow faint.(13)The craftsman in wood measures with a lineAnd marks out a shape with a stylus;He forms it with scraping tools,Marking it out with a compass.He gives it the form of a person—Human beauty, to dwell in a shrine.(14)For his use he cuts down cedars;He chooses plane trees and oaks.He sets aside trees of the forest;Or plants firs, and the rain makes them grow.(15)All this serves a mortal for fuel:He takes some to warm himself,And he builds a fire and bakes bread.He also makes a god of it and worships it,Fashions an idol and bows down to it!(16)Part of it he burns in a fire:On that part he roasts meat,He eats the roast and is sated;
He also warms himself and cries, “Ah,I am warm! I can feel the heat!” (17)Of the rest he makes a god—his own carving!He bows down to it, worships it;He prays to it and cries,“Save me, for you are my god!”(18)They have no wit or judgment:Their eyes are besmeared, and they see not;Their minds, and they cannot think.(19)They do not give thought,They lack the wit and judgment to say:“Part of it I burned in a fire;I also baked bread on the coals,I roasted meat and ate it—Should I make the rest an abhorrence?Should I bow to a block of wood?”(20)He pursues ashes!
A deluded mind has led him astray,And he cannot save himself;He never says to himself,“The thing in my hand is a fraud!”(21)Remember these things, O JacobFor you, O Israel, are My servant:I fashioned you, you are My servant—O Israel, never forget Me.(22)I wipe away your sins like a cloud,Your transgressions like mist—Come back to Me, for I redeem you.(23)Shout, O heavens, for GOD has acted;
Shout aloud, O depths of the earth!Shout for joy, O mountains,O forests with all your trees!For GOD has redeemed Jacob,
Has gained glory through Israel.

(21)The people I formed for MyselfThat they might declare My praise.(22)But you have not worshiped Me, O Jacob,That you should be weary of Me, O Israel.(23)You have not brought Me your sheep for burnt offerings,Nor honored Me with your sacrifices.I have not burdened you with grain offerings,Nor wearied you about frankincense.(24)You have not bought Me fragrant reed with money,Nor sated Me with the fat of your sacrifices.Instead, you have burdened Me with your sins,You have wearied Me with your iniquities.(25)It is I, I who—for My own sake—
Wipe your transgressions awayAnd remember your sins no more.(26)Help me remember!Let us join in argument,Tell your version,That you may be vindicated.(27)Your earliest ancestor sinned,And your spokesmen transgressed against Me.(28)So I profaned the holy princes;I abandoned Jacob to proscriptionAnd Israel to mockery.(1)But hear, now, O Jacob My servant,Israel whom I have chosen!(2)Thus said GOD, your Maker,
Your Creator who has helped you since birth:Fear not, My servant Jacob,Jeshurun whom I have chosen, (3)Even as I pour water on thirsty soil,And rain upon dry ground,So will I pour My spirit on your offspring,My blessing upon your posterity.(4)And they shall sprout like grass,
Like willows by watercourses.(5)One shall say, “I am GOD’s,”
Another shall use the name of “Jacob,”Another shall mark his arm “of GOD”
And adopt the name of “Israel.”(6)Thus said GOD, the Sovereign of Israel,
Their Redeemer, GOD of Hosts:
I am the first and I am the last,And there is no god but Me.(7)Who like Me can announce,
Can foretell it—and match Me thereby?Even as I told the future to an ancient people,So let anyone foretell coming events to them.(8)Do not be frightened, do not be shaken!Have I not from of old predicted to you?I foretold, and you are My witnesses.Is there any god, then, but Me?“There is no other rock; I know none!”