(1) GOD spoke to Moses, saying: (2) Command Aaron and his sons thus:
This is the ritual of the burnt offering: The burnt offering itself shall remain where it is burned upon the altar all night until morning, while the fire on the altar is kept going on it. (3) The priest shall dress in linen raiment, with linen breeches next to his body; and he shall take up the ashes to which the fire has reduced the burnt offering on the altar and place them beside the altar.

(4) He shall then take off his vestments and put on other vestments, and carry the ashes outside the camp to a pure place. (5) The fire on the altar shall be kept burning, not to go out: every morning the priest shall feed wood to it, lay out the burnt offering on it, and turn into smoke the fat parts of the offerings of well-being. (6) A perpetual fire shall be kept burning on the altar, not to go out.

(7) And this is the ritual of the grain offering: Aaron’s sons shall present it before GOD, in front of the altar. (8) A handful of the choice flour and oil of the grain offering shall be taken from it, with all the frankincense that is on the grain offering, and this token portion shall be turned into smoke on the altar as a pleasing odor to GOD. (9) What is left of it shall be eaten by Aaron and his sons; it shall be eaten as unleavened cakes, in the sacred precinct; they shall eat it in the enclosure of the Tent of Meeting. (10) It shall not be baked with leaven; I have given it as their portion from My offerings by fire; it is most holy, like the purgation offering and the reparation offering. (11) Only the males among Aaron’s descendants may eat of it, as their due for all time throughout the ages from GOD’s offerings by fire. Anything that touches these shall become holy.

(12) GOD spoke to Moses, saying: (13) This is the offering that Aaron and his sons shall offer to GOD on the occasion of his anointment: a tenth of an ephah of choice flour as a regular grain offering, half of it in the morning and half of it in the evening, (14) shall be prepared with oil on a griddle. You shall bring it well soaked, and offer it as a grain offering of baked slices, of pleasing odor to GOD. (15) And so shall the priest, anointed from among his sons to succeed him, prepare it; it is GOD’s—a law for all time—to be turned entirely into smoke. (16) So, too, every grain offering of a priest shall be a whole offering: it shall not be eaten.

(17) GOD spoke to Moses, saying: (18) Speak to Aaron and his sons thus: This is the ritual of the purgation offering: the purgation offering shall be slaughtered before GOD, at the spot where the burnt offering is slaughtered: it is most holy. (19) The priest who offers it as a purgation offering shall eat of it; it shall be eaten in the sacred precinct, in the enclosure of the Tent of Meeting. (20) Anything that touches its flesh shall become holy; and if any of its blood is spattered upon a garment, you shall wash the bespattered part in the sacred precinct. (21) An earthen vessel in which it was boiled shall be broken; if it was boiled in a copper vessel, [the vessel] shall be scoured and rinsed with water. (22) Only the males in the priestly line may eat of it: it is most holy. (23) But no purgation offering may be eaten from which any blood is brought into the Tent of Meeting for expiation in the sanctuary; any such shall be consumed in fire.

(1) This is the ritual of the reparation offering: it is most holy. (2) The reparation offering shall be slaughtered at the spot where the burnt offering is slaughtered, and the blood shall be dashed on all sides of the altar. (3) All its fat shall be offered: the broad tail; the fat that covers the entrails; (4) the two kidneys and the fat that is on them at the loins; and the protuberance on the liver, which shall be removed with the kidneys. (5) The priest shall turn them into smoke on the altar as an offering by fire to GOD; it is a reparation offering. (6) Only the males in the priestly line may eat of it; it shall be eaten in the sacred precinct: it is most holy.

(7) The reparation offering is like the purgation offering. The same rule applies to both: it shall belong to the priest who makes expiation thereby. (8) So, too, the priest who offers another person’s burnt offering shall keep the skin of that burnt offering. (9) Further, any grain offering that is baked in an oven, and any that is prepared in a pan or on a griddle, shall belong to the priest who offers it. (10) But every other grain offering, with oil mixed in or dry, shall go to the sons of Aaron all alike.

(7) The reparation offering is like the purgation offering. The same rule applies to both: it shall belong to the priest who makes expiation thereby. (8) So, too, the priest who offers another person’s burnt offering shall keep the skin of that burnt offering. (9) Further, any grain offering that is baked in an oven, and any that is prepared in a pan or on a griddle, shall belong to the priest who offers it. (10) But every other grain offering, with oil mixed in or dry, shall go to the sons of Aaron all alike.

(4) Then the offerings of Judah and Jerusalem shall be pleasing to GOD as in the days of yore and in the years of old. (5) But [first] I will step forward to contend against you, and I will act as a relentless accuser against those who have no fear of Me: Who practice sorcery, who commit adultery, who swear falsely, who cheat laborers of their hire, and who subvert [the cause of] the widow, orphan, and stranger, said GOD of Hosts. (6) For I am GOD—I have not changed; and you are the children of Jacob—you have not ceased to be. (7) From the very days of your ancestors you have turned away from My laws and have not observed them. Turn back to Me, and I will turn back to you—said GOD of Hosts. But you ask, “How shall we turn back?” (8) Ought mortals to defraud God? Yet you are defrauding Me. And you ask, “How have we been defrauding You?” In tithe and contribution. (9) You are suffering under a curse, yet you go on defrauding Me—the whole nation of you. (10) Bring the full tithe into the storehouse, and let there be food in My House, and thus put Me to the test—said GOD of Hosts. I will surely open the floodgates of the sky for you and pour down blessings on you; (11) and I will banish the locusts from you, so that they will not destroy the yield of your soil; and your vines in the field shall no longer miscarry—said GOD of Hosts. (12) And all the nations shall account you happy, for you shall be the most desired of lands—said GOD of Hosts. (13) You have spoken hard words against Me—said GOD. But you ask, “What have we been saying among ourselves against You?” (14) You have said, “It is useless to serve God. What have we gained by keeping God’s charge and walking in abject awe of GOD of Hosts? (15) And so, we account the arrogant happy: they have indeed done evil and endured; they have indeed dared God and escaped.” (16) In this vein have those who revere GOD been talking to one another. GOD has heard and noted it, and a scroll of remembrance has been written at God’s behest concerning those who revere GOD and esteem that name. (17) And on the day that I am preparing, said GOD of Hosts, they shall be My treasured possession; I will be tender toward them as a man is tender toward a son who ministers to him. (18) And you shall come to see the difference between the righteous and the wicked, between those who have served God and those who have not. (19) For lo! That day is at hand, burning like an oven. All the arrogant and all the doers of evil shall be straw, and the day that is coming—said GOD of Hosts—shall burn them to ashes and leave of them neither stock nor boughs. (20) But for you who revere My name a sun of victory shall rise to bring healing. You shall go forth and stamp like stall-fed calves, (21) and you shall trample the wicked to a pulp, for they shall be dust beneath your feet on the day that I am preparing—said GOD of Hosts. (22) Be mindful of the Teaching of My servant Moses, whom I charged at Horeb with laws and rules for all Israel. (23) Lo, I will send the prophet Elijah to you before the coming of the awesome, fearful day of GOD. (24) He shall reconcile parents with children and children with their parents, so that, when I come, I do not strike the whole land with utter destruction.

Lo, I will send the prophet Elijah to you before the coming of the awesome, fearful day of GOD.