Leviticus 9
First Sacrifices by the Ordained Priests
1On the eighth day, Moses called Aaron and his sons, and the elders of Israel;
2and he said to Aaron, “Take a calf from the herd for a sin offering, and a ram for a burnt offering, without defect, and offer them before the LORD.
3You shall speak to the children of Israel, saying, ‘Take a male goat for a sin offering; and a calf and a lamb, both a year old, without defect, for a burnt offering;
4and a bull and a ram for peace offerings, to sacrifice before the LORD; and a meal offering mixed with oil: for today the LORD appears to you.’”
5They brought what Moses commanded before the Tent of Meeting. All the congregation came near and stood before the LORD.
6Moses said, “This is the thing which the LORD commanded that you should do; and the LORD’s glory shall appear to you.”
7Moses said to Aaron, “Draw near to the altar, and offer your sin offering, and your burnt offering, and make atonement for yourself, and for the people; and offer the offering of the people, and make atonement for them, as the LORD commanded.”
8So Aaron came near to the altar, and killed the calf of the sin offering, which was for himself.
9The sons of Aaron presented the blood to him; and he dipped his finger in the blood, and put it on the horns of the altar, and poured out the blood at the base of the altar;
10but the fat, and the kidneys, and the cover from the liver of the sin offering, he burned upon the altar, as the LORD commanded Moses.
11The meat and the skin he burned with fire outside the camp.
12He killed the burnt offering; and Aaron’s sons delivered the blood to him, and he sprinkled it around on the altar.
13They delivered the burnt offering to him, piece by piece, and the head. He burned them upon the altar.
14He washed the innards and the legs, and burned them on the burnt offering on the altar.
15He presented the people’s offering, and took the goat of the sin offering which was for the people, and killed it, and offered it for sin, like the first.
16He presented the burnt offering, and offered it according to the ordinance.
17He presented the meal offering, and filled his hand from there, and burned it upon the altar, in addition to the burnt offering of the morning.
18He also killed the bull and the ram, the sacrifice of peace offerings, which was for the people. Aaron’s sons delivered to him the blood, which he sprinkled around on the altar;
19and the fat of the bull and of the ram, the fat tail, and that which covers the innards, and the kidneys, and the cover of the liver;
20and they put the fat upon the breasts, and he burned the fat on the altar.
21Aaron waved the breasts and the right thigh for a wave offering before the LORD, as Moses commanded.
22Aaron lifted up his hands toward the people, and blessed them; and he came down from offering the sin offering, and the burnt offering, and the peace offerings.
23Moses and Aaron went into the Tent of Meeting, and came out, and blessed the people; and the LORD’s glory appeared to all the people.
24Fire came out from before the LORD, and consumed the burnt offering and the fat upon the altar. When all the people saw it, they shouted, and fell on their faces.
On the eighth day following their ordination, Aaron and his sons begin their priestly ministry by offering the first sacrifices on behalf of themselves and the people of Israel. Following Moses' detailed instructions, Aaron performs sin offerings, burnt offerings, and peace offerings according to the prescribed rituals. The chapter culminates in God's dramatic approval as His glory appears to the people and fire from the LORD consumes the offerings, causing the congregation to shout and fall on their faces in worship.
Context
This chapter marks the culmination of the seven-day ordination ceremony described in chapter 8, as the newly consecrated priests begin their active ministry.
Key Themes
Outline
- 1-6Moses Commands the First Sacrificial ServiceMoses instructs Aaron and the people to prepare various offerings, promising that God's glory will appear.
- 7-14Aaron Offers His Personal SacrificesAaron performs sin and burnt offerings for himself, following the prescribed ritual procedures exactly.
- 15-21Aaron Offers the People's SacrificesAaron presents sin, burnt, meal, and peace offerings on behalf of the entire congregation.
- 22-24Divine Approval and GloryAfter Aaron blesses the people, God's glory appears and divine fire consumes the offerings, prompting worship from the congregation.
First Sacrifices by the Ordained Priests
9:1–9:24On the eighth day, Aaron and his sons perform their first sacrificial duties as ordained priests, offering sin offerings, burnt offerings, and peace offerings for themselves and the people. God's glory appears to the congregation and divine fire consumes the offerings, confirming their acceptance.
person_contrast
Moses transitions from lawgiver to liturgical director, orchestrating Aaron's inaugural sacrifices while the divine fire's consumption of offerings marks the first recorded instance of God's glory manifesting through priestly mediation.
Leviticus 9:2
Leviticus 23:18lexicalYou shall present with the bread seven lambs without defect a year old, one young bull, and two rams. They shall be a bu…
Numbers 28:11lexical“‘In the beginnings of your months, you shall offer a burnt offering to the LORD: two young bulls, one ram, seven male l…
Numbers 29:8lexicalbut you shall offer a burnt offering to the LORD for a pleasant aroma: one young bull, one ram, seven male lambs a year…
Numbers 29:13lexicalYou shall offer a burnt offering, an offering made by fire, of a pleasant aroma to the LORD: thirteen young bulls, two r…
Numbers 28:19lexicalbut you shall offer an offering made by fire, a burnt offering to the LORD: two young bulls, one ram, and seven male lam…
Leviticus 9:3
Ezekiel 45:23lexicalThe seven days of the feast he shall prepare a burnt offering to the LORD, seven bulls and seven rams without defect dai…
Numbers 7:87lexicalall the cattle for the burnt offering twelve bulls, the rams twelve, the male lambs a year old twelve, and their meal of…
Leviticus 4:23lexicalif his sin in which he has sinned is made known to him, he shall bring as his offering a goat, a male without defect.
Ezekiel 43:22lexical“On the second day you shall offer a male goat without defect for a sin offering; and they shall cleanse the altar, as t…
Leviticus 23:19lexicalYou shall offer one male goat for a sin offering, and two male lambs a year old for a sacrifice of peace offerings.
Leviticus 9:4
Numbers 28:28lexicaland their meal offering, fine flour mixed with oil, three tenths for each bull, two tenths for the one ram,
Numbers 29:14lexicaland their meal offering, fine flour mixed with oil: three tenths for every bull of the thirteen bulls, two tenths for ea…
Numbers 29:9lexicaland their meal offering, fine flour mixed with oil: three tenths for the bull, two tenths for the one ram,
Numbers 15:6lexical“‘For a ram, you shall prepare for a meal offering two tenths of an ephah of fine flour mixed with the third part of a h…
Numbers 29:3lexicaland their meal offering, fine flour mixed with oil: three tenths for the bull, two tenths for the ram,
Leviticus 9:5
Numbers 25:6lexicalBehold, one of the children of Israel came and brought to his brothers a Midianite woman in the sight of Moses, and in t…
Numbers 8:9lexicalYou shall present the Levites before the Tent of Meeting. You shall assemble the whole congregation of the children of I…
Leviticus 9:7
Leviticus 16:11lexical“Aaron shall present the bull of the sin offering, which is for himself, and shall make atonement for himself and for hi…
Leviticus 16:6lexical“Aaron shall offer the bull of the sin offering, which is for himself, and make atonement for himself and for his house.
Ezekiel 45:17lexicalIt shall be the prince’s part to give the burnt offerings, the meal offerings, and the drink offerings, in the feasts, a…
Numbers 6:14lexicaland he shall offer his offering to the LORD: one male lamb a year old without defect for a burnt offering, one ewe lamb…
Leviticus 22:18lexical“Speak to Aaron, and to his sons, and to all the children of Israel, and say to them, ‘Whoever is of the house of Israel…
Leviticus 9:8
Leviticus 16:11lexical“Aaron shall present the bull of the sin offering, which is for himself, and shall make atonement for himself and for hi…
Leviticus 1:5lexicalHe shall kill the bull before the LORD. Aaron’s sons, the priests, shall present the blood and sprinkle the blood around…
2 Chronicles 29:24lexicalThen the priests killed them, and they made a sin offering with their blood on the altar, to make atonement for all Isra…
Leviticus 3:13lexicalHe shall lay his hand on its head, and kill it before the Tent of Meeting; and the sons of Aaron shall sprinkle its bloo…
Exodus 29:20lexicalThen you shall kill the ram, and take some of its blood, and put it on the tip of the right ear of Aaron, and on the tip…
Leviticus 9:9
Leviticus 8:15lexicalHe killed it; and Moses took the blood, and put it around on the horns of the altar with his finger, and purified the al…
Leviticus 4:25lexicalThe priest shall take some of the blood of the sin offering with his finger, and put it on the horns of the altar of bur…
Leviticus 4:30lexicalThe priest shall take some of its blood with his finger, and put it on the horns of the altar of burnt offering; and the…
Leviticus 4:34lexicalThe priest shall take some of the blood of the sin offering with his finger, and put it on the horns of the altar of bur…
Exodus 29:12lexicalYou shall take of the blood of the bull, and put it on the horns of the altar with your finger; and you shall pour out a…
Leviticus 9:10
Exodus 29:13lexicalYou shall take all the fat that covers the innards, the cover of the liver, the two kidneys, and the fat that is on them…
Leviticus 8:16lexicalHe took all the fat that was on the innards, and the cover of the liver, and the two kidneys, and their fat; and Moses b…
Leviticus 8:25lexicalHe took the fat, the fat tail, all the fat that was on the innards, the cover of the liver, the two kidneys and their fa…
Leviticus 3:15lexicaland the two kidneys, and the fat that is on them, which is by the loins, and the cover on the liver, with the kidneys, h…
Leviticus 3:4lexicaland the two kidneys, and the fat that is on them, which is by the loins, and the cover on the liver, with the kidneys, h…
Leviticus 9:11
Exodus 29:14lexicalBut the meat of the bull, and its skin, and its dung, you shall burn with fire outside of the camp. It is a sin offering…
Leviticus 8:17lexicalBut the bull, and its skin, and its meat, and its dung, he burned with fire outside the camp, as the LORD commanded Mose…
Leviticus 16:27lexicalThe bull for the sin offering, and the goat for the sin offering, whose blood was brought in to make atonement in the Ho…
Leviticus 4:12lexical—all the rest of the bull—outside of the camp to a clean place where the ashes are poured out, and burn it on wood with…
Numbers 19:5lexicalOne shall burn the heifer in his sight; her skin, and her meat, and her blood, with her dung, shall he burn.
Leviticus 9:12
Leviticus 7:2lexicalIn the place where they kill the burnt offering, he shall kill the trespass offering; and its blood he shall sprinkle ar…
Leviticus 3:8lexicaland he shall lay his hand on the head of his offering, and kill it before the Tent of Meeting. Aaron’s sons shall sprink…
Leviticus 1:5lexicalHe shall kill the bull before the LORD. Aaron’s sons, the priests, shall present the blood and sprinkle the blood around…
Leviticus 3:13lexicalHe shall lay his hand on its head, and kill it before the Tent of Meeting; and the sons of Aaron shall sprinkle its bloo…
Exodus 29:20lexicalThen you shall kill the ram, and take some of its blood, and put it on the tip of the right ear of Aaron, and on the tip…
Leviticus 9:14
Leviticus 1:9lexicalbut he shall wash its innards and its legs with water. The priest shall burn all of it on the altar, for a burnt offerin…
Leviticus 8:21lexicalHe washed the innards and the legs with water; and Moses burned the whole ram on the altar. It was a burnt offering for…
Leviticus 1:13lexicalbut the innards and the legs he shall wash with water. The priest shall offer the whole, and burn it on the altar. It is…
Exodus 29:17lexicalYou shall cut the ram into its pieces, and wash its innards, and its legs, and put them with its pieces, and with its he…
Exodus 30:20lexicalWhen they go into the Tent of Meeting, they shall wash with water, that they don’t die; or when they come near to the al…
Leviticus 9:15
Leviticus 4:23lexicalif his sin in which he has sinned is made known to him, he shall bring as his offering a goat, a male without defect.
Ezekiel 43:22lexical“On the second day you shall offer a male goat without defect for a sin offering; and they shall cleanse the altar, as t…
Leviticus 16:15lexical“Then he shall kill the goat of the sin offering that is for the people, and bring his blood within the veil, and do wit…
Leviticus 4:24lexicalHe shall lay his hand on the head of the goat, and kill it in the place where they kill the burnt offering before the LO…
Numbers 7:12lexicalHe who offered his offering the first day was Nahshon the son of Amminadab, of the tribe of Judah,
Leviticus 9:17
2 Kings 16:15lexicalKing Ahaz commanded Urijah the priest, saying, “On the great altar burn the morning burnt offering, the evening meal off…
Leviticus 8:28lexicalMoses took them from their hands, and burned them on the altar on the burnt offering. They were a consecration offering…
2 Kings 16:13lexicalHe burned his burnt offering and his meal offering, poured his drink offering, and sprinkled the blood of his peace offe…
Leviticus 1:13lexicalbut the innards and the legs he shall wash with water. The priest shall offer the whole, and burn it on the altar. It is…
Joshua 22:29lexical“Far be it from us that we should rebel against the LORD, and turn away today from following the LORD, to build an altar…
Leviticus 9:18
Exodus 29:20lexicalThen you shall kill the ram, and take some of its blood, and put it on the tip of the right ear of Aaron, and on the tip…
Exodus 29:16lexicalYou shall kill the ram, and you shall take its blood, and sprinkle it around on the altar.
Leviticus 1:11lexicalHe shall kill it on the north side of the altar before the LORD. Aaron’s sons, the priests, shall sprinkle its blood aro…
Leviticus 3:2lexicalHe shall lay his hand on the head of his offering, and kill it at the door of the Tent of Meeting. Aaron’s sons, the pri…
Leviticus 3:8lexicaland he shall lay his hand on the head of his offering, and kill it before the Tent of Meeting. Aaron’s sons shall sprink…
Leviticus 9:19
Exodus 29:22lexicalAlso you shall take some of the ram’s fat, the fat tail, the fat that covers the innards, the cover of the liver, the tw…
Leviticus 8:25lexicalHe took the fat, the fat tail, all the fat that was on the innards, the cover of the liver, the two kidneys and their fa…
Leviticus 8:16lexicalHe took all the fat that was on the innards, and the cover of the liver, and the two kidneys, and their fat; and Moses b…
Leviticus 3:10lexicaland the two kidneys, and the fat that is on them, which is by the loins, and the cover on the liver, with the kidneys, h…
Leviticus 4:9lexicaland the two kidneys, and the fat that is on them, which is by the loins, and the cover on the liver, with the kidneys, h…
Leviticus 9:20
Leviticus 7:31lexicalThe priest shall burn the fat on the altar, but the breast shall be Aaron’s and his sons’.
Leviticus 4:26lexicalAll its fat he shall burn on the altar, like the fat of the sacrifice of peace offerings; and the priest shall make aton…
Leviticus 4:31lexicalAll its fat he shall take away, like the fat is taken away from the sacrifice of peace offerings; and the priest shall b…
Leviticus 4:35lexicalHe shall remove all its fat, like the fat of the lamb is removed from the sacrifice of peace offerings. The priest shall…
Leviticus 16:25lexicalThe fat of the sin offering he shall burn on the altar.
Leviticus 9:21
Exodus 29:27lexicalYou shall sanctify the breast of the wave offering and the thigh of the wave offering, which is waved, and which is rais…
Numbers 6:20lexicaland the priest shall wave them for a wave offering before the LORD. They are holy for the priest, together with the brea…
Leviticus 10:15lexicalThey shall bring the heaved thigh and the waved breast with the offerings made by fire of the fat, to wave it for a wave…
Numbers 18:18lexicalTheir meat shall be yours, as the wave offering breast and as the right thigh, it shall be yours.
Leviticus 7:34lexicalFor the waved breast and the heaved thigh I have taken from the children of Israel out of the sacrifices of their peace…
Leviticus 9:22
Leviticus 7:37lexicalThis is the law of the burnt offering, the meal offering, the sin offering, the trespass offering, the consecration, and…
Ezekiel 45:17lexicalIt shall be the prince’s part to give the burnt offerings, the meal offerings, and the drink offerings, in the feasts, a…
Numbers 6:14lexicaland he shall offer his offering to the LORD: one male lamb a year old without defect for a burnt offering, one ewe lamb…
Exodus 20:24lexicalYou shall make an altar of earth for me, and shall sacrifice on it your burnt offerings and your peace offerings, your s…
2 Samuel 6:18lexicalWhen David had finished offering the burnt offering and the peace offerings, he blessed the people in the name of the LO…
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