יהוה called to Moses and spoke to him from the Tent of Meeting, saying:
Speak to the Israelite people, and say to them: When any of you presents an offering of cattle to יהוה: You shall choose your offering from the herd or from the flock.
If your*your Lit. “his,” pointing to the same non-specific referent as the socially generic noun ’adam (lit. “human being” yet grammatically masculine; NJPS “any”) in 1.2. Both men and women brought sacrificial offerings. (So also in vv. 10, 14.) 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 יהוה.
You shall lay a hand upon the head of the burnt offering, that it may be acceptable in your behalf, in expiation for you.
The bull shall be slaughtered before יהוה; and Aaron’s sons, the priests, shall offer the blood, dashing the blood against all sides of the altar which is at the entrance of the Tent of Meeting.
The burnt offering shall be flayed and cut up into sections.
The sons of Aaron the priest shall put fire on the altar and lay out wood upon the fire;
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.
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 יהוה.
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.
It shall be slaughtered before יהוה on the north side of the altar, and Aaron’s sons, the priests, shall dash its blood against all sides of the altar.
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.
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 יהוה.
If your offering to יהוה is a burnt offering of birds, you shall choose your offering from turtledoves or pigeons.
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.
He shall remove its crop with its contents,*contents Others “feathers.” and cast it into the place of the ashes, at the east side of the altar.
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 יהוה.
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