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<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "//www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd"><html xmlns="//www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" /><meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1"><title>Leviticus 6 CEV</title><link rel="stylesheet" href="/chapnew2.css" type="text/css" media="Screen" /><link rel="stylesheet" href="../spec.css" type="text/css" media="Screen" /></head> <script async src="https://www.googletagmanager.com/gtag/js?id=G-LR4HSKRP2H"></script> <script> window.dataLayer = window.dataLayer || []; function gtag(){dataLayer.push(arguments);} gtag('js', new Date()); gtag('config', 'G-LR4HSKRP2H'); </script><body><div id="fx"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" id="fx2"><tr><td><iframe width="100%" height="30" scrolling="no" src="../cmenus/leviticus/6.htm" align="left" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div><div id="blnk"></div><div align="center"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" class="maintable"><tr><td><div id="fx5"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" id="fx6"><tr><td><iframe width="100%" height="245" scrolling="no" src="../topmenuchap/leviticus/6-1.htm" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div></td></tr></table></div><div align="center"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" class="maintable3"><tr><td><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center" id="announce"><tr><td><div id="l1"><div id="breadcrumbs"><a href="//biblehub.com">Bible</a> > <a href="../">CEV</a> > Leviticus 6</div><div id="anc"><iframe src="/anc.htm" width="100%" height="27" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></div><div id="anc2"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><iframe src="/anc2.htm" width="100%" height="27" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div></div></td></tr></table><div id="movebox2"><table border="0" align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"><tr><td><div id="topheading"><a href="../leviticus/5.htm" title="Leviticus 5">◄</a> Leviticus 6 <a href="../leviticus/7.htm" title="Leviticus 7">►</a></div></td></tr></table></div><div align="center" class="maintable2"><table border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><div id="leftbox"><div class="padleft"><div class="vheading">Contemporary English Version</div><div class="chap"><h3 class="s1">Other Sins That Need Sacrifices or Payments</h3><h5 class="r">(<ref loc="NUM 5:5-10">Numbers 5.5-10</ref>)</h5><p class="par"><span class="v2_6_1"><span class="reftext" id="Lev.6.1-Lev.6.3" class="v2_6_1">1-3</span><a href="#fn" id="link_Lev.6.1-Lev.6.3!x.1" class="notelink x-link"><span></span></a> The <span class="nd">Lord</span> told Moses what the people must do when they commit other sins against the <span class="nd">Lord</span>:</span></p><p class="par"><span class="v2_6_1">You have sinned if you rob or cheat someone, if you keep back money or valuables left in your care, or if you find something and claim not to have it.</span></p><p class="par"><span class="v2_6_4"><span class="reftext" id="Lev.6.4" class="v2_6_4">4</span>When this happens, you must return what doesn't belong to you </span><span class="v2_6_5"><span class="reftext" id="Lev.6.5" class="v2_6_5">5</span>and pay the owner a fine of 20 percent. </span><span class="v2_6_6"><span class="reftext" id="Lev.6.6-Lev.6.7" class="v2_6_6">6-7</span>In addition, you must either bring to the priest a ram that has nothing wrong with it or else pay him for one. The priest will then offer it as a sacrifice to make things right, and you will be forgiven for what you did wrong.</span></p><h3 class="s1">Daily Sacrifices</h3><h5 class="r">(<ref loc="EXO 29:38-43">Exodus 29.38-43</ref>; <ref loc="NUM 28:1-8">Numbers 28.1-8</ref>)</h5><p class="par"><span class="v2_6_8"><span class="reftext" id="Lev.6.8-Lev.6.9" class="v2_6_8">8-9</span>The <span class="nd">Lord</span> told Moses to tell Aaron and his sons how to offer the daily sacrifices that are sent up in smoke to please the <span class="nd">Lord</span>:<a href="#fn" id="link_Lev.6.8-Lev.6.9!f.1" class="notelink f-link"><span>+</span></a> </span></p><p class="par"><span class="v2_6_8">You must put the animal for the sacrifice on the altar in the evening and let it stay there all night. But make sure the fire keeps burning. </span><span class="v2_6_10"><span class="reftext" id="Lev.6.10" class="v2_6_10">10</span>The next morning you will dress in your priestly clothes, including your linen underwear. Then clean away the ashes left by the sacrifices and pile them beside the altar. </span><span class="v2_6_11"><span class="reftext" id="Lev.6.11" class="v2_6_11">11</span>Change into your everyday clothes, take the ashes outside the camp, and pile them in the special place.<a href="#fn" id="link_Lev.6.11!f.1" class="notelink f-link"><span>+</span></a> </span></p><p class="par"><span class="v2_6_12"><span class="reftext" id="Lev.6.12" class="v2_6_12">12</span>The fire must never go out, so put wood on it each morning. After this, you are to lay an animal on the altar next to the fat that you sacrifice to ask my blessing.<a href="#fn" id="link_Lev.6.12!f.1" class="notelink f-link"><span>+</span></a> Then send it all up in smoke to me.</span></p><p class="par"><span class="v2_6_13"><span class="reftext" id="Lev.6.13" class="v2_6_13">13</span>The altar fire must always be kept burning—it must never go out.</span></p><h3 class="s1">Sacrifices To Give Thanks to the <span class="nd">Lord</span></h3><h5 class="sp">The <span class="nd">Lord</span> said:</h5><p class="par"><span class="v2_6_14"><span class="reftext" id="Lev.6.14" class="v2_6_14">14</span>When someone offers a sacrifice to give thanks to me,<a href="#fn" id="link_Lev.6.14!f.1" class="notelink f-link"><span>+</span></a> the priests from Aaron's family must bring it to the front of the bronze altar, </span><span class="v2_6_15"><span class="reftext" id="Lev.6.15" class="v2_6_15">15</span>where one of them will scoop up a handful of the flour and oil, together with all the incense on it. Then, to show that the whole offering belongs to me, he will lay all of this on the altar and send it up in smoke with a smell that pleases me. </span><span class="v2_6_16"><span class="reftext" id="Lev.6.16-Lev.6.17" class="v2_6_16">16-17</span>The rest of it is to be baked without yeast and eaten by the priests in the sacred courtyard of the sacred tent. This bread is very holy, just like the sacrifices for sin or the sacrifices for making things right, and I have given this part to the priests from what is offered to me on the altar.</span></p><p class="par"><span class="v2_6_18"><span class="reftext" id="Lev.6.18" class="v2_6_18">18</span>Only the men in Aaron's family are allowed to eat this bread, and they must go through a ceremony to be made holy before touching it.<a href="#fn" id="link_Lev.6.18!f.1" class="notelink f-link"><span>+</span></a> This law will never change.</span></p><h3 class="s1">When Priests Are Ordained</h3><p class="par"><span class="v2_6_19"><span class="reftext" id="Lev.6.19" class="v2_6_19">19</span>The <span class="nd">Lord</span> spoke to Moses </span><span class="v2_6_20"><span class="reftext" id="Lev.6.20" class="v2_6_20">20</span>and told him what sacrifices the priests must offer on the morning and evening of the day they are ordained:</span></p><p class="par"><span class="v2_6_20">It is the same as the regular morning and evening sacrifices—half a kilogram of flour </span><span class="v2_6_21"><span class="reftext" id="Lev.6.21" class="v2_6_21">21</span>mixed with olive oil and cooked in a shallow pan. The bread must then be crumbled into small pieces<a href="#fn" id="link_Lev.6.21!f.1" class="notelink f-link"><span>+</span></a> and sent up in smoke with a smell that pleases me. </span><span class="v2_6_22"><span class="reftext" id="Lev.6.22-Lev.6.23" class="v2_6_22">22-23</span>Each of Aaron's descendants who is ordained as a priest must perform this ceremony and make sure that the bread is completely burned on the altar. None of it may be eaten!</span></p><h3 class="s1">Sacrifices for Sin</h3><h5 class="r">(<ref loc="LEV 4:1">Leviticus 4.1</ref>,<ref loc="LEV 4:2">2</ref>)</h5><p class="par"><span class="v2_6_24"><span class="reftext" id="Lev.6.24" class="v2_6_24">24</span>The <span class="nd">Lord</span> told Moses </span><span class="v2_6_25"><span class="reftext" id="Lev.6.25" class="v2_6_25">25</span>how the priests from Aaron's family were to offer the sacrifice for sin:</span></p><p class="par"><span class="v2_6_25">This sacrifice is very sacred, and the animal must be killed in my presence at the north side of the bronze altar. </span><span class="v2_6_26"><span class="reftext" id="Lev.6.26" class="v2_6_26">26</span>The priest who offers this sacrifice must eat it in the sacred courtyard of the sacred tent, </span><span class="v2_6_27"><span class="reftext" id="Lev.6.27" class="v2_6_27">27</span>and anyone or anything that touches the meat will be holy.<a href="#fn" id="link_Lev.6.27!f.1" class="notelink f-link"><span>+</span></a> If any of the animal's blood is splattered on the clothes of the priest, they must be washed in a holy place. </span><span class="v2_6_28"><span class="reftext" id="Lev.6.28" class="v2_6_28">28</span>If the meat was cooked in a clay pot, the pot must be destroyed,<a href="#fn" id="link_Lev.6.28!f.1" class="notelink f-link"><span>+</span></a> but if it was cooked in a bronze pot, the pot must be scrubbed and rinsed with water.</span></p><p class="par"><span class="v2_6_29"><span class="reftext" id="Lev.6.29" class="v2_6_29">29</span>This sacrifice is very holy, and only the priests may have any part of it. </span><span class="v2_6_30"><span class="reftext" id="Lev.6.30" class="v2_6_30">30</span>None of the meat may be eaten from the sacrifices for sin that require blood to be brought into the sacred tent.<a href="#fn" id="link_Lev.6.30!f.1" class="notelink f-link"><span>+</span></a> These sacrifices must be completely burned.</span></p> <a name="fn"></a><br /><br /><br /><b>Footnotes:<br /><br /><note caller="+" style="f"><char style="fr" closed="false">6.8,9 </char><char style="fq" closed="false">to please the <char style="nd">Lord</char>: </char><char style="ft" closed="false">See the note at 1.1-3.</char></note><br /><note caller="+" style="f"><char style="fr" closed="false">6.11 </char><char style="fq" closed="false">ashes … in the special place: </char><char style="ft" closed="false">See the note at 1.16.</char></note><br /><note caller="+" style="f"><char style="fr" closed="false">6.12 </char><char style="fq" closed="false">sacrifice to ask my blessing: </char><char style="ft" closed="false">See the note at 3.1.</char></note><br /><note caller="+" style="f"><char style="fr" closed="false">6.14 </char><char style="fq" closed="false">a sacrifice to give thanks to me: </char><char style="ft" closed="false">See the note at 2.1.</char></note><br /><note caller="+" style="f"><char style="fr" closed="false">6.18 </char><char style="fq" closed="false">and they … touching it: </char><char style="ft" closed="false">One possible meaning for the difficult Hebrew text.</char></note><br /><note caller="+" style="f"><char style="fr" closed="false">6.21 </char><char style="fq" closed="false">crumbled … pieces: </char><char style="ft" closed="false">One possible meaning for the difficult Hebrew text.</char></note><br /><note caller="+" style="f"><char style="fr" closed="false">6.27 </char><char style="fq" closed="false">that touches … holy: </char><char style="ft" closed="false">One possible meaning for the difficult Hebrew text.</char></note><br /><note caller="+" style="f"><char style="fr" closed="false">6.28 </char><char style="fq" closed="false">clay pot … destroyed: </char><char style="ft" closed="false">Juice from the meat cannot be completely cleaned from a clay pot.</char></note><br /><note caller="+" style="f"><char style="fr" closed="false">6.30 </char><char style="fq" closed="false">that require blood … tent: </char><char style="ft" closed="false">See 4.1-21.</char></note></div></div><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><div align="center"><p><span style="font-size:11pt;">Contemporary English Version, Second Edition (CEV®)</span></p> <p><span style="font-size:11pt;">© 2006 American Bible Society. 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