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<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd"><html xmlns="http://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 9 NLT</title><link rel="stylesheet" href="/chapnew2.css" type="text/css" media="Screen" /><link rel="stylesheet" href="../spec.css" type="text/css" media="Screen" /><link rel="stylesheet" href="/print.css" type="text/css" media="Print" /></head><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/9.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/9-1.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="http://biblehub.com">Bible</a> > <a href="../">NLT</a> > Leviticus 9</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/8.htm" title="Leviticus 8">◄</a> Leviticus 9 <a href="../leviticus/10.htm" title="Leviticus 10">►</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"><table width="100%"><tr><td width="99%" valign="top">New Living Translation</td><td width="1%" valign="top"><a href="/p/nlt/esv/leviticus/9.shtml" style="color:#001320" title="Parallel Chapters"> Par ▾ </a></td></tr></table></div><div class="chap"><p class="hdg">The Priests Begin Their Work</p><p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/leviticus/9-1.htm"><b>1</b></a></span>After the ordination ceremony, on the eighth day, Moses called together Aaron and his sons and the elders of Israel. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/leviticus/9-2.htm"><b>2</b></a></span>He said to Aaron, “Take a young bull for a sin offering and a ram for a burnt offering, both without defects, and present them to the LORD. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/leviticus/9-3.htm"><b>3</b></a></span>Then tell the Israelites, ‘Take a male goat for a sin offering, and take a calf and a lamb, both a year old and without defects, for a burnt offering. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/leviticus/9-4.htm"><b>4</b></a></span>Also take a bull<a href="#footnotes"><span class="fn">a</span></a> and a ram for a peace offering and flour moistened with olive oil for a grain offering. Present all these offerings to the LORD because the LORD will appear to you today.’”</p><p class="reg"> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/leviticus/9-5.htm"><b>5</b></a></span>So the people presented all these things at the entrance of the Tabernacle,<a href="#footnotes"><span class="fn">b</span></a> just as Moses had commanded. Then the whole community came forward and stood before the LORD. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/leviticus/9-6.htm"><b>6</b></a></span>And Moses said, “This is what the LORD has commanded you to do so that the glory of the LORD may appear to you.”</p><p class="reg"> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/leviticus/9-7.htm"><b>7</b></a></span>Then Moses said to Aaron, “Come to the altar and sacrifice your sin offering and your burnt offering to purify yourself and the people. Then present the offerings of the people to purify them, making them right with the LORD,<a href="#footnotes"><span class="fn">c</span></a> just as he has commanded.”</p><p class="reg"> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/leviticus/9-8.htm"><b>8</b></a></span>So Aaron went to the altar and slaughtered the calf as a sin offering for himself. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/leviticus/9-9.htm"><b>9</b></a></span>His sons brought him the blood, and he dipped his finger in it and put it on the horns of the altar. He poured out the rest of the blood at the base of the altar. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/leviticus/9-10.htm"><b>10</b></a></span>Then he burned on the altar the fat, the kidneys, and the long lobe of the liver from the sin offering, just as the LORD had commanded Moses. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/leviticus/9-11.htm"><b>11</b></a></span>The meat and the hide, however, he burned outside the camp.</p><p class="reg"> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/leviticus/9-12.htm"><b>12</b></a></span>Next Aaron slaughtered the animal for the burnt offering. His sons brought him the blood, and he splattered it against all sides of the altar. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/leviticus/9-13.htm"><b>13</b></a></span>Then they handed him each piece of the burnt offering, including the head, and he burned them on the altar. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/leviticus/9-14.htm"><b>14</b></a></span>Then he washed the internal organs and the legs and burned them on the altar along with the rest of the burnt offering.</p><p class="reg"> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/leviticus/9-15.htm"><b>15</b></a></span>Next Aaron presented the offerings of the people. He slaughtered the people’s goat and presented it as an offering for their sin, just as he had first done with the offering for his own sin. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/leviticus/9-16.htm"><b>16</b></a></span>Then he presented the burnt offering and sacrificed it in the prescribed way. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/leviticus/9-17.htm"><b>17</b></a></span>He also presented the grain offering, burning a handful of the flour mixture on the altar, in addition to the regular burnt offering for the morning.</p><p class="reg"> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/leviticus/9-18.htm"><b>18</b></a></span>Then Aaron slaughtered the bull and the ram for the people’s peace offering. His sons brought him the blood, and he splattered it against all sides of the altar. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/leviticus/9-19.htm"><b>19</b></a></span>Then he took the fat of the bull and the ram—the fat of the broad tail and from around the internal organs—along with the kidneys and the long lobes of the livers. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/leviticus/9-20.htm"><b>20</b></a></span>He placed these fat portions on top of the breasts of these animals and burned them on the altar. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/leviticus/9-21.htm"><b>21</b></a></span>Aaron then lifted up the breasts and right thighs as a special offering to the LORD, just as Moses had commanded.</p><p class="reg"> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/leviticus/9-22.htm"><b>22</b></a></span>After that, Aaron raised his hands toward the people and blessed them. Then, after presenting the sin offering, the burnt offering, and the peace offering, he stepped down from the altar. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/leviticus/9-23.htm"><b>23</b></a></span>Then Moses and Aaron went into the Tabernacle, and when they came back out, they blessed the people again, and the glory of the LORD appeared to the whole community. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/leviticus/9-24.htm"><b>24</b></a></span>Fire blazed forth from the LORD’s presence and consumed the burnt offering and the fat on the altar. When the people saw this, they shouted with joy and fell face down on the ground.</p><A name="footnotes"></a><hr size="1" color="DDEEFF"><span class="mainfootnotes"><span class="mainfootnoteshdg">Footnotes:</span><br><span class="fn">a</span><note caller="+" style="f"><span class="fr">9:4 </span><span class="ft">Or </span><span class="it">cow;</span><span class="ft"> also in 9:18, 19.</span><br><span class="fn">b</span><note caller="+" style="f"><span class="fr">9:5 </span><span class="ft">Hebrew </span><span class="it">Tent of Meeting;</span><span class="ft"> also in 9:23.</span><br><span class="fn">c</span><note caller="+" style="f"><span class="fr">9:7 </span><span class="ft">Or </span><span class="it">to make atonement for them.</span><br></span></div></div><div id="botbox"><div class="padbot"><div align="center"><em>Holy Bible</em>, New Living Translation, copyright © 1996, 2004, 2015 by Tyndale House Foundation. 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