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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 NIV</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="../">NIV</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 International Version</td><td width="1%" valign="top"><a href="/p/niv/esv/leviticus/9.shtml" style="color:#001320" title="Parallel Chapters"> Par ▾ </a></tr></table></div><div class="chap"><p class="sectionhead">The Priests Begin Their Ministry</p><p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/leviticus/9-1.htm"><b>1</b></a></span>On the eighth day Moses summoned 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 bull calf for your sin offering <span class="nivfootnote"><sup><a href="#footnotes" title="Or purification offering; here and throughout this chapter">a</a></sup></span> and a ram for your burnt offering, both without defect, and present them before the <span class="name">Lord</span>. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/leviticus/9-3.htm"><b>3</b></a></span>Then say to the Israelites: ‘Take a male goat for a sin offering, a calf and a lamb—both a year old and without defect—for a burnt offering, <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/leviticus/9-4.htm"><b>4</b></a></span>and an ox <span class="nivfootnote"><sup><a href="#footnotes" title="The Hebrew word can refer to either male or female; also in verses 18 and 19.">b</a></sup></span> and a ram for a fellowship offering to sacrifice before the <span class="name">Lord</span>, together with a grain offering mixed with olive oil. For today the <span class="name">Lord</span> will appear to you.’ ”</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/leviticus/9-5.htm"><b>5</b></a></span>They took the things Moses commanded to the front of the tent of meeting, and the entire assembly came near and stood before the <span class="name">Lord</span>. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/leviticus/9-6.htm"><b>6</b></a></span>Then Moses said, “This is what the <span class="name">Lord</span> has commanded you to do, so that the glory of the <span class="name">Lord</span> 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>Moses said to Aaron, “Come to the altar and sacrifice your sin offering and your burnt offering and make atonement for yourself and the people; sacrifice the offering that is for the people and make atonement for them, as the <span class="name">Lord</span> 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 came 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 the blood to him, and he dipped his finger into the blood and put it on the horns of the altar; the rest of the blood he poured out at the base of the altar. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/leviticus/9-10.htm"><b>10</b></a></span>On the altar he burned the fat, the kidneys and the long lobe of the liver from the sin offering, as the <span class="name">Lord</span> commanded Moses; <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/leviticus/9-11.htm"><b>11</b></a></span>the flesh and the hide he burned up outside the camp.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/leviticus/9-12.htm"><b>12</b></a></span>Then he slaughtered the burnt offering. His sons handed him the blood, and he splashed it against the sides of the altar. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/leviticus/9-13.htm"><b>13</b></a></span>They handed him the burnt offering piece by piece, 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>He washed the internal organs and the legs and burned them on top of the burnt offering on the altar.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/leviticus/9-15.htm"><b>15</b></a></span>Aaron then brought the offering that was for the people. He took the goat for the people’s sin offering and slaughtered it and offered it for a sin offering as he did with the first one.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/leviticus/9-16.htm"><b>16</b></a></span>He brought the burnt offering and offered it in the prescribed way. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/leviticus/9-17.htm"><b>17</b></a></span>He also brought the grain offering, took a handful of it and burned it on the altar in addition to the morning’s burnt offering.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/leviticus/9-18.htm"><b>18</b></a></span>He slaughtered the ox and the ram as the fellowship offering for the people. His sons handed him the blood, and he splashed it against the sides of the altar. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/leviticus/9-19.htm"><b>19</b></a></span>But the fat portions of the ox and the ram—the fat tail, the layer of fat, the kidneys and the long lobe of the liver— <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/leviticus/9-20.htm"><b>20</b></a></span>these they laid on the breasts, and then Aaron burned the fat on the altar. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/leviticus/9-21.htm"><b>21</b></a></span>Aaron waved the breasts and the right thigh before the <span class="name">Lord</span> as a wave offering, as Moses commanded.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/leviticus/9-22.htm"><b>22</b></a></span>Then Aaron lifted his hands toward the people and blessed them. And having sacrificed the sin offering, the burnt offering and the fellowship offering, he stepped down.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/leviticus/9-23.htm"><b>23</b></a></span>Moses and Aaron then went into the tent of meeting. When they came out, they blessed the people; and the glory of the <span class="name">Lord</span> appeared to all the people. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/leviticus/9-24.htm"><b>24</b></a></span>Fire came out from the presence of the <span class="name">Lord</span> and consumed the burnt offering and the fat portions on the altar. And when all the people saw it, they shouted for joy and fell facedown.</p><hr size="1" color="DDEEFF"><span class="mainfootnotes"><A name="footnotes"></a><span class="mainfootnoteshdg">Footnotes:</span><br><span class="nivfootnotesbot">a</span> <span class="fnverse">2</span> <span class="footnotebot">Or <i>purification offering</i>; here and throughout this chapter</span><br><span class="nivfootnotesbot">b</span> <span class="fnverse">4</span> <span class="footnotebot">The Hebrew word can refer to either male or female; also in verses 18 and 19.</span><br><hr size="1" color="DDEEFF"></div></div><div id="botbox"><div class="padbot"><div align="center"><p class="ntext"><a href="http://niv.scripturetext.com/version.htm">New International Version</a> (NIV)</p><p class="ntext2">Holy Bible, New International Version&reg, NIV® Copyright © 1973, 1978, 1984, 2011 by <a href="http://biblica.com">Biblica, Inc.</a>® Used by permission. 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