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L EVITICUS 10
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for this is what the Lord has commanded.” 36 So
Aaron and his sons did everything the Lord had
commanded through Moses.
The Priests Begin Their Work
After the ordination ceremony, on the eighth
day, Moses called together Aaron and his
sons and the elders of Israel. 2 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. 3 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. 4 Also take a bull*
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.’”
5 So the people presented all these things at
the entrance of the Tabernacle,* just as Moses
had commanded. Then the whole community
came forward and stood before the Lord. 6 And
Moses said, “This is what the Lord has commanded you to do so that the glory of the Lord
may appear to you.”
7 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,*
just as he has commanded.”
8 So Aaron went to the altar and slaughtered
the calf as a sin offering for himself. 9 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. 10 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. 11 The meat and the hide, however, he burned outside the camp.
12 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.
13 Then they handed him each piece of the burnt
offering, including the head, and he burned
them on the altar. 14 Then he washed the internal organs and the legs and burned them on the
altar along with the rest of the burnt offering.
15 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. 16 Then he presented the burnt offering and
sacrificed it in the prescribed way. 17 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.
18 Then Aaron slaughtered the bull and the
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9:4 Or cow; also in 9:18, 19. 9:5 Hebrew Tent of Meeting; also
in 9:23. 9:7 Or to make atonement for them.
ram for the people’s peace offering. His sons
brought him the blood, and he splattered it
against all sides of the altar. 19 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. 20 He placed these fat portions on top of the
breasts of these animals and burned them on
the altar. 21 Aaron then lifted up the breasts and
right thighs as a special offering to the Lord, just
as Moses had commanded.
22 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. 23 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.
24 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.
The Sin of Nadab and Abihu
Aaron’s sons Nadab and Abihu put
coals of fire in their incense burners and
sprinkled incense over them. In this way, they
disobeyed the Lord by burning before him the
wrong kind of fire, different than he had commanded. 2 So fire blazed forth from the Lord’s
presence and burned them up, and they died
there before the Lord.
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• Worship
LE V I TI C U S 10:1-3
It doesn’t take long for people working
with electricity to develop a deep respect
for its power. When workers take care
to be properly prepared, electricity is
a marvelous blessing. But if it is not
respected and wires get crossed,
electricity can destroy with terrifying
swiftness and power.
This is one way we can picture God’s
holiness. God went to great lengths to
instruct the people of Israel how they
were to worship, yet Nadab and Abihu,
in disobedience, offered “the wrong kind
of fire” to God. Although we do not know
the exact nature of their offense, we
know that their disrespect brought on the
terrifying judgment of God. As Christians
we are no longer bound by the Levitical
prescriptions for worship, but we must
always remember to approach God with
awe and respect.