Then he presented the second ram, the ram of ordination, and Aaron and his sons laid their hands on the head of the ram

He then put all of them on the palms of Aaron and his sons, who waved them as a wave offering before the Lord.

and said to Aaron, “Take for yourself a bull calf for a sin offering and a ram for a burnt offering, both flawless, and present them before the Lord.

He then slaughtered the burnt offering, and his sons handed the blood to him and he splashed it against the altar’s sides.

“Do not drink wine or strong drink, you and your sons with you, when you enter into the Meeting Tent, so that you do not die, which is a perpetual statute throughout your generations,

and to teach the Israelites all the statutes that the Lord has spoken to them through Moses.”

You must eat it in a holy place because it is your allotted portion and the allotted portion of your sons from the gifts of the Lord, for this is what I have been commanded.

Later Moses sought diligently for the sin offering male goat, but it had actually been burnt. So he became angry at Eleazar and Ithamar, Aaron’s remaining sons, saying,

“Tell the Israelites: ‘This is the kind of creature you may eat from among all the animals that are on the land.

“Tell the Israelites, ‘When a woman produces offspring and bears a male child, she will be unclean seven days, as she is unclean during the days of her menstruation.

and two turtledoves or two young pigeons, which are within his means. One will be a sin offering and the other a burnt offering.

“Speak to the Israelites and tell them, ‘When any man has a discharge from his body, his discharge is unclean.

Then on the eighth day she must take for herself two turtledoves or two young pigeons and she must bring them to the priest at the entrance of the Meeting Tent,

“‘Thus you are to set the Israelites apart from their impurity so that they do not die in their impurity by defiling my tabernacle which is in their midst.

The Lord spoke to Moses after the death of Aaron’s two sons when they approached the presence of the Lord and died,

So he is to make atonement for the holy place from the impurities of the Israelites and from their transgressions with regard to all their sins, and thus he is to do for the Meeting Tent which resides with them in the midst of their impurities.

Therefore, I have said to the Israelites: No person among you is to eat blood, and no resident foreigner who lives among you is to eat blood.

“Speak to the whole congregation of the Israelites and tell them, ‘You must be holy because I, the Lord your God, am holy.

The Lord said to Moses: “Say to the priests, the sons of Aaron – say to them, ‘For a dead person no priest is to defile himself among his people,

Even from a foreigner you must not present the food of your God from such animals as these, for they are ruined and flawed; they will not be acceptable for your benefit.’”