Then the priest must offer them up in smoke on the altar as a food gift for a soothing aroma – all the fat belongs to the Lord.

He must lay his hand on the head of the sin offering and slaughter the sin offering in the place where the burnt offering is slaughtered.

Then he must take off his clothes and put on other clothes, and he must bring the fatty ashes outside the camp to a ceremonially clean place,

Every grain offering which is baked in the oven or made in the pan or on the griddle belongs to the priest who presented it.

“On the eighth day he must bring them for his purification to the priest at the entrance of the Meeting Tent before the Lord,

If the man with a discharge spits on a person who is ceremonially clean, that person must wash his clothes, bathe in water, and be unclean until evening.

“Aaron must then enter the Meeting Tent and take off the linen garments which he had put on when he entered the sanctuary, and leave them there.

Then on the fifteenth day of the same month will be the festival of unleavened bread to the Lord; seven days you must eat unleavened bread.

You must not do any work on this particular day, because it is a day of atonement to make atonement for yourselves before the Lord your God.

Now the leader of the clan of the families of Merari was Zuriel son of Abihail. These were to camp on the north side of the tabernacle.

Then the priest will take a handful of the grain offering as its memorial portion, burn it on the altar, and afterward make the woman drink the water.

But to the Kohathites he gave none, because the service of the holy things, which they carried on their shoulders, was their responsibility.

They may observe it on the fourteenth day of the second month at twilight; they are to eat it with bread made without yeast and with bitter herbs.

On the twentieth day of the second month, in the second year, the cloud was taken up from the tabernacle of the testimony.

You must write Aaron’s name on the staff of Levi; for one staff is for the head of every tribe.

Remove Aaron’s priestly garments and put them on Eleazar his son, and Aaron will be gathered to his ancestors and will die there.”

The Lord said to Moses, “Make a poisonous snake and set it on a pole. When anyone who is bitten looks at it, he will live.”

Then God met Balaam, who said to him, “I have prepared seven altars, and I have offered on each altar a bull and a ram.”

And he revealed to you the covenant he has commanded you to keep, the ten commandments, writing them on two stone tablets.

Today realize and carefully consider that the Lord is God in heaven above and on earth below – there is no other!