Then take the bull’s meat, his skin, and his other parts and go outside your camp. Burn these things there outside the camp. This is an offering to take away the sins of the priests.
Then the Jewish people that came back from captivity offered burnt offerings to the God of Israel. They offered twelve bulls for all Israel, 96 rams, 77 male lambs, and twelve male goats for a sin offering. All this was a burnt offering to the Lord.
“Once a year Aaron must make a special sacrifice [297] to the Lord. Aaron will use the blood of the sin offering to erase the sins of the people. Aaron will do this at the horns of this altar. [298] This day will be called the Day of Atonement. This will be a very special day for the Lord.”
“Then Aaron will offer the bull as a sin offering for himself. Aaron will make himself and his family pure. [274] Aaron will kill the bull for the sin offering for himself.
“The bull and the goat for the sin offerings must be taken outside the camp. (The blood from those animals was brought into the Holy Place to make {the holy things} pure.) {The priests} must burn the skins, bodies, and body waste of those animals in the fire.
The priest must take some of the blood of the sin offering on his finger and put it on the corners of the altar [35] of burnt offering. The priest must pour the rest of the blood at the base of the altar.
“If the anointed priest [23] makes a mistake in a way that leaves the people guilty for their sin, then the priest must make an offering to the Lord for his sin. The priest must offer a young bull that has nothing wrong with it. He must offer the young bull to the Lord as a sin offering.
He must bring his guilt offering to the Lord for the sin he did. He must bring a female lamb or a female goat as a sin offering. Then the priest will {do the things that will} make that person pure [44] from the sin that person did.
The person must bring them to the priest. First, the priest will offer one bird for the sin offering. The priest will pull off the bird’s head from its neck. But the priest will not divide the bird {into two parts}.
“Tell Aaron and his sons: This is the law of the sin offering. The sin offering must be killed in the place where the burnt offering is killed before the Lord. It is most holy.
But Moses {took} the bull’s skin, its meat, and its body waste outside the camp. Moses burned those things in a fire outside the camp. Moses did those things like the Lord commanded him.
Moses said to Aaron, “Take a bull and a ram. There must be nothing wrong with those animals. The bull will be a sin offering, and the ram will be a burnt offering. Offer those animals to the Lord.
“Look, I will punish your descendants. During the holidays, you priests offer sacrifices to me. You take the dung and inside parts from the dead animals, and throw those parts away. But I will smear that dung on your faces, and you will be thrown away with it!