10. So from now on, you must use honest weights and measures.
11. The ephah will be the standard dry measure, and the bath will be the standard liquid measure. Their size will be based on the homer, which will equal ten ephahs or ten baths.
12. The standard unit of weight will be the shekel. One shekel will equal twenty gerahs, and sixty shekels will equal one mina.
13. Leaders of Israel, the people must bring you one sixtieth of their grain harvests as offerings to me.
14. They will also bring one per cent of their olive oil. These things will be measured according to the bath, and ten baths is the same as one homer or one cor.
15. Finally, they must bring one sheep out of every two hundred from their flocks.These offerings will be used as grain sacrifices, as well as sacrifices to please me and those to ask my blessing. I, the Lord, will be pleased with these sacrifices and will forgive the sins of my people.
16. The people of Israel will bring you these offerings.
17. But during New Moon Festivals, Sabbath celebrations, and other religious feasts, you leaders will be responsible for providing animals for the sacrifices, as well as the grain and wine. All these will be used for the sacrifices for sin, the grain sacrifices, the sacrifices to please me, and those to ask my blessing. I will be pleased and will forgive the sins of my people.
18. The Lord God said:On the first day of the first month, a young bull that has nothing wrong with it must be offered as a sacrifice to purify the temple.
19. The priest will take some blood from this sacrifice and smear it on the doorposts of the temple, as well as on the four corners of the altar and on the doorposts of the gates that lead into the inner courtyard.
20. The same ceremony must also be done on the seventh day of the month, so that anyone who sins accidentally or without knowing it will be forgiven, and so that my temple will remain holy.
21. Beginning on the fourteenth day of the first month, and continuing for seven days, everyone will celebrate Passover and eat bread made without yeast.