16-17. The rest of it is to be baked without yeast and eaten by the priests in the sacred courtyard of the sacred tent. This bread is very holy, just like the sacrifices for sin or for making things right, and I have given this part to the priests from what is offered to me on the altar.
18. Only the men in Aaron's family are allowed to eat this bread, and they must go through a ceremony to be made holy before touching it. This law will never change.
19. The Lord spoke to Moses
20. and told him what sacrifices the priests must offer on the morning and evening of the day they are ordained:It is the same as the regular morning and evening sacrifices—half a kilogramme of flour
21. mixed with olive oil and cooked in a shallow pan. The bread must then be crumbled into small pieces and sent up in smoke with a smell that pleases me.
22-23. Each of Aaron's descendants who is ordained as a priest must perform this ceremony and make sure that the bread is completely burnt on the altar. None of it may be eaten!
24. The Lord told Moses
25. how the priests from Aaron's family were to offer the sacrifice for sin:This sacrifice is very sacred, and the animal must be killed in my presence at the north side of the bronze altar.
26. The priest who offers this sacrifice must eat it in the sacred courtyard of the sacred tent,
27. and anyone or anything that touches the meat will be holy. If any of the animal's blood is splattered on the clothes of the priest, they must be washed in a holy place.
28. If the meat was cooked in a clay pot, the pot must be destroyed, but if it was cooked in a bronze pot, the pot must be scrubbed and rinsed with water.
29. This sacrifice is very holy, and only the priests may have any part of it.