1-3. The Lord told Moses what the people must do when they commit other sins against the Lord:You have sinned if you rob or cheat someone, if you keep back money or valuables left in your care, or if you find something and claim not to have it.
4. When this happens, you must return what doesn't belong to you
5. and pay the owner a fine of twenty per cent.
6-7. In addition, you must either bring to the priest a ram that has nothing wrong with it or else pay him for one. The priest will then offer it as a sacrifice to make things right, and you will be forgiven for what you did wrong.
8-9. The Lord told Moses to tell Aaron and his sons how to offer the daily sacrifices that are sent up in smoke to please the Lord:You must put the animal for the sacrifice on the altar in the evening and let it stay there all night. But make sure the fire keeps burning.
10. The next morning you will dress in your priestly clothes, including your linen underwear. Then clean away the ashes left by the sacrifices and pile them beside the altar.
11. Change into your everyday clothes, take the ashes outside the camp, and pile them in the special place.
12. The fire must never go out, so put wood on it each morning. After this, you are to lay an animal on the altar next to the fat that you sacrifice to ask my blessing. Then send it all up in smoke to me.
13. The altar fire must always be kept burning—it must never go out.
14. When someone offers a sacrifice to give thanks to me, the priests from Aaron's family must bring it to the front of the bronze altar,
15. where one of them will scoop up a handful of the flour and oil, together with all the incense on it. Then, to show that the whole offering belongs to me, he will lay all of this on the altar and send it up in smoke with a smell that pleases me.