1. The Lord spoke to Moses, saying:
2. Whosoever shall sin, and despising the Lord, shall deny to his neighbour the thing delivered to his keeping, which was committed to his trust; or shall by force extort any thing, or commit oppression;
3. Or shall find a thing lost, and denying it, shall also swear falsely, or shall do any other of the many things, wherein men are wont to sin:
4. Being convicted of the offence, he shall restore
5. All that he would have gotten by fraud, in the principal, and the fifth part besides to the owner, whom he wronged.
6. Moreover for his sin he shall offer a ram without blemish out of the flock, and shall give it to the priest, according to the estimation and measure of the offence:
7. And he shall pray for him before the Lord, and he shall have forgiveness for every thing in doing of which he hath sinned.
8. And the Lord spoke to Moses, saying:
9. Command Aaron and his sons: This is the law of a holocaust: It shall be burnt upon the altar, all night until morning: the fire shall be of the same altar.
10. The priest shall be vested with the tunick and the linen breeches, and he shall take up the ashes of that which the devouring fire hath burnt, and putting them beside the altar,
11. Shall put off his former vestments, and being clothed with others, shall carry them forth without the camp, and shall cause them to be consumed to dust in a very clean place,
12. And the fire on the altar shall always burn, and the priest shall feed it, putting wood on it every day in the morning, and laying on the holocaust, shall burn thereupon the fat of the peace offerings.
13. This is the perpetual fire which shall never go out on the altar.
14. This is the law of the sacrifice and libations, which the children of Aaron shall offer before the Lord, and before the altar.
15. The priest shall take a handful of the flour that is tempered with oil, and all the frankincense that is put upon the flour: and he shall burn it on the altar for a memorial of most sweet odour to the Lord: