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Leviticus 6:2-14 Good News Bible Anglicised (GNBDC)

2. An offering is to be made if anyone sins against the Lord by refusing to return what a fellow-Israelite has left as a deposit or by stealing something from him or by cheating him

3. or by lying about something that has been lost and swearing that he did not find it.

4-5. When a man sins in any of these ways, he must repay whatever he got by dishonest means. On the day he is found guilty, he must repay the owner in full, plus an additional twenty per cent.

6. He shall bring to the priest as his repayment offering to the Lord a male sheep or goat without any defects. Its value is to be determined according to the official standard.

7. The priest shall offer the sacrifice for the man's sin, and he will be forgiven.

8. The Lord commanded Moses

9. to give Aaron and his sons the following regulations for burnt offerings. A burnt offering is to be left on the altar all night long, and the fire is to be kept burning.

10. Then the priest, wearing his linen robe and linen shorts, shall remove the greasy ashes left on the altar and put them at the side of the altar.

11. Then he shall change his clothes and take the ashes outside the camp to a ritually clean place.

12. The fire on the altar must be kept burning and never allowed to go out. Every morning the priest shall put firewood on it, arrange the burnt offering on it, and burn the fat of the fellowship offering.

13. The fire must always be kept burning on the altar and never allowed to go out.

14. The following are the regulations for grain offerings. An Aaronite priest shall present the grain offering to the Lord in front of the altar.

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