1. The Lord told Moses these rules for the people:
2. “You are guilty of sin against the Lord when you do any of these things: when you lie about what happened to something you were taking care of for someone else; when you lie about a deposit you received; when you steal something; when you cheat someone;
3. when you find something that was lost and lie about having it; when you fail to keep a promise; or when you do any other bad things like these.
4. If you do any of these things, you are guilty of doing wrong. You must give back whatever you stole or whatever you took by cheating. You must return whatever you took that another person asked you to hold, or whatever you found and lied about having,
5. or whatever you made a false promise about. You must pay the full price and then add one-fifth of that amount as a fine and give it all to the true owner.
6. You must also bring a ram to the Lord that has nothing wrong with it (or the same amount in silver) to the priest.
7. Then the priest will go to the Lord to make you pure, and God will forgive you for whichever of these things you did that made you guilty.”
8. The Lord said to Moses,
9. “Give this command to Aaron and his sons: This is the law of the burnt offering. The burnt offering must stay on the hearth of the altar all night until morning. The altar’s fire must be kept burning.
10. The priest must change clothes and put on the special linen underwear and linen robe. Then he must gather up the ashes from the fire and burnt offerings and set them down by the altar.
11. Then he must take off the special clothes and put on the other clothes and carry the ashes outside the camp to a special place that is pure.
12. The fire that was started on the altar must never be allowed to stop burning. Every morning the priests must put wood on the altar. They must arrange the burnt offerings on the wood, and they must burn the fat of the fellowship offerings on it.
13. That fire must always be kept burning on the altar. It must never be allowed to stop burning.
14. “This is the law for the grain offering: The sons of Aaron will bring it to the front of the altar as an offering to the Lord.