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Leviticus 1:2-9 New American Bible, Revised Edition (NABRE)

2. Speak to the Israelites and tell them: When any one of you brings an offering of livestock to the Lord, you shall bring your offering from the herd or from the flock.

3. If a person’s offering is a burnt offering from the herd, the offering must be a male without blemish. The individual shall bring it to the entrance of the tent of meeting to find favor with the Lord,

4. and shall lay a hand on the head of the burnt offering, so that it may be acceptable to make atonement for the one who offers it.

5. The bull shall then be slaughtered before the Lord, and Aaron’s sons, the priests, shall offer its blood by splashing it on all the sides of the altar which is at the entrance of the tent of meeting.

6. Then the burnt offering shall be flayed and cut into pieces.

7. After Aaron’s sons, the priests, have put burning embers on the altar and laid wood on them,

8. they shall lay the pieces of meat, together with the head and the suet, on top of the wood and the embers on the altar;

9. but the inner organs and the shanks shall be washed with water. The priest shall then burn all of it on the altar as a burnt offering, a sweet-smelling oblation to the Lord.

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