Leviticus 6:8-13

Contemporary English Version

Daily Sacrifices

(Exodus 29.38-43; Numbers 28.1-8)

^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:^[a]

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.^[b]

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.^[c] Then send it all up in smoke to me.

¹³ The altar fire must always be kept burning—it must never go out.