Vayikra (Leviticus) 1

1[GOD] called to Moses and spoke to him from the Tent of Meeting, saying:

2Speak to the Israelite people, and say to them:When any of you presents an offering of cattle to GOD: You shall choose your offering from the herd or from the flock.

3If your offering is a burnt offering from the herd, you shall make your offering a male without blemish. You shall bring it to the entrance of the Tent of Meeting, for acceptance in your behalf before GOD.†

4You shall lay a hand upon the head of the burnt offering, that it may be acceptable in your behalf, in expiation for you.

5The bull shall be slaughtered before GOD; and Aaron’s sons, the priests, shall offer the blood, dashing the blood against all sides of the altar that is at the entrance of the Tent of Meeting.

6The burnt offering shall be flayed and cut up into sections.

7The sons of Aaron the priest shall put fire on the altar and lay out wood upon the fire;

8and Aaron’s sons, the priests, shall lay out the sections, with the head and the suet, on the wood that is on the fire upon the altar.

9Its entrails and legs shall be washed with water, and the priest shall turn the whole into smoke on the altar as a burnt offering, an offering by fire of pleasing odor to GOD.

10If your offering for a burnt offering is from the flock, of sheep or of goats, you shall make your offering a male without blemish.

11It shall be slaughtered before GOD on the north side of the altar, and Aaron’s sons, the priests, shall dash its blood against all sides of the altar.

12When it has been cut up into sections, the priest shall lay them out, with the head and the suet, on the wood that is on the fire upon the altar.

13The entrails and the legs shall be washed with water; the priest shall offer up and turn the whole into smoke on the altar. It is a burnt offering, an offering by fire, of pleasing odor to GOD.

14If your offering to GOD is a burnt offering of birds, you shall choose your offering from turtledoves or pigeons.

15The priest shall bring it to the altar, pinch off its head, and turn it into smoke on the altar; and its blood shall be drained out against the side of the altar.

16He shall remove its crop with its contents, and cast it into the place of the ashes, at the east side of the altar.†

17The priest shall tear it open by its wings, without severing it, and turn it into smoke on the altar, upon the wood that is on the fire. It is a burnt offering, an offering by fire, of pleasing odor to GOD.