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Parashat Tzav

"Command"

Vayiqra [Leviticus] 6:8-8:36

wc;Û  from hw"c' vb. Pi. lay charge (upon), give charge (to), charge, command, order

Theme

The theme of Parashat Tzav is a continuation of Vayiqra.  Additional instructions are given for properly offering the various offerings.

Sedarim

Instructions for the Burnt Offering

Instructions for the Grain Offering

Instructions for the Offering of Aharon's Anointing

Instructions for the Sin Offering

Instructions for the Guilt Offering

Instructions for the Fellowship Offering

Instructions Forbidding Eating Fat and Blood

The Portion for the Priests

The Ordination of Aharon and his Sons

Prophetic Pictures in this Week's Torah Portion

Messiah in the Torah Parashah

Prophetic End Time Shadows in the Torah Parashah


Instructions for the Burnt Offering

8 Yahuwah said to Mosheh:

9 "Give Aharon and his sons this command: 'These are the regulations for the burnt offering: The burnt offering is to remain on the altar hearth throughout the night, till morning, and the fire must be kept burning on the altar.

10 The priest shall then put on his linen clothes, with linen undergarments next to his body, and shall remove the ashes of the burnt offering that the fire has consumed on the altar and place them beside the altar.

11 Then he is to take off these clothes and put on others, and carry the ashes outside the camp to a place that is clean.

12 The fire on the altar must be kept burning; it must not go out. Every morning the priest is to add firewood and arrange the burnt offering on the fire and burn the fat of the fellowship offerings on it.

13 The fire must be kept burning on the altar continuously; it must not go out.

 

Instructions for the Grain Offering

14 "'These are the regulations for the grain offering: Aharon's sons are to bring it before Yahuwah, in front of the altar.

15 The priest is to take a handful of fine flour and oil, together with all the incense on the grain offering, and burn the memorial portion on the altar as an aroma pleasing to Yahuwah.

16 Aharon and his sons shall eat the rest of it, but it is to be eaten without yeast in a holy place; they are to eat it in the courtyard of the Tent of Appointment.

17 It must not be baked with yeast; I have given it as their share of the offerings made to me by fire. Like the sin offering and the guilt offering, it is most holy.

18 Any male descendant of Aharon may eat it. It is his regular share of the offerings made to Yahuwah by fire for the generations to come. Whatever touches them will become holy.'"

Instructions for the Offering of Aharon's Anointing

19 Yahuwah also said to Mosheh,

20 "This is the offering Aharon and his sons are to bring to Yahuwah on the day he is anointed: a tenth of an ephah of fine flour as a regular grain offering, half of it in the morning and half in the evening.

21 Prepare it with oil on a griddle; bring it well-mixed and present the grain offering broken in pieces as an aroma pleasing to Yahuwah.

22 The son who is to succeed him as anointed priest shall prepare it. It is Yahuwah's regular share and is to be burned completely.

23 Every grain offering of a priest shall be burned completely; it must not be eaten."

Instructions for the Sin Offering

24 Yahuwah said to Mosheh,

25 "Say to Aharon and his sons: 'These are the regulations for the sin offering: The sin offering is to be slaughtered before Yahuwah in the place the burnt offering is slaughtered; it is most holy.

26 The priest who offers it shall eat it; it is to be eaten in a holy place, in the courtyard of the Tent of Appointment.

27 Whatever touches any of the flesh will become holy, and if any of the blood is spattered on a garment, you must wash it in a holy place.

28 The clay pot the meat is cooked in must be broken; but if it is cooked in a bronze pot, the pot is to be scoured and rinsed with water.

29 Any male in a priest's family may eat it; it is most holy.

30 But any sin offering whose blood is brought into the Tent of Appointment to make atonement in the Holy Place must not be eaten; it must be burned.

Instructions for the Guilt Offering

7:1 "'These are the regulations for the guilt offering, which is most holy:

2 The guilt offering is to be slaughtered in the place where the burnt offering is slaughtered, and its blood is to be sprinkled against the altar on all sides.

3 All its fat shall be offered: the fat tail and the fat that covers the inner parts,

4 both kidneys with the fat on them near the loins, and the covering of the liver, which is to be removed with the kidneys.

5 The priest shall burn them on the altar as an offering made to Yahuwah by fire. It is a guilt offering.

6 Any male in a priest's family may eat it, but it must be eaten in a holy place; it is most holy.

7 "'The same law applies to both the sin offering and the guilt offering: They belong to the priest who makes atonement with them.

8 The priest who offers a burnt offering for anyone may keep its hide for himself.

9 Every grain offering baked in an oven or cooked in a pan or on a griddle belongs to the priest who offers it,

10 and every grain offering, whether mixed with oil or dry, belongs equally to all the sons of Aharon.

Instructions for the Fellowship Offering

11 "'These are the regulations for the fellowship offering a person may present to Yahuwah:

12 "'If he offers it as an expression of thankfulness, then along with this thank offering he is to offer cakes of bread made without yeast and mixed with oil, wafers made without yeast and spread with oil, and cakes of fine flour well-kneaded and mixed with oil.

13 Along with his fellowship offering of thanksgiving he is to present an offering with cakes of bread made with yeast.

14 He is to bring one of each kind as an offering, a contribution to Yahuwah; it belongs to the priest who sprinkles the blood of the fellowship offerings.

15 The meat of his fellowship offering of thanksgiving must be eaten on the day it is offered; he must leave none of it till morning.

16 "'If, however, his offering is the result of a vow or is a freewill offering, the sacrifice shall be eaten on the day he offers it, but anything left over may be eaten on the next day.

17 Any meat of the sacrifice left over till the third day must be burned up.

18 If any meat of the fellowship offering is eaten on the third day, it will not be accepted. It will not be credited to the one who offered it, for it is impure; the person who eats any of it will be held responsible.

19 "'Meat that touches anything unclean must not be eaten; it must be burned up. As for other meat, anyone clean may eat it.

20 But if anyone who is unclean eats any meat of the fellowship offering belonging to Yahuwah, that person must be cut off from his people.

21 If anyone touches something unclean-- whether human uncleanness or an unclean animal or any unclean, detestable thing-- and then eats any of the meat of the fellowship offering belonging to Yahuwah, that person must be cut off from his people.'"

Instructions Forbidding Eating Fat and Blood

22 Yahuwah said to Mosheh,

23 "Say to the sons of Yisrael: 'Do not eat any of the fat of cattle, sheep or goats.

24 The fat of an animal found dead or torn by wild animals may be used for any other purpose, but you must not eat it.

25 Anyone who eats the fat of an animal from which an offering by fire may be made to Yahuwah must be cut off from his people.

26 And wherever you live, you must not eat the blood of any bird or animal.

27 If anyone eats blood, that person must be cut off from his people.'"

The Portion for the Priests

28 Yahuwah said to Mosheh,

29 "Say to the sons of Yisrael: 'Anyone who brings a fellowship offering to Yahuwah is to bring part of it as his sacrifice to Yahuwah.

30 With his own hands he is to bring the offering made to Yahuwah by fire; he is to bring the fat, together with the breast, and wave the breast before Yahuwah as a wave offering.

31 The priest shall burn the fat on the altar, but the breast belongs to Aharon and his sons.

32 You are to give the right thigh of your fellowship offerings to the priest as a contribution.

33 The son of Aharon who offers the blood and the fat of the fellowship offering shall have the right thigh as his share.

34 From the fellowship offerings of the sons of Yisrael, I have taken the breast that is waved and the thigh that is presented and have given them to Aharon the priest and his sons as their regular share from the sons of Yisrael.'"

35 This is the portion of the offerings made to Yahuwah by fire that were allotted to Aharon and his sons on the day they were presented to serve Yahuwah as priests.

36 On the day they were anointed, Yahuwah commanded that the sons of Yisrael give this to them as their regular share for the generations to come.

37 These, then, are the regulations for the burnt offering, the grain offering, the sin offering, the guilt offering, the ordination offering and the fellowship offering,

38 which Yahuwah gave Mosheh on Mount Sinai on the day he commanded the sons of Yisrael to bring their offerings to Yahuwah, in the Desert of Sinai.

The Ordination of Aharon and his Sons

8:1 Yahuwah said to Mosheh,

2 "Bring Aharon and his sons, their garments, the anointing oil, the bull for the sin offering, the two rams and the basket containing bread made without yeast,

3 and gather the entire assembly at the entrance to the Tent of Appointment."

4 Mosheh did as Yahuwah commanded him, and the assembly gathered at the entrance to the Tent of Appointment.

5 Mosheh said to the assembly, "This is what Yahuwah has commanded to be done."

6 Then Mosheh brought Aharon and his sons forward and washed them with water.

7 He put the tunic on Aharon, tied the sash around him, clothed him with the robe and put the ephod on him. He also tied the ephod to him by its skillfully woven waistband; so it was fastened on him.

8 He placed the breastpiece on him and put the Urim and Thummim in the breastpiece.

9 Then he placed the turban on Aharon's head and set the gold plate, the set apart diadem, on the front of it, as Yahuwah commanded Mosheh.

10 Then Mosheh took the anointing oil and anointed the tabernacle and everything in it, and so consecrated them.

11 He sprinkled some of the oil on the altar seven times, anointing the altar and all its utensils and the basin with its stand, to consecrate them.

12 He poured some of the anointing oil on Aharon's head and anointed him to consecrate him.

13 Then he brought Aharon's sons forward, put tunics on them, tied sashes around them and put headbands on them, as Yahuwah commanded Mosheh.

14 He then presented the bull for the sin offering, and Aharon and his sons laid their hands on its head.

15 Mosheh slaughtered the bull and took some of the blood, and with his finger he put it on all the horns of the altar to purify the altar. He poured out the rest of the blood at the base of the altar. So he consecrated it to make atonement for it.

16 Mosheh also took all the fat around the inner parts, the covering of the liver, and both kidneys and their fat, and burned it on the altar.

17 But the bull with its hide and its flesh and its offal he burned up outside the camp, as Yahuwah commanded Mosheh.

18 He then presented the ram for the burnt offering, and Aharon and his sons laid their hands on its head.

19 Then Mosheh slaughtered the ram and sprinkled the blood against the altar on all sides.

20 He cut the ram into pieces and burned the head, the pieces and the fat.

21 He washed the inner parts and the legs with water and burned the whole ram on the altar as a burnt offering, a pleasing aroma, an offering made to Yahuwah by fire, as Yahuwah commanded Mosheh.

22 He then presented the other ram, the ram for the ordination, and Aharon and his sons laid their hands on its head.

23 Mosheh slaughtered the ram and took some of its blood and put it on the lobe of Aharon's right ear, on the thumb of his right hand and on the big toe of his right foot.

24 Mosheh also brought Aharon's sons forward and put some of the blood on the lobes of their right ears, on the thumbs of their right hands and on the big toes of their right feet. Then he sprinkled blood against the altar on all sides.

25 He took the fat, the fat tail, all the fat around the inner parts, the covering of the liver, both kidneys and their fat and the right thigh.

26 Then from the basket of bread made without yeast, which was before Yahuwah, he took a cake of bread, and one made with oil, and a wafer; he put these on the fat portions and on the right thigh.

27 He put all these in the hands of Aharon and his sons and waved them before Yahuwah as a wave offering.

28 Then Mosheh took them from their hands and burned them on the altar on top of the burnt offering as an ordination offering, a pleasing aroma, an offering made to Yahuwah by fire.

29 He also took the breast-- Mosheh' share of the ordination ram-- and waved it before Yahuwah as a wave offering, as Yahuwah commanded Mosheh.

30 Then Mosheh took some of the anointing oil and some of the blood from the altar and sprinkled them on Aharon and his garments and on his sons and their garments. So he consecrated Aharon and his garments and his sons and their garments.

31 Mosheh then said to Aharon and his sons, "Cook the meat at the entrance to the Tent of Appointment and eat it there with the bread from the basket of ordination offerings, as I commanded, saying, 'Aharon and his sons are to eat it.'

32 Then burn up the rest of the meat and the bread.

33 Do not leave the entrance to the Tent of Appointment for seven days, until the days of your ordination are completed, for your ordination will last seven days.

34 What has been done today was commanded by Yahuwah to make atonement for you.

35 You must stay at the entrance to the Tent of Appointment day and night for seven days and do what Yahuwah requires, so you will not die; for that is what I have been commanded."

36 So Aharon and his sons did everything Yahuwah commanded through Mosheh.


		

 

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