Wednesday in Season after Pentecost

1Verse 1. Then the LORD said to Moses, 2Verse 2. “Consecrate to Me every firstborn male. The firstborn from every womb among the Israelites belongs to Me, both of man and beast.” 3Verse 3. So Moses told the people, “Remember this day, the day you came out of Egypt, out of the house of slavery; for the LORD brought you out of it by the strength of His hand. And nothing leavened shall be eaten. 4Verse 4. Today, in the month of Abib, you are leaving. 5Verse 5. And when the LORD brings you into the land of the Canaanites, Hittites, Amorites, Hivites, and Jebusites — the land He swore to your fathers that He would give you, a land flowing with milk and honey — you shall keep this service in this month. 6Verse 6. For seven days you are to eat unleavened bread, and on the seventh day there shall be a feast to the LORD. 7Verse 7. Unleavened bread shall be eaten during those seven days. Nothing leavened may be found among you, nor shall leaven be found anywhere within your borders. 8Verse 8. And on that day you are to explain to your son, ‘This is because of what the LORD did for me when I came out of Egypt.’ 9Verse 9. It shall be a sign for you on your hand and a reminder on your forehead that the Law of the LORD is to be on your lips. For with a mighty hand the LORD brought you out of Egypt. 10Verse 10. Therefore you shall keep this statute at the appointed time year after year.

1Verse 1. Now the LORD spoke to Moses after the death of two of Aaron’s sons when they approached the presence of the LORD. 2Verse 2. And the LORD said to Moses: “Tell your brother Aaron not to enter freely into the Most Holy Place behind the veil in front of the mercy seat on the ark, or else he will die, because I appear in the cloud above the mercy seat. 3Verse 3. This is how Aaron is to enter the Holy Place: with a young bull for a sin offering and a ram for a burnt offering. 4Verse 4. He is to wear the sacred linen tunic, with linen undergarments. He must tie a linen sash around him and put on the linen turban. These are holy garments, and he must bathe himself with water before he wears them. 5Verse 5. And he shall take from the congregation of Israel two male goats for a sin offering and one ram for a burnt offering. 20Verse 20. When Aaron has finished purifying the Most Holy Place, the Tent of Meeting, and the altar, he is to bring forward the live goat. 21Verse 21. Then he is to lay both hands on the head of the live goat and confess over it all the iniquities and rebellious acts of the Israelites in regard to all their sins. He is to put them on the goat’s head and send it away into the wilderness by the hand of a man appointed for the task. 22Verse 22. The goat will carry on itself all their iniquities into a solitary place, and the man will release it into the wilderness. 23Verse 23. Then Aaron is to enter the Tent of Meeting, take off the linen garments he put on before entering the Most Holy Place, and leave them there. 24Verse 24. He is to bathe himself with water in a holy place and put on his own clothes. Then he must go out and sacrifice his burnt offering and the people’s burnt offering to make atonement for himself and for the people. 25Verse 25. He is also to burn the fat of the sin offering on the altar. 26Verse 26. The man who released the goat as the scapegoat must wash his clothes and bathe himself with water; afterward he may reenter the camp. 27Verse 27. The bull for the sin offering and the goat for the sin offering, whose blood was brought into the Most Holy Place to make atonement, must be taken outside the camp; and their hides, flesh, and dung must be burned up. 28Verse 28. The one who burns them must wash his clothes and bathe himself with water, and afterward he may reenter the camp.