Tzav

The instructions turn from the offerer to the priests. The burnt offering stays on the altar hearth all night; the priest lifts its ashes in linen garments, carries them outside the camp in others, and keeps the altar fire burning always — "it shall not go out." The grain offering's memorial handful is burned and the rest eaten unleavened by the priests in a holy place; the anointed priest's own daily grain offering is wholly burned, never eaten.

The sin offering is slaughtered where the burnt offering is slaughtered, and it is most holy — eaten by the priests in the court, though any sin offering whose blood was brought into the tent is burned, not eaten. The guilt offering follows the same pattern. Then the peace offerings: brought in thanksgiving, with cakes and wafers and leavened bread, eaten the same day; vowed or freewill offerings may be eaten a second day, but by the third the remainder is burned. Flesh touched by anything unclean is not eaten, and no one eats while unclean; eating fat or blood is cut off from the people. The wave breast and the right thigh are the priests' due from every peace offering.

The last chapter enacts what Tetzaveh commanded: the ordination of the priests. Moses assembles the congregation at the entrance of the tent, washes Aaron and his sons, dresses Aaron in the full vestments, and anoints the tabernacle and the high priest. The sin-offering bull, the burnt-offering ram, and the ram of ordination follow, with blood placed on the right ear, thumb, and big toe of Aaron and his sons, and portions waved before the LORD. For seven days they stay at the entrance of the tent of meeting, keeping the LORD's charge, until their ordination is complete.