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five for those on the other side, and five for those on the rear side of the tabernacle, to the west.

a beka per person, that is, half a shekel, according to the sanctuary shekel, from everyone twenty years of age or older who had crossed over to be numbered, a total of 603,550 men.

Then they brought the tabernacle to Moses: the tent with all its furnishings, its clasps, its frames, its crossbars, and its posts and bases;

“On the first day of the first month you are to set up the tabernacle, the Tent of Meeting.

Set up the surrounding courtyard and hang the curtain for the entrance to the courtyard.

So the tabernacle was set up on the first day of the first month of the second year.

When Moses set up the tabernacle, he laid its bases, positioned its frames, inserted its crossbars, and set up its posts.

Then he is to take the bull outside the camp and burn it, just as he burned the first bull. It is the sin offering for the assembly.

Any male among the priests may eat it; it is most holy.

Every male among the priests may eat of it. It must be eaten in a holy place; it is most holy.

Likewise, every grain offering that is baked in an oven or cooked in a pan or on a griddle belongs to the priest who presents it,

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

Along with his peace offering of thanksgiving he is to present an offering with cakes of leavened bread.

But if anyone who is unclean eats meat from the peace offering that belongs to the LORD, that person must be cut off from his people.

If one touches anything unclean, whether human uncleanness, an unclean animal, or any unclean, detestable thing, and then eats any of the meat of the peace offering that belongs to the LORD, that person must be cut off from his people.”

“Speak to the Israelites and say, ëYou are not to eat any of the fat of an ox, a sheep, or a goat.

If anyone eats the fat of an animal from which an offering made by fire may be presented to the LORD, the one who eats it must be cut off from his people.

If anyone eats blood, that person must be cut off from his people.í”

and assemble the whole congregation at the entrance to the Tent of Meeting.”

Then he slaughtered the ox and the ram as the peopleís peace offering. His sons brought him the blood, and he sprinkled it on all sides of the altar.

Aaron lifted up his hands toward the people and blessed them. And having made the sin offering, the burnt offering, and the peace offering, he stepped down.

So they came forward and carried them, still in their tunics, outside the camp, as Moses had directed.

Then Moses said to Aaron and his sons Eleazar and Ithamar, “Do not let your hair become disheveled and do not tear your garments, or else you will die, and the LORD will be angry with the whole congregation. But your brothers, the whole house of Israel, may mourn on account of the fire that the LORD has ignited.

“When someone has a swelling or rash or bright spot on his skin that could become an infectious skin disease, he must be brought to Aaron the priest or to one of his sons who is a priest.