¹ Ja see on kirjeldus, mida sa nendega pead tegema, pühitsedes neid mulle preestriteks: võta üks noor härjavärss ja kaks veatut jäära,

² hapnemata leiba, õliga segatud hapnemata kakke ja õliga võitud õhukesi hapnemata kooke; tee need peenest nisujahust!

³ Pane need ühte korvi ja too need korviga kaasa, siis kui tood härjavärsi ja kaks jäära!

⁴ Too Aaron ja tema pojad kogudusetelgi ukse juurde ja pese neid veega!

⁵ Võta riided ja pane Aaronile selga: särk ja õlarüü ülekuub, õlarüü ja rinnakilp, ja seo temale ümber õlarüü vöö!

⁶ Pane temale peakate pähe ja kinnita püha laubaehe peakatte külge!

⁷ Võta võideõli ja vala temale pähe ja võia teda!

⁸ Too esile ta pojad ja pane neile särgid selga!

⁹ Vööta nad vööga, Aaron ja tema pojad, ning seo nende peakatted! Preestriamet kuulugu neile igavese seaduse järgi. Ja täida Aaroni ja tema poegade käed!

¹⁰ Too härjavärss kogudusetelgi ette ning Aaron ja tema pojad pangu oma käed härjavärsi pea peale!

¹¹ Tapa härjavärss Issanda ees kogudusetelgi ukse juures!

¹² Võta härjavärsi verd ja määri sõrmega altari sarvedele; kogu veri aga vala altari jalale!

¹³ Ja võta kõik sisikonda kattev rasv, maksarasv, mõlemad neerud ja rasv, mis nende küljes on, ja süüta altaril põlema!

¹⁴ Aga härjavärsi liha, nahk ja sisikond põleta tulega väljaspool leeri; see on patuohver!

¹⁵ Võta üks jääradest ning Aaron ja tema pojad pangu oma käed jäära pea peale!

¹⁶ Tapa see jäär ja võta ta verd ning piserda altarile ümberringi!

¹⁷ Raiu jäär tükkideks, pese ta sisikond ja sääred ning pane need ta tükkide ja pea peale!

¹⁸ Siis süüta kogu see jäär altaril põlema; see on põletusohver Issandale, see on healõhnaline tuleohver Issandale!

¹⁹ Seejärel võta teine jäär ning Aaron ja tema pojad pangu oma käed jäära pea peale!

²⁰ Tapa see jäär ja võta ta verd ning määri Aaroni parema kõrva lestale ja tema poegade parema kõrva lestale, ja nende parema käe pöidlale ja parema jala suurele varbale; muu veri aga piserda altarile ümberringi!

²¹ Võta altaril olevat verd ja võideõli ja piserda Aaroni ja tema riiete peale, nõndasamuti tema poegade ja poegade riiete peale; siis saavad pühaks tema ja ta riided, ja samuti tema pojad ja poegade riided!

²² Võta siis jäära rasv ja rasvane saba, sisikonna võrkkile rasv ja maksarasv, mõlemad neerud ja rasv, mis nende küljes on, ja parempoolne saps, sest see on pühitsusjäär,

²³ üks päts leiba, üks õliga segatud leivakakk ja üks õhuke koogike hapnemata leibade korvist, mis on Issanda ees,

²⁴ ja pane need kõik Aaroni käte peale ja tema poegade käte peale ning kõiguta neid kõigutusohvrina Issanda ees!

²⁵ Siis võta need nende käte pealt ja põleta altaril põletusohvri peal meeldivaks lõhnaks Issanda ees; see on tuleohver Issandale!

²⁶ Võta rinnaliha Aaroni pühitsusjäärast ja kõiguta seda kõigutusohvrina Issanda ees; ja see saagu siis sinule!

²⁷ Pühitse kõigutusrinda ja tõstesapsu, mida on kõigutatud ja mida on tõstetud Aaroni ja tema poegade pühitsusohvri jäärast,

²⁸ ja need saagu Iisraeli lastelt Aaronile ja tema poegadele igavese seaduse järgi, sest see on tõstelõiv; ja kui tõstelõiv on see Iisraeli lastelt nende tänu-tapaohvritest, tõstelõiv Issandale!

²⁹ Aaroni pühad riided saagu pärast teda ta poegadele, et neidki nende sees võitaks ja nende käed täidetaks!

³⁰ Seitse päeva kandku neid oma seljas see ta poegadest, kes saab preestriks, kes läheb kogudusetelki, et pühamus teenida!

³¹ Võta pühitsusjäär ja keeda selle liha pühas paigas!

³² Ja Aaron ja tema pojad söögu jäära liha ja leiba, mis on korvis, kogudusetelgi ukse ees!

³³ Nad söögu seda, millega lepitust toodi, kui nende käed täideti ja neid pühitseti; aga võõras ei tohi seda süüa, sest see on püha!

³⁴ Ja kui pühitsusohvri lihast ja leivast midagi jääb üle hommikuks, siis põleta see jääk tulega: seda ei tohi süüa, sest see on püha!

³⁵ Tee Aaroni ja tema poegadega kõik nõnda, nagu ma sind olen käskinud; nende pühitsus kestku seitse päeva!

³⁶ Ohverda iga päev patuohvri härjavärss lepituseks ja puhasta patust altar, tuues selle peal lepitust, ja võia seda pühitsuseks!

³⁷ Seitse päeva toimeta altari lepitust ja pühitse seda; siis altar saab väga pühaks: igaüks, kes altarit puudutab, saab pühaks!

³⁸ Ja see on, mida sa pead ohverdama altaril alaliselt, iga päev: kaks aastast talle.

³⁹ Üks tall ohverda hommikul ja teine tall ohverda õhtul,

⁴⁰ ja kann peent jahu, segatud kolme kortli tambitud õliga, ja joogiohvriks kolm kortlit veini ühe talle kohta!

⁴¹ Teine tall ohverda õhtul; valmista see nagu hommikulgi roaohvri ja joogiohvriga healõhnaliseks tuleohvriks Issandale!

⁴² See olgu alaliseks põletusohvriks Issanda ees teie sugupõlvedele kogudusetelgi ukse ees, seal, kus ma ennast teile ilmutan, et sinuga rääkida!

⁴³ Seal ma ilmutan ennast Iisraeli lastele ja see saab pühaks minu auhiilguse läbi.

⁴⁴ Mina pühitsen kogudusetelgi ja altari; ja ma pühitsen enesele preestriteks Aaroni ja tema pojad.

⁴⁵ Ma tahan elada Iisraeli laste keskel ja olla neile Jumalaks.

⁴⁶ Ja nemad peavad tundma, et mina olen Issand, nende Jumal, kes tõi nad Egiptusemaalt välja, et elada nende keskel. Mina olen Issand, nende Jumal!

¹ Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying,

² "Avenge the children of Israel for the Midianites. Afterward you shall be gathered to your people."

³ Moses spoke to the people, saying, "Arm men from among you for the war, that they may go against Midian, to execute Yahweh's vengeance on Midian.

⁴ Of every tribe one thousand, throughout all the tribes of Israel, you shall send to the war."

⁵ So there were delivered, out of the thousands of Israel, a thousand of every tribe, twelve thousand armed for war.

⁶ Moses sent them, one thousand of every tribe, to the war, them and Phinehas the son of Eleazar the priest, to the war, with the vessels of the sanctuary and the trumpets for the alarm in his hand.

⁷ They warred against Midian, as Yahweh commanded Moses; and they killed every male.

⁸ They killed the kings of Midian with the rest of their slain: Evi, and Rekem, and Zur, and Hur, and Reba, the five kings of Midian: Balaam also the son of Beor they killed with the sword.

⁹ The children of Israel took captive the women of Midian and their little ones; and all their livestock, and all their flocks, and all their goods, they took for a prey.

¹⁰ All their cities in the places in which they lived, and all their encampments, they burnt with fire.

¹¹ They took all the spoil, and all the prey, both of man and of animal.

¹² They brought the captives, and the prey, and the spoil, to Moses, and to Eleazar the priest, and to the congregation of the children of Israel, to the camp at the plains of Moab, which are by the Jordan at Jericho.

¹³ Moses, and Eleazar the priest, and all the princes of the congregation, went forth to meet them outside of the camp.

¹⁴ Moses was angry with the officers of the army, the captains of thousands and the captains of hundreds, who came from the service of the war.

¹⁵ Moses said to them, "Have you saved all the women alive?

¹⁶ Behold, these caused the children of Israel, through the counsel of Balaam, to commit trespass against Yahweh in the matter of Peor, and so the plague was among the congregation of Yahweh.

¹⁷ Now therefore kill every male among the little ones, and kill every woman who has known man by lying with him.

¹⁸ But all the girls, who have not known man by lying with him, keep alive for yourselves.

¹⁹ "Encamp outside of the camp seven days: whoever has killed any person, and whoever has touched any slain, purify yourselves on the third day and on the seventh day, you and your captives.

²⁰ As to every garment, and all that is made of skin, and all work of goats' [hair], and all things made of wood, you shall purify yourselves."

²¹ Eleazar the priest said to the men of war who went to the battle, "This is the statute of the law which Yahweh has commanded Moses:

²² however the gold, and the silver, the brass, the iron, the tin, and the lead,

²³ everything that may withstand the fire, you shall make to go through the fire, and it shall be clean; nevertheless it shall be purified with the water for impurity: and all that doesn't withstand the fire you shall make to go through the water.

²⁴ You shall wash your clothes on the seventh day, and you shall be clean; and afterward you shall come into the camp."

²⁵ Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying,

²⁶ "Take the sum of the prey that was taken, both of man and of animal, you, and Eleazar the priest, and the heads of the fathers' [houses] of the congregation;

²⁷ and divide the prey into two parts: between the men skilled in war, who went out to battle, and all the congregation.

²⁸ Levy a tribute to Yahweh of the men of war who went out to battle: one soul of five hundred, [both] of the persons, and of the cattle, and of the donkeys, and of the flocks:

²⁹ take it of their half, and give it to Eleazar the priest, for Yahweh's wave offering.

³⁰ Of the children of Israel's half, you shall take one drawn out of every fifty, of the persons, of the cattle, of the donkeys, and of the flocks, [even] of all the livestock, and give them to the Levites, who perform the duty of the tabernacle of Yahweh."

³¹ Moses and Eleazar the priest did as Yahweh commanded Moses.

³² Now the prey, over and above the booty which the men of war took, was six hundred seventy-five thousand sheep,

³³ and seventy-two thousand head of cattle,

³⁴ and sixty-one thousand donkeys,

³⁵ and thirty-two thousand persons in all, of the women who had not known man by lying with him.

³⁶ The half, which was the portion of those who went out to war, was in number three hundred thirty-seven thousand five hundred sheep:

³⁷ and Yahweh's tribute of the sheep was six hundred seventy-five.

³⁸ The cattle were thirty-six thousand; of which Yahweh's tribute was seventy-two.

³⁹ The donkeys were thirty thousand five hundred; of which Yahweh's tribute was sixty-one.

⁴⁰ The persons were sixteen thousand; of whom Yahweh's tribute was thirty-two persons.

⁴¹ Moses gave the tribute, which was Yahweh's wave offering, to Eleazar the priest, as Yahweh commanded Moses.

⁴² Of the children of Israel's half, which Moses divided off from the men who warred

⁴³ (now the congregation's half was three hundred thirty-seven thousand five hundred sheep,

⁴⁴ and thirty-six thousand head of cattle,

⁴⁵ and thirty thousand five hundred donkeys,

⁴⁶ and sixteen thousand persons),

⁴⁷ even of the children of Israel's half, Moses took one drawn out of every fifty, both of man and of animal, and gave them to the Levites, who performed the duty of the tabernacle of Yahweh; as Yahweh commanded Moses.

⁴⁸ The officers who were over the thousands of the army, the captains of thousands, and the captains of hundreds, came near to Moses;

⁴⁹ and they said to Moses, "Your servants have taken the sum of the men of war who are under our command, and there lacks not one man of us.

⁵⁰ We have brought Yahweh's offering, what every man has gotten, of jewels of gold, armlets, and bracelets, signet rings, earrings, and necklaces, to make atonement for our souls before Yahweh."

⁵¹ Moses and Eleazar the priest took the gold of them, even all worked jewels.

⁵² All the gold of the wave offering that they offered up to Yahweh, of the captains of thousands, and of the captains of hundreds, was sixteen thousand seven hundred fifty shekels.

⁵³ ([For] the men of war had taken booty, every man for himself.)

⁵⁴ Moses and Eleazar the priest took the gold of the captains of thousands and of hundreds, and brought it into the Tent of Meeting, for a memorial for the children of Israel before Yahweh.