¹ Höret dieses Wort, ihr Kühe Basans, die ihr auf dem Berge Samarias seid, die ihr die Armen bedrücket, die Dürftigen mißhandelt, und zu euren Herren sprechet: Bringe her, daß wir trinken!

² Geschworen hat der Herr, Jehova, bei seiner Heiligkeit: Siehe, Tage werden über euch kommen, da man euch an Haken wegschleppen wird, und euren est (Eig. euer Letztes) an Fischerangeln.

³ Und ihr werdet durch die Mauerrisse hinausgehen, eine jede vor sich hin, und ihr werdet nach Harmon (Der Sinn dieses Wortes ist unbekannt) hingeworfen werden, spricht Jehova.

⁴ Gehet nach Bethel und übertretet! nach Gilgal und mehret die Übertretung! Und bringet jeden Morgen eure Schlachtopfer, alle drei Tage eure Zehnten;

⁵ und räuchert von dem Gesäuerten Dankopfer, und rufet aus, verkündet freiwillige Gaben! Denn also liebet ihr’s, ihr Kinder Israel, spricht der Herr, Jehova.

⁶ Und so habe auch ich euch reine Zähne gegeben in allen euren Städten und Mangel an Brot in allen euren Orten; und doch seid ihr nicht bis zu mir umgekehrt, spricht Jehova.

⁷ Und auch ich habe euch den egen entzogen, als noch drei Monate bis zur Ernte waren; und ich habe auf die eine Stadt regnen lassen, während ich auf die andere Stadt nicht regnen ließ; der eine Acker wurde beregnet, und der Acker, auf welchen es nicht regnete, verdorrte;

⁸ und zwei, drei Städte wankten zu einer Stadt hin, um Wasser zu trinken, und wurden nicht satt. Dennoch seid ihr nicht bis zu mir umgekehrt, spricht Jehova.

⁹ Ich habe euch mit Kornbrand und mit Vergilben geschlagen; eine große Zahl eurer Gärten und eurer Weinberge und eurer Feigen- und eurer Olivenbäume fraß die Heuschrecke. Dennoch seid ihr nicht bis zu mir umgekehrt, spricht Jehova.

¹⁰ Ich habe die Pest unter euch gesandt in der Weise Ägyptens; ich habe eure Jünglinge mit dem Schwerte getötet, indem zugleich eure osse gefangen weggeführt wurden, und ich ließ den Gestank eurer Heerlager aufsteigen, und zwar in eure Nase. Dennoch seid ihr nicht bis zu mir umgekehrt, spricht Jehova.

¹¹ Ich habe eine Umkehrung unter euch angerichtet wie die Umkehrung von Sodom und Gomorra durch Gott; und ihr waret wie ein Brandscheit, das aus dem Feuer gerettet ist. Dennoch seid ihr nicht bis zu mir umgekehrt, spricht Jehova. -

¹² Darum werde ich dir also tun, Israel. Weil ich dir dieses tun will, so schicke dich an, Israel, deinem Gott zu begegnen!

¹³ Denn siehe, der die Berge bildet und den Wind schafft, und dem Menschen kundtut, was sein Gedanke ist; der die Morgenröte und die (And. üb.: die Morgenröte zur) Finsternis macht, und einherschreitet auf den Höhen der Erde: Jehova, Gott der Heerscharen, ist sein Name.

¹ "This is the thing that you shall do to them to make them holy, to minister to me in the priest's office: take one young bull and two rams without blemish,

² unleavened bread, unleavened cakes mixed with oil, and unleavened wafers anointed with oil: you shall make them of fine wheat flour.

³ You shall put them into one basket, and bring them in the basket, with the bull and the two rams.

⁴ You shall bring Aaron and his sons to the door of the Tent of Meeting, and shall wash them with water.

⁵ You shall take the garments, and put on Aaron the coat, the robe of the ephod, the ephod, and the breastplate, and clothe him with the skillfully woven band of the ephod;

⁶ and you shall set the turban on his head, and put the holy crown on the turban.

⁷ Then you shall take the anointing oil, and pour it on his head, and anoint him.

⁸ You shall bring his sons, and put coats on them.

⁹ You shall clothe them with belts, Aaron and his sons, and bind headbands on them: and they shall have the priesthood by a perpetual statute: and you shall consecrate Aaron and his sons.

¹⁰ "You shall bring the bull before the Tent of Meeting: and Aaron and his sons shall lay their hands on the head of the bull.

¹¹ You shall kill the bull before Yahweh, at the door of the Tent of Meeting.

¹² You shall take of the blood of the bull, and put it on the horns of the altar with your finger; and you shall pour out all the blood at the base of the altar.

¹³ You shall take all the fat that covers the innards, the cover of the liver, the two kidneys, and the fat that is on them, and burn them on the altar.

¹⁴ But the flesh of the bull, and its skin, and its dung, you shall burn with fire outside of the camp: it is a sin offering.

¹⁵ "You shall also take the one ram; and Aaron and his sons shall lay their hands on the head of the ram.

¹⁶ You shall kill the ram, and you shall take its blood, and sprinkle it around on the altar.

¹⁷ You shall cut the ram into its pieces, and wash its innards, and its legs, and put them with its pieces, and with its head.

¹⁸ You shall burn the whole ram on the altar: it is a burnt offering to Yahweh; it is a pleasant aroma, an offering made by fire to Yahweh.

¹⁹ "You shall take the other ram; and Aaron and his sons shall lay their hands on the head of the ram.

²⁰ Then you shall kill the ram, and take some of its blood, and put it on the tip of the right ear of Aaron, and on the tip of the right ear of his sons, and on the thumb of their right hand, and on the big toe of their right foot, and sprinkle the blood around on the altar.

²¹ You shall take of the blood that is on the altar, and of the anointing oil, and sprinkle it on Aaron, and on his garments, and on his sons, and on the garments of his sons with him: and he shall be made holy, and his garments, and his sons, and his sons' garments with him.

²² Also you shall take some of the ram's fat, the fat tail, the fat that covers the innards, the cover of the liver, the two kidneys, the fat that is on them, and the right thigh (for it is a ram of consecration),

²³ and one loaf of bread, one cake of oiled bread, and one wafer out of the basket of unleavened bread that is before Yahweh.

²⁴ You shall put all of this in Aaron's hands, and in his sons' hands, and shall wave them for a wave offering before Yahweh.

²⁵ You shall take them from their hands, and burn them on the altar on the burnt offering, for a pleasant aroma before Yahweh: it is an offering made by fire to Yahweh.

²⁶ "You shall take the breast of Aaron's ram of consecration, and wave it for a wave offering before Yahweh: and it shall be your portion.

²⁷ You shall sanctify the breast of the wave offering, and the thigh of the wave offering, which is waved, and which is heaved up, of the ram of consecration, even of that which is for Aaron, and of that which is for his sons:

²⁸ and it shall be for Aaron and his sons as their portion forever from the children of Israel; for it is a wave offering: and it shall be a wave offering from the children of Israel of the sacrifices of their peace offerings, even their wave offering to Yahweh.

²⁹ "The holy garments of Aaron shall be for his sons after him, to be anointed in them, and to be consecrated in them.

³⁰ Seven days shall the son who is priest in his place put them on, when he comes into the Tent of Meeting to minister in the holy place.

³¹ "You shall take the ram of consecration, and boil its flesh in a holy place.

³² Aaron and his sons shall eat the flesh of the ram, and the bread that is in the basket, at the door of the Tent of Meeting.

³³ They shall eat those things with which atonement was made, to consecrate and sanctify them: but a stranger shall not eat of it, because they are holy.

³⁴ If anything of the flesh of the consecration, or of the bread, remains to the morning, then you shall burn the remainder with fire: it shall not be eaten, because it is holy.

³⁵ "You shall do so to Aaron, and to his sons, according to all that I have commanded you. You shall consecrate them seven days.

³⁶ Every day you shall offer the bull of sin offering for atonement: and you shall cleanse the altar, when you make atonement for it; and you shall anoint it, to sanctify it.

³⁷ Seven days you shall make atonement for the altar, and sanctify it: and the altar shall be most holy; whatever touches the altar shall be holy.

³⁸ "Now this is that which you shall offer on the altar: two lambs a year old day by day continually.

³⁹ The one lamb you shall offer in the morning; and the other lamb you shall offer at evening:

⁴⁰ and with the one lamb a tenth part of an ephah of fine flour mixed with the fourth part of a hin of beaten oil, and the fourth part of a hin of wine for a drink offering.

⁴¹ The other lamb you shall offer at evening, and shall do to it according to the meal offering of the morning, and according to its drink offering, for a pleasant aroma, an offering made by fire to Yahweh.

⁴² It shall be a continual burnt offering throughout your generations at the door of the Tent of Meeting before Yahweh, where I will meet with you, to speak there to you.

⁴³ There I will meet with the children of Israel; and the place shall be sanctified by my glory.

⁴⁴ I will sanctify the Tent of Meeting and the altar: Aaron also and his sons I will sanctify, to minister to me in the priest's office.

⁴⁵ I will dwell among the children of Israel, and will be their God.

⁴⁶ They shall know that I am Yahweh their God, who brought them forth out of the land of Egypt, that I might dwell among them: I am Yahweh their God.