A whirlwind has wrapped them in its wings; they will be brought to shame because of their idolatrous worship. ¹ 

Then Aaron lifted up his hands toward the people and blessed them and descended from making the sin offering, the burnt offering, and the peace offering.

They stood at their posts according to the regulations outlined in the law of Moses, the man of God. The priests were splashing the blood as the Levites handed it to them. ¹ 

May my words and my thoughts be acceptable in your sight, ¹  O Lord, my sheltering rock ²  and my redeemer. ³ 

Aaron is to make atonement on its horns once in the year with some of the blood of the sin offering for atonement; ¹  once in the year ²  he is to make atonement on it throughout your generations. It is most holy to the Lord.” ³ 

When Saul ¹  had finished prophesying, he went to the high place.

The ledge is 24½ feet ¹  long and 24½ feet wide on four sides; the border around it is 10½ inches, ²  and its surrounding base 1¾ feet. ³  Its steps face east.”

Its length is to be a foot and a half ¹  and its width a foot and a half; it will be square. Its height is to be three feet, ²  with its horns of one piece with it. ³ 

You are to overlay it with pure gold – its top, ¹  its four walls, ²  and its horns – and make a surrounding border of gold for it. ³ 

You are to make two gold rings for it under its border, on its two flanks; you are to make them on its two sides. ¹  The rings ²  will be places ³  for poles to carry it with.

He must present one of each kind of grain offering ¹  as a contribution offering ²  to the Lord; it belongs to the priest who splashes the blood of the peace offering.

He arranged the wood, cut up the bull, and placed it on the wood.

I also provided for ¹  the wood offering at the appointed times and also for the first fruits. Please remember me for good, O my God.

Let them bring us two bulls. Let them choose one of the bulls for themselves, cut it up into pieces, and place it on the wood. But they must not set it on fire. I will do the same to the other bull and place it on the wood. But I will not set it on fire.

Then the one making the offering ¹  must present all its fat: the fatty tail, the fat covering the entrails,

Then he ¹  cut the ram into parts, ²  and Moses offered the head, the parts, and the suet up in smoke,

And their meat will be yours, just as the breast and the right hip of the raised offering is yours.

There, in the presence of the Israelites, Joshua inscribed on the stones a duplicate of the law written by Moses. ¹ 

Now please forgive my sin! Go back with me so I can worship ¹  the Lord.”

I am not condemning ¹  you because of your sacrifices, or because of your burnt sacrifices that you continually offer me. ²