Parshat Tzav Shabbat, 14 Nissan, 5785 (12 April, 2025)
| God spoke to Moses, saying, |
| 2 “Command Aaron and his sons, saying, ‘This is the regulation regarding the ascent-offering; it remains the same, valid ascent-offering as long as it was placed on the fire pile atop the Altar anytime during the entire night, until morning, in as much as the fire of the Altar will be burning on it throughout the night. |
| 3 Every morning, the priest must don his linen tunic, and he must don his linen trousers on his flesh. He must remove the ashes remaining after the fire will consume the daily afternoon ascent-offering upon the Altar, and deposit them next to the Altar. |
| 4 He should remove his garments and put on other garments, and he must take the ashes out to a ritually undefiled place outside the camp. |
| 5 The fire burning on the Altar must not be allowed to go out. The priest must kindle wood upon it every morning, and he must arrange the cut-up pieces of the morning daily ascent-offering upon it. He must burn up the fats of the peace-offerings upon it. |
| 6 The fire used to kindle the lamps of the Candelabrum, which must be lit regularly, must burn upon the Altar. The fire on the Altar must not go out. |
| 7 This is the regulation of the grain-offering: Aaron’s sons must bring it before God, at the front of the Altar. |
| 8 The priest must lift out its memorial portion from it with his fist, from the fine flour of the grain-offering as well as from its oil, and all the frankincense that is on the grain-offering. He must burn up its memorial portion on the Altar with the intention that it be pleasing to God. |
| 9 Aaron and his sons must eat whatever is left over from it. It must be eaten as unleavened bread in a holy place; they must eat it in the Courtyard of the Tent of Meeting. |
| 10 It must not be baked leavened, even though I have given it to them as their portion from My fire-offerings. It is a sacrifice of superior holiness, like the sin-offering and like the guilt-offering. |
| 11 Every male among Aaron’s descendants may eat it; it is an eternal entitlement throughout your generations from the fire-offerings of God. Anything that touches a sacrifice of superior holiness will become holy like it.’” |
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