The first part of this booke. Of diuers sortes of
Sacrifices.
Diuers rites in offering holocaustes, as wel of cattle, 14. as of
birdes.
1. ANᴅ ᴏᴠʀ ʟᴏʀᴅ called Moyses, and spake to him out of the tabernacle of testimony,
saying:
2. Speake to the children of Israel; & thou shalt say to them: The man of you, that shal
offer an hoste to our Lord, of beastes, that is of oxen & sheepe, offering victimes
3. if his oblation be an holocauste, and of the heard; he shal offer a male, without
spotte, at the dore of the tabernacle of testimonie, to propitiate our Lord vnto him:
4. and he shal put his handes vpon the heade of the hoste, and it shal be acceptable,
and profitable to his expiation.
5. And he shal immolate the calfe before our Lord, and the children of Aaron the priestes
shal offer the bloud therof, powring it in the circuire of the altar, which is before the dore of
the tabernacle.
6. And the skinne of the hoste being plucked of, the ioyntes they shal cut into peeces,
7. and shal put fire vnderneth in the altar, hauing before laid a pyle of wood in order:
8. and the ioyntes that are cut out, laying in order thereupon, to wit, the head, & al
thinges that cleaue to the liuer,
9. the entralles and feete being washed with water, and the priest shal burne them vpon
the altar for an holocauste, and sweete sauoure to our Lord.
10. And if the oblation be of flockes, an holocauste of sheepe or of goates, a lambe of a
yeare old without spot shal he offer:
11. and he shal immolate it at the side of the altar that looketh to the North, before our
Lord: but the bloud therof the sonnes of Aaron shal poure vpon the altar round about:
12. and they shal diuide the ioyntes, the head, and al that cleaue to the lyuer: and shal
lay them vpon the wood, vnder which the fire is to be put:
13. but the entrales and the feete they shal wash with water. And the whole the priest shal
offer, and burne vpon the altar for an holocaust, and most sweete sauoure to our Lord.
14. But if the oblation of holocaust to our Lord be of birdes, of turtles and young pigions,
15. the priest shal offer it at the altar: and writhing the head to the necke, and breaking
the place of the wound, he shal make the bloud to runne downe vpon the brimme of the altar:
16. but the croppe of the throate, and the fethers he shal cast nigh to the altar at the
east side, in the place where the ashes are wount to be powred out,
17. and he shal breake the pinnions therof, and shal not cut, nor diuide it with a knife,
and shal burne it vpon the altar, putting fire vnder the wood. It is an holocaust and oblation of
most sweete sauoure to our Lord.