1. The Lord told Moses
2. to say to the community of Israel:Offer a sacrifice to ask forgiveness when you sin by accidentally doing something I have told you not to do.
3. When the high priest sins, he makes everyone else guilty too. And so, he must sacrifice a young bull that has nothing wrong with it.
4. The priest will lead the bull to the entrance of the sacred tent, lay his hand on its head, and kill it there.
11-12. The skin and flesh of the bull, together with its legs, insides, and the food still in its stomach, are to be taken outside the camp and burnt on a wood fire near the ash heap.
19-21. After this, the priest will remove the fat from the bull and send it up in smoke on the altar. Finally, he will burn its remains outside the camp, just as he did with the other bull. By this sacrifice the sin of the whole nation will be forgiven.