Leviticus 8:15-16
15and he slaughtered it. ▼▼sn Contrary to some English versions (e.g., NAB, NASB, NIV, NLT), Aaron (not Moses) most likely slaughtered the bull, possibly with the help of his sons, although the verb is singular, not plural. Moses then performed the ritual procedures that involved direct contact with the altar. Compare the pattern in Lev 1:5-9, where the offerer does the slaughtering and the priests perform the procedures that involve direct contact with the altar. In Lev 8 Moses is functioning as the priest in order to consecrate the priesthood. The explicit reintroduction of the name of Moses as the subject of the next verb seems to reinforce this understanding of the passage (cf. also vv. 19 and 23 below).
Moses then took the blood and put it all around on the horns of the altar with his finger and purified the altar, ▼ and he poured out the rest of the blood at the base of the altar and so consecrated it to make atonement on it. ▼ 16Then he ▼ took all the fat on the entrails, the protruding lobe of the liver, and the two kidneys and their fat, ▼ and Moses offered it all up in smoke on the altar, ▼
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