利未記9:1-24

9:1 到了第八天，摩西召了亞倫和他兒子，並以色列的眾長老來，
9:2 對亞倫說：「你當取牛群中的一隻公牛犢作贖罪祭，一隻公綿羊作燔祭，都要沒有殘疾的，獻在耶和華面前。
9:3 你也要對以色列人說：『你們當取一隻公山羊作贖罪祭，又取一隻牛犢和一隻綿羊羔，都要一歲、沒有殘疾的，作燔祭，
9:4 又取一隻公牛，一隻公綿羊作平安祭，獻在耶和華面前，並取調油的素祭，因為今天耶和華要向你們顯現。』
9:5 於是他們把摩西所吩咐的，帶到會幕前；全會眾都近前來，站在耶和華面前。
9:6 摩西說：「這是耶和華吩咐你們所當行的；耶和華的榮光就要向你們顯現。」
9:7 摩西對亞倫說：「你就近壇前，獻你的贖罪祭和燔祭，為自己與百姓贖罪，又獻上百姓的供物，為他們贖罪，都照耶和華所吩咐的。」
9:8 於是，亞倫就近壇前，宰了為自己作贖罪祭的牛犢。
9:9 亞倫的兒子把血奉給他，他就把指頭蘸在血中，抹在壇的四角上，又把血倒在壇腳那裡。
9:10 惟有贖罪祭的脂油和腰子，並肝上取的網子，都燒在壇上，是照耶和華所吩咐摩西的；
9:11 又用火將肉和皮燒在營外。
9:12 亞倫宰了燔祭牲，他兒子把血遞給他，他就灑在壇的周圍，
9:13 又把燔祭一塊一塊地、連頭遞給他，他都燒在壇上；
9:14 又洗了臟腑和腿，燒在壇上的燔祭上。
9:15 他奉上百姓的供物，把那給百姓作贖罪祭的公山羊宰了，為罪獻上，和先獻的一樣；
9:16 也奉上燔祭，照例而獻。
9:17 他又奉上素祭，從其中取一滿把，燒在壇上；這是在早晨的燔祭以外。
9:18 亞倫宰了那給百姓作平安祭的公牛和公綿羊。他兒子把血遞給他，他就灑在壇的周圍；
9:19 又把公牛和公綿羊的脂油、肥尾巴，並蓋臟的脂油與腰子，和肝上的網子，都遞給他；
9:20 把脂油放在胸上，他就把脂油燒在壇上。
9:21 胸和右腿，亞倫當作搖祭，在耶和華面前搖一搖，都是照摩西所吩咐的。
9:22 亞倫向百姓舉手，為他們祝福。他獻了贖罪祭、燔祭、平安祭就下來了。
9:23 摩西、亞倫進入會幕，又出來為百姓祝福，耶和華的榮光就向眾民顯現。
9:24 有火從耶和華面前出來，在壇上燒盡燔祭和脂油；眾民一見，就都歡呼，俯伏在地。

 On the eighth day Moses summoned Aaron and his sons and the elders of Israel. ² He said to Aaron, “Take a bull calf for your sin offering^[a] and a ram for your burnt offering, both without defect, and present them before the Lord. ³ Then say to the Israelites: ‘Take a male goat for a sin offering, a calf and a lamb—both a year old and without defect—for a burnt offering, ⁴ and an ox^[b] and a ram for a fellowship offering to sacrifice before the Lord, together with a grain offering mixed with olive oil. For today the Lord will appear to you.’”

⁵ They took the things Moses commanded to the front of the tent of meeting, and the entire assembly came near and stood before the Lord. ⁶ Then Moses said, “This is what the Lord has commanded you to do, so that the glory of the Lord may appear to you.”

⁷ Moses said to Aaron, “Come to the altar and sacrifice your sin offering and your burnt offering and make atonement for yourself and the people; sacrifice the offering that is for the people and make atonement for them, as the Lord has commanded.”

⁸ So Aaron came to the altar and slaughtered the calf as a sin offering for himself. ⁹ His sons brought the blood to him, and he dipped his finger into the blood and put it on the horns of the altar; the rest of the blood he poured out at the base of the altar. ¹⁰ On the altar he burned the fat, the kidneys and the long lobe of the liver from the sin offering, as the Lord commanded Moses; ¹¹ the flesh and the hide he burned up outside the camp.

¹² Then he slaughtered the burnt offering. His sons handed him the blood, and he splashed it against the sides of the altar. ¹³ They handed him the burnt offering piece by piece, including the head, and he burned them on the altar. ¹⁴ He washed the internal organs and the legs and burned them on top of the burnt offering on the altar.

¹⁵ Aaron then brought the offering that was for the people. He took the goat for the people’s sin offering and slaughtered it and offered it for a sin offering as he did with the first one.

¹⁶ He brought the burnt offering and offered it in the prescribed way. ¹⁷ He also brought the grain offering, took a handful of it and burned it on the altar in addition to the morning’s burnt offering.

¹⁸ He slaughtered the ox and the ram as the fellowship offering for the people. His sons handed him the blood, and he splashed it against the sides of the altar. ¹⁹ But the fat portions of the ox and the ram—the fat tail, the layer of fat, the kidneys and the long lobe of the liver— ²⁰ these they laid on the breasts, and then Aaron burned the fat on the altar. ²¹ Aaron waved the breasts and the right thigh before the Lord as a wave offering, as Moses commanded.

²² Then Aaron lifted his hands toward the people and blessed them. And having sacrificed the sin offering, the burnt offering and the fellowship offering, he stepped down.

²³ Moses and Aaron then went into the tent of meeting. When they came out, they blessed the people; and the glory of the Lord appeared to all the people. ²⁴ Fire came out from the presence of the Lord and consumed the burnt offering and the fat portions on the altar. And when all the people saw it, they shouted for joy and fell facedown.

 

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    上帝的榮耀降臨是帶給人喜樂的，正如23-24節說：「摩西、亞倫進入會幕，又出來為百姓祝福，耶和華的榮光就向眾民顯現。有火從耶和華面前出來，在壇上燒盡燔祭和脂油；眾民一見，就都歡呼，俯伏在地！」

    雖然今日有許多敬拜讚美的樂團，想藉由他們的詩歌營造這樣的氣氛，讓台下的人感受到上帝的榮光充滿在會場當中，好讓大家歡呼來讚美主，是一件美好的事情。其實要營造這樣的氣氛，最重要的部分是要參與者心被恩感來讚美主！正像保羅所說：「當用各樣的智慧，把基督的道理豐豐富富地存在心裡（或譯：當把基督的道理豐豐富富地存在心裡，以各樣的智慧），用詩章、頌詞、靈歌，彼此教導，互相勸戒，心被恩感，歌頌上帝！」（歌羅西書3:16）

    我們今天的禮拜也是要讓上帝得榮光充滿在其中，正是要如保羅這段話所說的來實踐，使我們透過上帝的話語，產生感恩與頌讚，自然而然歸榮耀給上帝，上帝就會以我們的讚美為寶座，來充滿在我們的敬拜之中，我們就因為上帝得榮光，就喜樂滿足了！