Exodus ends with a finished tent that Moses cannot enter, because the cloud has filled it. Leviticus opens with God calling to him out of that tent, and the book that follows is largely an answer to the problem the last chapter created. The Hebrew word for what you bring is qorban — from the verb to draw near — and YLT is the only one of the four translations that keeps the verb visible: not “offer an offering” but “bring near.” This first chapter covers the olah, the offering that goes up: an unblemished male from the herd, the flock, or — for someone who can afford neither — a pigeon, entirely consumed on the altar with nothing returned to anyone. The worshipper leans a hand on its head and kills it; the priests handle the blood and the fire.