Shemini
Moses gave the priests instructions about how to do their jobs. This included that they couldn’t drink wine or be intoxicated, and they had to eat leftovers from offerings beside the altar, where it was most holy. Then, God told Moses the kashrut laws, rules about what they could and could not eat.
God told Moses how to make certain offerings and the rituals that should occur. Moses then assembled all of the Israelites outside the Tabernacle, and Aaron, Moses, and the priests made an offering to God.
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God gave Moses specific instructions for how the Israelites should choose, present, and sacrifice burnt offerings.
Vayakhel-Pekudei
Moses gave the Israelites the instructions for building the Tabernacle (90% of the portion was going through all of the specific instructions, so there isn't much to write about), and they started working. The Tabernacle was eventually finished, and the first offering was made to God.
Ki Tisa
God started by giving instructions for taking a census, which involved every Israelite paying for an offering to God to make sure they were counted. God then gave people special skills so they would be able to successfully build the Tabernacle. He also told Moses to tell the Israelites that they still must keep Shabbat, and not work on the Tabernacle on Shabbat.
While Moses was on Mount Sinai, Aaron and the Israelites made a golden calf to idolize God. When Moses came down, he saw this and was so mad that he broke the tablets God had given him. He then burned the golden calf, put the powder in water, and made the Israelites drink it. Moses then said “Whoever is for the Lord, come here!” and all of the Levites came to him. He then instructed them to kill the other Israelites. They did so, and over 3,000 died that day. Moses met with God again, and God brought a plague upon the people as additional punishment. Next, God said to Moses to “Set out from here, you and the people you have brought up from the land of Egypt, to the land of which I swore to Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, saying ‘To your offspring I will give it’,” and God also said he would drive away other people and allow the Israelites to go to “a land flowing with milk and honey.” God also agreed to let Moses see his back (but he would die if he saw God’s face). Moses then made two new tablets and went back up to Mount Sinai, where he made a covenant with God. The covenant ordered the Israelites to always worship God, to never join with other groups of people because they would want to follow other gods, to observe Passover, and to observe Shabbat, among other things. In return, God would help lead them to Israel. Moses stayed and fasted on Mount Sinai for forty days and forty nights, and he wrote those commandments down and went down the mountain.
