Leviticus 7
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The Guilt Offering
1“ ‘These are the regulations for the guilt offering, which is most holy: 2The guilt offering is to be slaughtered in the place where the burnt offering is slaughtered, and its blood is to be splashed against the sides of the altar. 3All its fat shall be offered: the fat tail and the fat that covers the internal organs, 4both kidneys with the fat on them near the loins, and the long lobe of the liver, which is to be removed with the kidneys. 5The priest shall burn them on the altar as a food offering presented to the Lord. It is a guilt offering. 6Any male in a priest’s family may eat it, but it must be eaten in the sanctuary area; it is most holy.
7“ ‘The same law applies to both the sin offering#7:7 Or purification offering; also in verse 37 and the guilt offering: They belong to the priest who makes atonement with them. 8The priest who offers a burnt offering for anyone may keep its hide for himself. 9Every grain offering baked in an oven or cooked in a pan or on a griddle belongs to the priest who offers it, 10and every grain offering, whether mixed with olive oil or dry, belongs equally to all the sons of Aaron.
The Fellowship Offering
11“ ‘These are the regulations for the fellowship offering anyone may present to the Lord:
12“ ‘If they offer it as an expression of thankfulness, then along with this thank offering they are to offer thick loaves made without yeast and with olive oil mixed in, thin loaves made without yeast and brushed with oil, and thick loaves of the finest flour well-kneaded and with oil mixed in. 13Along with their fellowship offering of thanksgiving they are to present an offering with thick loaves of bread made with yeast. 14They are to bring one of each kind as an offering, a contribution to the Lord; it belongs to the priest who splashes the blood of the fellowship offering against the altar. 15The meat of their fellowship offering of thanksgiving must be eaten on the day it is offered; they must leave none of it till morning.
16“ ‘If, however, their offering is the result of a vow or is a freewill offering, the sacrifice shall be eaten on the day they offer it, but anything left over may be eaten on the next day. 17Any meat of the sacrifice left over till the third day must be burned up. 18If any meat of the fellowship offering is eaten on the third day, the one who offered it will not be accepted. It will not be reckoned to their credit, for it has become impure; the person who eats any of it will be held responsible.
19“ ‘Meat that touches anything ceremonially unclean must not be eaten; it must be burned up. As for other meat, anyone ceremonially clean may eat it. 20But if anyone who is unclean eats any meat of the fellowship offering belonging to the Lord, they must be cut off from their people. 21Anyone who touches something unclean—whether human uncleanness or an unclean animal or any unclean creature that moves along the ground#7:21 A few Hebrew manuscripts, Samaritan Pentateuch, Syriac and Targum (see 5:2); most Hebrew manuscripts any unclean, detestable thing—and then eats any of the meat of the fellowship offering belonging to the Lord must be cut off from their people.’ ”
Eating Fat and Blood Forbidden
22The Lord said to Moses, 23“Say to the Israelites: ‘Do not eat any of the fat of cattle, sheep or goats. 24The fat of an animal found dead or torn by wild animals may be used for any other purpose, but you must not eat it. 25Anyone who eats the fat of an animal from which a food offering may be#7:25 Or offering is presented to the Lord must be cut off from their people. 26And wherever you live, you must not eat the blood of any bird or animal. 27Anyone who eats blood must be cut off from their people.’ ”
The Priests’ Share
28The Lord said to Moses, 29“Say to the Israelites: ‘Anyone who brings a fellowship offering to the Lord is to bring part of it as their sacrifice to the Lord. 30With their own hands they are to present the food offering to the Lord; they are to bring the fat, together with the breast, and wave the breast before the Lord as a wave offering. 31The priest shall burn the fat on the altar, but the breast belongs to Aaron and his sons. 32You are to give the right thigh of your fellowship offerings to the priest as a contribution. 33The son of Aaron who offers the blood and the fat of the fellowship offering shall have the right thigh as his share. 34From the fellowship offerings of the Israelites, I have taken the breast that is waved and the thigh that is presented and have given them to Aaron the priest and his sons as their perpetual share from the Israelites.’ ”
35This is the portion of the food offerings presented to the Lord that were allotted to Aaron and his sons on the day they were presented to serve the Lord as priests. 36On the day they were anointed, the Lord commanded that the Israelites give this to them as their perpetual share for the generations to come.
37These, then, are the regulations for the burnt offering, the grain offering, the sin offering, the guilt offering, the ordination offering and the fellowship offering, 38which the Lord gave Moses at Mount Sinai in the Desert of Sinai on the day he commanded the Israelites to bring their offerings to the Lord.
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Leviticus 7
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The Law of the Trespass Offering
1‘Likewise #Lev. 5:14—6:7this is the law of the trespass offering (it is most holy): 2In the place where they kill the burnt offering they shall kill the trespass offering. And its blood he shall sprinkle all around on the altar. 3And he shall offer from it all its fat. The fat tail and the fat that covers the entrails, 4the two kidneys and the fat that is on them by the flanks, and the fatty lobe attached to the liver above the kidneys, he shall remove; 5and the priest shall burn them on the altar as an offering made by fire to the Lord. It is a trespass offering. 6#Lev. 6:16–18, 29; Num. 18:9Every male among the priests may eat it. It shall be eaten in a holy place. #Lev. 2:3It is most holy. 7#Lev. 6:24–30; 14:13The trespass offering is like the sin offering; there is one law for them both: the priest who makes atonement with it shall have it. 8And the priest who offers anyone’s burnt offering, that priest shall have for himself the skin of the burnt offering which he has offered. 9Also #Lev. 2:3, 10; Num. 18:9; Ezek. 44:29every grain offering that is baked in the oven and all that is prepared in the covered pan, or in a pan, shall be the priest’s who offers it. 10Every grain offering, whether mixed with oil or dry, shall belong to all the sons of Aaron, to one as much as the other.
The Law of Peace Offerings
11#Lev. 3:1; 22:18, 21; Ezek. 45:15‘This is the law of the sacrifice of peace offerings which he shall offer to the Lord: 12If he offers it for a thanksgiving, then he shall offer, with the sacrifice of thanksgiving, unleavened cakes mixed with oil, unleavened wafers #Lev. 2:4; Num. 6:15anointed with oil, or cakes of blended flour mixed with oil. 13Besides the cakes, as his offering he shall offer #Lev. 2:12; 23:17, 18; Amos 4:5leavened bread with the sacrifice of thanksgiving of his peace offering. 14And from it he shall offer one cake from each offering as a heave offering to the Lord. #Num. 18:8, 11, 19It shall belong to the priest who sprinkles the blood of the peace offering.
15#Lev. 22:29, 30‘The flesh of the sacrifice of his peace offering for thanksgiving shall be eaten the same day it is offered. He shall not leave any of it until morning. 16But #Lev. 19:5–8if the sacrifice of his offering is a vow or a voluntary offering, it shall be eaten the same day that he offers his sacrifice; but on the next day the remainder of it also may be eaten; 17the remainder of the flesh of the sacrifice on the third day must be burned with fire. 18And if any of the flesh of the sacrifice of his peace offering is eaten at all on the third day, it shall not be accepted, nor shall it be #Num. 18:27imputed to him; it shall be an #Lev. 11:10, 11, 41; 19:7; (Prov. 15:8)abomination to him who offers it, and the person who eats of it shall bear guilt.
19‘The flesh that touches any unclean thing shall not be eaten. It shall be burned with fire. And as for the clean flesh, all who are clean may eat of it. 20But the person who eats the flesh of the sacrifice of the peace offering that belongs to the #(Heb. 2:17)Lord, #Lev. 5:3; 15:3; 22:3–7; Num. 19:13; (1 Cor. 11:28)while he is unclean, that person #Gen. 17:14; Ex. 31:14shall be cut off from his people. 21Moreover the person who touches any unclean thing, such as #Lev. 5:2, 3, 5human uncleanness, an #Lev. 11:24, 28unclean animal, or any #Ezek. 4:14abominable unclean thing, and who eats the flesh of the sacrifice of the peace offering that belongs to the Lord, that person #Lev. 7:20shall be cut off from his people.’ ”
Fat and Blood May Not Be Eaten
22And the Lord spoke to Moses, saying, 23“Speak to the children of Israel, saying: #Lev. 3:17; 17:10–15; Deut. 14:21; Ezek. 4:14; 44:31‘You shall not eat any fat, of ox or sheep or goat. 24And the fat of an animal that dies naturally, and the fat of what is torn by wild beasts, may be used in any other way; but you shall by no means eat it. 25For whoever eats the fat of the animal of which men offer an offering made by fire to the Lord, the person who eats it shall be cut off from his people. 26#Gen. 9:4; Lev. 3:17; 17:10–16; 19:26; Deut. 12:23; 1 Sam. 14:33; Ezek. 33:25; Acts 15:20, 29Moreover you shall not eat any blood in any of your dwellings, whether of bird or beast. 27Whoever eats any blood, that person shall be cut off from his people.’ ”
The Portion of Aaron and His Sons
28Then the Lord spoke to Moses, saying, 29“Speak to the children of Israel, saying: #Lev. 3:1; 22:21; Ezek. 45:15‘He who offers the sacrifice of his peace offering to the Lord shall bring his offering to the Lord from the sacrifice of his peace offering. 30#Lev. 3:3, 4, 9, 14His own hands shall bring the offerings made by fire to the Lord. The fat with the breast he shall bring, that the #Ex. 29:24, 27; Lev. 8:27; 9:21; Num. 6:20breast may be waved as a wave offering before the Lord. 31#Lev. 3:5, 11, 16And the priest shall burn the fat on the altar, but the #Num. 18:11; Deut. 18:3breast shall be Aaron’s and his sons’. 32#Ex. 29:27; Lev. 7:34; 9:21; Num. 6:20Also the right thigh you shall give to the priest as a heave offering from the sacrifices of your peace offerings. 33He among the sons of Aaron, who offers the blood of the peace offering and the fat, shall have the right thigh for his part. 34For #Ex. 29:28; Lev. 10:14, 15; Num. 18:18, 19; Deut. 18:3the breast of the wave offering and the thigh of the heave offering I have taken from the children of Israel, from the sacrifices of their peace offerings, and I have given them to Aaron the priest and to his sons from the children of Israel by a statute forever.’ ”
35This is the consecrated portion for Aaron and his sons, from the offerings made by fire to the Lord, on the day when Moses presented them to minister to the Lord as priests. 36The Lord commanded this to be given to them by the children of Israel, #Ex. 40:13–15; Lev. 8:12, 30on the day that He anointed them, by a statute forever throughout their generations.
37This is the law #Lev. 6:9of the burnt offering, #Lev. 6:14the grain offering, #Lev. 6:25the sin offering, #Lev. 7:1the trespass offering, #Ex. 29:1; Lev. 6:20the consecrations, and #Lev. 7:11the sacrifice of the peace offering, 38which the Lord commanded Moses on Mount Sinai, on the day when He commanded the children of Israel #Lev. 1:1, 2; Deut. 4:5to offer their offerings to the Lord in the Wilderness of Sinai.
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