Leviticus 7
7
Sacrifices To Make Things Right
(Leviticus 5.14-19)
The Lord said:
1The sacrifice to make things right is very sacred. 2The animal must be killed in the same place where the sacrifice to please me#7.2 sacrifice to please me: See the note at 1.1-3. is killed, and the animal's blood must be splattered against the four sides of the bronze altar. 3Offer all of the animal's fat, including the fat on its tail and on its insides, 4as well as the lower part of the liver and the two kidneys with their fat. 5One of the priests will lay these pieces on the altar and send them up in smoke to me. 6This sacrifice for making things right is very holy. Only the priests may eat it, and they must eat it in a holy place.#7.6 holy place: The courtyard of the sacred tent (see 6.16,17).
7The ceremony for this sacrifice and the one for sin are the same, and the meat may be eaten only by the priest who performs this ceremony of forgiveness.
8In fact, the priest who offers a sacrifice to please me#7.8 sacrifice to please me: See the note at 1.1-3. may keep the skin of the animal, 9just as he may eat the bread from a sacrifice to give thanks to me.#7.9 sacrifice to give thanks to me: See the note at 2.1. 10All other grain sacrifices—with or without olive oil in them—are to be divided equally among the priests of Aaron's family.
Sacrifices To Ask the Lord's Blessing
The Lord said:
11Here are the instructions for offering a sacrifice to ask my blessing:#7.11 sacrifice to ask my blessing: See the note at 3.1. 12If you offer it to give thanks, you must offer some bread together with it. Use the finest flour to make three kinds of bread without yeast—two in the form of loaves mixed with olive oil and one in the form of thin wafers brushed with oil. 13You must also make some bread with yeast. 14Give me one loaf or wafer from each of these four kinds of bread, after which they will belong to the priest who splattered the blood against the bronze altar.
15When you offer an animal to ask a blessing from me or to thank me, the meat belongs to you, but it must be eaten the same day. 16It is different with the sacrifices you offer when you make me a promise or voluntarily give me something. The meat from those sacrifices may be kept and eaten the next day, 17-18but any that is left over must be destroyed. If you eat any of it after the second day, your sacrifice will be useless and unacceptable, and you will be both disgusting and guilty.
19Don't eat any of the meat that has touched something unclean. Instead, burn it. The rest of the meat may be eaten by anyone who is clean and acceptable to me. 20-21But don't eat any of this meat if you have become unclean by touching something unclean from a human or an animal or from any other creature. If you do, you will no longer belong to the community of Israel.
22The Lord told Moses 23to say to the people:
Don't eat the fat of cattle, sheep, or goats. 24If one of your animals dies or is killed by some wild animal, you may do anything with its fat except eat it. 25If you eat the fat of an animal that can be used as a sacrifice to me, you will no longer belong to the community of Israel. 26#Gn 9.4; Lv 17.10-14; 19.26; Dt 12.5-19,23,24; 15.23. And no matter where you live, you must not eat the blood of any bird or animal, 27or you will no longer belong to the community of Israel.
28The Lord also told Moses 29-30to say to the people of Israel:
If you want to offer a sacrifice to ask my blessing, you must bring the part to be burned and lay it on the bronze altar. But you must first lift up#7.29,30 lift up: Or “wave.” the choice ribs with their fat to show that the offering is dedicated to me. 31A priest from Aaron's family will then send the fat up in smoke, but the ribs belong to the priests. 32-33The upper joint of the right hind leg is for the priest who offers the blood and the fat of the animal. 34I have decided that the people of Israel must always give the choice ribs and the upper joint of the right hind leg to Aaron's descendants 35who have been ordained as priests to serve me. 36This law will never change. I am the Lord!
37These are the ceremonies for sacrifices to please the Lord, to give him thanks, and to ask for his blessing or his forgiveness, as well as the ceremonies for those sacrifices that demand a payment and for the sacrifices that are offered when priests are ordained. 38While Moses and the people of Israel were in the desert at Mount Sinai, the Lord commanded them to start offering these sacrifices.
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Leviticus 7
7
The Guilt Offering
1“Now this is the law of the guilt#7:1 Or restitution offering;#Lv 14:12–13 it is especially holy. 2The guilt offering is to be slaughtered at the place where the burnt offering#Gn 22:2; Lv 3:5; Nm 6:11; Jos 8:31; 1Ch 16:1; Ps 20:3; Mc 6:6 is slaughtered, and the priest is to splatter its blood on all sides of the altar. 3The offerer is to present all the fat from it: the fat tail,#Lv 3:9 the fat surrounding the entrails,#7:3 LXX, Sam add and all the fat that is on the entrails; Lv 3:3,9,14; 4:8 4and the two kidneys with the fat on them at the loins; he will also remove the fatty lobe of the liver#Lv 9:10 with the kidneys. 5The priest will burn them on the altar as a food offering#Dt 18:1 to the Lord; it is a guilt offering. 6Any male among the priests may eat it.#1Co 9:13 It is to be eaten in a holy place;#Lv 16:24 it is especially holy.#Lv 14:13
7“The guilt offering is like the sin offering;#Ex 29:14 the law is the same for both. It belongs to the priest#Lv 14:13 who makes atonement#Ex 30:15 with it. 8As for the priest who presents someone’s burnt offering, the hide of the burnt offering he has presented belongs to him; it is the priest’s. 9Any grain offering#Ex 40:29 that is baked in an oven or prepared in a pan or on a griddle belongs to the priest who presents it; it is his. 10But any grain offering, whether dry or mixed with oil, belongs equally to all of Aaron’s sons.
The Fellowship Sacrifice
11“Now this is the law of the fellowship sacrifice#Lv 3:1,3,6,9 that someone may present to the Lord: 12If he presents it for thanksgiving, in addition to the thanksgiving sacrifice,#Lv 22:29 he is to present unleavened cakes#Ex 12:8 mixed with olive oil, unleavened wafers#Lv 2:4 coated with oil, and well-kneaded cakes of fine flour mixed with oil. 13He is to present as his offering cakes of leavened bread with his thanksgiving sacrifice of fellowship. 14From the cakes he is to present one portion of each offering as a contribution#Ex 36:3 to the Lord. It will belong to the priest who splatters the blood of the fellowship offering; it is his. 15The meat of his thanksgiving sacrifice of fellowship must be eaten on the day he offers it;#Lv 22:30 he may not leave any of it until morning.#Ex 12:10; 34:25; Lv 19:5–8; Dt 16:4
16“If the sacrifice he offers is a vow#Lv 27:8 or a freewill offering,#Ex 35:29 it is to be eaten on the day he presents his sacrifice, and what is left over may be eaten on the next day. 17But what remains of the sacrificial meat by the third day must be burned.#Lv 19:6 18If any of the meat of his fellowship sacrifice is eaten on the third day, it will not be accepted.#Lv 1:4 It will not be credited to the one who presents it; it is repulsive.#Lv 19:7; Is 65:4; Ezk 4:14 The person who eats any of it will bear his iniquity.#7:18 Or will bear his guilt
19“Meat that touches anything unclean must not be eaten; it is to be burned. Everyone who is clean may eat any other meat. 20But the one who eats meat from the Lord’s fellowship sacrifice while he is unclean, that person must be cut off from his people.#Gn 17:14; Lv 7:27; 19:8; Nm 9:13 21If someone touches anything unclean, whether human uncleanness, an unclean animal, or any unclean, abhorrent#7:21 Some Hb mss, Sam, Syr, Tg read swarming#Lv 11:10–13,20,23,41–42; Is 66:17; Ezk 8:10 creature, and eats meat from the Lord’s fellowship sacrifice, that person is to be cut off from his people.”
Fat and Blood Prohibited
22The Lord spoke to Moses: 23“Tell the Israelites: You are not to eat any fat#Lv 3:16–17 of an ox, a sheep, or a goat. 24The fat of an animal that dies naturally or is mauled by wild beasts#7:24 Lit fat of a carcass or the fat of a mauled beast#Lv 17:15; 22:8 may be used for any other purpose, but you must not eat it.#Ex 22:31; Lv 3:17; 17:15; 22:8; Dt 14:21; Ezk 4:14; 44:31 25If anyone eats animal fat from a food offering presented to the Lord, the person who eats it is to be cut off from his people. 26Wherever you live, you must not eat the blood#Gn 9:3–4; Lv 17:10–12; Dt 12:16,23 of any bird or animal. 27Whoever eats any blood is to be cut off from his people.”
The Portion for the Priests
28The Lord spoke to Moses: 29“Tell the Israelites: The one who presents a fellowship sacrifice to the Lord is to bring an offering to the Lord from his sacrifice. 30His own hands will bring the food offerings to the Lord. He will bring the fat together with the breast. The breast is to be presented as a presentation offering#Ex 29:24 before the Lord. 31The priest is to burn the fat on the altar, but the breast belongs to Aaron and his sons. 32You are to give the right thigh#Ex 29:22; Lv 8:25–26; 9:21; Nm 18:18 to the priest as a contribution from your fellowship sacrifices. 33The son of Aaron who presents the blood of the fellowship offering and the fat will have the right thigh as a portion. 34I have taken from the Israelites the breast of the presentation offering and the thigh of the contribution from their fellowship sacrifices, and have assigned them to the priest Aaron and to his sons as a permanent portion#7:34 Or statute, also in v. 36#Ex 29:28; 30:21; Lv 6:18,22; 10:15; 24:9; Nm 18:8,11,19; Jr 5:22 from the Israelites.”
35This is the portion from the food offerings to the Lord for Aaron and his sons#Mt 10:10; 1Co 9:13–14; 1Tm 5:17–18 since the day they were presented to serve the Lord as priests. 36The Lord commanded this to be given to them by the Israelites on the day he anointed them.#Ex 40:13–15; Lv 8:12,30 It is a permanent portion throughout their generations.
37This is the law for the burnt offering, the grain offering, the sin offering, the guilt offering, the ordination offering,#Lv 8:22 and the fellowship sacrifice, 38which the Lord commanded Moses on Mount Sinai#Ex 34:2 on the day he commanded the Israelites to present their offerings to the Lord in the Wilderness of Sinai.#Ex 31:18; 34:32; Lv 26:46; Neh 9:13
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