Leviticus 7
1 “‘This is the law for the guilt offering. It is most holy.
2 The guilt offering shall be slaughtered where the burnt offering is slaughtered, and its blood shall be splashed all around the altar.
3 All its fat shall be presented: the fat tail and the fat covering the inner organs,
4 the two kidneys, the fat on them near the loins, and the lobe of the liver, which is to be removed with the kidneys.
5 The priest shall burn these on the altar as an offering made by fire to the LORD. It is a guilt offering.
6 Every male among the priests may eat of it. It shall be eaten in a holy place; it is most holy.
7 The same law applies to the sin offering and the guilt offering: it belongs to the priest who makes atonement with it.
8 When a priest offers someone’s burnt offering, the hide of the burnt offering he has offered shall belong to that priest.
9 Every grain offering baked in an oven, and everything prepared in a pan or on a griddle, shall belong to the priest who offers it.
10 Every grain offering mixed with oil, or dry, shall belong equally to all the sons of Aaron.
11 This is the law for the fellowship offering that anyone presents to the LORD.
12 If he presents it as a thanksgiving offering, he shall present with the thanksgiving sacrifice unleavened cakes mixed with oil, unleavened wafers spread with oil, and cakes of fine flour thoroughly mixed with oil.
13 Along with the cakes, he shall present his offering with the thanksgiving sacrifice of his fellowship offerings: loaves of leavened bread.’”
14 “‘From this offering he shall present one of each kind as a contribution to the LORD; it shall belong to the priest who splashes the blood of the fellowship offerings.
15 The meat of the thanksgiving sacrifice of his fellowship offerings shall be eaten on the day it is presented. He shall leave none of it until morning.
16 If the sacrifice he presents is a vow offering or a freewill offering, it shall be eaten on the day he presents his sacrifice; what remains may be eaten the next day.
17 But whatever remains of the meat of the sacrifice until the third day shall be burned in the fire.
18 If any of the meat of the fellowship offering is eaten on the third day, it will not be accepted. It will not be credited to the one who presented it; it is detestable meat, and the person who eats it will bear the guilt.
19 Meat that touches anything unclean shall not be eaten; it must be burned in the fire. As for the meat, anyone who is clean may eat it.
20 But the person who eats meat from the fellowship offering that belongs to the LORD while unclean shall be cut off from his people.
21 When someone touches anything unclean—whether human uncleanness, an unclean animal, or any unclean detestable creature—and then eats meat from the fellowship offering that belongs to the LORD, that person shall be cut off from his people.’”
22 The LORD spoke to Moses:
23 “Speak to the Israelites: ‘You shall not eat any fat from an ox, a sheep, or a goat.
24 The fat of an animal that has died on its own or been torn by wild animals may be used for any purpose, but you shall not eat it.
25 Anyone who eats fat from an animal of which an offering made by fire is presented to the LORD shall be cut off from his people.’”
26 “‘In all your homes, you shall eat no blood, whether from a bird or an animal.
27 Any person who eats any blood shall be cut off from his people.’”
28 The LORD spoke to Moses:
29 “Speak to the Israelites: ‘Whoever presents a fellowship offering to the LORD shall bring the LORD an offering taken from that fellowship offering.
30 With his own hands he shall bring the offerings made by fire to the LORD: he shall bring the fat with the breast, and the breast shall be waved as a wave offering before the LORD.
31 The priest shall burn the fat on the altar, but the breast shall belong to Aaron and his sons.
32 You shall give the right thigh to the priest as a contribution, taken from your fellowship offerings.
33 The one among Aaron’s sons who presents the blood and fat of the fellowship offerings shall receive the right thigh as his portion.
34 For I have taken the breast of the wave offering and the thigh of the contribution from the Israelites, from their fellowship offerings, and I have given them to Aaron the priest and his sons as a lasting right from the Israelites.
35 This is the portion from the offerings made by fire to the LORD for Aaron and his sons on the day they were presented to serve the LORD as priests.
36 The LORD commanded that this be given to them by the Israelites on the day he anointed them. It is a lasting statute for their generations.
37 This is the law for the burnt offering, the grain offering, the sin offering, the guilt offering, the ordination offering, and the fellowship offering.
38 The LORD gave it to Moses on Mount Sinai on the day he commanded the Israelites to present their offerings to the LORD in the wilderness of Sinai.’”
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