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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