Leviticus 7

The Guilt Offering

1 “‘This is the law of the guilt offering. It is most holy.2 In the place where they slaughter the burnt offering they must slaughter the guilt offering, and the officiating priestt must splasht the blood against the altar’s sides.3 Then the one making the offeringt must present all its fat: the fatty tail, the fat covering the entrails,4 the two kidneys and the fat on their sinews, and the protruding lobe on the liver (which he must remove along with the kidneys).t5 Then the priest must offer them up in smoke on the altart as a gift to the Lord. It is a guilt offering.6 Any male among the priests may eat it. It must be eaten in a holy place. It is most holy.t

7 The law is the same for the sin offering and the guilt offering;t it belongs to the priest who makes atonement with it.

Priestly Portions of Burnt and Grain Offerings

8 “‘As for the priest who presents someone’s burnt offering, the hide of that burnt offering which he presented belongs to him.9 Every grain offering which is baked in the oven ort made in the pant or on the griddle belongs to the priest who presented it.

10 Every grain offering, whether mixed with olive oil or dry, belongs to all the sons of Aaron, each one alike.t

The Peace Offering

11 “‘This is the law of the peace offering sacrifice which het is to present to the Lord.12 If he presents it on account of thanksgiving,t along with the thank offering sacrifice he must present unleavened loaves mixed with olive oil, unleavened wafers smeared with olive oil,t and well soakedt ring-shaped loaves made of choice wheat flourt mixed with olive oil.13 He must present this grain offeringt in addition to ring-shaped loaves of leavened bread which regularly accompanyts the sacrifice of his thanksgiving peace offering.14 He must present one of each kind of grain offeringt as a contribution offeringt to the Lord; it belongs to the priest who splashes the blood of the peace offering.

15 The meat of hist thanksgiving peace offering must be eaten on the day of his offering; he must not set any of it aside until morning.
16 “‘If his offering is a votive or freewill sacrifice,t it may be eaten on the day he presents his sacrifice, and also the leftovers from it may be eaten on the next day,t17 but the leftovers from the meat of the sacrifice must be burned up in the firet on the third day.18 If some of the meat of his peace offering sacrifice is ever eaten on the third day it will not be accepted; it will not be accounted to the one who presented it, since it is spoiled,t and the person who eats from it will bear his punishment for iniquity.t19 The meat which touches anything ceremoniallyt unclean must not be eaten; it must be burned up in the fire. As for ceremonially clean meat,t everyone who is ceremonially clean may eat the meat.20 The person who eats meat from the peace offering sacrifice which belongs to the Lord while his uncleanness persistst will be cut off from his people.s

21 When a person touches anything unclean (whether human uncleanness, or an unclean animal, or an unclean detestable creature)s and eats some of the meat of the peace offering sacrifice which belongs to the Lord, that person will be cut off from his people.’”s

Sacrificial Instructions for the Common People: Fat and Blood

22 Then the Lord spoke to Moses:s23 “Tell the Israelites, ‘You must not eat any fat of an ox, sheep, or goat.24 Moreover, the fat of an animal that has died of natural causest and the fat of an animal torn by beasts may be used for any other purpose,t but you must certainly never eat it.25 If anyone eats fat from the animal from which he presents a gift to the Lord, that person will be cut off from his people.s26 And you must not eat any blood of the birds or the domesticated land animals in any of the places where you live.t

27 Any person who eats any blood – that person will be cut off from his people.’”s

Priestly Portions of Peace Offerings

28 Then the Lord spoke to Moses:s29 “Tell the Israelites, ‘The one who presents his peace offering sacrifice to the Lord must bring his offering to the Lord from his peace offering sacrifice.30 With his own hands he must bring the Lord’s gifts. He must bring the fat with the breastt to wave the breast as a wave offering before the Lord,st31 and the priest must offer the fat up in smoke on the altar, but the breast will belong to Aaron and his sons.32 The right thigh you must give as a contribution offeringt to the priest from your peace offering sacrifices.33 The one from Aaron’s sons who presents the blood of the peace offering and fat will have the right thigh as his share,

34 for the breast of the wave offering and the thigh of the contribution offering I have taken from the Israelites out of their peace offering sacrifices and have given them to Aaron the priest and to his sons from the people of Israel as a perpetual allotted portion.’”t
35 This is the allotment of Aaron and the allotment of his sons from the Lord’s gifts on the day Mosest presented them to serve as priestst to the Lord.

36 This is what the Lord commanded to give to them from the Israelites on the day Mosest anointed themt – a perpetual allotted portion throughout their generations.t

Summary of Sacrificial Regulations in Leviticus 6:8-7:36

37 This is the laws for the burnt offering, the grain offering,s the sin offering, the guilt offering, the ordination offering,s and the peace offering sacrifice,

38 which the Lord commanded Moses on Mount Sinai on the day he commanded the Israelites to present their offerings to the Lord in the wilderness of Sinai.

LEVITICUS 7

Sacrifices //To Make Things Right

(Leviticus 5.14-19)

The [Lord] said:

1 The sacrifice to make things right is very sacred. 2 The animal must be killed in the same place where the sacrifice to please met is killed, and the animal's blood must be splattered against the four sides of the bronze altar. 3 Offer all of the animal's fat, including the fat on its tail and on its insides, 4 as well as the lower part of the liver and the two kidneys with their fat. 5 One of the priests will lay these pieces on the altar and send them up in smoke to me.

6 This sacrifice for making things right is very holy. Only the priests may eat it, and they must eat it in a holy place.t

7 The 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.
8 In fact, the priest who offers a sacrifice to please met may keep the skin of the animal, 9 just as he may eat the bread from a sacrifice to give thanks to me.t

10 All 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:

14 Give 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.
15 When 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. 16 It 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,

17-18 but 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.
19 Don'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.

20-21 But 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.
22 The [Lord] told Moses

23 to say to the people:
Don't eat the fat of cattle, sheep, or goats. 24 If one of your animals dies or is killed by some wild animal, you may do anything with its fat except eat it. 25 If 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 t And no matter where you live, you must not eat the blood of any bird or animal,

27 or you will no longer belong to the community of Israel.
28 The [Lord] also told Moses

29-30 to 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 upt the choice ribs with their fat to show that the offering is dedicated to me. 31 A priest from Aaron's family will then send the fat up in smoke, but the ribs belong to the priests. 32-33 The upper joint of the right hind leg is for the priest who offers the blood and the fat of the animal. 34 I 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 35 who have been ordained as priests to serve me.

36 This law will never change. I am the [Lord]!
37 These 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. 38 While Moses and the people of Israel were in the desert at Mount Sinai, the [Lord] commanded them to start offering these sacrifices.