Leviticus 7

1 Likewise, this is the law of the sacrifice for a transgression. It is the Holy of holies.

“These are the regulations for the guilt offering, it is most holy.

2 Therefore, where the holocaust is immolated, the victim for a transgression shall also be slain. Its blood shall be poured out all around the altar.

The guilt offering is to be killed where the burnt offering is killed, and the priest shall sprinkle its blood on all sides of the altar.

3 They shall offer from it: the rump, and the fat that covers the vital organs,

All the fat from it shall be offered: the fat tail, the fat that covers the insides,

4 the two little kidneys, and the fat that is near the sides, and the mesh of the liver with the little kidneys.

both kidneys with the fat on them by the loins, and the best part of the liver, which the priest is to remove together with the kidneys.

5 And the priest shall burn them upon the altar. It is the incense of the Lord on behalf of a transgression.

He shall burn them on the altar as a food offering to the Lord; it is a guilt offering.

6 Every male of priestly descent shall feed on this flesh in a holy place, because it is the Holy of holies.

Any male among the priests may eat it. It must be eaten in a holy place, it is most holy.

7 Just as the sacrifice for sin is offered, so also for a transgression; one law shall be for both sacrifices. It shall belong to the priest who offers it.

The guilt offering is like the sin offering; the regulations are the same for both. The priest who presents the offering that ‘makes things right’ is to have it.

8 The priest who offers the victim of holocaust shall have its skin.

In the case of ordinary burnt offerings, the priest shall have the animal's skin.

9 And every sacrifice of fine wheat flour which is baked in the oven, and whatever is prepared on the oven grating or in the frying pan, shall be for the priest who offers it.

In the same way all grain offerings that are baked in an oven or cooked in a pan or on a griddle is for the priest who presents it,

10 Whether these will be sprinkled with oil, or left dry, an equal measure shall be divided to each one of the sons of Aaron.

and all grain offerings, whether they mixed with olive oil or dry, are for all of Aaron descendants.

11 This is the law of the victim of peace offerings, which is offered to the Lord.

These are the regulations for the peace offering that you may present to the Lord.

12 If the oblation will be an act for giving thanks, they shall offer bread without leaven sprinkled with oil, and unleavened wafers anointed with oil, and fine wheat flour fried, and cakes sprinkled and mixed with oil,

If you offer it in a spirit of thanks, then along with the sacrifice of thanksgiving, you must offer bread, wafers, and well-kneaded cakes of the best flour all made without yeast and mixed or coated with olive oil.

13 and also, leavened bread with the sacrifice of thanksgiving, which is immolated for peace offerings.

In addition your peace offering of thanksgiving of breads made without yeast, you shall present an offering of breads made with yeast.

14 Of these, one shall be offered to the Lord as the first-fruits, and one shall be for the priest who will pour out the blood of the victim.

Present one of each kind of bread of the offering as a contribution to the Lord. It is for the priest who sprinkles the blood of the peace offering.

15 The flesh of it shall be eaten on the same day; neither shall any of it remain until morning.

The meat of the sacrifice of your peace offering of thanksgiving must be eaten the same day you offer it. Don't leave any of it until the morning.

16 If anyone, by a vow or of his own accord, will have offered a sacrifice, it shall be eaten in a similar manner on the same day. But then if any of it will have remained until tomorrow, it is lawful to eat it.

If the sacrifice you're offering is to pay a vow or a freewill offering, it shall be eaten on the day you present your sacrifice, but what's left can be eaten the next day.

17 Then whatever will be found on the third day shall be consumed with fire.

However, any meat of the sacrifice still remaining on the third day must be burned.

18 If anyone will have eaten from the flesh of the victim of peace offerings on the third day, the oblation will be nullified; neither will it benefit the one who offered it. But instead, whatever soul will contaminate itself with such foods will be guilty of a betrayal.

If you eat any of the meat from your peace offering on the third day, it won't be accepted. You won't receive credit for offering it. In fact it will be treated as something disgusting, and anyone who eats it will bear responsibility for their guilt.

19 The flesh that has touched anything unclean shall not be eaten, but it shall be burnt with fire. He that is clean will feed on it.

If this meat touches anything unclean it must not be eaten; it must be burned. This meat may be eaten by those who are ceremonially clean.

20 If a soul which is polluted will have eaten from the flesh of the sacrifice of peace offerings, which is offered to the Lord, he shall perish from his people.

If anyone who is unclean eats meat from the peace offering given to the Lord, they must be expelled from their people.

21 And whoever will have touched the uncleanness of man, or of beast, or of anything which is able to defile, and who will have eaten from this kind of flesh, shall be cut off from his people.

Anyone who touches anything unclean, whether it's from a person, an unclean animal, or an unclean revolting thing, and then eats meat from the peace offering given to the Lord, they must be expelled from their people.”

22 And the Lord spoke to Moses, saying:

The Lord told Moses,

23 Say to the sons of Israel: The fat of a sheep, and of an ox, and of a goat you shall not eat.

“Give these instructions to the Israelites. Tell them, ‘You must not eat any of the fat of a bull, a sheep, or a goat.

24 The fat of a carcass that has died on its own, or of an animal that has been seized by a wild beast, you shall have for various uses.

You can use the fat of an animal found dead or killed by wild beasts for whatever purpose you want, but you must not eat it.

25 If anyone will have eaten the fat which ought to be offered as a burnt sacrifice of the Lord, he shall perish from his people.

Anyone who eats the fat of an animal from a food offering presented to the Lord must be expelled from their people.

26 Likewise, you shall not take as food the blood of any animals at all, whether of birds or beasts.

You must not eat the blood of any bird or animal in any of your homes.

27 Every soul that will have eaten blood shall perish from his people.

Anyone who eats blood must be expelled from their people.’”

28 And the Lord spoke to Moses, saying:

The Lord told Moses,

29 Speak to the sons of Israel, saying: Whoever offers a victim of peace offerings to the Lord, let him also offer at the same time a sacrifice, that is, its libations.

“Give these instructions to the Israelites. Tell them that if you present a peace offering to the Lord you must bring part of it as a special gift to the Lord.

30 He shall hold in his hands the fat of the victim, and the breast. And when he will have offered and consecrated both to the Lord, he shall deliver them to the priest,

You must personally bring the food offerings to the Lord; bring the fat as well as the breast, and wave the breast as a wave offering before the Lord.

31 who shall burn the fat upon the altar. But the breast shall be for Aaron and his sons.

The priest shall burn the fat on the altar, but the breast is for Aaron and his sons.

32 Likewise also, the right shoulder of the victim of peace offerings shall fall to the priest as first-fruits.

Give the right thigh to the priest as a contribution from your peace offering.

33 Among the sons of Aaron, whoever will have offered the blood and the fat, the same one shall also have the right shoulder for his portion.

The priest as a descendant of Aaron who offers the blood and fat of the peace offering has the right thigh as his share.

34 So then, the breast that is lifted up, and the shoulder that is separated, I have taken from the sons of Israel, from their victims of peace offerings, and I have given these to Aaron the priest and to his sons, as a law in perpetuity, from all the people of Israel.

I have required from the Israelites the breast of the wave offering and the contribution of the thigh from their peace offerings, and I have given them to Aaron the priest and his sons as their share from the Israelites for all time.”

35 This is the anointing of Aaron and his sons, by the ceremonies of the Lord, in the day when Moses offered them, so that they may fulfill the priesthood,

This is the share of the food offerings given to the Lord that belongs to Aaron and his sons since the day they were appointed to serve the Lord as priests.

36 and this is what the Lord instructed to be given to them by the sons of Israel, as a perpetual observance in their generations.

From the time they were anointed, the Lord ordered that this be given them by the sons of Israel. It is their share for future generations.

37 This is the law of the holocaust, and of the sacrifice for sin, and for transgression, and for consecration, and for the victims of peace offerings,

These are the regulations regarding of the burnt offering, the grain offering, the sin offering, the guilt offering, the ordination offering, and the peace offering.

38 which the Lord appointed to Moses on mount Sinai, when he commanded the sons of Israel to offer their oblations to the Lord in the desert of Sinai.

The Lord gave these to Moses on Mount Sinai at the time he ordered the Israelites to give their offerings to him in the Wilderness of Sinai.