Leviticus 7

1 This also is the law of the sacrifice for a trespass, it is most holy:

“Now this is the law of the guilt offering, which is most holy:

2 Therefore where the holocaust is immolated, the victim also for a trespass shall be slain: the blood thereof shall be poured round about the altar.

The guilt offering must be slaughtered in the place where the burnt offering is slaughtered, and the priest shall sprinkle its blood on all sides of the altar.

3 They shall offer thereof the rump and the fat that covereth the entrails:

And all the fat from it shall be offered: the fat tail, the fat that covers the entrails,

4 The two little kidneys, and the fat which is by the flanks, and the caul of the liver with the little kidneys.

both kidneys with the fat on them near the loins, and the lobe of the liver, which is to be removed with the kidneys.

5 And the priest shall burn them upon the altar: it is the burnt sacrifice of the Lord for a trespass.

The priest shall burn them on the altar as an offering made by fire to the LORD; it is a guilt offering.

6 Every male of the priestly race, shall eat this flesh in a holy place, because it is most holy.

Every male among the priests may eat of it. It must be eaten in a holy place; it is most holy.

7 As the sacrifice for sin is offered, so is also that for a trespass: the same shall be the law of both these sacrifices: it shall belong to the priest that offereth it.

The guilt offering is like the sin offering; the same law applies to both. It belongs to the priest who makes atonement with it.

8 The priest that offereth the victim of holocaust, shall have the skin thereof.

As for the priest who presents a burnt offering for anyone, the hide of that offering belongs to him.

9 And every sacrifice of flour that is baked in the oven, and whatsoever is dressed on the gridiron, or in the fryingpan, shall be the priest’s that offereth it:

Likewise, every grain offering that is baked in an oven or cooked in a pan or on a griddle belongs to the priest who presents it,

10 Whether they be tempered with oil, or dry, all the sons of Aaron shall have one as much as another.

and every grain offering, whether dry or mixed with oil, belongs equally to all the sons of Aaron.

11 This is the law of the sacrifice of peace offerings that is offered to the Lord.

Now this is the law of the peace offering that one may present to the LORD:

12 If the oblation be for thanksgiving, they shall offer leaves without leaven tempered with oil, and unleavened wafers anointed with oil, and fine flour fried, and cakes tempered and mingled with oil:

If he offers it in thanksgiving, then along with the sacrifice of thanksgiving he shall offer unleavened cakes mixed with olive oil, unleavened wafers coated with oil, and well-kneaded cakes of fine flour mixed with oil.

13 Moreover leaves of leavened bread with the sacrifice of thanks, which is offered for peace offerings:

Along with his peace offering of thanksgiving he is to present an offering with cakes of leavened bread.

14 Of which one shall be offered to the Lord for firstfruits, and shall be the priest’s that shall pour out the blood of the victim.

From the cakes he must present one portion of each offering as a contribution to the LORD. It belongs to the priest who sprinkles the blood of the peace offering.

15 And the flesh of it shall be eaten the same day, neither shall any of it remain until the morning.

The meat of the sacrifice of his peace offering of thanksgiving must be eaten on the day he offers it; none of it may be left until morning.

16 If any man by vow, or of his own accord offer a sacrifice, it shall in like manner be eaten the same day: and if any of it remain until the morrow, it is lawful to eat it:

If, however, the sacrifice he offers is a vow or a freewill offering, it shall be eaten on the day he presents his sacrifice, but the remainder may be eaten on the next day.

17 But whatsoever shall be found on the third day shall be consumed with fire.

But any meat of the sacrifice remaining until the third day must be burned up.

18 If any man eat of the flesh of the victim of peace offerings on the third day, the oblation shall be of no effect, neither shall it profit the offerer: yea rather whatsoever soul shall defile itself with such meat, shall be guilty of transgression.

If any of the meat from his peace offering is eaten on the third day, it will not be accepted. It will not be credited to the one who presented it; it shall be an abomination, and the one who eats of it shall bear his iniquity.

19 The flesh that hath touched any unclean thing, shall not be eaten, but shall be burnt with fire: he that is clean shall eat of it.

Meat that touches anything unclean must not be eaten; it is to be burned up. As for any other meat, anyone who is ceremonially clean may eat it.

20 If any one that is defiled shall eat of the flesh of the sacrifice of peace offerings, which is offered to the Lord, he shall be cut off from his people.

But if anyone who is unclean eats meat from the peace offering that belongs to the LORD, that person must be cut off from his people.

21 And he that hath touched the uncleanness of man, or of beast, or of any thing that can defile, and shall eat of such kind of flesh, shall be cut off from his people.

If one touches anything unclean, whether human uncleanness, an unclean animal, or any unclean, detestable thing, and then eats any of the meat of the peace offering that belongs to the LORD, that person must be cut off from his people.”

22 And the Lord spoke to Moses, saying:

Then the LORD said to Moses,

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

“Speak to the Israelites and say, ‘You are not to eat any of the fat of an ox, a sheep, or a goat.

24 The fat of a carcass that hath died of itself, and of a beast that was caught by another beast, you shall have for divers uses.

The fat of an animal found dead or mauled by wild beasts may be used for any other purpose, but you must not eat it.

25 If any man eat the fat that should be offered for the burnt sacrifice of the Lord, he shall perish out of his people.

If anyone eats the fat of an animal from which an offering made by fire may be presented to the LORD, the one who eats it must be cut off from his people.

26 Moreover you shall not eat the blood of any creature whatsoever, whether of birds or beasts.

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

27 Every one that eateth blood, shall perish from among the people.

If anyone eats blood, that person must be cut off from his people.’”

28 And the Lord spoke to Moses, saying:

Then the LORD said to Moses,

29 Speak to the children of Israel, saying: He that offereth a victim of peace offerings to the Lord, let him offer therewith a sacrifice also, that is, the libations thereof.

“Speak to the Israelites and say, ‘Anyone who presents a peace offering to the LORD must bring it as his sacrifice to the LORD.

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

With his own hands he is to bring the offerings made by fire to the LORD; he shall bring the fat, together with 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 Aaron’s and his sons’.

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

32 The right shoulder also of the victims of peace offerings shall fall to the priest for firstfruits.

And you are to give the right thigh to the priest as a contribution from your peace offering.

33 He among the sons of Aaron, that offereth the blood, and the fat, he shall have the right shoulder also for his portion.

The son of Aaron who presents the blood and fat of the peace offering shall have the right thigh as a portion.

34 For the breast that is elevated and the shoulder that is separated I have taken of the children of Israel, from off their victims of peace offerings, and have given them to Aaron the priest, and to his sons, by a law for ever, from all the people of Israel.

I have taken from the sons of Israel the breast of the wave offering and the thigh of the contribution of their peace offerings, and I have given them to Aaron the priest and his sons as a permanent portion from the sons of Israel.’”

35 This is the anointing of Aaron and his sons, in the ceremonies of the Lord, in the day when Moses offered them, that they might do the office of priesthood,

This is the portion of the offerings made by fire to the LORD for Aaron and his sons since the day they were presented to serve the LORD as priests.

36 And the things that the Lord commanded to be given them by the children of Israel, by a perpetual observance in their generations.

On the day they were anointed, the LORD commanded that this be given them by the sons of Israel. It is a permanent portion for the generations to come.

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

This is the law 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 in mount Sinai, when he commanded the children of Israel, that they should offer their oblations to the Lord in the desert of Sinai.

which the LORD gave Moses on Mount Sinai on the day He commanded the Israelites to present their offerings to the LORD in the Wilderness of Sinai.