Read the Bible: Leviticus 7

Laws about making the burnt offering, the grain offering, the sin offering, the guilt offering, the ordination offering and the peace offering. The portion that is given to the priests is described and we’ll recap why that is in the discussion.

Leviticus 7

“This is the law of the guilt offering: it is most holy.

2 In the place where they kill the burnt offering shall they kill the guilt offering: and he shall sprinkle the blood of it on the sides of the altar.

3 He shall offer all the fat of it; the rump, and the fat that covers the entrails,

4 the two kidneys, the fat that is on them, which is by the loins, and the long lobe of the liver, with the kidneys, shall be removed:

5 And the priest shall burn them on the altar for an offering made by fire to the LORD: it is a guilt offering.

6 Every male among the priests shall eat of it: it shall be eaten in the holy place: it is most holy.

7 As the sin offering is, so is the guilt offering: there is one law for them: the priest that makes atonement with it shall have it.

8 And the priest that offers any man’s burnt offering, the priest shall have to himself the skin of the burnt offering which he has offered.

9 All the grain offering that is baked in the oven, and all that is dressed in the frying pan, and in the pan, shall be the priest’s that offerers it.

10 Every grain offering, whether mingled with oil or dry, shall all the sons of Aaron have, equally divided. 

11 This is the law of the sacrifice of peace offerings, which he shall offer to the LORD.

12 If he offers it for a thanksgiving, then he shall offer with the sacrifice of thanksgiving unleavened cakes mingled with oil, and unleavened wafers anointed with oil, and cakes of fine flour mingled with oil.

13 Besides the cakes, he shall offer leavened bread with the sacrifice of thanksgiving of his peace offerings.

14 The priest shall offer one of the cakes out of the offering as a gift to the LORD, and it shall belong to the priest that sprinkles the blood of the peace offerings.

15 And the flesh of the sacrifice of his peace offerings for thanksgiving shall be eaten the same day that it is offered; none of it shall be left until morning.

16 If 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 the next day the remainder may also be eaten:

17 But on the third day the remainder of the flesh of the sacrifice shall be burned with fire.

18 If any of the flesh of the sacrifice of his peace offerings is eaten at all on the third day, it shall not be accepted; it will not be credited to him that offers it: it will be an abomination, and the soul that eats it will bear his iniquity.

19 The flesh that touches any unclean thing shall not be eaten; it shall be burned with fire. All who are clean may eat flesh, 

20 But the one that eats the flesh of the sacrifice of peace offerings, that pertain to the LORD, having his uncleanness on him, that person shall be cut off from his people.

21 If someone touches any unclean thing, as the uncleanness of man, or any unclean beast, or any abominable unclean thing, and eats of the flesh of the sacrifice of peace offerings, which pertain to the LORD, that soul shall be cut off from his people.”

22 The LORD spoke to Moses, saying:

23 “Speak to the children of Israel, saying ‘You shall eat no manner of fat, of ox, or of sheep, or of goat.

24 And the fat of the beast that dies on its own, and the fat of an animal devoured by wild animals, may be used for any other purpose, but you shall not eat it.

25 For whoever eats the fat of the beast, of which men offered by fire to the LORD, the person that eats it shall be cut off from his people.

26 You shall eat no manner of blood, whether it be of fowl or of wild animal, in any of your dwellings.

27 Whoever eats any manner of blood, that person shall be cut off from his people.’”

28 The LORD spake to Moses, saying:

29 “Speak to the children of Israel, saying: ‘The person who presents a peace offering sacrifice to the LORD must bring an offering to the LORD from his sacrifice.

30 His own hands shall bring the offerings of the LORD made by fire; he shall bring the fat with the breast, that the breast may be waved for a wave offering before the LORD.

31 The priest shall burn the fat on the altar: but the breast shall be Aaron’s and his sons’.

32 And the right shoulder you shall give to the priest as a contribution of the sacrifices of your peace offerings.

33 He among the sons of Aaron, that offers the blood of the peace offerings, and the fat, shall have the right shoulder for his part.

34 For the breast that is waved and the shoulder that is contributed I have taken from the children of Israel from off the sacrifices of their peace offerings, and have given them to Aaron the priest and his sons by a statute forever among the children of Israel.'”

35 This is the portion of the anointing of Aaron, and of the anointing of his sons, out of the offerings of the LORD made by fire, in the day when he presented them to minister to the LORD in the priest’s office;

36 Which the LORD commanded to be given to them of the children of Israel, on the day that he anointed them, by a statute forever throughout their generations.

37 This is the law of the burnt offering, of the grain offering, and of the sin offering, and of the guilt offering, and of the consecrations, and of the sacrifice of the peace offerings;

38 Which the LORD commanded Moses in mount Sinai, on the day that he commanded the children of Israel to present their offerings to the LORD, in the wilderness of Sinai.

See also: Leviticus 7 in ESV, HCSB, NASB and NIV via Bible Gateway.

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