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The Guilt Offering

7:1 “‘This is the law of the guilt offering. It is most holy.1 7:2 In the place where they slaughter the burnt offering they must slaughter the guilt offering, and he2 must splash3 the blood all around on the altar. 7:3 Then he4 must present all its fat: the fatty tail, the fat which covers the entrails, 7:4 the two kidneys and the fat that is on them which is on the sinews, and he must remove the protruding lobe on the liver along with the kidneys.5 7:5 Then the priest must offer them up in smoke on the altar6 as a gift to the LORD. It is a guilt offering. 7:6 Any male among the priests may eat it. In a holy place it must be eaten. It is most holy.7 7:7 The law is the same for the sin offering and the guilt offering;8 the priest who makes atonement with it, it is his.

Priestly Portions of Burnt and Grain Offerings

7:8 “‘The priest who presents a man’s burnt offering, the hide of the burnt offering which he presented belongs to the priest; it is his. 7:9 Every grain offering which is baked in the oven or9 made in the pan10 or on the griddle belongs to the priest who presented it; it is his. 7:10 Every grain offering mixed with oil or dry belongs to all the sons of Aaron, each man alike.11

The Peace Offering

7:11 “‘This is the law of the peace offering sacrifice which he12 is to present to the LORD. 7:12 If he presents it on account of thanksgiving,13 he must present along with the thank offering sacrifice—unleavened loaves mixed with oil, unleavened wafers smeared with oil,14 and well soaked15 ring-shaped loaves made of choice wheat flour16 mixed with oil. 7:13 He must present this grain offering17 in addition to ring-shaped loaves of leavened bread which regularly come18 with19 the sacrifice of his thanksgiving peace offering. 7:14 He must present one of each kind of grain offering20 as a contribution offering21 to the LORD for the priest who splashes the blood of the peace offering; it is his. 7:15 The flesh of his22 thanksgiving peace offering must be eaten on the day of his offering; he must not set any of it aside until morning.

7:16 “‘If his offering is a votive or freewill sacrifice,23 it may be eaten on the day he presents his sacrifice, and also the leftovers from it may be eaten on the next day,24 7:17 but the leftovers from the flesh of the sacrifice must be burned with fire on the third day. 7:18 If some of the flesh 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,25 and the person who eats from it shall bear his punishment for iniquity.26 7:19 The flesh which touches anything ceremonially27 unclean must not be eaten; it must be burned with fire. As for ceremonially clean flesh,28 everyone who is ceremonially clean may eat the flesh. 7:20 The person who eats flesh from the peace offering sacrifice which belongs to the LORD while his uncleanness persists,29 that person will be cut off from his people.30 7:21 When a person touches anything unclean whether human uncleanness, or an unclean animal, or an unclean detestable creature,31 and eats some of the flesh of the peace offering sacrifice which belongs to the LORD, that person will be cut off from his people.’”32

Sacrificial Instructions for the Common People: Fat and Blood

7:22 Then the LORD spoke to Moses saying:33 7:23 “Speak to the children of Israel saying, ‘You must not eat any fat of an ox, sheep, or goat. 7:24 Moreover, fat of a carcass34 and fat of an animal torn by beasts may be used for any other purpose,35 but you must certainly never eat it. 7:25 If anyone eats fat from the animal from which he presents a gift to the LORD, the person who eats will be cut off from his people.36 7:26 And you must not eat any blood of the birds or the domesticated land animals in any of your places of residence.37 7:27 Any person who eats any blood, that person will be cut off from his people.’”38

Priestly portions of Peace Offerings

7:28 Then the LORD spoke to Moses saying:39 7:29 “Speak to the children of Israel saying: ‘The one who presents his peace offering sacrifice to the LORD must bring his offering to the LORD from his peace offering sacrifice. 7:30 His very hands must bring the LORD’s gifts. He must bring the fat with the breast40 to wave the breast as a wave offering before the LORD,41 7:31 and the priest must offer the fat up in smoke on the altar, but the breast will belong to Aaron and his sons. 7:32 The right thigh you must give as a contribution offering42 to the priest from your peace offering sacrifices. 7:33 The one from the sons of Aaron who presents the blood of the peace offering and fat, the right thigh will belong to him as a share, 7:34 for the breast of the wave offering and the thigh of the contribution offering I have taken from the children of Israel from their peace offering sacrifices and have given them to Aaron the priest and to his sons from the children of Israel as a perpetual allotted portion.’”43

7:35 This is the allotment of Aaron and the allotment of his sons from the LORD’s gifts on the day Moses44 presented them to serve as priests45 to the LORD; 7:36 that which the LORD commanded to give to them from the children of Israel on the day Moses46 anointed them47—a perpetual allotted portion throughout their generations.48

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

7:37 This is the law49 for the burnt offering, the grain offering,50 the sin offering, the guilt offering, the ordination offering,51 and the peace offering sacrifice, 7:38 which the LORD commanded Moses on Mount Sinai on the day he commanded the children of Israel to present their offerings to the LORD in the wilderness of Sinai.

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