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The Priest’s Part in the Offerings
1‘Now this is the law of the guilt offering; it is most holy.
2In the place where they slaughter the burnt offering they are to slaughter the guilt offering, and the priest shall sprinkle its blood around on the altar.
3Then he shall offer from it all its fat: the fat tail and the fat that covers the entrails,
4and the two kidneys with the fat that is on them, which is on the loins; and he shall remove the lobe on the liver with the kidneys.
5The priest shall offer them up in smoke on the altar as an offering by fire to the Lord; it is a guilt offering.
6Every male among the priests may eat it. It shall be eaten in a holy place; it is most holy.
7The guilt offering is like the sin offering: there is one law for them. The priest who makes atonement with it Lit it shall be for himshall have it.
8Also the priest who presents anyone’s burnt offering, Lit for the priest, it shall be for himthat priest shall have for himself the hide of the burnt offering which he has presented.
9Likewise, every grain offering that is baked in the oven and everything prepared in a Lit lidded cooking panpan or on a griddle Lit for the priest, it shall be for himshall belong to the priest who presents it.
10Every grain offering, mixed with oil or dry, shall Lit bebelong to all the sons of Aaron, Lit a man as his brotherto all alike.
11‘Now this is the law of the sacrifice of peace offerings which shall be presented to the Lord.
12If he offers it by way of thanksgiving, then along with the sacrifice of thanksgiving he shall offer unleavened cakes mixed with oil, and unleavened wafers Or anointedspread with oil, and cakes of well stirred fine flour mixed with oil.
13With the sacrifice of his peace offerings for thanksgiving, he shall present his offering with cakes of leavened bread.
14Of Lit itthis he shall present one of every offering as a Or uplifted offeringcontribution to the Lord; it shall Lit be forbelong to the priest who sprinkles the blood of the peace offerings.
15‘Now as for the flesh of the sacrifice of his thanksgiving peace offerings, it shall be eaten on the day of his offering; he shall not leave any of it over until morning.
16But if the sacrifice of his offering is a Or vowed offeringvow or a Or freewill offeringvoluntary offering, it shall be eaten on the day that he offers his sacrifice, and on the next Lit day and whatday what is left of it may be eaten;
17but what is left over from the flesh of the sacrifice on the third day shall be burned with fire.
18So if any of the flesh of the sacrifice of his peace offerings is ever eaten on the third day, he who offers it will not be accepted, and it will not be credited to him. It will be an unclean thing, and the person who eats it shall bear his punishment.
19‘Also the flesh that touches anything unclean shall not be eaten; it shall be burned with fire. Lit And the fleshAs for other flesh, anyone who is clean may eat such flesh.
20But the person who eats the flesh of the sacrifice of peace offerings which belong to the Lord, Lit and his uncleanness is on himwhen he is unclean, that person shall be cut off from his people.
21When anyone touches anything unclean, whether human uncleanness, or an unclean animal, or any unclean Some mss swarming thingdetestable thing, and eats of the flesh of the sacrifice of peace offerings which belong to the Lord, that person shall be cut off from his people.’ ”
22Then the Lord spoke to Moses, saying,
23“Speak to the sons of Israel, saying, ‘You shall not eat any fat from an ox, a sheep, or a goat.
24Also the fat of an animal which dies and the fat of an animal torn by animals may be put to any other use, but you certainly are not to eat it.
25For whoever eats the fat of the animal from which Lit he offers an offering by firean offering by fire is offered to the Lord, the person who eats it shall also be cut off from his people.
26And you are not to eat any blood, either of bird or animal, in any of your dwellings.
27Any person who eats any blood, that person shall also be cut off from his people.’ ”
28Then the Lord spoke to Moses, saying,
29“Speak to the sons of Israel, saying, ‘He who offers the sacrifice of his peace offerings to the Lord shall bring his offering to the Lord from the sacrifice of his peace offerings.
30His own hands are to bring offerings by fire to the Lord. He shall bring the fat with the breast, so that the breast may be Lit wavedpresented as a wave offering before the Lord.
31And the priest shall offer up the fat in smoke on the altar, but the breast shall belong to Aaron and to his sons.
32And you shall give the right thigh to the priest as a Or uplifted offeringcontribution from the sacrifices of your peace offerings.
33The one among the sons of Aaron who offers the blood of the peace offerings and the fat, the right thigh shall be his as his portion.
34For I have taken from the sons of Israel the breast of the wave offering and the thigh of the Or uplifted offeringcontribution from the sacrifices of their peace offerings, and have given them to Aaron the priest and to his sons as their allotted portion forever from the sons of Israel.
35‘This is the allotment to Aaron and the allotment to his sons from the offerings by fire to the Lord, on that day when he presented them to serve as priests to the Lord.
36Lit WhichThese the Lord had commanded to be given them from the sons of Israel on the day that He anointed them. It is their allotted portion forever throughout their generations.’ ”
37This is the law of the burnt offering, the grain offering, the sin offering and the guilt offering, and the ordination offering and the sacrifice of peace offerings,
38which the Lord commanded Moses on Mount Sinai on the day that He commanded the sons of Israel to Or offerpresent their offerings to the Lord in the wilderness of Sinai.