Leviticus 7

New International Reader’s Version

1 ‘ “Here are some more rules for guilt offerings. The guilt offering is very holy.2 You must kill the animal for the guilt offering where you kill the animal for the burnt offering. Splash its blood against the sides of the altar.3 Offer all its fat. It must include the fat tail and the fat that covers the inside parts.4 It must include both kidneys with the fat on them next to the lower back muscles. It must also include the long part of the liver. Remove all of it together with the kidneys.5 The priest must burn all of it on the altar. It is a food offering presented to the LORD. It is a guilt offering.6 Any male in a priest’s family can eat it. But he must eat it in the holy area. It is very holy.7 ‘ “The same law applies to the sin offering and the guilt offering. Both of them belong to the priest who offers them to pay for sin.8 The priest who offers a burnt offering for anyone can keep its hide for himself.9 Every grain offering baked in an oven belongs to the priest who offers it. So does every grain offering cooked in a pan or on a metal plate.10 Every grain offering belongs equally to all the priests in Aaron’s family line. That is true whether it is mixed with olive oil or it is dry.11 ‘ “Here are some more rules for friendship offerings anyone may bring to the LORD.12 ‘ “Suppose they offer a friendship offering to show they are thankful. Then together with the thank-offering they must offer thick loaves of bread. They must make them without yeast. They must mix them with olive oil. Or they must offer thin loaves of bread made without yeast. They must spread olive oil on them. Or they must offer thick loaves of bread made out of the finest flour. They must add olive oil to it. They must work the flour and prepare it well.13 They must bring another friendship offering along with their thank-offering. It should be thick loaves of bread made with yeast.14 They must bring one of each kind of bread as an offering. One kind is made with yeast. The other is not. Both of them are a gift to the LORD. They belong to the priest who splashes the blood of the friendship offering against the altar.15 The person must eat the meat from their thank-offering on the day they offer it. They must not leave any of it until morning.16 ‘ “But suppose they bring a friendship offering to keep a promise they have made. Or suppose they bring an offering they choose to give. Then they must eat the sacrifice on the day they offer it. But if anything is left over, they may eat it the next day.17 They must burn up any meat from the sacrifice left over until the third day.18 Suppose they eat any meat from the friendship offering on the third day. Then the LORD will not accept the offering. He will not accept it as a gift from them. It is not pure. If they eat any of it, they will be held responsible for it.19 ‘ “They must not eat meat that touches anything ‘unclean’. They must burn it up. Anyone ‘clean’ may eat any other meat.20 But suppose an ‘unclean’ person eats any meat from the friendship offering that belongs to the LORD. Then they will be separated from their people.21 Suppose someone touches something ‘unclean’. It does not matter whether it comes from a human being who is not ‘clean’. It does not matter whether it comes from an ‘unclean’ animal. It does not matter whether it comes from something hated and ‘unclean’. And suppose they eat any of the meat from the friendship offering that belongs to the LORD. Then they will be separated from their people.” ’22 The LORD spoke to Moses. He said,23 ‘Speak to the Israelites. Tell them, “Do not eat any of the fat of cattle, sheep or goats.24 Do not eat the fat of any animal found dead. Do not eat the fat of an animal that wild animals have torn apart. But you can use the fat for any other purpose.25 Suppose an animal has been sacrificed as a food offering to the LORD. No one may eat its fat. If they do, they will be separated from their people.26 No matter where you live, do not eat the blood of any bird or animal.27 Anyone who eats blood must be separated from their people.” ’28 The LORD spoke to Moses. He said,29 ‘Speak to the Israelites. Tell them, “Suppose someone brings a friendship offering to the LORD. Then they must bring part of it as their special gift to the LORD.30 They must bring it with their own hands. It is a food offering presented to the LORD. They must bring the fat together with the breast. They must lift the breast up and wave it in front of the LORD as a wave offering.31 The priest will burn the fat on the altar. But the breast belongs to Aaron and the priests in his family line.32 Give the right thigh from your friendship offerings to the priest as a gift.33 The priest who offers the blood and fat from the friendship offering must be given the right thigh. It is his share.34 I, the LORD, have taken the breast that is waved and the thigh that is given. I have taken them from the friendship offerings of the Israelites. And I have given them to Aaron the priest and the priests in his family line. The offerings will be their share from the Israelites for all time to come.” ’35 That is the part of the food offerings presented to the LORD. It is given to Aaron and the priests in his family line. It was given to Aaron and his sons on the day they were set apart to serve the LORD as priests.36 On the day they were anointed, the LORD commanded the Israelites to give that part to them. For all time to come, it will be the share of Aaron and the priests in his family line.37 These are the rules for burnt offerings, grain offerings, sin offerings, guilt offerings and friendship offerings. They are also the rules for the offerings that are given when priests are being prepared to serve the LORD.38 They are the rules the LORD gave Moses on Mount Sinai. He gave them on the day he commanded the Israelites to bring their offerings to the LORD. That took place in the Sinai Desert.

Leviticus 7

English Standard Version

1 “This is the law of the guilt offering. It is most holy. (Le 5:1; Le 6:17; Le 6:25; Le 7:37)2 In the place where they kill the burnt offering they shall kill the guilt offering, and its blood shall be thrown against the sides of the altar. (Le 6:25)3 And all its fat shall be offered, the fat tail, the fat that covers the entrails, (Ex 29:13; Ex 29:22; Le 3:3; Le 3:9; Le 3:14; Le 4:8)4 the two kidneys with the fat that is on them at the loins, and the long lobe of the liver that he shall remove with the kidneys. (Le 3:4)5 The priest shall burn them on the altar as a food offering to the Lord; it is a guilt offering.6 Every male among the priests may eat of it. It shall be eaten in a holy place. It is most holy. (Le 6:18; Le 6:29; Le 7:1)7 The guilt offering is just like the sin offering; there is one law for them. The priest who makes atonement with it shall have it. (Le 6:25; Le 14:13)8 And the priest who offers any man’s burnt offering shall have for himself the skin of the burnt offering that he has offered.9 And every grain offering baked in the oven and all that is prepared on a pan or a griddle shall belong to the priest who offers it. (Le 2:3; Le 2:5; Le 2:7; Le 2:10; Le 6:21; Nu 18:9; Eze 44:29)10 And every grain offering, mixed with oil or dry, shall be shared equally among all the sons of Aaron.11 “And this is the law of the sacrifice of peace offerings that one may offer to the Lord.12 If he offers it for a thanksgiving, then he shall offer with the thanksgiving sacrifice unleavened loaves mixed with oil, unleavened wafers smeared with oil, and loaves of fine flour well mixed with oil. (Le 2:4; Le 6:21; Nu 6:15)13 With the sacrifice of his peace offerings for thanksgiving he shall bring his offering with loaves of leavened bread. (Am 4:5)14 And from it he shall offer one loaf from each offering, as a gift to the Lord. It shall belong to the priest who throws the blood of the peace offerings. (Ex 29:27; Nu 18:8; Nu 18:11; Nu 18:19)15 And the flesh of the sacrifice of his peace offerings for thanksgiving shall be eaten on the day of his offering. He shall not leave any of it until the morning. (Le 22:29)16 But if the sacrifice of his offering is a vow offering or a freewill offering, it shall be eaten on the day that he offers his sacrifice, and on the next day what remains of it shall be eaten. (Le 19:6; Le 22:21)17 But what remains of the flesh of the sacrifice on the third day shall be burned up with fire.18 If any of the flesh of the sacrifice of his peace offering is eaten on the third day, he who offers it shall not be accepted, neither shall it be credited to him. It is tainted, and he who eats of it shall bear his iniquity. (Le 19:7)19 “Flesh that touches any unclean thing shall not be eaten. It shall be burned up with fire. All who are clean may eat flesh,20 but the person who eats of the flesh of the sacrifice of the Lord’s peace offerings while an uncleanness is on him, that person shall be cut off from his people. (Le 15:3; Le 22:3)21 And if anyone touches an unclean thing, whether human uncleanness or an unclean beast or any unclean detestable creature, and then eats some flesh from the sacrifice of the Lord’s peace offerings, that person shall be cut off from his people.” (Le 11:10; Le 11:24)22 The Lord spoke to Moses, saying,23 “Speak to the people of Israel, saying, You shall eat no fat, of ox or sheep or goat. (Le 3:16)24 The fat of an animal that dies of itself and the fat of one that is torn by beasts may be put to any other use, but on no account shall you eat it. (Ex 22:31; Le 17:15; Le 22:8; De 14:21; Eze 4:14; Eze 44:31)25 For every person who eats of the fat of an animal of which a food offering may be made to the Lord shall be cut off from his people.26 Moreover, you shall eat no blood whatever, whether of fowl or of animal, in any of your dwelling places. (Le 3:17)27 Whoever eats any blood, that person shall be cut off from his people.”28 The Lord spoke to Moses, saying,29 “Speak to the people of Israel, saying, Whoever offers the sacrifice of his peace offerings to the Lord shall bring his offering to the Lord from the sacrifice of his peace offerings. (Le 3:1)30 His own hands shall bring the Lord’s food offerings. He shall bring the fat with the breast, that the breast may be waved as a wave offering before the Lord. (Ex 29:24; Le 3:3; Le 3:9; Le 3:14)31 The priest shall burn the fat on the altar, but the breast shall be for Aaron and his sons. (Le 3:5; Le 3:11; Le 3:16; Le 9:21; Nu 6:20)32 And the right thigh you shall give to the priest as a contribution from the sacrifice of your peace offerings. (Le 7:31)33 Whoever among the sons of Aaron offers the blood of the peace offerings and the fat shall have the right thigh for a portion.34 For the breast that is waved and the thigh that is contributed I have taken from the people of Israel, out of the sacrifices of their peace offerings, and have given them to Aaron the priest and to his sons, as a perpetual due from the people of Israel. (Ex 29:28; Le 7:31; Nu 18:18)35 This is the portion of Aaron and of his sons from the Lord’s food offerings, from the day they were presented to serve as priests of the Lord.36 The Lord commanded this to be given them by the people of Israel, from the day that he anointed them. It is a perpetual due throughout their generations.” (Ex 40:13; Le 8:12; Le 8:30)37 This is the law of the burnt offering, of the grain offering, of the sin offering, of the guilt offering, of the ordination offering, and of the peace offering, (Ex 29:1; Le 6:9; Le 6:14; Le 6:20; Le 6:25; Le 7:1; Le 7:11)38 which the Lord commanded Moses on Mount Sinai, on the day that he commanded the people of Israel to bring their offerings to the Lord, in the wilderness of Sinai. (Le 1:2)