Leviticus 7

Priestly Portions Leviticus 7:8–10

⁸Verse 8. The priest who offers any man’s burnt offering, even the priest shall have for himself the skin of the burnt offering which he has offered. ⁹Verse 9. Every meal offering that is baked in the oven, and all that is dressed in the pan, and on the griddle, shall be the priest’s who offers it. ¹⁰Verse 10. Every meal offering, mixed with oil or dry, belongs to all the sons of Aaron, one as well as another.

Law of Peace Offerings Leviticus 7:11–21

¹¹Verse 11. “‘This is the law of the sacrifice of peace offerings, which one shall offer to Yahweh. ¹²Verse 12. If he offers it for a thanksgiving, then he shall offer with the sacrifice of thanksgiving unleavened cakes mixed with oil, and unleavened wafers anointed with oil, and cakes mixed with oil. ¹³Verse 13. With cakes of leavened bread he shall offer his offering with the sacrifice of his peace offerings for thanksgiving. ¹⁴Verse 14. Of it he shall offer one out of each offering for a heave offering to Yahweh. It shall be the priest’s who sprinkles the blood of the peace offerings. ¹⁵Verse 15. 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.

¹⁶Verse 16. “‘But if the sacrifice of his offering is a vow, 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: ¹⁷Verse 17. but what remains of the meat of the sacrifice on the third day shall be burned with fire. ¹⁸Verse 18. If any of the meat of the sacrifice of his peace offerings is eaten on the third day, it will not be accepted, and it shall not be credited to him who offers it. It will be an abomination, and the soul who eats any of it will bear his iniquity.

¹⁹Verse 19. “‘The meat that touches any unclean thing shall not be eaten. It shall be burned with fire. As for the meat, everyone who is clean may eat it; ²⁰Verse 20. but the soul who eats of the meat of the sacrifice of peace offerings, that belongs to Yahweh, having his uncleanness on him, that soul shall be cut off from his people. ²¹Verse 21. When anyone touches any unclean thing, the uncleanness of man, or an unclean animal, or any unclean abomination, and eats some of the meat of the sacrifice of peace offerings, which belong to Yahweh, that soul shall be cut off from his people.’”

Prohibitions on Fat and Blood Leviticus 7:22–27

²²Verse 22. Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying, ²³Verse 23. “Speak to the children of Israel, saying, ‘You shall eat no fat, of bull, or sheep, or goat. ²⁴Verse 24. The fat of that which dies of itself, and the fat of that which is torn of animals, may be used for any other service, but you shall in no way eat of it. ²⁵Verse 25. For whoever eats the fat of the animal, of which men offer an offering made by fire to Yahweh, even the soul who eats it shall be cut off from his people. ²⁶Verse 26. You shall not eat any blood, whether it is of bird or of animal, in any of your dwellings.

²⁷Verse 27. Whoever it is who eats any blood, that soul shall be cut off from his people.’”

Waving and Heaving Offerings Leviticus 7:28–38

²⁸Verse 28. Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying, ²⁹Verse 29. “Speak to the children of Israel, saying, ‘He who offers the sacrifice of his peace offerings to Yahweh shall bring his offering to Yahweh out of the sacrifice of his peace offerings. ³⁰Verse 30. With his own hands he shall bring the offerings of Yahweh made by fire. He shall bring the fat with the breast, that the breast may be waved for a wave offering before Yahweh. ³¹Verse 31. The priest shall burn the fat on the altar, but the breast shall be Aaron’s and his sons’. ³²Verse 32. The right thigh you shall give to the priest for a heave offering out of the sacrifices of your peace offerings.

³³Verse 33. He among the sons of Aaron who offers the blood of the peace offerings, and the fat, shall have the right thigh for a portion. ³⁴Verse 34. For the waved breast and the heaved thigh I have taken from the children of Israel out of the sacrifices of their peace offerings, and have given them to Aaron the priest and to his sons as their portion forever from the children of Israel.’” ³⁵Verse 35. This is the anointing portion of Aaron, and the anointing portion of his sons, out of the offerings of Yahweh made by fire, in the day when he presented them to minister to Yahweh in the priest’s office;

³⁶Verse 36. which Yahweh commanded to be given them of the children of Israel, in the day that he anointed them. It is their portion forever throughout their generations. ³⁷Verse 37. This is the law of the burnt offering, of the meal offering, and of the sin offering, and of the trespass offering, and of the consecration, and of the sacrifice of peace offerings; ³⁸Verse 38. which Yahweh commanded Moses in Mount Sinai, in the day that he commanded the children of Israel to offer their offerings to Yahweh, in the wilderness of Sinai.