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Leviticus

Chapter 7

Summary

Leviticus Chapter 7 concludes the detailed manual of offerings with final instructions on the guilt and fellowship sacrifices. It specifies the portions of the meat to be given to the priests, acknowledging their essential role and providing for their needs. The chapter includes strict warnings about ceremonial purity, stating that anyone who ate the sacrifice while in an unclean state would be cut off from the community. It reinforces the holiness of the blood and fat, reminding the people that their meals in God's presence were to be approached with reverence and joy.

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"‘These are the regulations for the guilt offering, which is most holy:

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The guilt offering is to be slaughtered in the place where the burnt offering is slaughtered, and its blood is to be splashed against all sides of the altar.

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All its fat shall be offered: the fat tail and the fat that covers the internal organs,

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both kidneys with the fat on them near the loins, and the long lobe of the liver, which is to be removed with the kidneys.

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The priest shall burn them on the altar as a food offering presented to the LORD. It is a guilt offering.

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Any male in a priest’s family may eat it, but it must be eaten in a holy place; it is most holy.

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‘The same law applies to both the sin offering and the guilt offering: They belong to the priest who makes atonement with them.

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The priest who offers a burnt offering for anyone may keep its hide for himself.

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Every grain offering baked in an oven or cooked in a pan or on a griddle belongs to the priest who offers it,

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and every grain offering, whether mixed with olive oil or dry, belongs equally to all the sons of Aaron.

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‘These are the regulations for the peace offering anyone may present to the LORD:

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‘If they offer it as an expression of thankfulness, then along with this thank offering they are to offer thick loaves made without yeast and mixed with olive oil, wafers made without yeast and brushed with oil, and cakes of the finest flour well-kneaded and mixed with oil.

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Along with their thank offering of peace offerings, they are to present an offering with thick loaves of bread made with yeast.

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They are to bring one of each kind as an offering, a contribution to the LORD; it belongs to the priest who splashes the blood of the peace offering against the altar.

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The meat of their thank offering of peace offerings must be eaten on the day it is offered; they must leave none of it till morning.

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‘If, however, their offering is the result of a vow or is a voluntary offering, the sacrifice shall be eaten on the day they offer it, but anything left over may be eaten on the next day.

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Any meat of the sacrifice left over till the third day must be burned up.

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If any meat from the peace offering is eaten on the third day, the offering will not be accepted. It will not be credited to the one who offered it, for it is impure; whoever eats it will be held responsible.

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‘Meat that touches anything ceremonially unclean must not be eaten; it must be burned up. As for other meat, anyone who is ceremonially clean may eat it.

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But if anyone who is unclean eats any meat from the peace offering belonging to the LORD, they must be cut off from their people.

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If anyone touches something unclean, whether human uncleanness or an unclean animal or any unclean, detestable thing, and then eats any of the meat of the peace offering belonging to the LORD, they must be cut off from their people.’"

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The LORD said to Moses,

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"Say to the Israelites: ‘Do not eat any of the fat of cattle, sheep or goats.

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The fat of an animal found dead or torn by wild beasts may be used for any other purpose, but you must not eat it.

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Anyone who eats the fat of an animal from which a food offering may be presented to the LORD must be cut off from their people.

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And wherever you live, you must not eat the blood of any bird or animal.

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Anyone who eats blood must be cut off from their people.’"

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The LORD said to Moses,

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"Say to the Israelites: ‘Anyone who brings a peace offering to the LORD is to bring part of it as their sacrifice to the LORD.

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With their own hands they are to bring the food offerings to the LORD; they are to bring the fat, together with the breast, and wave the breast before the LORD as a wave offering.

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The priest shall burn the fat on the altar, but the breast belongs to Aaron and his sons.

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You are to give the right thigh of your peace offerings to the priest as a contribution.

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The son of Aaron who offers the blood and the fat of the peace offering shall have the right thigh as his share.

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From the peace offerings of the Israelites, I have taken the breast that is waved and the thigh that is presented and have given them to Aaron the priest and his sons as their perpetual share from the Israelites.’"

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This is the portion of the food offerings presented to the LORD that were allotted to Aaron and his sons on the day they were presented to serve the LORD as priests.

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On the day they were anointed, the LORD commanded that the Israelites give this to them as their perpetual share for the generations to come.

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These, then, are the regulations for the burnt offering, the grain offering, the sin offering, the guilt offering, the ordination offering and the peace offering,

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which the LORD gave Moses at Mount Sinai in the Desert of Sinai on the day he commanded the Israelites to bring their offerings to the LORD.