Open English Translation LEV Chapter 7

7 “Then these are the regulations for the very sacred guilt offerings: 2 The guilt offering must be slaughtered at the same place as the burnt offerings, and the blood must be splashed on each side of the altar. 3 The presenter must present all the fat including the fatty tail, the fat covering the innards, 4 both kidneys and the fat that’s attached to them, and the lobe on the liver (all of which need to be removed from the animal). 5 Then the priest must burn those on the altar as a guilt offering to Yahweh. 6 Any male in the priests’ families may eat it—it’s very sacred. 7 The regulations are the same for the guilt offering as for the sin offering—the priest who offers the guilt offering must be the one to eat it.

8 “Whenever a priest presents someone’s burnt offering, the skin of the animal that was presented belongs to that priest. 9 Any grain offering that’s baked in an oven, or cooked in a pan or on a griddle, will belong to the priest who presents it. 10 Any grain offering that’s either dry or mixed with oil, belongs to all of Aharon’s male descendants without any distinction.

11 “Then these are the regulations for sacrificing peace offerings to present to Yahweh: 12 If it’s presented from thankfulness, then the sacrifice must be accompanied by thanksgiving flat bread buns (made from flour mixed with olive oil), and flat biscuits smeared with oil, and buns made from fine wheat flour mixed with oil, 13 plus risen bread rolls. All that must accompany the peace offering from thankfulness. 14 Then he must present one of each kind of bread as a contribution to Yahweh. Those will belong to the priest who splashes the blood for the peace offerings. 15 The meat of the thanksfulness sacrifice of those peace offerings must be eaten the same day that it’s offered—none of can be left until morning. 16 However, if the sacrificed offering is a vow or freewill offering, then it can be eaten that same day and also the next day, 17 but any left-over meat must be burnt up on the fire on the third day. 18 If any of that meat from the sacrifice was eaten on the third day, the presenter won’t be accepted and they won’t be forgiven. It is spoilt, and anyone who eats any of it will bear their own guilt. 19 If any meat touches anything that’s ‘unclean’, then it must not be eaten—it must be burnt up in the fire. However, any long as the meat remains ‘clean’, it can be eaten by any person who’s ‘clean’. 20 If a person who was ‘unclean’ were to eat any of the meat from the sacrifice for a peace offering, then that person must be cut off from the community. 21 Similarly, when a person touches anything ‘unclean’ (e.g., human uncleanness, or an unclean animal, or a detestable creature), and then they eat some of the meat of the sacrifice for a peace offering that now belongs to Yahweh, that person must be cut off from the community.

22 Then Yahweh told Mosheh, 23 “Tell the Israelis that you all must not eat the fat from cattle or sheep or goats, 24 plus you all definitely must not eat the fat from an animal that died naturally or was killed by wild animals although you can use it for other purposes. 25 Anyone who does eat the fat from an animal presented as a gift to Yahweh must be cut off from the community.

26 “Also, you all must not eat blood from either a bird or an animal, no matter where you’re living.[ref] 27 Any person who does eat blood must be cut off from the community.”

28 Then Yahweh told Mosheh, 29 “Tell the Israelis that anyone who offers a peace offering to Yahweh must take some of it as his peace offering to Yahweh. 30 They must personally carry Yahweh’s gift which will be the breast with its fat and raise it in front of Yahweh as a wave offering, 31 and the priest must burn that fat up on the altar but the breast will be for Aharon and his sons. 32 The right thigh from the sacrifices of your peace offerings must be given to the priest—33 whichever priest (Aharon’s descendant) who handled the blood of the peace offerings and the fat, that right thigh will be his portion 34 because I took the breast from the wave offering and the thigh from the contribution of the Israelis’ peace offerings, and I gave them to Aharon the priest and his sons as an ongoing portion from the Israeli people. 35 That’s the share for Aharon and his sons from the gifts to Yahweh since Mosheh presented them to Yahweh as priests. 36 Yahweh commanded them to be given to them back on the day when he anointed them out of all the Israeli people and made it a permanent regulation for future generations.

37 Those are the regulations for the burnt offerings, the grain offerings, the sin offerings, the guilt offerings, the ordination offerings, and the peace offerings 38 that Yahweh gave to Mosheh at Mt. Sinai on the day when he ordered the Israelis to present their offerings to Yahweh when they were there in the Sinai wilderness.