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UST LEV Chapter 7

7 “This is the way a person should offer the restoring sacrifice. The people of Israel should consider this kind of sacrifice as especially set apart among all the sacred offerings that people offer to Yahweh that are set apart for him. 2 The people who offer this kind of sacrifice should kill the animal they are presenting in the same place where people might kill the animals people offer as wholly burned sacrifices. Then after catching the animal’s blood in a bowl, the priest should splatter the blood onto every side of the altar. 3 The individual should present all of the fat that he removed from the animal: the entire portion of the tail fat, the caul fat that covers all the internal organs, 4 both kidneys, and the suet fat that is attached to them near the loin cuts. He should also present the lobes of the lamb’s liver, and the kidneys (which the individual should also remove). 5 Then the priest should burn all these portions of fat and internal organs on the altar in a way that causes smoke to go up. Once burned, the fat and the internal organs will become gifts to Yahweh. This is how an individual should offer a restoring sacrifice 6 Any male descendant of Aaron may eat the meat that comes from this sacrifice. However, he should eat it in a place set apart for such purposes. The people of Israel should consider this kind of sacrifice as especially set apart for the priests among all the sacred offerings that people offer to Yahweh that are set apart for him.

7 The instructions for the restoring sacrifice are just the same as the instructions for the purifying sacrifice. There is one set of instructions for both of them. The meat of the sacrifice belongs to the priest who offers the sacrifice that Yahweh will accept for the sake of the individual, so that Yahweh will remove the individual’s sins from him and forgive him for his wrongdoing. 8 As for the priest who offers a wholly burned sacrifice for someone, the skin of the animal that the individual offered belongs to the priest. 9 Every grain offering that someone bakes in an oven, and every sacrifice that someone prepares by deep-frying in a pan or by pan-frying on a griddle also belongs to the priest who offered it for food. It will be his food. 10 Likewise, both the grain offering with olive oil and those without any olive oil belong to every male descendant of Aaron. Every priest is alike in this regard.

11 This is how someone should offer any fellowship sacrifice that he offers to Yahweh. 12 Someone might want to offer a fellowship sacrifice for the purpose of expressing gratitude to Yahweh. If so, he should present unleavened loaves of bread that he combined with olive oil, or unleavened crackers that he coated with olive oil, or well-mixed wheat flour that he combined with olive oil into loaves of bread. He should present those loaves in addition to the animal sacrifices that accompany the fellowship sacrifices that express gratitude to Yahweh. 13 Along with those leavened loaves of bread and the animal sacrifices that regularly accompany any fellowship sacrifice for the purpose of expressing gratitude to Yahweh, the individual should offer this grain offering. 14 And from those portions of the sacrifice, the individual should offer a portion of the whole sacrifice as a special contribution to Yahweh. These portions will belong to the priest who splatters the blood of the fellowship sacrifice. It will be his food. 15 As for the meat of the fellowship sacrifice that someone offers for the purpose of expressing gratitude to Yahweh, the priests should eat the meat on the same day that the individual offers it. The priests must not allow any of the meat to remain until the next morning.

16 Someone might want to offer a fellowship sacrifice because of a vow that he made to Yahweh. Or someone might also want to bring a fellowship sacrifice freely and unprompted. In either case, the priests should eat the meat of the sacrifice on the day that the individual offers the sacrifice. The priests may also eat the remaining meat of the sacrifice throughout the next day. 17 However, the priests must completely burn any remaining meat from the sacrifice on the third day. 18 If, for whatever reason, anyone ever eats the meat from a fellowship sacrifice on the third day after an individual offered it, Yahweh will no longer accept whatever sacrifice the individual offered. As for the person who offered the sacrifice, Yahweh will not forgive him, because the meat is now considered desecrated. Whoever eats that meat must now be held responsible for addressing his wrongdoing.

19 No one should ever eat any meat that comes into contact with anything unclean. The people of Israel should always completely burn contaminated meat. However, anyone who is able to remain clean can eat clean meat. 20 Anyone who has not been able to remain ceremonially clean and still, nonetheless, eats the meat of a fellowship sacrifice, that meat that belongs to Yahweh alone, that person is now an outcast. The people of Israel should no longer consider that person to be a member of the people of Yahweh. 21 Likewise, anyone who comes into contact with anything unclean, whether an unclean person or an unclean domesticated animal or anything unclean that Yahweh considers an abomination and, nonetheless, eats some of the meat of a fellowship sacrifice, the meat that belongs to Yahweh alone, that person is now an outcast. The people of Israel should no longer consider that person to be a member of the people of Yahweh.

22 Then Yahweh told Moses 23 to say to the Israelite people, “The people of Israel should never eat any of the fat of bovines or sheep or goats. 24 As for the fat from an animal’s corpse or the fat from an animal that wild animals killed and someone later found it dead, anyone may use these portions of fat for various purposes. However, no one should ever eat this fat. 25 If ever anyone eats the fat from these domesticated animals that people use to offer gifts to Yahweh, that person who ate the fat is now an outcast. The people of Israel should no longer consider that person to be a member of the people of Yahweh. 26 And wherever you happen to live, no one should ever eat any blood, whether from a bird or from a domesticated animal. 27 If ever any individual eats any blood, that person is now an outcast. The people of Israel should no longer consider that person to be a member of the people of Yahweh.”

28 Then Yahweh told Moses, 29 to say to the Israelite people, “Anyone who offers to Yahweh a fellowship sacrifice should bring part of that sacrifice to Yahweh. 30 He himself should bring the gift that he is offering to Yahweh. He should bring the fat along with the meat of the animal’s breast in order to fan it in Yahweh’s presence as a special contribution to him. 31 Then the priest should burn the fat of the animal’s breast meat on the altar in a way that causes smoke to go up. However, the breast meat itself belongs to Aaron and to his male descendants for food. 32 And, as a special contribution, the person offering the fellowship sacrifice should give the animal’s right thigh to the priest who performed the sacrifice. 33 The right thigh belongs to whichever priest, being a male descendant of Aaron, presented the blood and the fat of the fellowship sacrifice. It is his share of food. 34 For, by instructing the people of God to offer sacrifices in this manner, I have taken the breast meat of the sacrifice that the priest fans in Yahweh’s presence and the special contribution of the right thigh from the people of Israel, from their fellowship sacrifices, and I have given these special portions to Aaron the priest and to his male descendants. These instructions guarantee that the people of Israel will provide a permanent and lasting portion of food for the priests.”

35 Those are the allotments that belong to Aaron and the allotments that belong to his male descendants from the gifts that people offer to Yahweh. Yahweh commanded these instructions on the day that Moses presented Aaron and his sons to serve as priests to Yahweh. 36 Yahweh made sure to give these instructions and regulations to the priests on the day that Moses anointed them and set them apart from the people of Israel. These portions of the sacrifices are a permanent and enduring regulation that the people of Israel and all their descendants should always observe.

37 So, those are the ways in which people should offer the wholly burned sacrifices, the grain offerings, the purifying sacrifices, the restoring sacrifices, the appointing sacrifices, and the fellowship sacrifices. 38 Yahweh made sure that Moses received all these instructions and regulations on Mount Sinai on the day that Yahweh commanded the people of Israel to begin offering their sacrifices to Yahweh in the desert wilderness around Sinai.

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