Leviticus, 6

1. "This is the ritual for guilt offerings, which are most sacred.

1. Yahweh spoke to Moses and said:

2. At the place where the holocausts are slaughtered, there also shall the guilt offering be slaughtered. Its blood shall be splashed on the sides of the altar.

2. 'Give these orders to Aaron and his sons: "This is the ritual for the burnt offering (that is, the burnt offering that stays on the altar brazier all night until morning and is consumed by the altar fire).

3. All of its fat shall be taken from it and offered up: the fatty tail, the fatty membrane over the inner organs,

3. "The priest will put on his linen tunic and put his linen drawers on to cover himself. He will then remove the fatty ashes of the burnt offering consumed by the altar fire and put them at the side of the altar.

4. as well as the two kidneys with the fat on them near the loins, and the lobe of the liver, which must be severed above the kidneys.

4. He will then take off his clothes, put on others and carry the ashes to a clean place outside the camp.

5. All this the priest shall burn on the altar as an oblation to the LORD. This is the guilt offering.

5. "The fire on the altar that consumes the burnt offering must not be allowed to go out. Every morning the priest will make it up with wood, arranging the burnt offering on it and burning the fat from the communion sacrifices.

6. All the males of the priestly line may partake of it; but it must be eaten in a sacred place, since it is most sacred.

6. The fire must always be burning on the altar; it must never go out.

7. "Because the sin offering and the guilt offering are alike, both having the same ritual, the guilt offering likewise belongs to the priest who makes atonement with it.

7. 'This is the ritual for the cereal offering: "One of the descendants of Aaron will bring it into Yahweh's presence in front of the altar,

8. Similarly, the priest who offers a holocaust for someone may keep for himself the hide of the holocaust that he has offered.

8. will take a handful of the wheaten flour (with the oil and all the incense which have been added to it) and burn the memorial on the altar as a smell pleasing to Yahweh;

9. Also, every cereal offering that is baked in an oven or deep-fried in a pot or fried on a griddle shall belong to the priest who offers it,

9. and Aaron and his sons will eat the remainder in the form of unleavened loaves. They will eat it inside the holy place, in the court of the Tent of Meeting.

10. whereas all cereal offerings that are offered up dry or mixed with oil shall belong to all of Aaron's sons without distinction.

10. The portion I give them of the food burnt for me must not be baked with leaven; it is especially holy, like the sacrifice for sin and the sacrifice of reparation.

11. "This is the ritual for the peace offerings that are presented to the LORD.

11. All male descendants of Aaron are entitled to eat this portion of the food burnt for Yahweh (this is a perpetual law for all your descendants) and anyone who touches it will become holy." '

12. When anyone makes a peace offering in thanksgiving, together with his thanksgiving sacrifice he shall offer unleavened cakes mixed with oil, unleavened wafers spread with oil, and cakes made of fine flour mixed with oil and well kneaded.

12. Yahweh spoke to Moses and said:

13. His offering shall also include loaves of leavened bread along with the victim of his peace offering for thanksgiving.

13. 'This is the offering that Aaron and his sons must make to Yahweh on the day they are anointed: one-tenth of an ephah of wheaten flour as a perpetual cereal offering, half in the morning and half in the evening.

14. From each of his offerings he shall present one portion as a contribution to the LORD; this shall belong to the priest who splashes the blood of the peace offering.

14. It will be prepared on the griddle and mixed with oil; you will bring the paste as a cereal offering in several pieces, offering them as a smell pleasing to Yahweh.

15. "The flesh of the thanksgiving sacrifice shall be eaten on the day it is offered; none of it may be kept till the next day.

15. When one of his sons is anointed priest to succeed him, he will do the same. This is a perpetual law. 'The entire cereal offering will be burnt for Yahweh.

16. However, if the sacrifice is a votive or a free-will offering, it should indeed be eaten on the day the sacrifice is offered, but what is left over may be eaten on the next day.

16. Every cereal offering made by a priest will be a total sacrifice; none of it will be eaten.'

17. Should any flesh from the sacrifice be left over on the third day, it must be burned up in the fire.

17. Yahweh spoke to Moses and said,

18. If, therefore, any of the flesh of the peace offering is eaten on the third day, it shall not win favor for him nor shall it be reckoned to his credit; rather, it shall be considered as refuse, and anyone who eats of it shall have his guilt to bear.

18. 'Speak to Aaron and his sons and say: "This is the ritual for the sacrifice for sin: "The victim must be slaughtered before Yahweh on the spot where the burnt offerings are slaughtered. It is especially holy.

19. Should the flesh touch anything unclean, it may not be eaten, but shall be burned up in the fire. "All who are clean may partake of this flesh.

19. The priest who offers this sacrifice will eat it. It will be eaten inside the holy place, in the court of the Tent of Meeting.

20. If, however, someone while in a state of uncleanness eats any of the flesh of a peace offering belonging to the LORD, that person shall be cut off from his people.

20. Everything touching the victim's meat will become holy, and if any of the blood splashes on clothing, the stain will be washed off inside the holy place.

21. Likewise, if someone touches anything unclean, whether the uncleanness be of human or of animal origin or from some loathsome crawling creature, and then eats of a peace offering belonging to the LORD, that person, too, shall be cut off from his people."

21. The earthenware vessel in which the meat is cooked must be broken; if a bronze vessel has been used for the cooking, it must be scrubbed and thoroughly rinsed with water.

22. The LORD said to Moses,

22. Any male who is a priest may eat the sacrifice. It is especially holy.

23. "Tell the Israelites: You shall not eat the fat of any ox or sheep or goat.

23. But no one may eat any of the victims offered for sin, the blood of which has been taken into the Tent of Meeting to make expiation inside the sanctuary. These must be burnt." '

24. Although the fat of an animal that has died a natural death or has been killed by wild beasts may be put to any other use, you may not eat it.

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25. If anyone eats the fat of an animal from which an oblation is made to the LORD, such a one shall be cut off from his people.

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26. Wherever you dwell, you shall not partake of any blood, be it of bird or of animal.

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27. Every person who partakes of any blood shall be cut off from his people."

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28. The LORD said to Moses,

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29. "Tell the Israelites: He who presents a peace offering to the LORD shall bring a part of it as his special offering to him,

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30. carrying in with his own hands the oblations to the LORD. The fat is to be brought in, together with the breast, which is to be waved as a wave offering before the LORD.

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

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32. Moreover, from your peace offering you shall give to the priest the right leg as a raised offering.

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33. The descendant of Aaron who offers up the blood and fat of the peace offering shall have the right leg as his portion,

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34. for from the peace offerings of the Israelites I have taken the breast that is waved and the leg that is raised up, and I have given them to Aaron, the priest, and to his sons by a perpetual ordinance as a contribution from the Israelites."

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35. This is the priestly share from the oblations of the LORD, allotted to Aaron and his sons on the day he called them to be the priests of the LORD;

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36. on the day he anointed them the LORD ordered the Israelites to give them this share by a perpetual ordinance throughout their generations.

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37. This is the ritual for holocausts, cereal offerings, sin offerings, guilt offerings, (ordination offerings) and peace offerings,

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38. which the LORD enjoined on Moses at Mount Sinai at the time when he commanded the Israelites in the wilderness of Sinai to bring their offerings to the LORD.

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