Leviticus 7

The Law of the Guilt Offering

1“This is the law of the guilt offering. It is most holy. 2In the place where the burnt offering is slaughtered, the guilt offering shall be slaughtered, and its blood shall be dashed against all sides of the altar. 3All its fat shall be offered: the fat tail, the fat that covers the entrails, 4the two kidneys with the fat on them near the loins, and the appendage of the liver, removed with the kidneys. 5The priest shall turn them into smoke on the altar as an offering by fire to the LORD. It is a guilt offering. 6Every male among the priests may eat it. It shall be eaten in a holy place. It is most holy.

Priestly Portions

7The law is the same for the sin offering and the guilt offering: the priest who makes atonement with it shall have it. 8The priest who presents anyone’s burnt offering shall have for himself the skin of the burnt offering he has presented. 9Every grain offering baked in an oven, and every offering prepared in a pan or on a griddle, shall belong to the priest who presents it. 10Every grain offering, whether mixed with oil or dry, shall belong equally to all the sons of Aaron.

The Sacrifice of Well-Being

11This is the law of the sacrifice of well-being that a person may offer to the LORD. 12If it is offered for thanksgiving, then together with the thanksgiving sacrifice the person shall offer unleavened cakes mixed with oil, unleavened wafers spread with oil, and cakes of fine flour well mixed with oil. 13Together with the sacrifice of well-being for thanksgiving, the person shall bring the offering with cakes of leavened bread. 14From each kind of offering one portion shall be presented as a contribution to the LORD. It shall belong to the priest who dashes the blood of the sacrifice of well-being. 15The flesh of the sacrifice of well-being for thanksgiving shall be eaten on the day it is offered; none of it shall be left until morning.

16If the sacrifice is for a vow or a freewill offering, it shall be eaten on the day the sacrifice is offered, and what remains may be eaten on the next day. 17But what remains of the flesh of the sacrifice on the third day shall be burned with fire. 18If any of the flesh of the sacrifice of well-being is eaten on the third day, the one who offered it will not be accepted, and it will not be credited to that person. It is a repulsive thing, and the person who eats it shall bear guilt. 19Flesh that touches anything unclean shall not be eaten; it shall be burned with fire. As for other flesh, everyone who is clean may eat it. 20But a person who eats flesh from the LORD’s sacrifice of well-being while uncleanness is upon that person shall be cut off from the people. 21If anyone touches anything unclean—human uncleanness, an unclean animal, or any unclean swarming thing—and then eats from the flesh of the LORD’s sacrifice of well-being, that person shall be cut off from the people.”

Fat and Blood

22The LORD spoke to Moses, saying, 23“Speak to the Israelites, saying: You shall not eat any fat of an ox, sheep, or goat. 24The fat of an animal that dies by itself or is torn by wild animals may be used for any other purpose, but you shall not eat it. 25For anyone who eats the fat of an animal from which an offering by fire is presented to the LORD, the person who eats it shall be cut off from the people. 26You shall not eat any blood, whether of bird or animal, in any of your dwellings. 27Any person who eats any blood shall be cut off from the people.”

The Breast and the Right Thigh

28The LORD spoke to Moses, saying, 29“Speak to the Israelites, saying: The one who brings a sacrifice of well-being to the LORD shall bring from that sacrifice the portion presented to the LORD. 30With the person’s own hands the offerings by fire to the LORD shall be brought. The fat shall be brought with the breast, so that the breast may be elevated as an elevation offering before the LORD. 31The priest shall turn the fat into smoke on the altar, but the breast shall belong to Aaron and his sons. 32You shall give the right thigh to the priest as a contribution from your sacrifices of well-being. 33The son of Aaron who offers the blood and the fat of the sacrifice of well-being shall have the right thigh as his portion. 34For I have taken from the Israelites the breast of the elevation offering and the thigh of the contribution from their sacrifices of well-being, and I have given them to Aaron the priest and to his sons as a perpetual portion from the Israelites.”

Summary of the Offerings

35This is the allotted portion of Aaron and the allotted portion of his sons from the offerings by fire to the LORD, from the day they were brought near to serve the LORD as priests. 36The LORD commanded that this be given to them from the Israelites on the day they were anointed. It is a perpetual statute throughout their generations. 37This is the law of the burnt offering, the grain offering, the sin offering, the guilt offering, the ordination offering, and the sacrifice of well-being, 38which the LORD commanded Moses at Mount Sinai on the day the LORD commanded the Israelites to bring their offerings to the LORD in the wilderness of Sinai.