Leviticus 7:1-10
Contemporary English Version
Sacrifices To Make Things Right
(Leviticus 5.14-19)
The Lord said:
7 The sacrifice to make things right is very sacred. 2 The animal must be killed in the same place where the sacrifice to please me[a] is killed, and the animal's blood must be splattered against the four sides of the bronze altar. 3 Offer all of the animal's fat, including the fat on its tail and on its insides, 4 as well as the lower part of the liver and the two kidneys with their fat. 5 One of the priests will lay these pieces on the altar and send them up in smoke to me. 6 This sacrifice for making things right is very holy. Only the priests may eat it, and they must eat it in a holy place.[b]
7 The ceremony for this sacrifice and the one for sin are the same, and the meat may be eaten only by the priest who performs this ceremony of forgiveness.
8 In fact, the priest who offers a sacrifice to please me[c] may keep the skin of the animal, 9 just as he may eat the bread from a sacrifice to give thanks to me.[d] 10 All other grain sacrifices—with or without olive oil in them—are to be divided equally among the priests of Aaron's family.
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Leviticus 7:1-10
Revised Standard Version
7 “This is the law of the guilt offering. It is most holy; 2 in the place where they kill the burnt offering they shall kill the guilt offering, and its blood shall be thrown on the altar round about. 3 And all its fat shall be offered, the fat tail, the fat that covers the entrails, 4 the two kidneys with the fat that is on them at the loins, and the appendage of the liver which he shall take away with the kidneys; 5 the priest shall burn them on the altar as an offering by fire to the Lord; it is a guilt offering. 6 Every male among the priests may eat of it; it shall be eaten in a holy place; it is most holy. 7 The guilt offering is like the sin offering, there is one law for them; the priest who makes atonement with it shall have it. 8 And the priest who offers any man’s burnt offering shall have for himself the skin of the burnt offering which he has offered. 9 And every cereal offering baked in the oven and all that is prepared on a pan or a griddle shall belong to the priest who offers it. 10 And every cereal offering, mixed with oil or dry, shall be for all the sons of Aaron, one as well as another.
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