The Law of the Guilt Offering
1This is the law of the guilt offering; it is most holy. 2The guilt offering is to be slaughtered at the place where the burnt offering is slaughtered, and its blood is to be splashed against the altar on all sides. 3All its fat is to be offered: the fat tail, the fat that covers the inner parts, 4the two kidneys with the fat on them near the loins, and the long lobe of the liver, which is to be removed with the kidneys. 5The priest is to burn them on the altar as a fire offering to Yahweh; it is a guilt offering. 6Any male among the priests may eat it; it is to be eaten in a holy place — it is most holy. 7The guilt offering is like the sin offering; the same law applies to both: it belongs to the priest who makes atonement with it. 8The priest who presents someone’s burnt offering may keep its hide for himself. 9Every grain offering baked in an oven or prepared in a pan or on a griddle belongs to the priest who presents it. 10Every grain offering, whether mixed with oil or dry, belongs equally to all of Aaron’s sons.
The Peace Offering: Thanksgiving, Vow, and Freewill
11This is the law of the peace offering that someone may present to Yahweh. 12If he offers it in thanksgiving, he is to present with the sacrifice of thanksgiving unleavened cakes mixed with oil, unleavened wafers spread with oil, and cakes of fine flour well-mixed and soaked in oil. 13Along with the sacrifice of his thanksgiving peace offering, he is to present his offering with cakes of leavened bread. 14From this he is to present one portion of each offering as a contribution to Yahweh; it belongs to the priest who splashes the blood of the peace offering. 15The meat of his thanksgiving peace offering must be eaten on the day it is offered; none of it may be left until morning. 16But if the sacrifice he offers is a vow or a freewill offering, it is to be eaten on the day he offers it, and what remains may be eaten the next day as well. 17Whatever remains of the meat of the sacrifice by the third day must be burned with fire. 18If any of the meat of his peace offering is eaten on the third day, it will not be accepted. It will not be credited to the one who offered it, because it is tainted, and anyone who eats it will bear his guilt. 19Meat that touches anything unclean must not be eaten; it must be burned with fire. As for other meat, anyone who is clean may eat it. 20But the person who eats the meat of a peace offering belonging to Yahweh while in a state of uncleanness must be cut off from his people. 21If anyone touches something unclean — whether human uncleanness, an unclean animal, or any unclean detestable creature — and then eats meat from a peace offering belonging to Yahweh, that person must be cut off from his people.”
Fat and Blood Forbidden
22Yahweh spoke to Moses. He said, 23“Speak to the Israelites: You must not eat any fat, whether from an ox, a sheep, or a goat. 24The fat of an animal found dead or torn by wild animals may be used for any other purpose, but you must never eat it. 25Whoever eats the fat of an animal from which a fire offering may be presented to Yahweh must be cut off from his people. 26You must not eat any blood at all, whether of bird or animal, wherever you live. 27Whoever eats any blood must be cut off from his people.”
The Priests’ Share of the Peace Offering
28Yahweh spoke to Moses. He said, 29“Speak to the Israelites: Whoever presents a peace offering to Yahweh must bring part of it as his offering to Yahweh from his peace offering. 30With his own hands he is to bring the fire offerings to Yahweh; he is to bring the fat together with the breast, waving the breast as a wave offering before Yahweh. 31The priest is to burn the fat on the altar, but the breast belongs to Aaron and his sons. 32You are to give the right thigh to the priest as a contribution from your peace offerings. 33The thigh belongs as a portion to whichever of Aaron’s sons presents the blood and the fat of the peace offering. 34For I have taken the breast of the wave offering and the thigh of the contribution from the Israelites, from their peace offerings, and given them to Aaron the priest and his sons as a permanent portion from the Israelites. 35This is the portion from the fire offerings of Yahweh anointed to Aaron and his sons, from the day they were presented to serve Yahweh as priests, 36which Yahweh commanded to be given them by the Israelites on the day he anointed them — a permanent statute for their generations.” 37This is the law for the burnt offering, the grain offering, the sin offering, the guilt offering, the ordination offering, and the peace offering, 38which Yahweh commanded Moses on Mount Sinai, on the day he commanded the Israelites to present their offerings to Yahweh, in the wilderness of Sinai.
