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Leviticus 7 :: New King James Version (NKJV)

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The Law of the Trespass Offering
Laws About the Trespass Offering and the Peace Offerings
Unchecked Copy BoxLev 7:1 - ‘Likewise this is the law of the trespass offering (it is most holy):
Unchecked Copy BoxLev 7:2 - ‘In the place where they kill the burnt offering they shall kill the trespass offering. And its blood he shall sprinkle all around on the altar.
Unchecked Copy BoxLev 7:3 - ‘And he shall offer from it all its fat. The fat tail and the fat that covers the entrails,
Unchecked Copy BoxLev 7:4 - ‘the two kidneys and the fat that is on them by the flanks, and the fatty lobe attached to the liver above the kidneys, he shall remove;
Unchecked Copy BoxLev 7:5 - ‘and the priest shall burn them on the altar as an offering made by fire to the LORD. It is a trespass offering.
Unchecked Copy BoxLev 7:6 - ‘Every male among the priests may eat it. It shall be eaten in a holy place. It is most holy.
Unchecked Copy BoxLev 7:7 - ‘The trespass offering is like the sin offering; there is one law for them both: the priest who makes atonement with it shall have it.
Unchecked Copy BoxLev 7:8 - ‘And the priest who offers anyone’s burnt offering, that priest shall have for himself the skin of the burnt offering which he has offered.
Unchecked Copy BoxLev 7:9 - ‘Also every grain offering that is baked in the oven and all that is prepared in the covered pan, or in a pan, shall be the priest’s who offers it.
Unchecked Copy BoxLev 7:10 - ‘Every grain offering, whether mixed with oil or dry, shall belong to all the sons of Aaron, to one as much as the other.
The Law of Peace Offerings
Unchecked Copy BoxLev 7:11 - ‘This is the law of the sacrifice of peace offerings which he shall offer to the LORD:
Unchecked Copy BoxLev 7:12 - ‘If he offers it for a thanksgiving, then he shall offer, with the sacrifice of thanksgiving, unleavened cakes mixed with oil, unleavened wafers anointed with oil, or cakes of blended flour mixed with oil.
Unchecked Copy BoxLev 7:13 - ‘Besides the cakes, as his offering he shall offer leavened bread with the sacrifice of thanksgiving of his peace offering.
Unchecked Copy BoxLev 7:14 - ‘And from it he shall offer one cake from each offering as a heave offering to the LORD. It shall belong to the priest who sprinkles the blood of the peace offering.
Unchecked Copy BoxLev 7:15 - ‘The flesh of the sacrifice of his peace offering for thanksgiving shall be eaten the same day it is offered. He shall not leave any of it until morning.
Unchecked Copy BoxLev 7:16 - ‘But if the sacrifice of his offering is a vow or a voluntary offering, it shall be eaten the same day that he offers his sacrifice; but on the next day the remainder of it also may be eaten;
Unchecked Copy BoxLev 7:17 - ‘the remainder of the flesh of the sacrifice on the third day must be burned with fire.
Unchecked Copy BoxLev 7:18 - ‘And if any of the flesh of the sacrifice of his peace offering is eaten at all on the third day, it shall not be accepted, nor shall it be imputed to him; it shall be an abomination to him who offers it, and the person who eats of it shall bear guilt.
Unchecked Copy BoxLev 7:19 - ‘The flesh that touches any unclean thing shall not be eaten. It shall be burned with fire. And as for the clean flesh, all who are clean may eat of it.
Unchecked Copy BoxLev 7:20 - ‘But the person who eats the flesh of the sacrifice of the peace offering that belongs to the LORD, while he is unclean, that person shall be cut off from his people.
Unchecked Copy BoxLev 7:21 - ‘Moreover the person who touches any unclean thing, such as human uncleanness, an unclean animal, or any abominable unclean thing,[fn] and who eats the flesh of the sacrifice of the peace offering that belongs to the LORD, that person shall be cut off from his people.’ ”
Fat and Blood May Not Be Eaten
Unchecked Copy BoxLev 7:22 - And the LORD spoke to Moses, saying,
Unchecked Copy BoxLev 7:23 - “Speak to the children of Israel, saying: ‘You shall not eat any fat, of ox or sheep or goat.
Unchecked Copy BoxLev 7:24 - ‘And the fat of an animal that dies naturally, and the fat of what is torn by wild beasts, may be used in any other way; but you shall by no means eat it.
Unchecked Copy BoxLev 7:25 - ‘For whoever eats the fat of the animal of which men offer an offering made by fire to the LORD, the person who eats it shall be cut off from his people.
Unchecked Copy BoxLev 7:26 - ‘Moreover you shall not eat any blood in any of your dwellings, whether of bird or beast.
Unchecked Copy BoxLev 7:27 - ‘Whoever eats any blood, that person shall be cut off from his people.’ ”
The Portion of Aaron and His Sons
Unchecked Copy BoxLev 7:28 - Then the LORD spoke to Moses, saying,
Unchecked Copy BoxLev 7:29 - “Speak to the children of Israel, saying: ‘He who offers the sacrifice of his peace offering to the LORD shall bring his offering to the LORD from the sacrifice of his peace offering.
Unchecked Copy BoxLev 7:30 - ‘His own hands shall bring the offerings made by fire to the LORD. The fat with the breast he shall bring, that the breast may be waved as a wave offering before the LORD.
Unchecked Copy BoxLev 7:31 - ‘And the priest shall burn the fat on the altar, but the breast shall be Aaron’s and his sons’.
Unchecked Copy BoxLev 7:32 - ‘Also the right thigh you shall give to the priest as a heave offering from the sacrifices of your peace offerings.
Unchecked Copy BoxLev 7:33 - ‘He among the sons of Aaron, who offers the blood of the peace offering and the fat, shall have the right thigh for his part.
Unchecked Copy BoxLev 7:34 - ‘For the breast of the wave offering and the thigh of the heave offering I have taken from the children of Israel, from the sacrifices of their peace offerings, and I have given them to Aaron the priest and to his sons from the children of Israel by a statute forever.’ ”
Unchecked Copy BoxLev 7:35 - This is the consecrated portion for Aaron and his sons, from the offerings made by fire to the LORD, on the day when Moses presented them to minister to the LORD as priests.
Unchecked Copy BoxLev 7:36 - The LORD commanded this to be given to them by the children of Israel, on the day that He anointed them, by a statute forever throughout their generations.
Unchecked Copy BoxLev 7:37 - This is the law of the burnt offering, the grain offering, the sin offering, the trespass offering, the consecrations, and the sacrifice of the peace offering,
Unchecked Copy BoxLev 7:38 - which the LORD commanded Moses on Mount Sinai, on the day when He commanded the children of Israel to offer their offerings to the LORD in the Wilderness of Sinai.
NKJV Footnotes
Following Masoretic Text, Septuagint, and Vulgate; Samaritan Pentateuch, Syriac, and Targum read swarming thing (compare 5:2).
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