Leviticus 6–7

Chapter 6

Guilt Offering

¹¹Then the Lord spoke to Moses, saying,

²“^aWhen a person sins and acts unfaithfully against the Lord, and deceives his companion in regard to a deposit or a security entrusted to him, or through robbery, or if he has extorted from his companion,

³or ^ahas found what was lost and lied about it and sworn falsely, so that he sins in regard to any one of the things a man may do;

⁴then it shall be, when he sins and becomes guilty, that he shall ^arestore what he took by robbery or what he got by extortion, or the deposit which was ¹entrusted to him or the lost thing which he found,

⁵or anything about which he swore falsely; ^ahe shall make restitution for it ¹in full and add to it one-fifth more. ^bHe shall give it to the one to whom it belongs on the day he presents his guilt offering.

⁶“Then he shall bring to the priest his guilt offering to the Lord, ^aa ram without defect from the flock, according to your valuation, for a guilt offering,

⁷and ^athe priest shall make atonement for him before the Lord, and he will be forgiven for any one of the things which he may have done to incur guilt.”

The Priest’s Part in the Offerings

⁸¹Then the Lord spoke to Moses, saying,

⁹“Command Aaron and his sons, saying, ‘This is ^athe law for the burnt offering: the burnt offering itself shall remain on the hearth on the altar all night until the morning, and ^bthe fire on the altar is to be kept burning on it.

¹⁰‘The priest is to put on ^ahis linen robe, and he shall put on undergarments next to his flesh; and he shall take up the ¹ashes to which the fire ²reduces the burnt offering on the altar and place them beside the altar.

¹¹‘Then he shall take off his garments and put on other garments, and carry the ¹ashes outside the camp to a clean place.

¹²‘The fire on the altar shall be kept burning on it. It shall not go out, but the priest shall burn wood on it every morning; and he shall lay out the burnt offering on it, and offer up in smoke the fat portions of the peace offerings ^aon it.

¹³‘Fire shall be kept burning continually on the altar; it is not to go out.

¹⁴‘Now this is the law of the grain offering: the sons of Aaron shall present it before the Lord in front of the altar.

¹⁵‘^aThen one of them shall lift up from it a handful of the fine flour of the grain offering, ¹with its oil and all the incense that is on the grain offering, and he shall offer it up in smoke on the altar, a soothing aroma, as its memorial offering to the Lord.

¹⁶‘^aWhat is left of it Aaron and his sons are to eat. It shall be eaten as unleavened cakes in a holy place; they are to eat it in the court of the tent of meeting.

¹⁷‘^aIt shall not be baked with leaven. I have given it as their share from My offerings by fire; ^bit is most holy, like the sin offering and ^cthe guilt offering.

¹⁸‘^aEvery male among the sons of Aaron may eat it; it is a permanent ordinance throughout your generations, from the offerings by fire to the Lord. ^bWhoever touches them will become consecrated.’ ”

¹⁹Then the Lord spoke to Moses, saying,

²⁰“This is the offering which Aaron and his sons are to present to the Lord on the day when he is anointed; the tenth of an ^aephah of fine flour as ^ba ¹regular grain offering, half of it in the morning and half of it in the evening.

²¹“It shall be prepared with oil on a ^agriddle. When it is well stirred, you shall bring it. You shall present the grain offering in baked pieces as a soothing aroma to the Lord.

²²“The anointed priest who will be in his place ¹among his sons shall ²offer it. By a permanent ordinance it shall be entirely offered up in smoke to the Lord.

²³“So every grain offering of the priest shall be burned entirely. It shall not be eaten.”

²⁴Then the Lord spoke to Moses, saying,

²⁵“Speak to Aaron and to his sons, saying, ‘This is the law of the sin offering: ^ain the place where the burnt offering is slain the sin offering shall be slain before the Lord; it is most holy.

²⁶‘^aThe priest who offers it for sin shall eat it. It shall be eaten in a holy place, in the court of the tent of meeting.

²⁷‘^aAnyone who touches its flesh will become consecrated; and when any of its blood ¹splashes on a garment, in a holy place you shall wash what was splashed on.

²⁸‘Also ^athe earthenware vessel in which it was boiled shall be broken; and if it was boiled in a bronze vessel, then it shall be scoured and rinsed in water.

²⁹‘^aEvery male among the priests may eat of it; ^bit is most holy.

³⁰‘But no sin offering ^aof which any of the blood is brought into the tent of meeting to make atonement ^bin the holy place shall be eaten; ^cit shall be burned with fire.

Chapter 7

The Priest’s Part in the Offerings

¹‘Now this is the law of the ^aguilt offering; it is most holy.

²‘In ^athe place where they slay the burnt offering they are to slay the guilt offering, and he shall sprinkle its blood around on the altar.

³‘Then he shall offer from it all its fat: the ^afat tail and the fat that covers the entrails,

⁴and the two kidneys with the fat that is on them, which is on the loins, and the lobe on the liver he shall remove ^awith the kidneys.

⁵‘The priest shall offer them up in smoke on the altar as an offering by fire to the Lord; it is a guilt offering.

⁶‘^aEvery 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 ^asin offering, there is one law for them; the ^bpriest who makes atonement with it ¹shall have it.

⁸‘Also the priest who presents any man’s burnt offering, ¹that priest shall have for himself the skin of the burnt offering which he has presented.

⁹‘Likewise, every grain offering that is baked in the oven and everything prepared in a ¹pan or on a ^agriddle ²shall belong to the priest who presents it.

¹⁰‘Every grain offering, mixed with oil or dry, shall ¹belong to all the sons of Aaron, ²to all alike.

¹¹‘Now this is the law of the ^asacrifice of peace offerings which shall be presented to the Lord.

¹²‘If he offers it by way of ^athanksgiving, then along with the sacrifice of thanksgiving he shall offer ^bunleavened cakes mixed with oil, and unleavened wafers ¹spread with oil, and cakes of well stirred fine flour mixed with oil.

¹³‘With the sacrifice of his peace offerings for thanksgiving, he shall present his offering with cakes of ^aleavened bread.

¹⁴‘Of ¹this he shall present one of every offering as a ²contribution to the Lord; ^ait shall ³belong to the priest who sprinkles the blood of the peace offerings.

¹⁵‘^aNow as for the flesh of the sacrifice of his thanksgiving peace offerings, it shall be eaten on the day of his offering; he shall not leave any of it over until morning.

¹⁶‘But if the sacrifice of his offering is a ^avotive or a freewill offering, it shall be eaten on the day that he offers his sacrifice, and on the ¹next day what is left of it may be eaten;

^17abut what is left over from the flesh of the sacrifice on the third day shall be burned with fire.

¹⁸‘So if any of the flesh of the sacrifice of his peace offerings should ever be eaten on the third day, he who offers it will not be accepted, and it will not be reckoned to his benefit. It shall be an ^aoffensive thing, and the person who eats of it will bear his own iniquity.

¹⁹‘Also the flesh that touches anything unclean shall not be eaten; it shall be burned with fire. ¹As for other flesh, anyone who is clean may eat such flesh.

²⁰‘^aBut the person who eats the flesh of the sacrifice of peace offerings which belong to the Lord, ¹in his uncleanness, that person ^bshall be cut off from his people.

²¹‘^aWhen anyone touches anything unclean, whether human uncleanness, or an unclean animal, or any unclean ¹detestable thing, and eats of the flesh of the sacrifice of peace offerings which belong to the Lord, that person shall be cut off from his people.’ ”

²²Then the Lord spoke to Moses, saying,

²³“Speak to the sons of Israel, saying, ‘You shall not eat ^aany fat from an ox, a sheep or a goat.

²⁴‘Also the fat of an animal which dies and the fat of an animal ^atorn by beasts may be put to any other use, but you must certainly not eat it.

²⁵‘For whoever eats the fat of the animal from which ¹an offering by fire is offered to the Lord, even the person who eats shall be cut off from his people.

²⁶‘^aYou are not to eat any blood, either of bird or animal, in any of your dwellings.

²⁷‘Any person who eats any blood, even that person shall be cut off from his people.’ ”

²⁸Then the Lord spoke to Moses, saying,

²⁹“Speak to the sons of Israel, saying, ‘He who offers ^athe sacrifice of his peace offerings to the Lord shall bring his offering to the Lord from the sacrifice of his peace offerings.

³⁰‘His own hands are to bring offerings by fire to the Lord. He shall bring the fat with the breast, that the ^abreast may be ¹presented as a wave offering before the Lord.

³¹‘The priest shall offer up the fat in smoke on the altar, but ^athe breast shall belong to Aaron and his sons.

³²‘You shall give ^athe right thigh to the priest as a ¹contribution from the sacrifices of your peace offerings.

³³‘The one among the sons of Aaron who offers the blood of the peace offerings and the fat, the right thigh shall be his as his portion.

³⁴‘For I have taken ^athe breast of the wave offering and the thigh of the ¹contribution from the sons of Israel from the sacrifices of their peace offerings, and have given them to Aaron the priest and to his sons as their due forever from the sons of Israel.

³⁵‘This is ¹that which is consecrated to Aaron and that ^awhich is consecrated to his sons from the offerings by fire to the Lord, in that day when he presented them to serve as priests to the Lord.

³⁶‘¹These the Lord had commanded to be given them from the sons of Israel in the day that He ^aanointed them. It is their due forever throughout their generations.’ ”

³⁷This is the law of the burnt offering, the grain offering and the sin offering and the guilt offering and ^athe ordination offering and the sacrifice of peace offerings,

^38awhich the Lord commanded Moses at…