Leviticus 7:11–34

The Law of Peace Offerings

^11f‘This is the law of the sacrifice of peace offerings which he shall offer to the Lord: ¹²If he offers it for a thanksgiving, then he shall offer, with the sacrifice of thanksgiving, unleavened cakes mixed with oil, unleavened wafers ^ganointed with oil, or cakes of blended flour mixed with oil. ¹³Besides the cakes, as his offering he shall offer ^hleavened bread with the sacrifice of thanksgiving of his peace offering. ¹⁴And from it he shall offer one cake from each offering as a heave offering to the Lord. ⁱIt shall belong to the priest who sprinkles the blood of the peace offering.

^15j‘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. ¹⁶But ^kif 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; ¹⁷the remainder of the flesh of the sacrifice on the third day must be burned with fire. ¹⁸And 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 ^limputed to him; it shall be an ^mabomination to him who offers it, and the person who eats of it shall bear ²guilt.

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 ³clean may eat of it. ²⁰But the person who eats the flesh of the sacrifice of the peace offering that belongs to the ⁿLord, ^owhile he is unclean, that person ^pshall be cut off from his people. ²¹Moreover the person who touches any unclean thing, such as ^qhuman uncleanness, an ^runclean animal, or any ^sabominable ⁴unclean thing, and who eats the flesh of the sacrifice of the peace offering that belongs to the Lord, that person ^tshall be cut off from his people.’ ”

Fat and Blood May Not Be Eaten

²²And the Lord spoke to Moses, saying, ²³“Speak to the children of Israel, saying: ^u‘You shall not eat any fat, of ox or sheep or goat. ²⁴And 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. ²⁵For 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. ^26vMoreover you shall not eat any blood in any of your dwellings, whether of bird or beast. ²⁷Whoever eats any blood, that person shall be cut off from his people.’ ”

The Portion of Aaron and His Sons

²⁸Then the Lord spoke to Moses, saying, ²⁹“Speak to the children of Israel, saying: ^w‘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. ^30xHis own hands shall bring the offerings made by fire to the Lord. The fat with the breast he shall bring, that the ^ybreast may be waved as a wave offering before the Lord. ^31zAnd the priest shall burn the fat on the altar, but the ^abreast shall be Aaron’s and his sons’. ^32bAlso the right thigh you shall give to the priest as a heave offering from the sacrifices of your peace offerings. ³³He among the sons of Aaron, who offers the blood of the peace offering and the fat, shall have the right thigh for his part. ³⁴For ^cthe 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.’ ”