Leviticus 7:11–34

The Fellowship Offering

¹¹“ ‘These are the regulations for the fellowship offering anyone may present to the Lord:

¹²“ ‘If they offer it as an expression of thankfulness, then along with this thank offeringⁿ they are to offer thick loaves^o made without yeast^p and with olive oil mixed in, thin loaves^q made without yeast and brushed with oil,^r and thick loaves of the finest flour well-kneaded and with oil mixed in. ¹³Along with their fellowship offering of thanksgiving^s they are to present an offering with thick loaves of bread made with yeast.^{t 14}They are to bring one of each kind as an offering, a contribution to the Lord; it belongs to the priest who splashes the blood of the fellowship offering against the altar. ¹⁵The meat of their fellowship offering of thanksgiving must be eaten on the day it is offered; they must leave none of it till morning.^u

¹⁶“ ‘If, however, their offering is the result of a vow^v or is a freewill offering,^w the sacrifice shall be eaten on the day they offer it, but anything left over may be eaten on the next day.^{x 17}Any meat of the sacrifice left over till the third day must be burned up.^{y 18}If any meat of the fellowship offering^z is eaten on the third day, the one who offered it will not be accepted.^a It will not be reckoned^b to their credit, for it has become impure; the person who eats any of it will be held responsible.^c

¹⁹“ ‘Meat that touches anything ceremonially unclean must not be eaten; it must be burned up. As for other meat, anyone ceremonially clean may eat it. ²⁰But if anyone who is unclean^d eats any meat of the fellowship offering belonging to the Lord, they must be cut off from their people.^{e 21}Anyone who touches something unclean^f—whether human uncleanness or an unclean animal or any unclean creature that moves along the ground^b—and then eats any of the meat of the fellowship offering belonging to the Lord must be cut off from their people.’ ”

Eating Fat and Blood Forbidden

²²The Lord said to Moses, ²³“Say to the Israelites: ‘Do not eat any of the fat of cattle, sheep or goats.^{g 24}The fat of an animal found dead or torn by wild animals^h may be used for any other purpose, but you must not eat it. ²⁵Anyone who eats the fat of an animal from which a food offering may be^c presented to the Lord must be cut off from their people. ²⁶And wherever you live, you must not eat the bloodⁱ of any bird or animal. ²⁷Anyone who eats blood^j must be cut off from their people.’ ”

The Priests’ Share

²⁸The Lord said to Moses, ²⁹“Say to the Israelites: ‘Anyone who brings a fellowship offering to the Lord is to bring part of it as their sacrifice to the Lord. ³⁰With their own hands they are to present the food offering to the Lord; they are to bring the fat, together with the breast, and wave the breast before the Lord as a wave offering.^{k 31}The priest shall burn the fat on the altar,^l but the breast belongs to Aaron and his sons.^{m 32}You are to give the right thigh of your fellowship offerings to the priest as a contribution.^{n 33}The son of Aaron who offers the blood and the fat of the fellowship offering shall have the right thigh as his share. ³⁴From the fellowship offerings of the Israelites, I have taken the breast that is waved and the thigh^o that is presented and have given them to Aaron the priest and his sons^p as their perpetual share from the Israelites.’ ”