Leviticus 3
Leviticus 3:1 “If his offering is a sacrifice for healthy relationships,[1] if he offers an animal from the herd, male or female, he will offer it perfect to Yahveh’s face.
Leviticus 3:2 And he will lay his hand on the head of his offering and kill it at the entrance of the conference tent, and Aaron’s sons the priests will throw the blood against the sides of the altar.
Leviticus 3:3 And from the sacrifice for healthy relationships, as a fire offering to Yahveh, he will offer the fat covering the entrails and all the fat that is on the entrails,
Leviticus 3:4 and the two kidneys with the fat that is on them at the loins, and the long lobe of the liver that he will remove with the kidneys.
Leviticus 3:5 Then Aaron’s sons will burn it on the altar on top of the ascending offering which is on the wood on the fire; it is a fire offering with a pacifying aroma to Yahveh.
Leviticus 3:6 “If his offering for a sacrifice for healthy relationships to Yahveh is an animal from the flock, male or female, he will offer it perfect.
Leviticus 3:7 If he offers a lamb for his offering, then he will offer it to Yahveh’s face,
Leviticus 3:8 lay his hand on the head of his offering and kill at the face of the conference tent; and Aaron’s sons will throw its blood against the sides of the altar.
Leviticus 3:9 Then from the sacrifice for healthy relationships he will offer as a fire offering to Yahveh its fat; he will remove the whole fat tail, cut off close to the backbone, and the fat that covers the entrails and all the fat that is on the entrails
Leviticus 3:10 and the two kidneys with the fat that is on them at the loins and the long lobe of the liver that he will remove with the kidneys.
Leviticus 3:11 And the priest will burn it on the altar as a fire offering to Yahveh.
Leviticus 3:12 “If his offering is a goat, then he will offer it to Yahveh’s face
Leviticus 3:13 and lay his hand on its head and kill it at the face of the conference tent, and the sons of Aaron will throw its blood against the sides of the altar.
Leviticus 3:14 Then he will offer from it, as his offering for a fire offering to Yahveh, the fat covering the entrails and all the fat that is on the entrails
Leviticus 3:15 and the two kidneys with the fat that is on them at the loins and the long lobe of the liver that he will remove with the kidneys.
Leviticus 3:16 And the priest will burn them on the altar as a fire offering with a pacifying aroma. All fat is Yahveh’s.
Leviticus 3:17 It will be a permanent[2] prescription[3] throughout your generations, wherever you stay, that you eat neither fat nor blood.”
[1] שֶׁלֶם = sacrifice for healthy relationships. Leviticus 3:1, 3, 6, 9; 4:10, 26, 31, 35; 6:12; 7:11, 13, 14, 15, 18, 20, 21, 29, 32, 33, 34, 37; 9:4, 18, 22; 10:14; 17:5; 19:5; 22:21; 23:19.
[2] עוֹלָם = permanent. Leviticus 3:17; 6:18, 22; 7:34, 36; 10:9, 15; 16:29, 31, 34; 17:7; 23:14, 21, 31, 41; 24:3, 8, 9; 25:32, 34, 46.
[3] חֻקָּה = prescription. Leviticus 3:17; 7:36; 10:9; 16:29, 31, 34; 17:7; 18:3, 4, 5, 26, 30; 19:19, 37; 20:8, 22, 23; 23:14, 21, 31, 41; 24:3; 25:18; 26:3, 15, 43.
Leviticus 3 quotes:
“Christians should be scrupulous in ensuring that their forms of worship are thoroughly scriptural, and are not contaminated by superstition or purely human values. Otherwise what is holy to the Lord will be profaned, and punishment will follow instead of blessing (8).”
Harrison, R. K. Leviticus, an Introduction and Commentary. Inter-Varsity Press, 1980. p. 197.
“Sometimes the gifts we give one another are extravagant, and sometimes they are small, and the latter may be just as meaningful. The same is true with offerings to God. It would be really extravagant to sacrifice a steer and somewhat extravagant to offer a sheep or a goat. Leviticus 3 allows just as happily for a person to offer some grain, raw or baked as bread or griddled or fried. This would be much less costly, an everyday kind of offering.”
Goldingay, John. Exodus and Leviticus for Everyone. First edition, Westminster John Knox Press, 2010. p. 131.
“The peace offering was the only sacrifice in which the person making the offering received anything back from what he presented. Both the person bringing the offering and the priest got to eat from the offering. This represents mutual acceptance and mutual enjoyment between man, priest, and God. At the peace offering they communed together — fellowship made possible through the blood covenant that gave them a common bond.”
Stringer, Doug. Born to Die : So We May Live. Bridge-Logos, 2006. p. 73.
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