Leviticus 7
Leviticus 7:1 “This is the instruction about the reparation offering. It is most sacred.
Leviticus 7:2 In the place where they kill the ascending offering, they will kill the reparation offering, and its blood will be thrown against the sides of the altar.
Leviticus 7:3 And all its fat will be offered, the fat tail, the fat that covers the entrails,
Leviticus 7:4 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 7:5 The priest will burn them on the altar as a fire offering to Yahveh; it is a reparation offering.
Leviticus 7:6 Every male among the priests may eat of it. It will be eaten in a sacred place. It is most sacred.
Leviticus 7:7 The reparation offering is just like the failure offering; there is one instruction for them. The priest who provides reconciliation with it will have it.
Leviticus 7:8 And the priest who offers anyone’s ascending offering will have for himself the skin of the ascending offering that he has offered.
Leviticus 7:9 And every tribute offering baked in the oven and all that is prepared on a pan or a griddle will belong to the priest who offers it.
Leviticus 7:10 And every tribute offering, mixed with oil or dry, will be shared equally among all the sons of Aaron.
Leviticus 7:11 “And this is the instruction of the sacrifice for healthy relationships that one may offer to Yahveh.
Leviticus 7:12 If he offers it for a thanksgiving, then he will offer with the thanksgiving sacrifice unleavened loaves mixed with oil, unleavened wafers smeared with oil, and loaves of fine flour well mixed with oil.
Leviticus 7:13 With the sacrifice for his healthy relationships for thanksgiving he will bring his offering with loaves of leavened bread.
Leviticus 7:14 And from it he will offer one loaf from each offering, as a gift to Yahveh. It will belong to the priest who throws the blood of the healthy relationships offering.
Leviticus 7:15 And the meat of the sacrifice of his healthy relationships offering for thanksgiving will be eaten on the day of his offering. He will not leave any of it until the morning.
Leviticus 7:16 But if the sacrifice of his offering is a solemn pledge offering[1] or a spontaneous voluntary offering,[2] it will be eaten on the day that he offers his sacrifice, and on the next day what remains of it will be eaten.
Leviticus 7:17 But on the third day what remains of the meat of the sacrifice will be burned up with fire.
Leviticus 7:18 If any of the flesh of the sacrifice of his healthy relationships offering is eaten on the third day, he who offers it will not be accepted, neither will it be recognized in his behalf. It is tainted, and the throat that eats it will be responsible for his violation.
Leviticus 7:19 “Meat that touches any contaminated thing will not be eaten. It will be burned up with fire. All who are pure may eat meat,
Leviticus 7:20 but the throat who eats from the meat of the sacrifice of Yahveh’s healthy relationships offering while a contamination is on him, that throat will be eliminated from his people.
Leviticus 7:21 And if any throat touches a contaminated thing, whether human contamination or a contaminated animal or any contaminated detestable creature, and then eats some meat from the sacrifice of Yahveh’s healthy relationships offering, that throat will be eliminated from his people.”
Leviticus 7:22 Yahveh spoke to Moses, and this is what he said,
Leviticus 7:23 “Speak to the people of Israel, and this is what you should say, you will eat no fat, of ox or sheep or goat.
Leviticus 7:24 The fat of an animal that dies of itself and the fat of one that is torn may be put to any other use, but on no account will you eat it.
Leviticus 7:25 Because every throat who eats of the fat of an animal of which a fire offering may be made to Yahveh will be eliminated from his people.
Leviticus 7:26 Moreover, you will eat no blood whatever, whether of fowl or of animal, wherever you stay.
Leviticus 7:27 Whatever throat eats any blood, that throat will be eliminated from his people.”
Leviticus 7:28 Yahveh spoke to Moses, and this is what he said,
Leviticus 7:29 “Speak to the people of Israel, and this is what you should say, whoever offers the sacrifice of his healthy relationships offering to Yahveh will bring his offering to Yahveh from the sacrifice of his healthy relationships offering.
Leviticus 7:30 His own hands will bring Yahveh’s fire offerings. He will bring the fat with the breast, so that the breast may be waved as a wave offering to Yahveh’s face.
Leviticus 7:31 The priest will burn the fat on the altar, but the breast will be for Aaron and his sons.
Leviticus 7:32 And the right thigh you will give to the priest as a contribution from the sacrifice of your healthy relationships offering.
Leviticus 7:33 Whoever among the sons of Aaron offers the blood of the healthy relationships offering and the fat will have the right thigh for a portion.
Leviticus 7:34 Because the breast that is waved and the thigh that is contributed, I have taken from the people of Israel, out of the sacrifices of their healthy relationships offerings, and have given them to Aaron the priest and to his sons, as a permanent prescription from the people of Israel.
Leviticus 7:35 This is the portion of Aaron and of his sons from Yahveh’s fire offerings, from the day they were presented to serve as priests of Yahveh.
Leviticus 7:36 Yahveh commanded this to be given them by the people of Israel, from the day that he anointed them. It is a permanent prescription throughout their generations.”
Leviticus 7:37 This is the instruction of the ascending offering, of the tribute offering, of the failure offering, of the reparation offering, of the ordination offering, and of the offering for healthy relationships.
Leviticus 7:38 which Yahveh commanded Moses on Mount Sinai, on the day that he commanded the people of Israel to bring their offerings to Yahveh, in the open country[3] of Sinai.
[1] נֶדֶר = solemn pledge. Leviticus 7:16; 22:18, 21, 23; 23:38; 27:2.
[2] נְדָבָה = spontaneous voluntary. Leviticus 7:16; 22:18, 21, 23; 23:38.
[3] מִדְבָּר= open country. Leviticus 7:38; 16:10, 21, 22.
Leviticus 7 quotes:
“The ban on eating the fat of beasts offered for sacrifice was extended in Leviticus 7:23 to all animal meats eaten in a non-sacrificial context. Since tapeworms can sometimes be found in fatty tissues, even those of the ‘clean’ bovine species, the regulations governing the eating of animal fat would be another important means of protecting the Israelites against this kind of parasitic infestation.”
Harrison, R. K. Leviticus, an Introduction and Commentary. Inter-Varsity Press, 1980. p. 58.
“From Leviticus 7 we know the fellowship offering concluded with the worshiper and his friends and family joining in a meal to eat the meat not offered in sacrifice. All the participants in the meal needed to be in a state of ritual purity, and the meat was to be eaten on the same day it was offered if it was a sacrifice of confession, and by the following day if offered for other purposes. The priests were given the breast and the right thigh as part of their salary, and the worshiper and his friends ate the rest. Fellowship with God was thus experienced as the guests enjoyed his blessings in his gracious presence.”
Lenz, Mark J. Leviticus. Northwestern Pub. House, 1988. p. 33.
” 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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