The Guilt Offering (Leviticus 5:14–19; Leviticus 6:1–7)
1 UST This is the way a person should offer the restoring sacrifice. The people of Israel should consider this kind of sacrifice as especially set apart among all the sacred offerings that people offer to me that are set apart for me. BSB BSB: “Now this is the law of the guilt offering, which is most holy:
2 UST The people who offer this kind of sacrifice should kill the animal they are presenting in the same place where people might kill the animals people offer as wholly burned sacrifices. Then{ after catching the animal’ s blood in a bowl, the priest} should splatter the blood onto every side of the altar. BSB BSB: The guilt offering must be slaughtered in the place where the burnt offering is slaughtered, and the priest shall splatter its blood on all sides of the altar.
3 UST The individual should present all of the fat that he removed from the animal: the entire portion of the tail fat, the caul fat that covers all the internal organs, BSB BSB: And all the fat from it shall be offered: the fat tail, the fat that covers the entrails,
4 UST both kidneys, and the suet fat that is attached to them near the loin cuts. He should also present the lobes of the lamb’ s liver, and the kidneys(which the individual should also remove). BSB BSB: both kidneys with the fat on them near the loins, and the lobe of the liver, which is to be removed with the kidneys.
5 UST Then the priest should burn all these portions of fat and internal organs on the altar in a way that causes smoke to go up. Once burned, the fat and the internal organs will become gifts to me, to Yahweh. This is how an individual should offer a restoring sacrifice BSB BSB: The priest shall burn them on the altar as a food offering to the LORD; it is a guilt offering.
6 UST Any male descendant of Aaron may eat the meat that comes from this sacrifice. However, he should eat it in a place set apart for such purposes. The people of Israel should consider this kind of sacrifice as especially set apart for the priests among all the sacred offerings that people offer to me that are set apart for me. BSB BSB: Every male among the priests may eat of it. It must be eaten in a holy place; it is most holy.
7 UST The instructions for the restoring sacrifice are just the same as the instructions for the purifying sacrifice. There is one set of instructions for both of them. The meat of the sacrifice belongs to the priest who offers the sacrifice that I will accept for the sake of the individual so that I will remove the individual’ s sins from him and forgive him for his wrongdoing. BSB BSB: The guilt offering is like the sin offering; the same law applies to both. It belongs to the priest who makes atonement with it.
8 UST As for the priest who offers a wholly burned sacrifice for someone, the skin of the animal that the individual offered belongs to the priest. BSB BSB: As for the priest who presents a burnt offering for anyone, the hide of that offering belongs to him.
9 UST Every grain offering that someone bakes in an oven, and every sacrifice that someone prepares by deep- frying in a pan or by pan- frying on a griddle also belongs to the priest who offered it for food. It will be his food. BSB BSB: Likewise, every grain offering that is baked in an oven or cooked in a pan or on a griddle belongs to the priest who presents it,
10 UST Likewise, both the grain offering with olive oil and those without any olive oil belong to every male descendant of Aaron. Every priest is alike in this regard. BSB BSB: and every grain offering, whether dry or mixed with oil, belongs equally to all the sons of Aaron.
The Peace Offering (Leviticus 3:1–17)
11 UST This is how someone should offer any fellowship sacrifice that he wants to offer to me. BSB BSB: Now this is the law of the peace offering that one may present to the LORD:
12 UST Someone might want to offer a fellowship sacrifice to express gratitude to me. If so, he should present unleavened loaves of bread that someone made from flour that he mixed with olive oil or unleavened loaves of bread that someone made from fine wheat flour that he mixed with olive oil and coated with oil, a cake soaked with oil. He should present those loaves in addition to the animal sacrifices that accompany the fellowship sacrifices that express gratitude to me. BSB BSB: If he offers it in thanksgiving, then along with the sacrifice of thanksgiving he shall offer unleavened cakes mixed with olive oil, unleavened wafers coated with oil, and well-kneaded cakes of fine flour mixed with oil.
13 UST Along with those leavened loaves of bread and the animal sacrifices that regularly accompany any fellowship sacrifice for the purpose of expressing gratitude to me, the individual should offer this grain offering. BSB BSB: Along with his peace offering of thanksgiving he is to present an offering with cakes of leavened bread.
14 UST And from those portions of the sacrifice, the individual should offer a portion of the whole sacrifice as a special contribution to me, to Yahweh. These portions will belong to the priest who splatters the blood of the fellowship sacrifice. It will be his food. BSB BSB: From the cakes he must present one portion of each offering as a contribution to the LORD. It belongs to the priest who sprinkles the blood of the peace offering.
15 UST As for the meat of the fellowship sacrifice that someone offers for the purpose of expressing gratitude to me, the priests should eat the meat on the same day that the individual offers it. The priests must not allow any of the meat to remain until the next morning. BSB BSB: The meat of the sacrifice of his peace offering of thanksgiving must be eaten on the day he offers it; none of it may be left until morning.
16 UST Someone might want to offer a fellowship sacrifice because of a vow that he made to me. Or someone might also want to bring a fellowship sacrifice freely and unprompted. In either case, the priests should eat the meat of the sacrifice on the day that the individual offers the sacrifice. The priests may also eat the remaining meat of the sacrifice throughout the next day. BSB BSB: If, however, the sacrifice he offers is a vow or a freewill offering, it shall be eaten on the day he presents his sacrifice, but the remainder may be eaten on the next day.
17 UST However, the priests must completely burn any remaining meat from the sacrifice on the third day. BSB BSB: But any meat of the sacrifice remaining until the third day must be burned up.
18 UST If, for whatever reason, anyone ever eats the meat from a fellowship sacrifice on the third day after an individual offered it, I will no longer accept whatever sacrifice the individual offered. As for the person who offered the sacrifice, I will not forgive him, because the meat is now considered desecrated. Whoever eats that meat must now be held responsible for addressing his wrongdoing. BSB BSB: If any of the meat from his peace offering is eaten on the third day, it will not be accepted. It will not be credited to the one who presented it; it shall be an abomination, and the one who eats of it shall bear his iniquity.
19 UST No one should ever eat any meat that comes into contact with anything unclean. The people of Israel should always completely burn contaminated meat. However, anyone who is able to remain clean can eat clean meat. BSB BSB: Meat that touches anything unclean must not be eaten; it is to be burned up. As for any other meat, anyone who is ceremonially clean may eat it.
20 UST Anyone who has not been able to remain ceremonially clean and still, nonetheless, eats the meat of a fellowship sacrifice, that meat that belongs to me, to Yahweh, alone, that person is now an outcast. The people of Israel should no longer consider that person to be one of my people. BSB BSB: But if anyone who is unclean eats meat from the peace offering that belongs to the LORD, that person must be cut off from his people.
21 UST Likewise, anyone who comes into contact with anything impure, whether an impure person or an impure domesticated animal or anything impure that I consider to be disgusting and, nonetheless, eats some of the meat of a fellowship sacrifice, the meat that belongs to me, to Yahweh, alone, that person is now an outcast. The people of Israel should no longer consider that person to be one of my people.” BSB BSB: If one touches anything unclean, whether human uncleanness, an unclean animal, or any unclean, detestable thing, and then eats any of the meat of the peace offering that belongs to the LORD, that person must be cut off from his people.”
Fat and Blood Forbidden 22 UST Then Yahweh told Moses BSB BSB: Then the LORD said to Moses,
23 UST to say to the Israelite people,“The people of Israel should never eat any of the fat of bovines or sheep or goats. BSB BSB: “Speak to the Israelites and say, ‘You are not to eat any of the fat of an ox, a sheep, or a goat.
24 UST As for the fat from an animal’ s corpse or the fat from an animal that wild animals killed and someone later found it dead, anyone may use these portions of fat for various purposes. However, no one should ever eat this fat. BSB BSB: The fat of an animal found dead or mauled by wild beasts may be used for any other purpose, but you must not eat it.
25 UST If ever anyone eats the fat from these domesticated animals that people use to offer gifts to me, to Yahweh, that person who ate the fat is now an outcast. The people of Israel should no longer consider that person to be one of my people. BSB BSB: If anyone eats the fat of an animal from which a food offering may be presented to the LORD, the one who eats it must be cut off from his people.
26 UST And wherever you happen to live, no one should ever eat any blood, whether from a bird or from a domesticated animal. BSB BSB: You must not eat the blood of any bird or animal in any of your dwellings.
27 UST If ever any individual eats any blood, that person is now an outcast. The people of Israel should no longer consider that person to be one of my people.” BSB BSB: If anyone eats blood, that person must be cut off from his people.’”
The Priests’ Portion 28 UST Then Yahweh told Moses, BSB BSB: Then the LORD said to Moses,
29 UST to say to the Israelite people,“Anyone who offers a fellowship sacrifice to me, to Yahweh, should bring part of that sacrifice directly to my presence. BSB BSB: “Speak to the Israelites and say, ‘Anyone who presents a peace offering to the LORD must bring it as his sacrifice to the LORD.
30 UST He himself should bring the gift that he is offering to me. He should bring the fat along with the meat of the animal’ s breast in order to fan it in my presence as a special contribution to me. BSB BSB: With his own hands he is to bring the food offerings to the LORD; he shall bring the fat, together with the breast, and wave the breast as a wave offering before the LORD.
31 UST Then the priest should burn the fat of the animal’ s breast meat on the altar in a way that causes smoke to go up. However, the breast meat itself belongs to Aaron and to his male descendants for food. BSB BSB: The priest is to burn the fat on the altar, but the breast belongs to Aaron and his sons.
32 UST And, as a special contribution, the person offering the fellowship sacrifice should give the animal’ s right thigh to the priest who performed the sacrifice. BSB BSB: And you are to give the right thigh to the priest as a contribution from your peace offering.
33 UST The right thigh belongs to whichever priest, being a male descendant of Aaron, presented the blood and the fat of the fellowship sacrifice. It is his share of food. BSB BSB: The son of Aaron who presents the blood and fat of the peace offering shall have the right thigh as a portion.
34 UST For, by instructing the people of God to offer sacrifices in this manner, I have taken the breast meat of the sacrifice that the priest fans in my presence and the special contribution of the right thigh from the people of Israel, from their fellowship sacrifices, and I have given these special portions to Aaron the priest and to his male descendants. These instructions teach that the people of Israel should always provide portion of food for the priests.” BSB BSB: I have taken from the sons of Israel the breast of the wave offering and the thigh of the contribution of their peace offerings, and I have given them to Aaron the priest and his sons as a permanent portion from the sons of Israel.’”
35 UST Those are the allotments that belong to Aaron and the allotments that belong to his male descendants from the gifts that people offer to Yahweh. Yahweh commanded these instructions on the day that Moses presented Aaron and his sons to serve as priests to Yahweh. BSB BSB: This is the portion of the food offerings to the LORD for Aaron and his sons since the day they were presented to serve the LORD as priests.
36 UST Yahweh made sure to give these instructions and regulations to the priests on the day that Moses anointed them and set them apart from the people of Israel. These portions of the sacrifices are a permanent and enduring regulation that the people of Israel and all their descendants should always observe. BSB BSB: On the day they were anointed, the LORD commanded that this be given them by the sons of Israel. It is a permanent portion for the generations to come.
37 UST So, those are the ways in which people should offer the wholly burned sacrifices, the grain offerings, the purifying sacrifices, the restoring sacrifices, the appointing sacrifices, and the fellowship sacrifices. BSB BSB: This is the law of the burnt offering, the grain offering, the sin offering, the guilt offering, the ordination offering, and the peace offering,
38 UST Yahweh made sure that Moses received all these instructions and regulations on Mount Sinai on the day that Yahweh commanded the people of Israel to begin offering their sacrifices to Yahweh in the desert wilderness around Sinai. BSB BSB: which the LORD gave Moses on Mount Sinai on the day He commanded the Israelites to present their offerings to the LORD in the Wilderness of Sinai.
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