Leviticus 7-8

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The Law of the Guilt Gift

7 ‘This is the Law of the guilt gift. It is most holy. ² They are to kill the guilt gift in the place where they kill the burnt gift. And the religious leader should put its blood around on the altar. ³ Then he will give all its fat, the fat tail, the fat that covers the inside parts, ⁴ the two kidneys with the fat that is on them, and the part that is on the liver which he will take away with the kidneys. ⁵ The religious leader will burn them on the altar as a gift by fire to the Lord. It is a guilt gift. ⁶ Every male among the religious leaders may eat of it. It will be eaten in a holy place. It is most holy. ⁷ The guilt gift is like the sin gift. There is one Law for them. It belongs to the religious leader who pays the price for sin with it. ⁸ And the religious leader who gives any man’s burnt gift will keep for himself the skin of the burnt gift he has given. ⁹ Every grain gift that is baked in a stove and everything that is cooked in a pot or on top of a stove will belong to the religious leader who gives it. ¹⁰ And every grain gift, mixed with oil or dry, will belong to all the sons of Aaron, to all the same.

The Law of the Peace Gift

¹¹ ‘This is the Law of giving peace gifts in worship to the Lord. ¹² If he gives it because he is thankful, then with the thank gift he will give bread mixed with oil and without yeast, hard bread spread with oil and without yeast, and loaves of fine flour well mixed with oil. ¹³ With loaves of bread with yeast he will give his thank gift with the peace gifts. ¹⁴ Out of each gift he will give a part as a gift to the Lord. It will belong to the religious leader who puts the blood on the peace gifts.

¹⁵ ‘The flesh of the thank gift, given as a peace gift, will be eaten on the day it is given. None of it is to be left until morning. ¹⁶ But if his gift is for a promise or is given only because he wants to give it, it will be eaten the same day he gives his gift. And whatever is left may be eaten the next day. ¹⁷ But what is left of the flesh of the gift until the third day will be burned with fire. ¹⁸ If any of the flesh of his gift is eaten on the third day, then the one who brought it will not be received and it will not do him any good. It will be a sin. And the person who eats of it must suffer for his own sin.

¹⁹ ‘The flesh that touches anything that is unclean must not be eaten. It will be burned with fire. Anyone who is clean may eat other flesh. ²⁰ But the person who is unclean, who eats the flesh of the peace gifts which belong to the Lord, will be kept away from his people. ²¹ And a person will be kept away from his people when he touches anything that is unclean, a human, animal or thing that is unclean, and then eats of the flesh of the peace gifts that belong to the Lord.’”

Fat and Blood Not to Be Eaten

²² The Lord said to Moses, ²³ “Say to the people of Israel, ‘Do not eat any fat from a bull, sheep or goat. ²⁴ The fat of an animal that dies, and the fat of an animal torn by wild animals, may be used in other ways. But for sure you must not eat it. ²⁵ For whoever eats the fat of the animal from which a gift is given by fire to the Lord will be kept away from his people. ²⁶ Do not eat any blood, of bird or animal, in any of your houses. ²⁷ Whoever eats any blood will be kept away from his people.’”

The Part for Aaron and His Sons

²⁸ The Lord said to Moses, ²⁹ “Say to the people of Israel, ‘Whoever gives his peace gift to the Lord will bring a part of it as a special gift to the Lord. ³⁰ With his own hands he will bring the gift given to the Lord by fire. He will bring the fat with the breast so the breast may be given as a wave gift before the Lord. ³¹ The religious leader will burn the fat on the altar. But the breast will belong to Aaron and his sons. ³² And you will give the right thigh to the religious leader as his part of your peace gift. ³³ The son of Aaron who gives the blood and the fat of the peace gift will have the right thigh for his share. ³⁴ For I have taken the breast of the wave gift and the right thigh out of the peace gifts given by the people of Israel. And I have given them to Aaron the religious leader and to his sons as their share forever from the people of Israel.

³⁵ ‘This is the share for Aaron and his sons from the gifts made by fire to the Lord. It was set apart for them on the day they were set apart to work as religious leaders for the Lord. ³⁶ The Lord said that this should be given to them by the people of Israel on the day they were set apart. It is their share forever.’”

³⁷ This is the Law of the burnt gift, the grain gift, the sin gift, the guilt gift, the gift when the religious leader is set apart for the Lord’s work, and the peace gift. ³⁸ The Lord gave this Law to Moses on Mount Sinai on the day that He told the people of Israel to give their gifts to the Lord in the Desert of Sinai.

Aaron and His Sons Set Apart for Their Work

8 The Lord said to Moses, ² “Take Aaron and his sons, and the clothing, the oil for holy use, the bull for the sin gift, the two rams and the basket of bread without yeast. ³ And gather together all the people at the door of the meeting tent.” ⁴ So Moses did just as the Lord told him. The people were gathered together at the door of the meeting tent. ⁵ Moses said to the people, “This is what the Lord has said to do.”

⁶ Moses brought Aaron and his sons, and washed them with water. ⁷ He dressed him with the coat, the belt, the long piece of clothing, and the linen vest. He tied the well-made rope of the linen vest, to keep his clothing in place. ⁸ Then he put the breast-piece on him. And he put the Urim and the Thummim into the breast-piece. ⁹ He put the head covering on his head. And on the front of it he put the gold plate, the holy crown, just as the Lord had told Moses.

¹⁰ Then Moses took the oil for holy use and poured it on the meeting tent and all that was in it, and made them holy. ¹¹ He put some of it on the altar seven times. He poured this oil on the altar and all its objects, and the washing pot and its base, to make them holy. ¹² And he poured some of the oil for holy use on Aaron’s head, to make him holy. ¹³ Then Moses had Aaron’s sons come near and dressed them with coats, belts and head coverings, just as the Lord had told Moses.

¹⁴ Moses brought the bull of the sin gift. And Aaron and his sons laid their hands on the head of the bull of the sin gift. ¹⁵ Then Moses killed it. He took some of the blood, and put it around on the horns of the altar with his finger, to make the altar clean. He poured out the rest of the blood at the base of the altar to make it holy. ¹⁶ He took all the fat that was on the inside parts, and the part that was on the liver, and the two kidneys and their fat. And Moses burned them on the altar. ¹⁷ But the bull and its skin, its meat and its waste, he burned in the fire away from the tents, just as the Lord had told Moses.

¹⁸ Moses brought the ram of the burnt gift. And Aaron and his sons laid their hands on the head of the sheep. ¹⁹ Then Moses killed it and put the blood around on the altar. ²⁰ He cut the ram into pieces. And Moses burned the head, the pieces, and the fat. ²¹ After he had washed the inside parts and the legs with water, Moses burned the whole ram on the altar. It was a burnt gift for a pleasing smell. It was a gift by fire to the Lord, just as the Lord had told Moses. ²² Then Moses brought the ram, the ram for setting them apart. Aaron and his sons laid their hands on the head of the ram. ²³ And Moses killed it, took some of its blood, and put it on the bottom of Aaron’s right ear, the thumb of his right hand, and the big toe of his right foot. ²⁴ Then he had Aaron’s sons come near. Moses put some of the blood on the bottom of their right ear, the thumb of their right hand, and the big toe of their right foot. Then Moses put the rest of the blood around on the altar. ²⁵ He took the fat, the fat tail, all the fat that was on the inside parts, the part that is on the liver, the two kidneys and their fat, and the right thigh. ²⁶ From the basket of bread made without yeast that was before the Lord, he took one loaf without yeast, and one loaf of bread mixed with oil, and one piece of hard bread. And he put them on the fat parts and the right thigh. ²⁷ He put all these on the hands of Aaron and his sons, and waved them for a wave gift before the Lord. ²⁸ Then Moses took these things from their hands and burned them on the altar with the burnt gift. It was a gift to set them apart. It was a pleasing smell, a gift by fire to the Lord. ²⁹ Moses took the breast of the ram also. He gave it as a wave gift before the Lord. It was Moses’ part of the ram for setting Aaron and his sons apart, just as the Lord had told Moses.

³⁰ Moses took some of the oil for holy use and some of the blood that was on the altar. He put it on Aaron and his clothing, and on his sons and their clothing. So Aaron and his clothing and his sons and their clothing were set apart.

³¹ Then Moses said to Aaron and his sons, “Boil the meat at the door of the meeting tent. And eat it there with the bread which is in the basket that was set apart as an offering. Just as I said, ‘Aaron and his sons will eat it.’ ³² Burn in the fire what is left of the flesh and the bread. ³³ Do not go outside the door of the meeting tent for seven days, until the time is over for you to be set apart. For it will take seven days to set you apart. ³⁴ The Lord has told us to do what has been done today, to take away your sins. ³⁵ Stay day and night at the door of the meeting tent for seven days. Do what the Lord has told you to do, so you will not die. For this is what I have been told.” ³⁶ So Aaron and his sons did all that the Lord had told them to do by Moses.