Leviticus 7:1-10

Contemporary English Version

Sacrifices To Make Things Right

(Leviticus 5.14-19)

The Lord said:

7 The sacrifice to make things right is very sacred. ² The animal must be killed in the same place where the sacrifice to please me^[a] is killed, and the animal's blood must be splattered against the four sides of the bronze altar. ³ Offer all of the animal's fat, including the fat on its tail and on its insides, ⁴ as well as the lower part of the liver and the two kidneys with their fat. ⁵ One of the priests will lay these pieces on the altar and send them up in smoke to me. ⁶ This sacrifice for making things right is very holy. Only the priests may eat it, and they must eat it in a holy place.^[b]

⁷ The ceremony for this sacrifice and the one for sin are the same, and the meat may be eaten only by the priest who performs this ceremony of forgiveness.

⁸ In fact, the priest who offers a sacrifice to please me^[c] may keep the skin of the animal, ⁹ just as he may eat the bread from a sacrifice to give thanks to me.^{[d] 10} All other grain sacrifices—with or without olive oil in them—are to be divided equally among the priests of Aaron's family.