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Sacrifices To Make Things Right

(Leviticus 5.14-19)

The Lord said:

The sacrifice to make things right is very sacred. 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. Offer all of the animal's fat, including the fat on its tail and on its insides, as well as the lower part of the liver and the two kidneys with their fat. One of the priests will lay these pieces on the altar and send them up in smoke to me. 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]

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.

In fact, the priest who offers a sacrifice to please me[c] may keep the skin of the animal, 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.

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Footnotes

  1. 7.2 sacrifice to please me: See the note at 1.1-3.
  2. 7.6 holy place: The courtyard of the sacred tent (see 6.16,17).
  3. 7.8 sacrifice to please me: See the note at 1.1-3.
  4. 7.9 sacrifice to give thanks to me: See the note at 2.1.

The Guilt Offering

“‘These are the regulations for the guilt offering,(A) which is most holy: The guilt offering is to be slaughtered in the place where the burnt offering is slaughtered, and its blood is to be splashed against the sides of the altar. All its fat(B) shall be offered: the fat tail and the fat that covers the internal organs, both kidneys with the fat on them near the loins, and the long lobe of the liver, which is to be removed with the kidneys.(C) The priest shall burn them on the altar(D) as a food offering presented to the Lord. It is a guilt offering. Any male in a priest’s family may eat it,(E) but it must be eaten in the sanctuary area; it is most holy.(F)

“‘The same law applies to both the sin offering[a](G) and the guilt offering:(H) They belong to the priest(I) who makes atonement with them.(J) The priest who offers a burnt offering for anyone may keep its hide(K) for himself. Every grain offering baked in an oven(L) or cooked in a pan(M) or on a griddle(N) belongs to the priest who offers it, 10 and every grain offering, whether mixed with olive oil or dry, belongs equally to all the sons of Aaron.

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Footnotes

  1. Leviticus 7:7 Or purification offering; also in verse 37