Leviticus Chapter 7

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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Leviticus chapter seven. Here are the instructions for the ritual
of the guilt offering. It is most sacred. The slaughter
of the guilt offering must take place where the burnt
offering is slaughtered, and the priest must splatter its blood
against the sides of the altar. Then the priest is
to offer all of its fat, the fat tail, the
fat covering and surrounding the organs, the two kidneys and

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the fat on them near the loins, and the lobe
of the liver, which he is to remove along with
the kidneys. The priest must offer it all up on
the altar as a fire offering. To me, it is
a gilt offering. Every man who is a priest may
eat of it, as long as he eats in a
holy place. It is most sacred. The guilt offering is
similar to the purification offering for sin. The instructions are

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the same for both rituals. The priest who makes the
atoning sacrifices allowed to have some of it. Also, the
priest who presents anyone's burnt offering gets to keep the
skin from what he has offered for himself. In the
same way any grain offering that is oven, baked, or
cooked in a pan or griddle, belongs to the priest
who offered it. Any other grain offering, whether it is

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dry or mixed with oil, is to be shared equally
among aar and sons after the ritual is completed. Here
are the instructions for the various kinds of the peace
offerings that one may offer to me. If someone offers
a sacrifice out of thanksgiving, then in addition to the sacrifice,
he must offer loaves of unleavened bread mixed with oil,

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unleavened wafers topped with oil, and loaves of the finest
flour mixed with oil. Along with the peace offerings. For thanksgiving,
a person must include loaves of leaven bread. He must
present one of each kind of bread as a gift
to me. It will belong to the priest who officiates
the sacrifice and splatters the blood of the peace offerings
against the sides of the altar. The meat of the

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sacrifice for the thanksgiving peace offering must be eaten on
the day it is offered. None of it is to
be left over for the next day. If the sacrifice
for a peace offering accompanies a vow or comes simply
as an act of free will. It is to be
eaten on the day it is offered, but if any
remains on the next day, it may still be eaten.
But all the meat from the sacrifice left over on

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the third day is to be burned completely, so that
none is left. If any of the leftover meat from
the peace offering is eaten on the third day, then
the person who offered it will not be accepted and
will receive no benefit from the sacrifice. By then it
has become foul, and the person who eats from it
will bear his guilt and suffer the consequences. Do not

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eat meat that comes in contact with any impure thing,
burn it up completely. As for any remaining meat that
is pure, people who are ritually clean may eat it.
Any person who eats meat from the sacrifice of my
peace offering during a time when he is impure must
be cut off from the people. Also, a person who
comes into contact with something impure, whether it pertains to
human or animal impurity, or some totally detestable creatures, and

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then eat some of the meat from the sacrifice of
my peace offerings must be cut off from his people.
The Eternal One continued to Moses, Go talk with the
Israelites and tell them not to eat any fat from
an ox, sheep or goat. If an animal dies a
natural death or is killed by another animal, then you
are allowed to make use of its fat, but under

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no condition are you allowed to eat any of it.
Whoever eats animal fat from a fire offering to me
must be cut off from his people. Be sure not
to consume any animal or bird blood, regardless of where
you live. Anyone who consumes animal or bird blood must
be cut off from his people. The Eternal One continued,
speaking to Moses. Go talk with the Israelites and tell

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them that anyone who offers a peace offering to me
must bring it from the sacrifice of his peace offerings.
He is to present the fire offerings to me with
his own hands. Bring the fat along with the breast,
so that the breast can be lifted up as a
wave offering to me. The officiating priest is to offer
the fat as smoke on the altar, but the breast
will belong to Aaron and his sons. The right thigh

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from the sacrifice of your peace offerings is to go
to the priest as your contribution to his service. The
right thigh will be the portion set aside for the
son of Erin, who officiates at the sacrifice and presents
the fat and blood of the peace offerings. For I,
the Eternal One, have taken the breast from the wave offering,
and the thigh is a gift from the sacrifices brought
by the people of Israel as peace offerings, and I

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have handed them over to Aaron the Priest and his sons.
This is for all time their rightful portion of the
offering from the people of Israel, from the first day
they are brought forward as priests in my service. This
is the portion set aside for Aaron and his sons,
taken from the fire offerings presented to me. From the
day when I anointed and consecrated them as priests, I

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directed this gift to be made to them by the
people of Israel. This is their rightful portion for all
time and throughout all generations.