Leviticus 7:19-38 ▼

19 |Meat that comes in contact with a ceremonially unclean thing is not to be eaten. Incinerate it instead. As for ceremonially clean meat, anyone who is clean may eat it.

20 But the person who eats meat from the sacrifice that belongs to the LORD, while still affected by his uncleanness, is to be eliminated from contact with his people.

21 Any person who touches a ceremonially unclean thing—whether the uncleanness pertains to human beings, animals, or to creeping things—and then eats from the meat of peace offerings that belongs to the LORD is to be eliminated from contact with his people.|

22 The LORD told Moses,

23 |Tell the Israelis, 'You are not to eat the fat of an ox, a lamb, or a goat.

24 The carcass of an animal that died of its own and an animal torn by wild beast may be used for any purpose except for eating.

25 Anyone who eats the fat of an animal that has been offered by fire to the LORD is to be eliminated from contact with his people.

26 You are not to eat any form of blood in any of your dwellings, whether it's from birds or animals.

27 Any person who eats any form of blood is to be eliminated from contact with his people.'|

28 The LORD told Moses,

29 |Tell the Israelis that whoever brings a peace offering sacrifice to the LORD is to bring his offering to the LORD from the sacrifice of his peace offerings.

30 He is to bring the offering made by fire with his own hands to the LORD. He is to bring the fat with the breast, since the breast is to be waved as a raised offering to the LORD.

31 The priest will burn the fat on the altar, but the breast belongs to Aaron and his sons.

32 From the sacrifices of your peace offerings give the right thigh to the priest as a raised offering to the LORD.

33 The descendant of Aaron's sons who brings the blood and the fat from the peace offering is to keep the right thigh for his own portion,

34 since I've taken the breast and the thigh as raised offerings from the sacrifices of peace offerings of the Israelis and have given them to Aaron the priest and his sons as their perpetual portion from the Israelis.|

35 This is the consecrated portion for Aaron and his descendants from the offerings made by fire to the LORD, the day they were presented to be priests to the LORD.

36 This is what the LORD had commanded to give them the day he anointed them from among the Israelis—a perpetual portion for their generations.

37 This is the regulation concerning burnt, grain, sin, guilt, and installation offerings, along with the sacrifice for peace offerings.

38 This is what the LORD had commanded Moses on Mount Sinai on the day he commanded the Israelis to bring their offerings to the LORD in the Sinai wilderness.