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Text -- Leviticus 7:8-38 (NET)
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Priestly Portions of Burnt and Grain Offerings
7:8 “‘As for the priest who presents someone’s burnt offering , the hide of that burnt offering which he presented belongs to him .
7:9 Every grain offering which is baked in the oven or made in the pan or on the griddle belongs to the priest who presented it.
7:10 Every grain offering , whether mixed with olive oil or dry , belongs to all the sons of Aaron , each one alike.
The Peace Offering
7:11 “‘This is the law of the peace offering sacrifice which he is to present to the Lord .
7:12 If he presents it on account of thanksgiving , along with the thank offering offering sacrifice he must present unleavened loaves mixed with olive oil , unleavened wafers smeared with olive oil , and well soaked ring-shaped loaves made of choice wheat flour mixed with olive oil .
7:13 He must present this grain offering in addition to ring-shaped loaves of leavened bread which regularly accompany the sacrifice of his thanksgiving peace offering .
7:14 He must present one of each kind of grain offering as a contribution offering to the Lord ; it belongs to the priest who splashes the blood of the peace offering .
7:15 The meat of his thanksgiving peace offering must be eaten on the day of his offering ; he must not set any of it aside until morning .
7:16 “‘If his offering is a votive or freewill sacrifice , it may be eaten on the day he presents his sacrifice , and also the leftovers from it may be eaten on the next day ,
7:17 but the leftovers from the meat of the sacrifice must be burned up in the fire on the third day .
7:18 If some of the meat of his peace offering sacrifice is ever eaten on the third day it will not be accepted ; it will not be accounted to the one who presented it, since it is spoiled , and the person who eats from it will bear his punishment for iniquity .
7:19 The meat which touches anything ceremonially unclean must not be eaten ; it must be burned up in the fire . As for ceremonially clean meat , everyone who is ceremonially clean may eat the meat .
7:20 The person who eats meat from the peace offering sacrifice which belongs to the Lord while his uncleanness persists will be cut off from his people .
7:21 When a person touches anything unclean (whether human uncleanness , or an unclean animal , or an unclean detestable creature) and eats some of the meat of the peace offering sacrifice which belongs to the Lord , that person will be cut off from his people .’”
Sacrificial Instructions for the Common People: Fat and Blood
7:22 Then the Lord spoke to Moses :
7:23 “Tell the Israelites , ‘You must not eat any fat of an ox , sheep , or goat .
7:24 Moreover, the fat of an animal that has died of natural causes and the fat of an animal torn by beasts may be used for any other purpose , but you must certainly never eat it.
7:25 If anyone eats fat from the animal from which he presents a gift to the Lord , that person will be cut off from his people .
7:26 And you must not eat any blood of the birds or the domesticated land animals in any of the places where you live .
7:27 Any person who eats any blood – that person will be cut off from his people .’”
Priestly Portions of Peace Offerings
7:28 Then the Lord spoke to Moses :
7:29 “Tell the Israelites , ‘The one who presents his peace offering sacrifice to the Lord must bring his offering to the Lord from his peace offering sacrifice .
7:30 With his own hands he must bring the Lord’s gifts . He must bring the fat with the breast to wave the breast as a wave offering before the Lord ,
7:31 and the priest must offer the fat up in smoke on the altar , but the breast will belong to Aaron and his sons .
7:32 The right thigh you must give as a contribution offering to the priest from your peace offering sacrifices .
7:33 The one from Aaron’s sons who presents the blood of the peace offering and fat will have the right thigh as his share ,
7:34 for the breast of the wave offering and the thigh of the contribution offering I have taken from the Israelites out of their peace offering sacrifices and have given them to Aaron the priest and to his sons from the people of Israel as a perpetual allotted portion .’”
7:35 This is the allotment of Aaron and the allotment of his sons from the Lord’s gifts on the day Moses presented them to serve as priests to the Lord .
7:36 This is what the Lord commanded to give to them from the Israelites on the day Moses anointed them– a perpetual allotted portion throughout their generations .
Summary of Sacrificial Regulations in Leviticus 6:8-7:36
7:37 This is the law for the burnt offering , the grain offering , the sin offering , the guilt offering , the ordination offering, and the peace offering sacrifice ,
7:38 which the Lord commanded Moses on Mount Sinai on the day he commanded the Israelites to present their offerings to the Lord in the wilderness of Sinai .
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Names, People and Places, Dictionary Themes and Topics
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Names, People and Places:
Dictionary Themes and Topics:
Israel |
Revelation |
Offerings |
Peace Offerings |
Wave offerings |
Sanitation |
LAW OF MOSES |
LEVITICUS, 2 |
SACRIFICE, IN THE OLD TESTAMENT, 2 |
Priest |
THANK OFFERING, OR PEACE OFFERING |
Flesh-hook |
Breast |
Blood |
Defilement |
KIDNEYS |
PUNISHMENTS |
CRIME; CRIMES |
Vows |
Bread |
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expand allCommentary -- Verse Notes / Footnotes
NET Notes -> Lev 7:9; Lev 7:9; Lev 7:10; Lev 7:11; Lev 7:12; Lev 7:12; Lev 7:12; Lev 7:12; Lev 7:13; Lev 7:13; Lev 7:13; Lev 7:14; Lev 7:14; Lev 7:15; Lev 7:16; Lev 7:16; Lev 7:17; Lev 7:18; Lev 7:18; Lev 7:19; Lev 7:19; Lev 7:20; Lev 7:20; Lev 7:21; Lev 7:21; Lev 7:22; Lev 7:24; Lev 7:24; Lev 7:25; Lev 7:26; Lev 7:27; Lev 7:28; Lev 7:30; Lev 7:30; Lev 7:30; Lev 7:32; Lev 7:34; Lev 7:35; Lev 7:35; Lev 7:36; Lev 7:36; Lev 7:36; Lev 7:37; Lev 7:37; Lev 7:37
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NET Notes: Lev 7:12 Heb “choice wheat flour well soaked ring-shaped loaves.” See the note on Lev 2:1.
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NET Notes: Lev 7:13 The translation “[which regularly accompany]…” is based on the practice of bringing bread (and wine) to eat with the portions of the...
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NET Notes: Lev 7:14 The term rendered “contribution offering” is תְּרוּמָה (tÿrumah), which general...
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NET Notes: Lev 7:17 Heb “burned with fire,” an expression which is sometimes redundant in English, but here means “burned up,” “burned up en...
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NET Notes: Lev 7:18 Heb “his iniquity he shall bear” (cf. Lev 5:1); NIV “will be held responsible”; NRSV “shall incur guilt”; TEV R...
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NET Notes: Lev 7:19 The Hebrew has simply “the flesh,” but this certainly refers to “clean” flesh in contrast to the unclean flesh in the first ha...
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NET Notes: Lev 7:20 The exact meaning of this penalty clause is not certain. It could mean that he will be executed, whether by God or by man, he will be excommunicated f...
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NET Notes: Lev 7:24 Heb “shall be used for any work”; cf. NIV, NLT “may be used for any other purpose.”
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NET Notes: Lev 7:26 Heb “and any blood you must not eat in any of your dwelling places, to the bird and to the animal.”
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NET Notes: Lev 7:30 Heb “the breast to wave it, a wave offering before the Lord.” Other possible translations are “to elevate the breast [as] an elevati...
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NET Notes: Lev 7:32 Older English versions (e.g., KJV, ASV) translate this Hebrew term (תְּרוּמָה, tÿrumah) ...
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NET Notes: Lev 7:34 Or “a perpetual regulation”; cf. NASB “as their due forever”; NRSV “as a perpetual due”; NLT “their regular ...
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NET Notes: Lev 7:35 Heb “in the day of he presented them to serve as priests to the Lord.” The grammar here is relatively unusual. First, the verb “pres...
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NET Notes: Lev 7:36 Heb “for your generations”; cf. NIV “for the generations to come”; TEV “for all time to come.”
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