“Then he is to offer up the fat of the sin offering in smoke on the altar,

his body well nourished, and the marrow of his bones moist.

He brings peace to your territory. He abundantly provides for you the best grain.

“All the best of the olive oil and all the best of the wine and of the wheat, the first fruits of these things that they give to the Lord, I have given to you.

He asked for water, and she gave him milk; in a bowl fit for a king, she served him curds.

And there will be enough goat’s milk for your food, for the food of your household, and for the sustenance of your servant girls.

“You must not offer the blood of my sacrifice with bread containing yeast; the fat of my festal sacrifice must not remain until morning.

Then the priest must offer them up in smoke on the altar as a food gift for a soothing aroma – all the fat belongs to the Lord.

This is a perpetual statute throughout your generations in all the places where you live: You must never eat any fat or any blood.’”

“Tell the Israelites, ‘You must not eat any fat of an ox, sheep, or goat.

who ate the best of their sacrifices, and drank the wine of their drink offerings? Let them rise and help you; let them be your refuge!

Heled son of Baanah the Netophathite, Ittai son of Ribai from Gibeah in Benjamin,

As if with choice meat you satisfy my soul. My mouth joyfully praises you,

You will eat fat until you are full, and drink blood until you are drunk, at my slaughter which I have made for you.

butter from the herd and milk from the flock, along with the fat of lambs, rams and goats of Bashan, along with the best of the kernels of wheat; and from the juice of grapes you drank wine.

Get your father and your households and come to me! Then I will give you the best land in Egypt and you will eat the best of the land.’

and I have promised that I will bring you up out of the affliction of Egypt to the land of the Canaanites, Hittites, Amorites, Perizzites, Hivites, and Jebusites, to a land flowing with milk and honey.”’

Go up to a land flowing with milk and honey. But I will not go up among you, for you are a stiff-necked people, and I might destroy you on the way.”

“‘Then he must take up all the fat from the sin offering bull: the fat covering the entrails and all the fat surrounding the entrails,

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.