Leviticus
Chapter 7
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1This is the instruction for the guilt offering. It is a most holy thing.
2In the place where they slaughter the whole offering, they shall slaughter the guilt offering, and he shall dash its blood on the altar all around.
3He shall bring all its fat from it: the fat tail, and the fat that covers the innards,
4and the two kidneys and the fat that is on them, which is on the loins, and the lobe on the liver. He shall remove it along with the kidneys.
5The priest shall turn them into smoke on the altar, a food gift to God’s own name. The Hebrew writes YHWH. See the glossary.. It is a guilt offering.
6Every male among the priests shall eat it. It shall be eaten in a holy place. It is a most holy thing.
7Like the offense offering, so the guilt offering. There is one instruction for them. The priest who makes Making someone right with God after a wrong. with it, it shall be his.
8The priest who brings a person’s whole offering, the hide of the whole offering that he brought shall be the priest’s. It shall be his.
9Every grain gift that is baked in an oven, and everything made in a pan or on a griddle, shall be for the priest who brings it. It shall be his.
10Every grain gift mixed with oil, or dry, shall be for all the sons of Aaron, each man like his brother.
11This is the instruction for the sacrifice of well-being that he brings to God’s own name. The Hebrew writes YHWH. See the glossary..
12If he brings it for thanks, he shall bring, with the sacrifice of thanks, Made without yeast, so the bread stays flat. cakes mixed with oil, Made without yeast, so the bread stays flat. wafers spread with oil, and fine flour well soaked, cakes mixed with oil.
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Todah is thanks. The sacrifice of thanks is a kind of sacrifice of well-being.
13With cakes of leavened bread he shall bring his A gift brought close to God., with the sacrifice of his thanks of well-being.
14He shall bring from it one of every A gift brought close to God. as a contribution to God’s own name. The Hebrew writes YHWH. See the glossary.. It shall be for the priest who dashes the blood of the sacrifices of well-being. It shall be his.
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Terumah is a contribution, something lifted off, as in Exodus.
15The meat of the sacrifice of his thanks of well-being shall be eaten on the day of his A gift brought close to God.. He shall not leave any of it until morning.
16If the sacrifice of his A gift brought close to God. is a vow or a free gift, it shall be eaten on the day he brings his sacrifice, and what is left of it shall be eaten on the next day.
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Neder is a vow. Nedavah is a free gift, not required by a vow.
17What is left of the meat of the sacrifice on the third day shall be burned in fire.
18If any of the meat of his sacrifice of well-being is eaten at all on the third day, it will not be accepted. It shall not be counted for the one who brought it. It shall be foul, and the person who eats of it shall carry his guilt.
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Pigul is foul. The offering is not accepted, and it is not counted. “Abomination” is not printed.
19Meat that touches anything unclean shall not be eaten. It shall be burned in fire. The meat, any clean person may eat meat.
20The person who eats meat from the sacrifice of well-being that belongs to God’s own name. The Hebrew writes YHWH. See the glossary., while his uncleanness is on him, that person shall be cut off from his peoples.
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Nikhretah is to be cut off. Ammeha is “his peoples,” plural. The person, nefesh, is spoken of as she.
21A person who touches anything unclean, human uncleanness or an unclean animal or any unclean detestable thing, and eats of the meat of the sacrifice of well-being that belongs to God’s own name. The Hebrew writes YHWH. See the glossary., that person shall be cut off from his peoples.
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Sheqetz is a detestable thing. It is not the same word as shiqquts later.
22God’s own name. The Hebrew writes YHWH. See the glossary. spoke to Moses:
23Speak to the sons of Israel: You shall not eat any fat of ox, or sheep, or goat.
24Fat of a carcass and fat of a torn animal may be used for any work, but you shall not eat it.
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Nevelah is a carcass, an animal that died. Terefah is an animal torn. Melakhah is work, any use. Eating is forbidden.
25Anyone who eats fat from the animal from which one brings a food gift to God’s own name. The Hebrew writes YHWH. See the glossary., the person who eats shall be cut off from his peoples.
26You shall not eat any blood in any of your settlements, whether of bird or of animal.
27Any person who eats any blood, that person shall be cut off from his peoples.
28God’s own name. The Hebrew writes YHWH. See the glossary. spoke to Moses:
29Speak to the sons of Israel: The one who brings his sacrifice of well-being to God’s own name. The Hebrew writes YHWH. See the glossary. shall bring his A gift brought close to God. to God’s own name. The Hebrew writes YHWH. See the glossary. from his sacrifice of well-being.
30His own hands shall bring the food gifts of God’s own name. The Hebrew writes YHWH. See the glossary.. He shall bring the fat with the breast. The breast he shall bring, to raise it as a raised offering before God’s own name. The Hebrew writes YHWH. See the glossary..
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Tenufah is a raised offering, lifted and shown, as in Exodus. It is not a wave in a circle.
31The priest shall turn the fat into smoke on the altar, and the breast shall be for Aaron and for his sons.
32The right thigh you shall give as a contribution to the priest from your sacrifices of well-being.
33The one among the sons of Aaron who brings the blood of the sacrifices of well-being and the fat, the right thigh shall be his for a portion.
34The breast of the raised offering and the thigh of the contribution I have taken from the sons of Israel, from their sacrifices of well-being, and I have given them to Aaron the priest and to his sons as a lasting due from the sons of Israel.
35This is the Pouring oil to set someone apart for God.-share of Aaron and the Pouring oil to set someone apart for God.-share of his sons, from the food gifts of God’s own name. The Hebrew writes YHWH. See the glossary., on the day he brought them near to serve as priests to God’s own name. The Hebrew writes YHWH. See the glossary..
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Mishchah is the share that belongs to their anointing, not the oil itself in this sentence.
36which God’s own name. The Hebrew writes YHWH. See the glossary. commanded to give them on the day he Set apart for God by having oil poured on. them, from the sons of Israel. It is a lasting A rule that is meant to last. through their generations.
37This is the instruction for the whole offering, for the grain gift, for the offense offering, for the guilt offering, for the The ceremony that puts a priest into his work., and for the sacrifice of well-being,
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Millu’im is the installation, the filling of the hand, as in Exodus.
38which God’s own name. The Hebrew writes YHWH. See the glossary. commanded Moses on Mount Sinai, on the day he commanded the sons of Israel to bring their near-offerings to God’s own name. The Hebrew writes YHWH. See the glossary. in the wilderness of Sinai.