1    2   This is the law of the guilt-offering: it is most sacred. The guilt-offering shall be slaughtered in the place where the whole-offering is slaughtered, and its blood shall be flung against the altar all round. 3   The priest shall set aside and present all the fat from it: the fat-tail and the fat covering the entrails, 4   the two kidneys with the fat on them beside the haunches, and the long lobe of the liver with the kidneys. 5   The priest shall burn these pieces on the altar as a food-offering to the Lord; it is a guilt-offering. 6   Any male of priestly family may eat it. It shall be eaten in a sacred place; it is most sacred. 7   There is one law for both sin-offering and guilt-offering: they shall belong to the priest who performs the rite of expiation. 8   The skin of any man's whole-offering shall belong to the priest who presents it. 9   Every grain-offering baked in an oven and everything that is cooked in a pan or on a griddle shall belong to the priest who presents it. 10   Every grain-offering, whether mixed with oil or dry, shall be shared equally among all the Aaronites.

11    12   This is the law of the shared-offering presented to the Lord. If a man presents it as a thank-offering, then, in addition to the thank-offering, he shall present unleavened cakes mixed with oil, wafers of unleavened flour smeared with oil, and well-mixed flour and flat cakes mixed with oil. 13   He shall present flat cakes of leavened bread in addition to his shared thank-offering. 14   One part of every offering he shall present as a contribution for the Lord: it shall belong to the priest who flings the blood of the shared-offering against the altar. 15   The flesh shall be eaten on the day of its presentation; none of it shall be put aside till morning.

16   If a man's sacrifice is a votive offering or a freewill offering, it may be eaten on the day it is presented or on the next day. ^note 17   Any flesh left over on the third day shall be destroyed by fire. 18   If any flesh of his shared-offering is eaten on the third day, the man who has presented it shall not be accepted. It will not be counted to his credit, it shall be reckoned as tainted and the person who eats any of it shall accept responsibility. 19   No flesh which comes into contact with anything unclean shall be eaten; it shall be destroyed by fire.

20   The flesh may be eaten by anyone who is clean, but the person who, while unclean, eats flesh from a shared-offering presented to the Lord shall be cut off from his father's kin. 21   When any person is contaminated by contact with anything unclean, be it man, beast, or reptile, ^note and then eats any of the flesh from the shared-offerings presented to the Lord, that person shall be cut off from his father's kin.

Laws concerning offerings and sacrifices

22    23   The Lord spoke to Moses and said, Speak to the Israelites in these words: You shall not eat the fat of any ox, sheep, or goat. 24   The fat of an animal that has died a natural death or has been mauled by wild beasts may be put to any other use, but you shall not eat it. 25   Every man who eats fat from a beast of which he has presented any part as a food-offering to the Lord shall be cut off from his father's kin.

26   You shall eat none of the blood, whether of bird or of beast, wherever you may live. 27   Every person who eats any of the blood shall be cut off from his father's kin.

28    29   The Lord spoke to Moses and said, Speak to the Israelites in these words: Whoever comes to present a shared-offering shall set aside part of it as an offering to the Lord. 30   With his own hands he shall bring the food-offerings to the Lord. He shall also bring the fat together with the breast which is to be presented as a special gift before the Lord; 31   the priest shall burn the fat on the altar, but the breast shall belong to Aaron and his descendants. 32   You shall give the right hind-leg of your shared-offerings as a contribution for the priest; 33   it shall be the perquisite of the Aaronite who presents the blood and the fat of the shared-offering. 34   I have taken from the Israelites the breast of the special gift and the leg of the contribution made out of the shared-offerings, and have given them as a due from the Israelites to Aaron the priest and his descendants for all time. 35   This is the portion prescribed for Aaron and his descendants out of the Lord's food-offerings, appointed on the day when they were presented as priests to the Lord; and on the day when they were anointed, ^note 36   the Lord commanded that these prescribed portions should be given to them by the Israelites. This is a rule binding on their descendants for all time.

37   This, then, is the law of the whole-offering, the grain-offering, the sin-offering, the guilt-offering, the installation-offerings, and the shared-offerings, 38   with which the Lord charged Moses on Mount Sinai on the day when he commanded the Israelites to present their offerings to the Lord in the wilderness of Sinai.

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