ויקרא ז׳:כ״ט

This is the ritual of the reparation offering: it is most holy. The reparation offering shall be slaughtered at the spot where the burnt offering is slaughtered, and the blood shall be dashed on all sides of the altar. All its fat shall be offered: the broad tail; the fat that covers the entrails; the two kidneys and the fat that is on them at the loins; and the protuberance on the liver, which shall be removed with the kidneys. The priest shall turn them into smoke on the altar as an offering by fire to GOD; it is a reparation offering. Only the males in the priestly line may eat of it; it shall be eaten in the sacred precinct: it is most holy. The reparation offering is like the purgation offering. The same rule applies to both: it shall belong to the priest who makes expiation thereby. So, too, the priest who offers another person’s burnt offering shall keep the skin of that burnt offering.^athat burnt offering Heb. “the burnt offering that he offered.” Further, any grain offering that is baked in an oven, and any that is prepared in a pan or on a griddle, shall belong to the priest who offers it. But every other grain offering, with oil mixed in or dry, shall go to the sons of Aaron all alike. This is the ritual of the sacrifice of well-being that anyone may offer to GOD: One who offers it for thanksgiving shall offer, together with the sacrifice of thanksgiving, unleavened cakes with oil mixed in—unleavened wafers spread with oil—and cakes of choice flour with oil mixed in, well soaked. This offering, with cakes of leavened bread added, shall be offered along with their thanksgiving sacrifice of well-being. Out of this shall be offered one of each kind^bkind Lit. “offering.” as a gift to GOD; it shall go to the priest who dashes the blood of the offering of well-being. And the flesh of that thanksgiving sacrifice of well-being shall be eaten on the day that it is offered; none of it shall be set aside until morning. If, however, the sacrifice is a votive or a freewill offering, it shall be eaten on the day that the sacrifice is offered, and what is left of it shall be eaten on the morrow. What is then left of the flesh of the sacrifice shall be consumed in fire on the third day. If any of the flesh of that sacrifice of well-being is eaten on the third day, it shall not be acceptable; it shall not count for the one who offered it. It is an offensive thing, and the person who eats of it shall bear the guilt. Flesh that touches anything impure shall not be eaten; it shall be consumed in fire. As for other flesh, only one who is pure may eat such flesh. But the person who, in a state of impurity, eats flesh from GOD’s sacrifices of well-being—that person shall be cut off from kin. When a person touches anything impure, be it human impurity or an impure animal or any impure creature,^ccreature Heb. sheqeṣ, lit. “abomination”; several mss. and ancient versions read shereṣ “swarming things.” and eats flesh from GOD’s sacrifices of well-being—that person shall be cut off from kin. And GOD spoke to Moses, saying: Speak to the Israelite people thus: You shall eat no fat^dfat I.e., hard, coarse fat (suet); cf. 3.3–5. of ox or sheep or goat. Fat from animals that died or were torn by beasts may be put to any use, but you must not eat it. If anyone eats the fat of animals from which offerings by fire may be made to GOD, the person who eats it shall be cut off from kin. And you must not consume any blood, either of bird or of animal, in any of your settlements. Anyone who eats blood shall be cut off from kin. And GOD spoke to Moses, saying: Speak to the Israelite people thus: The offering to GOD from a sacrifice of well-being must be presented by the one who offers that sacrifice of well-being to GOD: their own hands shall present GOD’s offerings by fire. They shall present the fat with the breast, the breast to be elevated as an elevation offering before GOD; the priest shall turn the fat into smoke on the altar, and the breast shall go to Aaron and his sons. And the right thigh from your sacrifices of well-being you shall present to the priest as a gift; he from among Aaron’s sons who offers the blood and the fat of the offering of well-being shall get the right thigh as his portion. For I have taken the breast of elevation offering and the thigh of gift offering from the Israelites, from their sacrifices of well-being, and given them to Aaron the priest and to his sons as their due from the Israelites for all time. Those shall be the perquisites^eperquisites Lit. “anointment,” i.e., accruing from anointment. of Aaron and the perquisites of his sons from GOD’s offerings by fire, once they have been inducted^finducted Lit. “brought forward.” to serve GOD as priests; these GOD commanded to be given them, once they had been anointed, as a due from the Israelites for all time throughout the ages. Such are the rituals of the burnt offering, the grain offering, the purgation offering, the reparation offering, the offering of ordination, and the sacrifice of well-being, with which GOD charged Moses on Mount Sinai, when commanding that the Israelites present their offerings to GOD, in the wilderness of Sinai.