Leviticus 3:1-5

Laws for Peace Offerings

1 "If his offering is ¹a sacrifice of peace offering, if he offers an animal from the herd, male or female, ²he shall offer it ³without blemish before the LORD.

2 And ⁴he shall lay his hand on the head of his offering and kill it at the entrance of the tent of meeting, and Aaron's sons the priests shall throw the blood against the sides of the altar.

3 And from the sacrifice of the peace offering, as a food offering to the LORD, he shall offer ⁵the fat covering the entrails and all the fat that is on the entrails,

4 ⁶and the two kidneys with the fat that is on them at the loins, and the long lobe of the liver that he shall remove with the kidneys.

5 Then Aaron's sons ⁷shall burn it on the altar on top of the burnt offering, which is on the wood on the fire; it is a food offering with a pleasing aroma to the LORD.

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Leviticus 3:1-5 Meaning and Commentary

INTRODUCTION TO LEVITICUS 3

This chapter contains the law of the peace offerings, and gives an account what they consisted of, and of the various rites and ceremonies used at them, as of the bullock and the rites appertaining to that, Le 3:1-5 and of the lamb, and of the rites peculiar to it, Le 3:6-11 and of the goat, and of the rites belonging to it, Le 3:12-16 and the chapter is concluded with a law forbidding the eating of fat and blood throughout their dwellings for ever, Le 3:17.

Taken from John Gill's Exposition of the Bible

Cross References 7

1. Leviticus 17:5; Leviticus 22:21; Leviticus 23:19; Amos 5:22; See Leviticus 7:11-21, 29-34
2. ver. 7, 12
3. See Exodus 12:5
4. See Leviticus 1:4
5. Leviticus 4:8, 9; Exodus 29:13, 22
6. ver. 10
7. Leviticus 6:12

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