Leviticus 7:12-22

12 “ ‘If they offer it as an expression of thankfulness, then along with this thank offering they are to offer thick loaves made without yeast and with olive oil mixed in, thin loaves made without yeast and brushed with oil, and thick loaves of the finest flour well-kneaded and with oil mixed in.
13 Along with their fellowship offering of thanksgiving they are to present an offering with thick loaves of bread made with yeast.
14 They are to bring one of each kind as an offering, a contribution to the LORD; it belongs to the priest who splashes the blood of the fellowship offering against the altar.
15 The meat of their fellowship offering of thanksgiving must be eaten on the day it is offered; they must leave none of it till morning.
16 “ ‘If, however, their offering is the result of a vow or is a freewill offering, the sacrifice shall be eaten on the day they offer it, but anything left over may be eaten on the next day.
17 Any meat of the sacrifice left over till the third day must be burned up.
18 If any meat of the fellowship offering is eaten on the third day, the one who offered it will not be accepted. It will not be reckoned to their credit, for it has become impure; the person who eats any of it will be held responsible.
19 “ ‘Meat that touches anything ceremonially unclean must not be eaten; it must be burned up. As for other meat, anyone ceremonially clean may eat it.
20 But if anyone who is unclean eats any meat of the fellowship offering belonging to the LORD, they must be cut off from their people.
21 Anyone who touches something unclean—whether human uncleanness or an unclean animal or any unclean creature that moves along the ground[a] —and then eats any of the meat of the fellowship offering belonging to the LORD must be cut off from their people.’ ”

Eating Fat and Blood Forbidden

22 The LORD said to Moses,

Leviticus 7:12-22 Meaning and Commentary

INTRODUCTION TO LEVITICUS 7

The several things contained in this chapter are the law of the trespass offering, Le 7:1-7 the portion the priests had in the burnt offerings and meat offerings, Le 7:8-10 the law of the peace offerings, whether by way of thanksgiving, or a vow, or voluntary oblation, Le 7:11-21 the prohibition of fat and blood, Le 7:22-27 the parts the priests should have in the peace offerings, the breast and right shoulder, Le 7:28-36 and the chapter is concluded with a recapitulation of the various things contained in this and the preceding chapters, Le 7:37,38.

Cross References 19

  • 1. ver 13,15; Leviticus 22:29; Psalms 50:14; Psalms 54:6; Psalms 107:22; Psalms 116:17; Jeremiah 33:11
  • 2. Jeremiah 44:19
  • 3. Numbers 6:19
  • 4. S Leviticus 2:4; Numbers 6:15
  • 5. S Leviticus 2:1
  • 6. S ver 12; S Exodus 34:22
  • 7. Leviticus 23:17; Amos 4:5
  • 8. S Exodus 12:10; Leviticus 22:30
  • 9. S Genesis 28:20; S Leviticus 1:2; Deuteronomy 23:21-23
  • 10. Exodus 35:29; Leviticus 22:18,21; Leviticus 23:38; Numbers 15:3; Numbers 29:39; Deuteronomy 12:6; Psalms 54:6; Ezekiel 46:12
  • 11. Leviticus 19:5-8
  • 12. Exodus 12:10; Leviticus 19:6
  • 13. 2 Chronicles 33:16
  • 14. Leviticus 19:7
  • 15. Numbers 18:27
  • 16. S Leviticus 5:1
  • 17. S Leviticus 5:3
  • 18. S Genesis 17:14; Leviticus 22:3-7
  • 19. S Leviticus 5:2; Leviticus 11:24,28

Footnotes 1

  • [a]. A few Hebrew manuscripts, Samaritan Pentateuch, Syriac and Targum (see 5:2); most Hebrew manuscripts "any unclean, detestable thing"
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