Leviticus 3:1-8

1 When any of you offer one of your cattle as a fellowship offering, it is to be a bull or a cow without any defects.

2 You shall put your hand on the head of the animal and kill it at the entrance of the Tent of the Lord's presence. The Aaronite priests shall throw the blood against all four sides of the altar

3 and present the following parts of the animal as a food offering to the Lord: all the fat on the internal organs,

4 the kidneys and the fat on them, and the best part of the liver.

5 The priests shall burn all this on the altar along with the burnt offerings. The odor of this food offering is pleasing to the Lord.

6 If a sheep or goat is used as a fellowship offering, it may be male or female, but it must be without any defects.

7 If you offer a sheep,

8 you shall put your hand on its head and kill it in front of the Tent. The priests shall throw its blood against all four sides of the altar

Leviticus 3:1-8 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.