Leviticus 3:7-17

7 If you offer a lamb, offer it to God.

8 Lay your hand on the head of your offering and slaughter it at the Tent of Meeting. The sons of Aaron will throw its blood on all sides of the Altar.

9 As a Fire-Gift to God from the Peace-Offering, present its fat, the entire fat tail cut off close to the backbone, all the fat on and connected to the entrails,

10 the two kidneys and the fat around them on the loins, and the lobe of the liver which is removed along with the kidneys.

11 The priest will burn it on the Altar: a meal, a Fire-Gift to God.

12 "If the offering is a goat, bring it into the presence of God,

13 lay your hand on its head, and slaughter it in front of the Tent of Meeting. Aaron's sons will throw the blood on all sides of the Altar.

14 As a Fire-Gift to God present the fat that covers and is connected to the entrails,

15 the two kidneys and the fat which is around them on the loins, and the lobe of the liver which is removed along with the kidneys.

16 The priest will burn them on the Altar: a meal, a Fire-Gift, a pleasing fragrance.

17 This is the fixed rule down through the generations, wherever you happen to live: Don't eat the fat; don't eat the blood. None of it."

Leviticus 3:7-17 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.