Leviticus 3:6-17

6 "If his offering for a sacrifice of peace offering to the LORD is an animal from the flock, male or female, he shall offer it 1without blemish.
7 If he offers a lamb for his offering, then he shall offer it before the LORD,
8 lay his hand on the head of his offering, and kill it in front of the tent of meeting; and Aaron's sons shall throw its blood against the sides of the altar.
9 Then from the sacrifice of the peace offering he shall offer as a food offering to the LORD its fat; he shall remove the whole 2fat tail, cut off close to the backbone, and the fat that covers the entrails and all the fat that is on the entrails
10 and the two kidneys with the fat that is on them at the loins and the long lobe of the liver that he shall remove 3with the kidneys.
11 And the priest shall burn it on the altar as 4a food offering to the LORD.
12 "If his offering is a goat, then he shall offer it before the LORD
13 and lay his hand on its head and kill it in front of the tent of meeting, and the sons of Aaron shall throw its blood against the sides of the altar.
14 Then he shall offer from it, as his offering for a food offering to the LORD, the fat covering the entrails and all the fat that is on the entrails
15 and the two kidneys with the fat that is on them at the loins and the long lobe of the liver that he shall remove 5with the kidneys.
16 And the priest shall burn them on the altar as a 6food offering with a pleasing aroma. 7All fat is the LORD's.
17 It shall be a statute forever throughout your generations, in all your dwelling places, that you eat neither 8fat nor 9blood."

Leviticus 3:6-17 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.

Cross References 9

  • 1. [See ver. 1 above]
  • 2. Leviticus 9:19; Exodus 29:22
  • 3. ver. 4
  • 4. Leviticus 21:6, 8, 17, 21, 22; Leviticus 22:7, 25; Numbers 28:2; Ezekiel 44:7; Malachi 1:7
  • 5. [See ver. 10 above]
  • 6. [See ver. 11 above]
  • 7. Leviticus 7:23-25; 1 Samuel 2:15; Ezekiel 44:7, 15
  • 8. [See ver. 16 above]
  • 9. Leviticus 7:26; Leviticus 17:10, 14; Leviticus 19:26; Genesis 9:4; Deuteronomy 12:16, 23; Deuteronomy 15:23; 1 Samuel 14:33; Acts 15:20, 29
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