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1 "These are the instructions for the Compensation-Offering. It is most holy.
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“These are the instructions for the guilt offering. It is most holy.
2 Slaughter the Compensation-Offering in the same place that the Whole-Burnt-Offering is slaughtered. Splash its blood against all sides of the Altar.
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The animal sacrificed as a guilt offering must be slaughtered at the place where the burnt offerings are slaughtered, and its blood must be splattered against all sides of the altar.
3 Offer up all the fat: the fat tail, the fat covering the entrails,
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The priest will then offer all its fat on the altar, including the fat of the broad tail, the fat around the internal organs,
4 the two kidneys and the fat encasing them at the loins, and the lobe of the liver that is removed with the kidneys.
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the two kidneys and the fat around them near the loins, and the long lobe of the liver. These are to be removed with the kidneys,
5 The priest burns them on the Altar as a gift to God. It is a Compensation-Offering.
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and the priests will burn them on the altar as a special gift presented to the LORD . This is the guilt offering.
6 Any male from among the priests' families may eat it. But it must be eaten in a holy place; it is most holy.
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Any male from a priest’s family may eat the meat. It must be eaten in a sacred place, for it is most holy.
7 "The Compensation-Offering is the same as the Absolution-Offering - the same rules apply to both. The offering belongs to the priest who makes atonement with it.
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“The same instructions apply to both the guilt offering and the sin offering. Both belong to the priest who uses them to purify someone, making that person right with the LORD .
8 The priest who presents a Whole-Burnt-Offering for someone gets the hide for himself.
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In the case of the burnt offering, the priest may keep the hide of the sacrificed animal.
9 Every Grain-Offering baked in an oven or prepared in a pan or on a griddle belongs to the priest who presents it. It's his.
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Any grain offering that has been baked in an oven, prepared in a pan, or cooked on a griddle belongs to the priest who presents it.
10 Every Grain-Offering, whether dry or mixed with oil, belongs equally to all the sons of Aaron.
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All other grain offerings, whether made of dry flour or flour moistened with olive oil, are to be shared equally among all the priests, the descendants of Aaron.
11 "These are the instructions for the Peace-Offering which is presented to God.
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“These are the instructions regarding the different kinds of peace offerings that may be presented to the LORD .
12 If you bring it to offer thanksgiving, then along with the Thanksgiving-Offering present unraised loaves of bread mixed with oil, unraised wafers spread with oil, and cakes of fine flour, well-kneaded and mixed with oil.
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If you present your peace offering as an expression of thanksgiving, the usual animal sacrifice must be accompanied by various kinds of bread made without yeast—thin cakes mixed with olive oil, wafers spread with oil, and cakes made of choice flour mixed with olive oil.
13 Along with the Peace-Offering of thanksgiving, present loaves of yeast bread as an offering.
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This peace offering of thanksgiving must also be accompanied by loaves of bread made with yeast.
14 Bring one of each kind as an offering, a Contribution-Offering to God; it goes to the priest who throws the blood of the Peace-Offering.
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One of each kind of bread must be presented as a gift to the LORD . It will then belong to the priest who splatters the blood of the peace offering against the altar.
15 Eat the meat from the Peace-Offering of thanksgiving the same day it is offered. Don't leave any of it overnight.
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The meat of the peace offering of thanksgiving must be eaten on the same day it is offered. None of it may be saved for the next morning.
16 "If the offering is a Votive-Offering or a Freewill-Offering, it may be eaten the same day it is sacrificed and whatever is left over on the next day may also be eaten.
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“If you bring an offering to fulfill a vow or as a voluntary offering, the meat must be eaten on the same day the sacrifice is offered, but whatever is left over may be eaten on the second day.
17 But any meat from the sacrifice that is left to the third day must be burned up.
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Any meat left over until the third day must be completely burned up.
18 If any of the meat from the Peace-Offering is eaten on the third day, the person who has brought it will not be accepted. It won't benefit him a bit - it has become defiled meat. And whoever eats it must take responsibility for his iniquity.
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If any of the meat from the peace offering is eaten on the third day, the person who presented it will not be accepted by the LORD . You will receive no credit for offering it. By then the meat will be contaminated; if you eat it, you will be punished for your sin.
19 Don't eat meat that has touched anything ritually unclean; burn it up. Any other meat can be eaten by those who are ritually clean.
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“Meat that touches anything ceremonially unclean may not be eaten; it must be completely burned up. The rest of the meat may be eaten, but only by people who are ceremonially clean.
20 But if you're not ritually clean and eat meat from the Peace-Offering for God, you will be excluded from the congregation.
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If you are ceremonially unclean and you eat meat from a peace offering that was presented to the LORD, you will be cut off from the community.
21 And if you touch anything ritually unclean, whether human or animal uncleanness or an obscene object, and go ahead and eat from a Peace-Offering for God, you'll be excluded from the congregation."
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If you touch anything that is unclean (whether it is human defilement or an unclean animal or any other unclean, detestable thing) and then eat meat from a peace offering presented to the LORD, you will be cut off from the community.”
22 God spoke to Moses,
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Then the LORD said to Moses,
23 "Speak to the People of Israel. Tell them, Don't eat any fat of cattle or sheep or goats.
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“Give the following instructions to the people of Israel. You must never eat fat, whether from cattle, sheep, or goats.
24 The fat of an animal found dead or torn by wild animals can be put to some other purpose, but you may not eat it.
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The fat of an animal found dead or torn to pieces by wild animals must never be eaten, though it may be used for any other purpose.
25 If you eat fat from an animal from which a gift has been presented to God, you'll be excluded from the congregation.
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Anyone who eats fat from an animal presented as a special gift to the LORD will be cut off from the community.
26 And don't eat blood, whether of birds or animals, no matter where you end up living.
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No matter where you live, you must never consume the blood of any bird or animal.
27 If you eat blood you'll be excluded from the congregation."
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Anyone who consumes blood will be cut off from the community.”
28 God spoke to Moses,
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Then the LORD said to Moses,
29 "Speak to the People of Israel. Tell them: When you present a Peace-Offering to God, bring some of your Peace-Offering as a special sacrifice to God,
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“Give the following instructions to the people of Israel. When you present a peace offering to the LORD, bring part of it as a gift to the LORD .
30 a gift to God in your own hands. Bring the fat with the breast and then wave the breast before God as a Wave-Offering.
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Present it to the LORD with your own hands as a special gift to the LORD . Bring the fat of the animal, together with the breast, and lift up the breast as a special offering to the LORD .
31 The priest will burn the fat on the Altar; Aaron and his sons get the breast.
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Then the priest will burn the fat on the altar, but the breast will belong to Aaron and his descendants.
32 Give the right thigh from your Peace-Offerings as a Contribution-Offering to the priest.
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Give the right thigh of your peace offering to the priest as a gift.
33 Give a portion of the right thigh to the son of Aaron who offers the blood and fat of the Peace-Offering as his portion.
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The right thigh must always be given to the priest who offers the blood and the fat of the peace offering.
34 From the Peace-Offerings of Israel, I'm giving the breast of the Wave-Offering and the thigh of the Contribution-Offering to Aaron the priest and his sons. This is their fixed compensation from the People of Israel."
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For I have reserved the breast of the special offering and the right thigh of the sacred offering for the priests. It is the permanent right of Aaron and his descendants to share in the peace offerings brought by the people of Israel.
35 From the day they are presented to serve as priests to God, Aaron and his sons can expect to receive these allotments from the gifts of God.
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This is their rightful share. The special gifts presented to the LORD have been reserved for Aaron and his descendants from the time they were set apart to serve the LORD as priests.
36 This is what God commanded the People of Israel to give the priests from the day of their anointing. This is the fixed rule down through the generations.
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On the day they were anointed, the LORD commanded the Israelites to give these portions to the priests as their permanent share from generation to generation.”
37 These are the instructions for the Whole-Burnt-Offering, the Grain-Offering, the Absolution-Offering, the Compensation-Offering, the Ordination-Offering, and the Peace-Offering
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These are the instructions for the burnt offering, the grain offering, the sin offering, and the guilt offering, as well as the ordination offering and the peace offering.
38 which God gave Moses at Mount Sinai on the day he commanded the People of Israel to present their offerings to God in the wilderness of Sinai.
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The LORD gave these instructions to Moses on Mount Sinai when he commanded the Israelites to present their offerings to the LORD in the wilderness of Sinai.
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