Leviticus 3:1-5

The Fellowship Offering

1 “ ‘If your offering is a fellowship offering, and you offer an animal from the herd, whether male or female, you are to present before the LORD an animal without defect.

2 You are to lay your hand on the head of your offering and slaughter it at the entrance to the tent of meeting. Then Aaron’s sons the priests shall splash the blood against the sides of the altar.

3 From the fellowship offering you are to bring a food offering to the LORD: the internal organs and all the fat that is connected to them,

4 both kidneys with the fat on them near the loins, and the long lobe of the liver, which you will remove with the kidneys.

5 Then Aaron’s sons are to burn it on the altar on top of the burnt offering that is lying on the burning wood; it is a food offering, an aroma pleasing to the LORD.

Leviticus 3:1-5 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

• 1. S ver 6; S Exodus 32:6; Leviticus 7:11-34; S Leviticus 17:5
• 2. S Exodus 12:5; Leviticus 1:3; Leviticus 22:21
• 3. S Exodus 29:15; Numbers 8:10; Exodus 29:10,15
• 4. S Leviticus 1:5
• 5. S Exodus 40:2
• 6. S Exodus 24:6
• 7. Leviticus 17:6; Numbers 18:17
• 8. S Exodus 29:20
• 9. S Exodus 29:13
• 10. S Exodus 12:9
• 11. ver 10; Exodus 29:13; Leviticus 4:9
• 12. Leviticus 7:29-34
• 13. ver 11,16
• 14. Ex 29:13,38-42; Numbers 28:3-10
• 15. S Leviticus 1:7
• 16. S Leviticus 1:9