Leviticus 7

NEW JERUSALEM	CATHOLIC PUBLIC DOMAIN
1 ' "This is the ritual for the sacrifice of reparation: "It is especially holy.	1 Likewise, this is the law of the sacrifice for a transgression. It is the Holy of holies.
2 The victim must be slaughtered where the burnt offerings are slaughtered, and the priest wil pour theblood al around the altar.	2 Therefore, where the holocaust is immolated, the victim for a transgression shall also be slain. Its blood shall be poured out all around the altar.
3 He wil then offer al the fat: the tail, the fat covering the entrails,	3 They shall offer from it: the rump, and the fat that covers the vital organs,
4 both kidneys, the fat on them and on the loins, the mass of fat which he wil remove from the liver andkidneys.	4 the two little kidneys, and the fat that is near the sides, and the mesh of the liver with the little kidneys.
5 The priest will burn these pieces on the altar as food burnt for Yahweh. This is a sacrifice of reparation.	5 And the priest shall burn them upon the altar. It is the incense of the Lord on behalf of a transgression.
6 Every male who is a priest may eat it. It wil be eaten inside the holy place; it is especially holy.	6 Every male of priestly descent shall feed on this flesh in a holy place, because it is the Holy of holies.
7 "As with the sacrifice for sin, so with the sacrifice of reparation -- the ritual is the same for both. Theoffering with which the priest performs the rite of expiation will revert to the priest.	7 Just as the sacrifice for sin is offered, so also for a transgression; one law shall be for both sacrifices. It shall belong to the priest who offers it.
8 The hide of the victim presented by someone to the priest to be offered as a burnt offering wil revert tothe priest.	8 The priest who offers the victim of holocaust shall have its skin.
9 Every cereal offering baked in the oven, every cereal offering cooked in the pan or on the griddle wilrevert to the priest who offers it.	9 And every sacrifice of fine wheat flour which is baked in the oven, and whatever is prepared on the oven grating or in the frying pan, shall be for the priest who offers it.
10 Every cereal offering, mixed with oil or dry, wil revert to all the descendants of Aaron withoutdistinction.	10 Whether these will be sprinkled with oil, or left dry, an equal measure shall be divided to each one of the sons of Aaron.
11 "This is the ritual for the communion sacrifice to be offered to Yahweh:	11 This is the law of the victim of peace offerings, which is offered to the Lord.
12 "If this is offered as a sacrifice with praise, to the latter must be added an offering of unleavened cakesmixed with oil, unleavened wafers spread with oil, and wheaten flour in the form of cakes mixed with oil.	12 If the oblation will be an act for giving thanks, they shall offer bread without leaven sprinkled with oil, and unleavened wafers anointed with oil, and fine wheat flour fried, and cakes sprinkled and mixed with oil,
13 This offering, then, must be added to the cakes of leavened bread and to the communion sacrifice withpraise.	13 and also, leavened bread with the sacrifice of thanksgiving, which is immolated for peace offerings.
14 One of the cakes of this offering must be presented as an offering to Yahweh; it will revert to the priestwho pours out the blood of the communion sacrifice.	14 Of these, one shall be offered to the Lord as the first-fruits, and one shall be for the priest who will pour out the blood of the victim.
15 The meat of the victim wil be eaten on the day the offering is made; nothing may be left until nextmorning.	15 The flesh of it shall be eaten on the same day; neither shall any of it remain until morning.
16 "If the victim is offered as a votive or a voluntary sacrifice, it must be eaten on the day it is offered, and the remainder may be eaten on the fol owing day;	16 If anyone, by a vow or of his own accord, will have offered a sacrifice, it shall be eaten in a similar manner on the same day. But then if any of it will have remained until tomorrow, it is lawful to eat it.
17 but on the third day whatever is left of the meat of the victim must be burnt.	17 Then whatever will be found on the third day shall be consumed with fire.
18 "If any of the meat of a victim offered as a communion sacrifice is eaten on the third day, the personwho has offered it wil not be acceptable and wil receive no credit for it. It wil count as rotten meat, and theperson who eats it wil bear the consequences of the guilt.	18 If anyone will have eaten from the flesh of the victim of peace offerings on the third day, the oblation will be nullified; neither will it benefit the one who offered it. But instead, whatever soul will contaminate itself with such foods will be guilty of a betrayal.
19 "Meat that has touched anything unclean cannot be eaten; it must be burnt. "Anyone clean may eat themeat,	19 The flesh that has touched anything unclean shall not be eaten, but it shall be burnt with fire. He that is clean will feed on it.
20 but anyone unclean who eats the meat of a communion sacrifice offered to Yahweh wil be outlawedfrom his people.	20 If a soul which is polluted will have eaten from the flesh of the sacrifice of peace offerings, which is offered to the Lord, he shall perish from his people.
21 Furthermore, if anyone touches anything unclean, human or animal, or any foul thing, and then eatsthe meat of a communion sacrifice offered to Yahweh, that individual wil be outlawed from his people." '	21 And whoever will have touched the uncleanness of man, or of beast, or of anything which is able to defile, and who will have eaten from this kind of flesh, shall be cut off from his people.
22 Yahweh spoke to Moses and said,	22 And the Lord spoke to Moses, saying:
23 'Speak to the Israelites and say: "You may not eat the fat of ox, sheep or goat.	23 Say to the sons of Israel: The fat of a sheep, and of an ox, and of a goat you shall not eat.
24 The fat of an animal that has died a natural death or been savaged by beasts may be used for anyother purpose, but you are not to eat it.	24 The fat of a carcass that has died on its own, or of an animal that has been seized by a wild beast, you shall have for various uses.
25 Anyone who eats the fat of an animal offered as food burnt for Yahweh wil be outlawed from hispeople.	25 If anyone will have eaten the fat which ought to be offered as a burnt sacrifice of the Lord, he shall perish from his people.
26 "Wherever you live, you wil never eat blood, whether it be of bird or of beast.	26 Likewise, you shall not take as food the blood of any animals at all, whether of birds or beasts.
27 Anyone who eats any blood wil be outlawed from his people." '	27 Every soul that will have eaten blood shall perish from his people.
28 Yahweh spoke to Moses and said,	28 And the Lord spoke to Moses, saying:
29 'Speak to the Israelites and say: "Anyone who offers Yahweh a communion sacrifice must bring himpart of his sacrifice as an offering.	29 Speak to the sons of Israel, saying: Whoever offers a victim of peace offerings to the Lord, let him also offer at the same time a sacrifice, that is, its libations.
30 He must bring the food to be burnt for Yahweh, that is to say, the fat adhering to the forequarters, withhis own hands. He wil bring it, and also the forequarters, with which he wil make the gesture of offering beforeYahweh.	30 He shall hold in his hands the fat of the victim, and the breast. And when he will have offered and consecrated both to the Lord, he shall deliver them to the priest,
31 The priest wil then burn the fat on the altar, and the forequarters wil revert to Aaron and hisdescendants.	31 who shall burn the fat upon the altar. But the breast shall be for Aaron and his sons.
32 You will set aside the right thigh from your communion sacrifice and give it to the priest.	32 Likewise also, the right shoulder of the victim of peace offerings shall fall to the priest as first-fruits.
33 The right thigh will be the portion of the descendant of Aaron who offers the blood and fat of thecommunion sacrifice.	33 Among the sons of Aaron, whoever will have offered the blood and the fat, the same one shall also have the right shoulder for his portion.
34 For I have deprived the Israelites of the forequarter offered and the thigh presented in their communionsacrifices, and given them to the priest Aaron and his descendants; this is a perpetual law for the Israelites." '	34 So then, the breast that is lifted up, and the shoulder that is separated, I have taken from the sons of Israel, from their victims of peace offerings, and I have given these to Aaron the priest and to his sons, as a law in perpetuity, from all the people of Israel.
35 Such was the portion of Aaron and his descendants in the food burnt for Yahweh, the day hepresented them to Yahweh for them to become his priests.	35 This is the anointing of Aaron and his sons, by the ceremonies of the Lord, in the day when Moses offered them, so that they may fulfill the priesthood,
36 This was what Yahweh ordered the Israelites to give them on the day they were anointed: a perpetuallaw for al their descendants.	36 and this is what the Lord instructed to be given to them by the sons of Israel, as a perpetual observance in their generations.
37 Such was the ritual for burnt offering, cereal offering, sacrifice for sin, sacrifice of reparation, investituresacrifice and communion sacrifice,	37 This is the law of the holocaust, and of the sacrifice for sin, and for transgression, and for consecration, and for the victims of peace offerings,
38 which Yahweh laid down for Moses on Mount Sinai, the day he ordered the Israelites to make theirofferings to Yahweh in the desert of Sinai.	38 which the Lord appointed to Moses on mount Sinai, when he commanded the sons of Israel to offer their oblations to the Lord in the desert of Sinai.