Leviticus 7
The law for the sacrifice of transgression is given, stating that the victim must be slain where the holocaust is immolated, and its blood poured out around the altar. The priest who offers the sacrifice shall burn the rump, fat, kidneys, and liver on the altar, and the flesh shall be eaten by male priests in a holy place. The law also states that the priest who offers the victim of holocaust shall have its skin, and that every sacrifice of fine wheat flour shall be divided equally among the sons of Aaron.
Likewise, this is the law of the sacrifice for a transgression. It is the Holy of holiesTherefore, where the holocaust is immolated, the victim for a transgression shall also be slain. Its blood shall be poured out all around the altarThey shall offer from it: the rump, and the fat that covers the vital organsthe two little kidneys, and the fat that is near the sides, and the mesh of the liver with the little kidneysAnd the priest shall burn them upon the altar. It is the incense of the Lord on behalf of a transgressionEvery male of priestly descent shall feed on this flesh in a holy place, because it is the Holy of holiesJust 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 itThe priest who offers the victim of holocaust shall have its skinAnd 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 itWhether these will be sprinkled with oil, or left dry, an equal measure shall be divided to each one of the sons of AaronThis is the law of the victim of peace offerings, which is offered to the LordIf 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 oiland also, leavened bread with the sacrifice of thanksgiving, which is immolated for peace offeringsOf 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 victimThe flesh of it shall be eaten on the same day; neither shall any of it remain until morningIf 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 itThen whatever will be found on the third day shall be consumed with fireIf 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 betrayalThe flesh that has touched anything unclean shall not be eaten, but it shall be burnt with fire. He that is clean will feed on itIf 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 peopleAnd 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 peopleAnd the Lord spoke to Moses, sayingSay to the sons of Israel: The fat of a sheep, and of an ox, and of a goat you shall not eatThe 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 usesIf anyone will have eaten the fat which ought to be offered as a burnt sacrifice of the Lord, he shall perish from his peopleLikewise, you shall not take as food the blood of any animals at all, whether of birds or beastsEvery soul that will have eaten blood shall perish from his peopleAnd the Lord spoke to Moses, sayingSpeak 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 libationsHe 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 priestwho shall burn the fat upon the altar. But the breast shall be for Aaron and his sonsLikewise also, the right shoulder of the victim of peace offerings shall fall to the priest as first-fruitsAmong the sons of Aaron, whoever will have offered the blood and the fat, the same one shall also have the right shoulder for his portionSo 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 IsraelThis 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 priesthoodand this is what the Lord instructed to be given to them by the sons of Israel, as a perpetual observance in their generationsThis is the law of the holocaust, and of the sacrifice for sin, and for transgression, and for consecration, and for the victims of peace offeringswhich 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
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