1“‘This is the law of the trespass offering: It is most holy.
2In the place where they kill the burnt offering, he shall kill the trespass offering; and its blood he shall sprinkle around on the altar.
3He shall offer all of its fat: the fat tail, and the fat that covers the innards,
4and he shall take away the two kidneys, and the fat that is on them, which is by the loins, and the cover on the liver, with the kidneys;
5and the priest shall burn them on the altar for an offering made by fire to the LORD: it is a trespass offering.
6Every male among the priests may eat of it. It shall be eaten in a holy place. It is most holy.
7“‘As is the sin offering, so is the trespass offering; there is one law for them. The priest who makes atonement with them shall have it.
8The priest who offers any man’s burnt offering shall have for himself the skin of the burnt offering which he has offered.
9Every meal offering that is baked in the oven, and all that is prepared in the pan and on the griddle, shall be the priest’s who offers it.
10Every meal offering, mixed with oil or dry, belongs to all the sons of Aaron, one as well as another.
11“‘This is the law of the sacrifice of peace offerings, which one shall offer to the LORD:
12If he offers it for a thanksgiving, then he shall offer with the sacrifice of thanksgiving unleavened cakes mixed with oil, and unleavened wafers anointed with oil, and cakes mixed with oil.
13He shall offer his offering with the sacrifice of his peace offerings for thanksgiving with cakes of leavened bread.
14Of it he shall offer one out of each offering for a heave offering to the LORD. It shall be the priest’s who sprinkles the blood of the peace offerings.
15The flesh of the sacrifice of his peace offerings for thanksgiving shall be eaten on the day of his offering. He shall not leave any of it until the morning.
16“‘But if the sacrifice of his offering is a vow, or a free will offering, it shall be eaten on the day that he offers his sacrifice. On the next day what remains of it shall be eaten,
17but what remains of the meat of the sacrifice on the third day shall be burned with fire.
18If any of the meat of the sacrifice of his peace offerings is eaten on the third day, it will not be accepted, and it shall not be credited to him who offers it. It will be an abomination, and the soul who eats any of it will bear his iniquity.
19“‘The meat that touches any unclean thing shall not be eaten. It shall be burned with fire. As for the meat, everyone who is clean may eat it;
20but the soul who eats of the meat of the sacrifice of peace offerings that belongs to the LORD, having his uncleanness on him, that soul shall be cut off from his people.
21When anyone touches any unclean thing, the uncleanness of man, or an unclean animal, or any unclean abomination, and eats some of the meat of the sacrifice of peace offerings which belong to the LORD, that soul shall be cut off from his people.’”
22The LORD spoke to Moses, saying,
23“Speak to the children of Israel, saying, ‘You shall eat no fat, of bull, or sheep, or goat.
24The fat of that which dies of itself, and the fat of that which is torn of animals, may be used for any other service, but you shall in no way eat of it.
25For whoever eats the fat of the animal which men offer as an offering made by fire to the LORD, even the soul who eats it shall be cut off from his people.
26You shall not eat any blood, whether it is of bird or of animal, in any of your dwellings.
27Whoever it is who eats any blood, that soul shall be cut off from his people.’”
28The LORD spoke to Moses, saying,
29“Speak to the children of Israel, saying, ‘He who offers the sacrifice of his peace offerings to the LORD shall bring his offering to the LORD out of the sacrifice of his peace offerings.
30With his own hands he shall bring the offerings of the LORD made by fire. He shall bring the fat with the breast, that the breast may be waved for a wave offering before the LORD.
31The priest shall burn the fat on the altar, but the breast shall be Aaron’s and his sons’.
32The right thigh you shall give to the priest for a heave offering out of the sacrifices of your peace offerings.
33He among the sons of Aaron who offers the blood of the peace offerings, and the fat, shall have the right thigh for a portion.
34For the waved breast and the heaved thigh I have taken from the children of Israel out of the sacrifices of their peace offerings, and have given them to Aaron the priest and to his sons as their portion forever from the children of Israel.’”
35This is the consecrated portion of Aaron, and the consecrated portion of his sons, out of the offerings of the LORD made by fire, in the day when he presented them to minister to the LORD in the priest’s office;
36which the LORD commanded to be given them of the children of Israel, in the day that he anointed them. It is their portion forever throughout their generations.
37This is the law of the burnt offering, the meal offering, the sin offering, the trespass offering, the consecration, and the sacrifice of peace offerings
38which the LORD commanded Moses in Mount Sinai in the day that he commanded the children of Israel to offer their offerings to the LORD, in the wilderness of Sinai.
Leviticus 7 provides detailed regulations for guilt offerings and peace offerings, specifying how priests should handle sacrificial procedures and receive their designated portions. The chapter establishes strict guidelines for consuming sacrificial meat, including time limits and purity requirements, with severe consequences for violations. These laws emphasize the sacred nature of worship and the importance of maintaining holiness in Israel's relationship with God.
Context
This chapter concludes the detailed sacrificial instructions that began in Leviticus 1, completing the comprehensive guide for Israel's worship system before moving to the consecration of priests in chapter 8.
Key Themes
Outline
Laws are given for guilt offerings, specifying the sacrificial procedures and priestly portions, along with regulations for various meal offerings. These instructions establish how priests receive their portions from different types of offerings presented to the Lord.
theme_rarity
Leviticus 7's guilt offering uniquely interweaves atonement with priestly provision, creating one of only two biblical passages where divine forgiveness directly funds ministerial sustenance.
Detailed laws govern peace offerings, including thanksgiving sacrifices, with specific time limits for consumption and strict prohibitions against eating unclean meat. These regulations ensure proper fellowship with God through sacrifice while maintaining ritual purity.
theme_rarity
Leviticus 7's peace offering regulations uniquely combine "offering" and "fellowship" themes, establishing the only biblical framework where communal eating with God requires both thanksgiving bread varieties and strict consumption deadlines.
God commands Moses to prohibit the Israelites from eating fat and blood from sacrificial animals, with violation resulting in being cut off from the people. This establishes dietary laws that maintain ritual purity and distinguish sacred offerings from common food.
person_contrast
Moses receives this dietary prohibition using the identical Hebrew formula "dabber el-benei yisrael" that introduces major covenant laws, elevating food restrictions to the same legislative status as the Ten Commandments.
God establishes the priestly portions from peace offerings, designating specific parts for Aaron and his sons as their perpetual inheritance. This concludes the sacrificial laws given at Mount Sinai, providing for the priests' sustenance through their sacred service.
person_contrast
Moses receives his final sacrificial legislation in Leviticus 7:38, marking the only passage where he simultaneously concludes priestly inheritance laws and references Mount Sinai's revelatory authority.
Leviticus 7:2
Leviticus 9:12lexicalHe killed the burnt offering; and Aaron’s sons delivered the blood to him, and he sprinkled it around on the altar.
Leviticus 1:11lexicalHe shall kill it on the north side of the altar before the LORD. Aaron’s sons, the priests, shall sprinkle its blood aro…
Leviticus 3:2lexicalHe shall lay his hand on the head of his offering, and kill it at the door of the Tent of Meeting. Aaron’s sons, the pri…
Leviticus 9:18lexicalHe also killed the bull and the ram, the sacrifice of peace offerings, which was for the people. Aaron’s sons delivered…
Leviticus 3:8lexicaland he shall lay his hand on the head of his offering, and kill it before the Tent of Meeting. Aaron’s sons shall sprink…
Leviticus 7:3
Leviticus 3:9lexicalHe shall offer from the sacrifice of peace offerings an offering made by fire to the LORD; its fat, the entire tail fat,…
Exodus 29:22lexicalAlso you shall take some of the ram’s fat, the fat tail, the fat that covers the innards, the cover of the liver, the tw…
Leviticus 3:14lexicalHe shall offer from it as his offering, an offering made by fire to the LORD; the fat that covers the innards, and all t…
Leviticus 3:3lexicalHe shall offer of the sacrifice of peace offerings an offering made by fire to the LORD. The fat that covers the innards…
Leviticus 8:25lexicalHe took the fat, the fat tail, all the fat that was on the innards, the cover of the liver, the two kidneys and their fa…
Leviticus 7:4
Leviticus 3:15lexicaland the two kidneys, and the fat that is on them, which is by the loins, and the cover on the liver, with the kidneys, h…
Leviticus 3:4lexicaland the two kidneys, and the fat that is on them, which is by the loins, and the cover on the liver, with the kidneys, h…
Leviticus 3:10lexicaland the two kidneys, and the fat that is on them, which is by the loins, and the cover on the liver, with the kidneys, h…
Leviticus 4:9lexicaland the two kidneys, and the fat that is on them, which is by the loins, and the cover on the liver, with the kidneys, h…
Leviticus 8:25lexicalHe took the fat, the fat tail, all the fat that was on the innards, the cover of the liver, the two kidneys and their fa…
Leviticus 7:5
Leviticus 3:5lexicalAaron’s sons shall burn it on the altar on the burnt offering, which is on the wood that is on the fire: it is an offeri…
Exodus 29:25lexicalYou shall take them from their hands, and burn them on the altar on the burnt offering, for a pleasant aroma before the…
Exodus 29:18lexicalYou shall burn the whole ram on the altar: it is a burnt offering to the LORD; it is a pleasant aroma, an offering made…
Exodus 30:20lexicalWhen they go into the Tent of Meeting, they shall wash with water, that they don’t die; or when they come near to the al…
Leviticus 1:9lexicalbut he shall wash its innards and its legs with water. The priest shall burn all of it on the altar, for a burnt offerin…
Leviticus 7:7
Leviticus 19:22lexicalThe priest shall make atonement for him with the ram of the trespass offering before the LORD for his sin which he has c…
Leviticus 5:6lexicaland he shall bring his trespass offering to the LORD for his sin which he has sinned: a female from the flock, a lamb or…
Leviticus 7:9
Hosea 7:6lexicalFor they have prepared their heart like an oven, while they lie in wait. Their anger smolders all night. In the morning…
Leviticus 2:4lexical“‘When you offer an offering of a meal offering baked in the oven, it shall be unleavened cakes of fine flour mixed with…
Leviticus 7:10
Leviticus 14:10lexical“On the eighth day he shall take two male lambs without defect, one ewe lamb a year old without defect, three tenths of…
Leviticus 2:4lexical“‘When you offer an offering of a meal offering baked in the oven, it shall be unleavened cakes of fine flour mixed with…
Leviticus 2:5lexicalIf your offering is a meal offering made on a griddle, it shall be of unleavened fine flour, mixed with oil.
Numbers 6:15lexicala basket of unleavened bread, cakes of fine flour mixed with oil, and unleavened wafers anointed with oil with their mea…
Numbers 7:19lexicalHe offered for his offering: one silver platter, the weight of which was one hundred thirty shekels, one silver bowl of…
Leviticus 7:11
Leviticus 3:3lexicalHe shall offer of the sacrifice of peace offerings an offering made by fire to the LORD. The fat that covers the innards…
Leviticus 22:21lexicalWhoever offers a sacrifice of peace offerings to the LORD to accomplish a vow, or for a free will offering of the herd o…
Leviticus 3:1lexical“‘If his offering is a sacrifice of peace offerings, if he offers it from the herd, whether male or female, he shall off…
Leviticus 3:6lexical“‘If his offering for a sacrifice of peace offerings to the LORD is from the flock, either male or female, he shall offe…
Leviticus 3:9lexicalHe shall offer from the sacrifice of peace offerings an offering made by fire to the LORD; its fat, the entire tail fat,…
Leviticus 7:12
Leviticus 2:4lexical“‘When you offer an offering of a meal offering baked in the oven, it shall be unleavened cakes of fine flour mixed with…
Numbers 6:15lexicala basket of unleavened bread, cakes of fine flour mixed with oil, and unleavened wafers anointed with oil with their mea…
Exodus 29:2lexicalunleavened bread, unleavened cakes mixed with oil, and unleavened wafers anointed with oil. You shall make them of fine…
1 Chronicles 23:29lexicalfor the show bread also, and for the fine flour for a meal offering, whether of unleavened wafers, or of that which is b…
Leviticus 8:26lexicaland out of the basket of unleavened bread that was before the LORD, he took one unleavened cake, one cake of oiled bread…
Leviticus 7:13
Leviticus 3:1lexical“‘If his offering is a sacrifice of peace offerings, if he offers it from the herd, whether male or female, he shall off…
Leviticus 3:6lexical“‘If his offering for a sacrifice of peace offerings to the LORD is from the flock, either male or female, he shall offe…
Leviticus 2:4lexical“‘When you offer an offering of a meal offering baked in the oven, it shall be unleavened cakes of fine flour mixed with…
2 Chronicles 33:16lexicalHe built up the LORD’s altar, and offered sacrifices of peace offerings and of thanksgiving on it, and commanded Judah t…
Numbers 7:47lexicaland for the sacrifice of peace offerings, two head of cattle, five rams, five male goats, and five male lambs a year old…
Leviticus 7:14
Leviticus 3:2lexicalHe shall lay his hand on the head of his offering, and kill it at the door of the Tent of Meeting. Aaron’s sons, the pri…
Leviticus 3:8lexicaland he shall lay his hand on the head of his offering, and kill it before the Tent of Meeting. Aaron’s sons shall sprink…
2 Kings 16:13lexicalHe burned his burnt offering and his meal offering, poured his drink offering, and sprinkled the blood of his peace offe…
Leviticus 9:18lexicalHe also killed the bull and the ram, the sacrifice of peace offerings, which was for the people. Aaron’s sons delivered…
Leviticus 3:1lexical“‘If his offering is a sacrifice of peace offerings, if he offers it from the herd, whether male or female, he shall off…
Leviticus 7:15
2 Chronicles 33:16lexicalHe built up the LORD’s altar, and offered sacrifices of peace offerings and of thanksgiving on it, and commanded Judah t…
Leviticus 3:6lexical“‘If his offering for a sacrifice of peace offerings to the LORD is from the flock, either male or female, he shall offe…
Numbers 7:47lexicaland for the sacrifice of peace offerings, two head of cattle, five rams, five male goats, and five male lambs a year old…
Numbers 7:53lexicaland for the sacrifice of peace offerings, two head of cattle, five rams, five male goats, and five male lambs a year old…
Numbers 7:35lexicaland for the sacrifice of peace offerings, two head of cattle, five rams, five male goats, and five male lambs a year old…
Leviticus 7:16
Leviticus 22:21lexicalWhoever offers a sacrifice of peace offerings to the LORD to accomplish a vow, or for a free will offering of the herd o…
Leviticus 22:18lexical“Speak to Aaron, and to his sons, and to all the children of Israel, and say to them, ‘Whoever is of the house of Israel…
Numbers 15:3lexicaland will make an offering by fire to the LORD—a burnt offering, or a sacrifice, to accomplish a vow, or as a free will o…
Leviticus 3:6lexical“‘If his offering for a sacrifice of peace offerings to the LORD is from the flock, either male or female, he shall offe…
Deuteronomy 12:6lexicalYou shall bring your burnt offerings, your sacrifices, your tithes, the wave offering of your hand, your vows, your free…
Leviticus 7:17
Leviticus 19:6lexicalIt shall be eaten the same day you offer it, and on the next day. If anything remains until the third day, it shall be b…
Leviticus 8:32lexicalWhat remains of the meat and of the bread you shall burn with fire.
Exodus 29:34lexicalIf anything of the meat of the consecration, or of the bread, remains to the morning, then you shall burn the remainder…
1 Samuel 30:1lexicalWhen David and his men had come to Ziklag on the third day, the Amalekites had made a raid on the South and on Ziklag, a…
Exodus 12:10lexicalYou shall let nothing of it remain until the morning; but that which remains of it until the morning you shall burn with…
Leviticus 7:18
Hosea 8:13lexicalAs for the sacrifices of my offerings, they sacrifice meat and eat it, but the LORD doesn’t accept them. Now he will rem…
Leviticus 19:7lexicalIf it is eaten at all on the third day, it is an abomination. It will not be accepted;
Leviticus 3:1lexical“‘If his offering is a sacrifice of peace offerings, if he offers it from the herd, whether male or female, he shall off…
Leviticus 3:9lexicalHe shall offer from the sacrifice of peace offerings an offering made by fire to the LORD; its fat, the entire tail fat,…
Leviticus 22:21lexicalWhoever offers a sacrifice of peace offerings to the LORD to accomplish a vow, or for a free will offering of the herd o…
Leviticus 7:19
Deuteronomy 12:15lexicalYet you may kill and eat meat within all your gates, after all the desire of your soul, according to the LORD your God’s…
Deuteronomy 14:8lexicalThe pig, because it has a split hoof but doesn’t chew the cud, is unclean to you. You shall not eat their meat. You shal…
Leviticus 11:8lexicalYou shall not eat their meat. You shall not touch their carcasses. They are unclean to you.
Leviticus 13:55lexicalThen the priest shall examine it, after the plague is washed; and behold, if the plague hasn’t changed its color, and th…
Leviticus 4:12lexical—all the rest of the bull—outside of the camp to a clean place where the ashes are poured out, and burn it on wood with…
Leviticus 7:21
Numbers 19:13lexicalWhoever touches a dead person, the body of a man who has died, and doesn’t purify himself, defiles the LORD’s tabernacle…
Leviticus 5:2lexical“‘Or if anyone touches any unclean thing, whether it is the carcass of an unclean animal, or the carcass of unclean live…
Leviticus 15:25lexical“‘If a woman has a discharge of her blood many days not in the time of her period, or if she has a discharge beyond the…
Leviticus 22:5lexicalor whoever touches any creeping thing by which he may be made unclean, or a man from whom he may become unclean, whateve…
Leviticus 5:3lexical“‘Or if he touches the uncleanness of man, whatever his uncleanness is with which he is unclean, and it is hidden from h…
Leviticus 7:23
Numbers 18:17lexical“But you shall not redeem the firstborn of a cow, or the firstborn of a sheep, or the firstborn of a goat. They are holy…
Deuteronomy 14:4lexicalThese are the animals which you may eat: the ox, the sheep, the goat,
Leviticus 17:3lexicalWhatever man there is of the house of Israel who kills a bull, or lamb, or goat in the camp, or who kills it outside the…
Leviticus 22:27lexical“When a bull, a sheep, or a goat is born, it shall remain seven days with its mother. From the eighth day on it shall be…
Leviticus 7:24
Ezekiel 44:31lexicalThe priests shall not eat of anything that dies of itself or is torn, whether it is bird or animal.
Leviticus 17:15lexical“‘Every person that eats what dies of itself, or that which is torn by animals, whether he is native-born or a foreigner…
Leviticus 22:8lexicalHe shall not eat that which dies of itself or is torn by animals, defiling himself by it. I am the LORD.
Ezekiel 4:14lexicalThen I said, “Ah Lord GOD! Behold, my soul has not been polluted; for from my youth up even until now I have not eaten o…
Leviticus 7:25
Leviticus 3:14lexicalHe shall offer from it as his offering, an offering made by fire to the LORD; the fat that covers the innards, and all t…
Leviticus 3:3lexicalHe shall offer of the sacrifice of peace offerings an offering made by fire to the LORD. The fat that covers the innards…
Leviticus 3:9lexicalHe shall offer from the sacrifice of peace offerings an offering made by fire to the LORD; its fat, the entire tail fat,…
Leviticus 7:29
Leviticus 3:1lexical“‘If his offering is a sacrifice of peace offerings, if he offers it from the herd, whether male or female, he shall off…
Leviticus 3:6lexical“‘If his offering for a sacrifice of peace offerings to the LORD is from the flock, either male or female, he shall offe…
Numbers 7:47lexicaland for the sacrifice of peace offerings, two head of cattle, five rams, five male goats, and five male lambs a year old…
Numbers 7:53lexicaland for the sacrifice of peace offerings, two head of cattle, five rams, five male goats, and five male lambs a year old…
Numbers 7:35lexicaland for the sacrifice of peace offerings, two head of cattle, five rams, five male goats, and five male lambs a year old…
Leviticus 7:30
Leviticus 10:15lexicalThey shall bring the heaved thigh and the waved breast with the offerings made by fire of the fat, to wave it for a wave…
Exodus 29:26lexical“You shall take the breast of Aaron’s ram of consecration, and wave it for a wave offering before the LORD. It shall be…
Leviticus 8:29lexicalMoses took the breast, and waved it for a wave offering before the LORD. It was Moses’ portion of the ram of consecratio…
Numbers 6:20lexicaland the priest shall wave them for a wave offering before the LORD. They are holy for the priest, together with the brea…
Leviticus 9:21lexicalAaron waved the breasts and the right thigh for a wave offering before the LORD, as Moses commanded.
Leviticus 7:31
Leviticus 9:20lexicaland they put the fat upon the breasts, and he burned the fat on the altar.
Leviticus 8:16lexicalHe took all the fat that was on the innards, and the cover of the liver, and the two kidneys, and their fat; and Moses b…
Leviticus 4:26lexicalAll its fat he shall burn on the altar, like the fat of the sacrifice of peace offerings; and the priest shall make aton…
Leviticus 9:10lexicalbut the fat, and the kidneys, and the cover from the liver of the sin offering, he burned upon the altar, as the LORD co…
Leviticus 4:31lexicalAll its fat he shall take away, like the fat is taken away from the sacrifice of peace offerings; and the priest shall b…
Leviticus 7:32
Leviticus 10:14lexicalThe waved breast and the heaved thigh you shall eat in a clean place, you, and your sons, and your daughters with you: f…
Exodus 29:28lexicalIt shall be for Aaron and his sons as their portion forever from the children of Israel; for it is a wave offering. It s…
Leviticus 7:33
Leviticus 8:26lexicaland out of the basket of unleavened bread that was before the LORD, he took one unleavened cake, one cake of oiled bread…
Exodus 29:22lexicalAlso you shall take some of the ram’s fat, the fat tail, the fat that covers the innards, the cover of the liver, the tw…
Leviticus 8:25lexicalHe took the fat, the fat tail, all the fat that was on the innards, the cover of the liver, the two kidneys and their fa…
Leviticus 9:21lexicalAaron waved the breasts and the right thigh for a wave offering before the LORD, as Moses commanded.
Leviticus 3:9lexicalHe shall offer from the sacrifice of peace offerings an offering made by fire to the LORD; its fat, the entire tail fat,…
Leviticus 7:34
Leviticus 10:14lexicalThe waved breast and the heaved thigh you shall eat in a clean place, you, and your sons, and your daughters with you: f…
Leviticus 10:15lexicalThey shall bring the heaved thigh and the waved breast with the offerings made by fire of the fat, to wave it for a wave…
Exodus 29:27lexicalYou shall sanctify the breast of the wave offering and the thigh of the wave offering, which is waved, and which is rais…
Exodus 29:28lexicalIt shall be for Aaron and his sons as their portion forever from the children of Israel; for it is a wave offering. It s…
Numbers 6:20lexicaland the priest shall wave them for a wave offering before the LORD. They are holy for the priest, together with the brea…
Leviticus 7:35
Numbers 3:4lexicalNadab and Abihu died before the LORD when they offered strange fire before the LORD in the wilderness of Sinai, and they…
Exodus 28:1lexical“Bring Aaron your brother, and his sons with him, near to you from among the children of Israel, that he may minister to…
Leviticus 21:21lexicalNo man of the offspring of Aaron the priest who has a defect shall come near to offer the offerings of the LORD made by…
Leviticus 7:36
Exodus 40:15lexicalYou shall anoint them, as you anointed their father, that they may minister to me in the priest’s office. Their anointin…
Numbers 10:8lexical“The sons of Aaron, the priests, shall blow the trumpets. This shall be to you for a statute forever throughout your gen…
Leviticus 23:31lexicalYou shall do no kind of work: it is a statute forever throughout your generations in all your dwellings.
Exodus 12:17lexicalYou shall observe the feast of unleavened bread; for in this same day I have brought your armies out of the land of Egyp…
Numbers 15:15lexicalFor the assembly, there shall be one statute for you and for the stranger who lives as a foreigner, a statute forever th…
Leviticus 7:37
Joshua 22:23lexicalthat we have built us an altar to turn away from following the LORD; or if to offer burnt offering or meal offering, or…
Ezekiel 45:17lexicalIt shall be the prince’s part to give the burnt offerings, the meal offerings, and the drink offerings, in the feasts, a…
Ezekiel 46:20lexicalHe said to me, “This is the place where the priests shall boil the trespass offering and the sin offering, and where the…
Ezekiel 42:13lexicalThen he said to me, “The north rooms and the south rooms, which are opposite the separate place, are the holy rooms, whe…
Ezekiel 44:29lexicalThey shall eat the meal offering, and the sin offering, and the trespass offering; and every devoted thing in Israel sha…
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