Chapter 7

¹This also is the law of the sacrifice for a trespass, it is most holy: ²Therefore where the holocaust is immolated, the victim also for a trespass shall be slain: the blood thereof shall be poured round about the altar. ³They shall offer thereof the rump and the fat that covereth the entrails: ⁴The two little kidneys, and the fat which is by the flanks, and the caul of the liver with the little kidneys. ⁵And the priest shall burn them upon the altar: it is the burnt sacrifice of the Lord for a trespass. ⁶Every male of the priestly race, shall eat this flesh in a holy place, because it is most holy. ⁷As the sacrifice for sin is offered, so is also that for a trespass: the same shall be the law of both these sacrifices: it shall belong to the priest that offereth it. ⁸The priest that offereth the victim of holocaust, shall have the skin thereof. ⁹And every sacrifice of flour that is baked in the oven, and whatsoever is dressed on the gridiron, or in the fryingpan, shall be the priest's that offereth it: ¹⁰Whether they be tempered with oil, or dry, all the sons of Aaron shall have one as much as another. ¹¹This is the law of the sacrifice of peace offerings that is offered to the Lord. ¹²If the oblation be for thanksgiving, they shall offer leaves without leaven tempered with oil, and unleavened wafers anointed with oil, and fine flour fried, and cakes tempered and mingled with oil: ¹³Moreover leaves of leavened bread with the sacrifice of thanks, which is offered for peace offerings: ¹⁴Of which one shall be offered to the Lord for firstfruits, and shall be the priest's that shall pour out the blood of the victim. ¹⁵And the flesh of it shall be eaten the same day, neither shall any of it remain until the morning. ¹⁶If any man by vow, or of his own accord offer a sacrifice, it shall in like manner be eaten the same day: and if any of it remain until the morrow, it is lawful to eat it: ¹⁷But whatsoever shall be found on the third day shall be consumed with fire. ¹⁸If any man eat of the flesh of the victim of peace offerings on the third day, the oblation shall be of no effect, neither shall it profit the offerer: yea rather whatsoever soul shall defile itself with such meat, shall be guilty of transgression. ¹⁹The flesh that hath touched any unclean thing, shall not be eaten, but shall be burnt with fire: he that is clean shall eat of it. ²⁰If any one that is defiled shall eat of the flesh of the sacrifice of peace offerings, which is offered to the Lord, he shall be cut off from his people. ²¹And he that hath touched the uncleanness of man, or of beast, or of any thing that can defile, and shall eat of such kind of flesh, shall be cut off from his people. ²²And the Lord spoke to Moses, saying: ²³Say to the children of Israel: The fat of a sheep, and of an ox, and of a goat you shall not eat. ²⁴The fat of a carcass that hath died of itself, and of a beast that was caught by another beast, you shall have for divers uses. ²⁵If any man eat the fat that should be offered for the burnt sacrifice of the Lord, he shall perish out of his people. ²⁶Moreover you shall not eat the blood of any creature whatsoever, whether of birds or beasts. ²⁷Every one that eateth blood, shall perish from among the people. ²⁸And the Lord spoke to Moses, saying: ²⁹Speak to the children of Israel, saying: He that offereth a victim of peace offerings to the Lord, let him offer therewith a sacrifice also, that is, the libations thereof. ³⁰He shall hold in his hands the fat of the victim, and the breast: and when he hath offered and consecrated both to the Lord, he shall deliver them to the priest, ³¹Who shall burn the fat upon the altar, but the breast shall be Aaron's and his sons'. ³²The right shoulder also of the victims of peace offerings shall fall to the priest for firstfruits. ³³He among the sons of Aaron, that offereth the blood, and the fat, he shall have the right shoulder also for his portion. ³⁴For the breast that is elevated and the shoulder that is separated I have taken of the children of Israel, from off their victims of peace offerings, and have given them to Aaron the priest, and to his sons, by a law for ever, from all the people of Israel. ³⁵This is the anointing of Aaron and his sons, in the ceremonies of the Lord, in the day when Moses offered them, that they might do the office of priesthood, ³⁶And the things that the Lord commanded to be given them by the children of Israel, by a perpetual observance in their generations. ³⁷This is the law of holocaust, and of the sacrifice for sin, and for trespass, and for consecration, and the victims of peace offerings: ³⁸Which the Lord appointed to Moses in mount Sinai, when he commanded the children of Israel, that they should offer their oblations to the Lord in the desert of Sinai.