21. Whenever anyone touches any unclean thing—whether it is human uncleanness, an unclean animal, or any unclean and disgusting creature—and then eats the flesh of a communal sacrifice of well-being that belongs to the Lord, that person will be cut off from their people.
22. The Lord said to Moses:
23. Tell the Israelites: You must not eat the fat of an ox, sheep, or goat.
24. The fat of an animal that has died naturally or the fat of an animal that was killed by another animal may be put to any use, but you must definitely not eat it.
25. If anyone eats the fat of an animal from which a food gift could be offered to the Lord, that person will be cut off from their people.
26. You must not consume any blood whatsoever—whether bird or animal blood—wherever you may live.
27. Any person who consumes any blood whatsoever will be cut off from their people.
28. The Lord said to Moses:
29. Say to the Israelites: If you wish to offer a communal sacrifice of well-being to the Lord, you are allowed to bring your offering to the Lord as your communal sacrifice of well-being.
30. Your own hands must bring the Lord’s food gifts. You will bring the fat with the breast so that the breast can be lifted as an uplifted offering before the Lord.
31. The priest will completely burn the fat on the altar, but the breast will go to Aaron and his sons.
32. You will give the right thigh of your communal sacrifice of well-being to the priest as a gift.
33. The right thigh will belong to the son of Aaron who offers the blood and fat of the well-being offering.
34. I have taken the breast of the uplifted offering and the thigh that is given by the Israelites from their communal sacrifices of well-being, and have given them to Aaron the priest and to his sons as a permanent portion from the Israelites.
35. This is what Aaron and his sons are allotted from the Lord’s food gifts once they have been presented to serve the Lord as priests.