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Leviticus 7:1-7 Contemporary English Version Anglicised (CEVUK00)

1. The sacrifice to make things right is very sacred.

2. The animal must be killed in the same place where the sacrifice to please me is killed, and the animal's blood must be splattered against the four sides of the bronze altar.

3. Offer all the animal's fat, including the fat on its tail and on its insides,

4. as well as the lower part of the liver and the two kidneys with their fat.

5. One of the priests will lay these pieces on the altar and send them up in smoke to me.

6. This sacrifice for making things right is very holy. Only the priests may eat it, and they must eat it in a holy place.

7. The ceremony for this sacrifice and the one for sin are alike, and the meat may be eaten only by the priest who performs this ceremony of forgiveness.

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