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Leviticus 7:20-36 English Standard Version (ESV)

20. but the person who eats of the flesh of the sacrifice of the Lord’s peace offerings while an uncleanness is on him, that person shall be cut off from his people.

21. And if anyone touches an unclean thing, whether human uncleanness or an unclean beast or any unclean detestable creature, and then eats some flesh from the sacrifice of the Lord’s peace offerings, that person shall be cut off from his people.”

22. The Lord spoke to Moses, saying,

23. “Speak to the people of Israel, saying, You shall eat no fat, of ox or sheep or goat.

24. The fat of an animal that dies of itself and the fat of one that is torn by beasts may be put to any other use, but on no account shall you eat it.

25. For every person who eats of the fat of an animal of which a food offering may be made to the Lord shall be cut off from his people.

26. Moreover, you shall eat no blood whatever, whether of fowl or of animal, in any of your dwelling places.

27. Whoever eats any blood, that person shall be cut off from his people.”

28. The Lord spoke to Moses, saying,

29. “Speak to the people of Israel, saying, Whoever offers the sacrifice of his peace offerings to the Lord shall bring his offering to the Lord from the sacrifice of his peace offerings.

30. His own hands shall bring the Lord’s food offerings. He shall bring the fat with the breast, that the breast may be waved as a wave offering before the Lord.

31. The priest shall burn the fat on the altar, but the breast shall be for Aaron and his sons.

32. And the right thigh you shall give to the priest as a contribution from the sacrifice of your peace offerings.

33. Whoever among the sons of Aaron offers the blood of the peace offerings and the fat shall have the right thigh for a portion.

34. For the breast that is waved and the thigh that is contributed I have taken from the people of Israel, out of the sacrifices of their peace offerings, and have given them to Aaron the priest and to his sons, as a perpetual due from the people of Israel.

35. This is the portion of Aaron and of his sons from the Lord’s food offerings, from the day they were presented to serve as priests of the Lord.

36. The Lord commanded this to be given them by the people of Israel, from the day that he anointed them. It is a perpetual due throughout their generations.”

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