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Leviticus 7:16-30 New American Bible, Revised Edition (NABRE)

16. However, if the sacrifice offered is a votive or a voluntary offering, it shall be eaten on the day the sacrifice is offered, and on the next day what is left over may be eaten.

17. But what is left over of the meat of the sacrifice on the third day must be burned in the fire.

18. If indeed any of the flesh of the communion sacrifice is eaten on the third day, it shall not be accepted; it will not be reckoned to the credit of the one offering it. Rather it becomes a desecrated meat. Anyone who eats of it shall bear the penalty.

19. Should the meat touch anything unclean, it may not be eaten, but shall be burned in the fire. As for other meat, all who are clean may eat of it.

20. If, however, someone in a state of uncleanness eats the meat of a communion sacrifice belonging to the Lord, that person shall be cut off from the people.

21. Likewise, if someone touches anything unclean, whether it be human uncleanness or an unclean animal or an unclean loathsome creature, and then eats the meat of the communion sacrifice belonging to the Lord, that person, too, shall be cut off from the people.

22. The Lord said to Moses:

23. Tell the Israelites: You shall not eat the fat of any ox or sheep or goat.

24. Although the fat of an animal that has died a natural death or has been killed by wild beasts may be put to any other use, you may not eat it.

25. If anyone eats the fat of an animal from which an oblation is made to the Lord, that person shall be cut off from the people.

26. Wherever you dwell, you shall not eat any blood, whether of bird or of animal.

27. Every person who eats any blood shall be cut off from the people.

28. The Lord said to Moses:

29. Tell the Israelites: The person who offers a communion sacrifice to the Lord shall be the one to bring from it the offering to the Lord.

30. The offerer’s own hands shall carry the oblations for the Lord: the person shall bring the fat together with the brisket, which is to be raised as an elevated offering before the Lord.

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