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.
31. The priest shall burn the fat on the altar, but the brisket belongs to Aaron and his sons.
32. Moreover, from your communion sacrifices you shall give to the priest the right leg as a contribution.
33. The one among Aaron’s sons who offers the blood and the fat of the communion offering shall have the right leg as his portion,
34. for from the communion sacrifices of the Israelites I have taken the brisket that is elevated and the leg that is a contribution, and I have given them to Aaron, the priest, and to his sons as their due from the Israelites forever.
35. This is the priestly share from the oblations for the Lord, allotted to Aaron and his sons on the day they were brought forth to be the priests of the Lord,
36. which the Lord ordered to be given them from the Israelites on the day they were anointed, as their due throughout their generations forever.