Episode 44 - More animal sacrifices: A statute forever

(Leviticus 5-7)

Unclean and guilty: for touching bodily discharges, dead bugs, etc.

5 ² Whoever touches any unclean thing, like a dead bug or beast, is unclean and guilty.

³ Or if he unknowingly touches the uncleanness of man, he is guilty when he discovers it.

^5-6 If he is guilty of one of these things, he must confess he is guilty and sacrifice to me a female cow, lamb, or goat.

⁷ If he is unable to bring a lamb (or goat or cow), then he will bring two doves or pigeons to me.

⁸ The priest will wring off their necks.

⁹ He will sprinkle the blood on the side of the altar and wring out the rest at the bottom of the altar. It is a sin offering.

Lost and found

6 ^1-5 If a man lies to his neighbor, or found something that was lost and lies about it, then he must return what was lost to the owner, plus 20%.

⁶ Then he must sacrifice an unblemished ram to me.

⁷ The priest will make an atonement for him and I'll forgive him.

The sin offering

²⁵ This is the law of the sin offering. Kill the sin offering in front of God in the place where you killed the burnt offering. It is most holy.

²⁷ Whatever touches the flesh of the sin offering is holy.

If any blood gets on a garment, wash it in the holy place.

²⁸ If it was cooked in a clay pot, it must be broken; if cooked in a brass pot, it must be scoured and rinsed in water.

²⁹ All the male priests must eat it. It is most holy.

³⁰ Don't eat any blood from the sin offerings. Burn them with fire.

The Trespass offering

7 ¹ This is the law of the trespass offering. It is most holy.

² Kill the trespass offering and sprinkle the blood round about on the altar.

^3-4 Offer all of it: fat, rump, kidneys, liver, and other internal organs.

^3-4 The priest shall burn it all for me on the altar. It is a trespass offering.

⁶ It is most holy.

⁸ And the priest shall have all the skin to himself.

⁹ He will also get all the meat that is baked in the oven or fried in the frying pan.

The peace offering

¹⁵ Eat the peace offering the same day it is offered. Don't leave any for the next morning.

¹⁷ Burn (with fire) any that remains on the third day.

¹⁸ Don't eat any of your peace offerings on the third day. That is an abomination.

¹⁹ Don't eat flesh that has touched any unclean thing. Eat whatever is clean, and burn the rest (with fire).

²⁰ Anyone who eats the flesh of a peace offering when their uncleanness is upon them, will be cut off from his people.

²¹ Anyone who touches any unclean thing (like the uncleanness of man, unclean beast, or any abominable unclean thing) and eats the flesh of a peace offering, will be cut off from his people.

Don't eat fat, blood, or roadkill

²³ Don't eat the fat of an ox, sheep, or goat.

²⁴ Don't eat the fat of a beast that dies of natural causes or is torn by beasts. You can use these dead animals for other things, but don't eat them.

²⁵ Whoever eats the fat of a beast that is sacrificed to me, will be cut off from his people.

^26-27 Don't eat blood. Whoever does will be exiled.

The wave offering

^29-30 Whoever offers God a peace offering shall bring it to God, with the fat and breast for a wave offering.

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

The heave offering

³² Give the right shoulder to the priest for a heave offering.

³⁴ I have given the wave breasts and the heave shoulders to the priests and their sons as a statute forever.

A statute forever

³⁶ The law of the burnt offering, meat offering, sin offering, trespass offering, and peace offering are all commanded by God to be statutes forever.