FRAMEWORKS:
Leviticus 7: Guilt & Fellowship Offering Regulations
v.1-10
The Guilt Offering
v.11-21
The Fellowship Offering
v.22-27
Fat and Blood Forbidden
v.28-38
The Priests' Share
v.1-10
The Guilt Offering
v.1-5
Guilt offering blood used
v.1
“‘These
are the regulations for the guilt offering ,
which is most holy:
v.2
The
guilt offering is to be slaughtered in the place where the burnt
offering is slaughtered, and its blood is to be splashed against
the sides of the altar.
v.3
All
its fat shall be offered: the fat tail and the fat that covers
the internal organs,
v.4
both
kidneys with the fat on them near the loins, and the long lobe
of the liver, which is to be removed with the kidneys.
v.5
The
priest shall burn them on the altar as a food offering presented
to the Lord. It is a guilt offering.
v.6-10
Parts of the Offerings for the Priests
v.6
Any
male in a priest's family may eat it, but it must be eaten in
the sanctuary area; it is most holy.
v.7
“‘The
same law applies to both the sin offering and the guilt offering:
They belong to the priest who makes atonement with them.
v.8
The
priest who offers a burnt offering for anyone may keep its hide
for himself.
v.9
Every
grain offering baked in an oven or cooked in a pan or on a griddle
belongs to the priest who offers it,
v.10
and
every grain offering, whether mixed with olive oil or dry, belongs
equally to all the sons of Aaron.
[Notes:
The initial need and method of bringing a guilt offering
was laid out in 5:14-19, the causes in 6:1-7 and the practicalities
by the priests for the Burnt Offering in 6:8-13 and for the Grain
Offering in 6:14-23 and Sin Offering in 6:24-30, and now the practicalities
for the Guilt Offering above are dealt with as the subheadings
note.]
v.11-21
The Fellowship Offering
v.11,12
The Purpose
v.11
“‘These
are the regulations for the fellowship offering
anyone may present to the Lord:
v.12
“‘If
they offer it as an expression of thankfulness,
then along with this thank offering they are to offer thick loaves
made without yeast and with olive oil mixed in, thin loaves made
without yeast and brushed with oil, and thick loaves of the finest
flour well-kneaded and with oil mixed in.
v.13
To also include a bread offering
v.13
Along
with their fellowship offering of thanksgiving
they are to present an offering with thick loaves of bread made
with yeast.
v.14
Blood used
v.14
They
are to bring one of each kind as an offering, a contribution to
the Lord; it belongs to the priest who splashes the blood
of the fellowship offering against the altar.
v.15
Fellowship Offering to be eaten on same day
v.15
The
meat of their fellowship offering of thanksgiving must be eaten
on the day it is offered; they must leave none of it
till morning.
v.16
For a self-imposed vow or simply as a gift can be eaten for two
days
v.16
“‘If,
however, their offering is the result of a vow or is a
freewill offering, the sacrifice shall be eaten on the
day they offer it, but anything left over may be eaten on the
next day.
v.17,18
No to be kept for a third day
v.17
Any
meat of the sacrifice left over till the third day must be burned
up.
v.18
If
any meat of the fellowship offering is eaten on the third day,
the one who offered it will not be accepted. It will not be reckoned
to their credit, for it has become impure; the person who eats
any of it will be held responsible.
v.19-21
Rules for unclean
v.19
“‘Meat
that touches anything ceremonially unclean must not be eaten;
it must be burned up. As for other meat, anyone ceremonially clean
may eat it.
v.20
But
if anyone who is unclean eats any meat of the fellowship offering
belonging to the Lord, they must be cut off from their people.
v.21
Anyone
who touches something unclean—whether human uncleanness or an
unclean animal or any unclean creature that moves along the ground—and
then eats any of the meat of the fellowship offering belonging
to the Lord must be cut off from their people.'”
[Notes:
The general types of Freewill offering are found in
chapter 3. These are the practicalities for the priests in offering
a freewill offering as indicated by the subheadings
above.]
v.22-27
Fat and Blood Forbidden
v.22
The
Lord said to Moses,
v.23“Say
to the Israelites: ‘Do not eat any of the fat of cattle, sheep
or goats.
v.24
The
fat of an animal found dead or torn by wild animals may be used
for any other purpose, but you must not eat it.
v.25
Anyone
who eats the fat of an animal from which a food offering may be
presented to the Lord must be cut off from their people.
v.26
And
wherever you live, you must not eat the blood of any bird or animal.
v.27
Anyone
who eats blood must be cut off from their people.'”
[Notes:
Generally fat must not be eaten or blood drunk.]
v.28-36
The Priests' Share
v.28
The
Lord said to Moses,
v.29
“Say
to the Israelites: ‘Anyone who brings a fellowship offering
to the Lord is to bring part of it as their sacrifice
to the Lord.
v.30
With
their own hands they are to present the food offering
to the Lord; they are to bring the fat, together with
the breast, and wave the breast before the Lord as a wave
offering.
v.31
The
priest shall burn the fat on the altar, but the breast belongs
to Aaron and his sons.
v.32
You
are to give the right thigh of your fellowship offerings to the
priest as a contribution.
v.33
The
son of Aaron who offers the blood and the fat of the fellowship
offering shall have the right thigh as his share.
v.34
From
the fellowship offerings of the Israelites, I have taken the breast
that is waved and the thigh that is presented and have given them
to Aaron the priest and his sons as their perpetual share from
the Israelites.'”
v.35
This
is the portion of the food offerings presented to the Lord that
were allotted to Aaron and his sons on the day they were presented
to serve the Lord as priests.
v.36
On
the day they were anointed, the Lord commanded that the Israelites
give this to them as their perpetual share for the generations
to come.
[Notes:
With a Fellowship Offering, the giver
gives part to the Lord to be burnt up, the fat to be burnt up,
and part to be given to the priests.]
v.37.38
Summary
v.37
These,
then, are the regulations for the burnt offering, the
grain offering, the sin offering, the guilt offering, the ordination
offering and the fellowship offering,
v.38
which
the Lord gave Moses at Mount Sinai in the Desert of Sinai on the
day he commanded the Israelites to bring their offerings to the
Lord.
[Notes:
Thus we come to the end of the various ‘practicality
regulations' to guide the priests how to go about their tasks
with the respective offerings.]