• The law of the trespass offering (it is most holy): The trespass offering was to be killed in the same place the burnt offering was killed. Its blood was to be sprinkled all around the altar by the priest. He would offer from the trespass offering, all its fat. The fat tail, the fat that covers the entrails, both kidneys and the fat that is on them by the flanks, and the fatty lobe attached to the liver above the kidneys were to be removed. The priest would burn them on the altar as an offering made by fire to the Lord. This is a trespass offering. Every male among the priests could eat it in a holy place. It is most holy. The one law for both the trespass offering and the sin offering is that the priest who made atonement with it should have it.
• The priest who offered anyone’s burnt offering is the one who got to have the skin of that burnt offering for himself.
• Every grain offering that was baked in the oven, prepared in the covered pan or in a pan would belong to the priest who offered it. Every grain offering whether mixed with oil or dry, belonged to all the sons of Aaron, to one as much as the other.
• The law of the peace offerings that the priest should offer to the Lord: If the peace offering was for thanksgiving, then it should be offered with the sacrifice of thanksgiving, unleavened cakes mixed with oil, unleavened wafers anointed with oil, or cakes of blended flour mixed with oil. Besides the cakes, he should also offer leavened bread with the sacrifice of thanksgiving of his peace offering. From it he should offer one cake from each offering as a heave offering to the Lord. According to Biblical Hermeneutics, the heave offering’s name is derived from the motion used in its presentation where the priest used an up and down motion – lifting it up to the Lord and receiving it back from Him. It would belong to the priest who sprinkled the blood of the peace offering. The flesh of the peace offering for thanksgiving was to be eaten the same day it was offered. None of it was to be left until morning. (No leftovers) If the sacrifice for the peace offering was for a vow or a voluntary offering, it should be eaten the same day it was offered and the remainder of it could also be eaten the next day. However, the remainder of the flesh was to be burned with fire on the third day. If any of it was eaten on the third day, it would not be accepted, nor imputed (credited/attributed) to him. It would be considered an abomination to him who offered it and the person who ate it would be guilty. The flesh (of an animal) that touches any unclean thing should not be eaten, but was to be burned with fire. As for the clean flesh, all who were clean could eat it. If an unclean person ate the flesh of the peace offering sacrifice that belonged to the Lord, he would be cut off from his people (put to death according to Biblical Hermeneutics). .
• Fat and Blood – God told Moses to tell the children of Israel that they should not eat any fat of an ox, sheep or goat. The fat of an animal that died naturally or was killed by wild beasts, could be used in any other way, but it could not be eaten. Whoever ate the fat of an animal that was an offering made by fire to the Lord, was to be cut off from his people. Also, they were not allowed to eat any blood in any of their dwellings, whether of bird or beast. If anyone ate blood, that person was to be cut off from his people.
• Aaron and His Sons’ Portions – God told Moses to tell the children of Israel that he who offers the sacrifice of his peace offering to the Lord should personally be the one to bring it with his own hands as an offering made by fire to the Lord. He should bring the fat along with the breast so that the breast could be waved as a wave offering to the Lord. The priest would burn the fat on the altar, but the breast would belong to Aaron and his sons. The right thigh was to be given to the priest as a heave offering from the sacrifices of the peace offerings. The one among Aaron’s sons who offered the blood of the peace offering and the fat should have the thigh for his part. God said that the breast of the wave offering and the thigh of the heave offering, He has taken from the Israelites, from the sacrifices of their peace offerings, and has given them to Aaron the priest and his sons by a statute forever. This was the consecrated portion for Aaron and His sons, from the offering made by fire to the Lord, on the day when Moses presented them to minister to the Lord as priests. The Lord commanded this to be given to them by the Israelites on the day that He anointed them, by a statute forever throughout their generations.
• This is the law of the burnt offering, the grain offering, the sin offering, the trespass offering, the consecrations and the sacrifice of the peace offering which the Lord commanded Moses on Mount Sinai, on the day when He commanded the Israelites to offer their offerings to Him in the Wilderness of Sinai.

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