Leviticus 7:20-21-25 Contemporary English Version Anglicised (CEVUK00)

3. Offer all the animal's fat, including the fat on its tail and on its insides,

4. as well as the lower part of the liver and the two kidneys with their fat.

5. One of the priests will lay these pieces on the altar and send them up in smoke to me.

6. This sacrifice for making things right is very holy. Only the priests may eat it, and they must eat it in a holy place.

7. The ceremony for this sacrifice and the one for sin are alike, and the meat may be eaten only by the priest who performs this ceremony of forgiveness.

8. In fact, the priest who offers a sacrifice to please me may keep the skin of the animal,

9. just as he may eat the bread from a sacrifice to give thanks to me.

20-21. But don't eat any of this meat if you have become unclean by touching something unclean from a human or an animal or from any other creature. If you do, you will no longer belong to the community of Israel.

22. The Lord told Moses

23. to say to the people:Don't eat the fat of cattle, sheep, or goats.

24. If one of your animals dies or is killed by some wild animal, you may do anything with its fat except eat it.

25. If you eat the fat of an animal that can be used as a sacrifice to me, you will no longer belong to the community of Israel.

Leviticus 7