Leviticus 7:32-33-38 Contemporary English Version Anglicised (CEVUK00)

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.

32-33. The upper joint of the right hind leg is for the priest who offers the blood and the fat of the animal.

34. I have decided that the people of Israel must always give the choice ribs and the upper joint of the right hind leg to Aaron's descendants

35. who have been ordained as priests to serve me.

36. This law will never change. I am the Lord!

37. These are the ceremonies for sacrifices to please the Lord, to give him thanks, and to ask his blessing or his forgiveness, as well as the ceremonies for those sacrifices that demand a payment and for the sacrifices that are offered when priests are ordained.

38. While Moses and the people of Israel were in the desert at Mount Sinai, the Lord commanded them to start offering these sacrifices.

Leviticus 7