²⁸ It shall be from the children of Israel for Aaron and his sons ^(A)by a statute forever. For it is a heave offering; ^(B)it shall be a heave offering from the children of Israel from the sacrifices of their peace offerings, that is, their heave offering to the Lord.

³ “And this shall be the priest’s ^(A)due^[a] from the people, from those who offer a sacrifice, whether it is bull or sheep: they shall give to the priest the shoulder, the cheeks, and the stomach.

⁴¹ So Moses gave the tribute which was the Lord’s heave offering to Eleazar the priest, ^(A)as the Lord commanded Moses.

²⁹ take it from their half, and ^(A)give it to Eleazar the priest as a heave offering to the Lord.

²⁹ Of all your gifts you shall offer up every heave offering due to the Lord, from all the ^[a]best of them, the consecrated part of them.’

²⁴ For the tithes of the children of Israel, which they offer up as a heave offering to the Lord, I have given to the Levites ^[a]as an inheritance; therefore I have said to them, ‘Among the children of Israel they shall have no inheritance.’ ”

¹⁹ then it will be, when you eat of ^(A)the bread of the land, that you shall offer up a heave offering to the Lord. ^20 (B)You shall offer up a cake of the first of your ground meal as a heave offering; as ^(C)a heave offering of the threshing floor, so shall you offer it up.

^14 (A)The breast of the wave offering and the thigh of the heave offering you shall eat in a clean place, you, your sons, and your ^(B)daughters with you; for they are your due and your sons’ ^(C)due, which are given from the sacrifices of peace offerings of the children of Israel. ^15 (D)The thigh of the heave offering and the breast of the wave offering they shall bring with the offerings of fat made by fire, to offer as a wave offering before the Lord. And it shall be yours and your sons’ with you, by a statute forever, as the Lord has commanded.”

The Law of Peace Offerings

^11 (A)‘This is the law of the sacrifice of peace offerings which he shall offer to the Lord: ¹² If he offers it for a thanksgiving, then he shall offer, with the sacrifice of thanksgiving, unleavened cakes mixed with oil, unleavened wafers ^(B)anointed with oil, or cakes of blended flour mixed with oil. ¹³ Besides the cakes, as his offering he shall offer ^(C)leavened bread with the sacrifice of thanksgiving of his peace offering. ¹⁴ And from it he shall offer one cake from each offering as a heave offering to the Lord. ^(D)It shall belong to the priest who sprinkles the blood of the peace offering.

^15 (E)‘The flesh of the sacrifice of his peace offering for thanksgiving shall be eaten the same day it is offered. He shall not leave any of it until morning. ¹⁶ But ^(F)if the sacrifice of his offering is a vow or a voluntary offering, it shall be eaten the same day that he offers his sacrifice; but on the next day the remainder of it also may be eaten; ¹⁷ the remainder of the flesh of the sacrifice on the third day must be burned with fire. ¹⁸ And if any of the flesh of the sacrifice of his peace offering is eaten at all on the third day, it shall not be accepted, nor shall it be ^(G)imputed to him; it shall be an ^(H)abomination to him who offers it, and the person who eats of it shall bear ^[a]guilt.

¹⁹ ‘The flesh that touches any unclean thing shall not be eaten. It shall be burned with fire. And as for the clean flesh, all who are ^[b]clean may eat of it. ²⁰ But the person who eats the flesh of the sacrifice of the peace offering that belongs to the ^(I)Lord, ^(J)while he is unclean, that person ^(K)shall be cut off from his people. ²¹ Moreover the person who touches any unclean thing, such as ^(L)human uncleanness, an ^(M)unclean animal, or any ^(N)abominable^[c] unclean thing, and who eats the flesh of the sacrifice of the peace offering that belongs to the Lord, that person ^(O)shall be cut off from his people.’ ”

Fat and Blood May Not Be Eaten

²² And the Lord spoke to Moses, saying, ²³ “Speak to the children of Israel, saying: ^(P)‘You shall not eat any fat, of ox or sheep or goat. ²⁴ And the fat of an animal that dies naturally, and the fat of what is torn by wild beasts, may be used in any other way; but you shall by no means eat it. ²⁵ For whoever eats the fat of the animal of which men offer an offering made by fire to the Lord, the person who eats it shall be cut off from his people. ^26 (Q)Moreover you shall not eat any blood in any of your dwellings, whether of bird or beast. ²⁷ Whoever eats any blood, that person shall be cut off from his people.’ ”

The Portion of Aaron and His Sons

²⁸ Then the Lord spoke to Moses, saying, ²⁹ “Speak to the children of Israel, saying: ^(R)‘He who offers the sacrifice of his peace offering to the Lord shall bring his offering to the Lord from the sacrifice of his peace offering. ^30 (S)His own hands shall bring the offerings made by fire to the Lord. The fat with the breast he shall bring, that the ^(T)breast may be waved as a wave offering before the Lord. ^31 (U)And the priest shall burn the fat on the altar, but the ^(V)breast shall be Aaron’s and his sons’. ^32 (W)Also the right thigh you shall give to the priest as a heave offering from the sacrifices of your peace offerings. ³³ He among the sons of Aaron, who offers the blood of the peace offering and the fat, shall have the right thigh for his part. ³⁴ For ^(X)the breast of the wave offering and the thigh of the heave offering I have taken from the children of Israel, from the sacrifices of their peace offerings, and I have given them to Aaron the priest and to his sons from the children of Israel by a statute forever.’ ”

³⁵ This is the consecrated portion for Aaron and his sons, from the offerings made by fire to the Lord, on the day when Moses presented them to ^[d]minister to the Lord as priests. ³⁶ The Lord commanded this to be given to them by the children of Israel, ^(Y)on the day that He anointed them, by a statute forever throughout their generations.

³⁷ This is the law ^(Z)of the burnt offering, ^(AA)the grain offering, ^(AB)the sin offering, ^(AC)the trespass offering, ^(AD)the consecrations, and ^(AE)the sacrifice of the peace offering, ³⁸ which the Lord commanded Moses on Mount Sinai, on the day when He commanded the children of Israel ^(AF)to offer their offerings to the Lord in the Wilderness of Sinai.