Leviticus 9:20
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20 They first laid the fat on the breasts, and the fat was turned into smoke on the altar,
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Leviticus 7:29-34
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29 “Speak to the Israelites: Any one of you who would offer to the Lord your sacrifice of well-being must yourself bring to the Lord your offering from your sacrifice of well-being.(A) 30 Your own hands shall bring the Lord’s offering by fire;[a] you shall bring the fat with the breast, so that the breast may be raised as an elevation offering before the Lord. 31 The priest shall turn the fat into smoke on the altar, but the breast shall belong to Aaron and his sons.(B) 32 And the right thigh from your sacrifices of well-being you shall give to the priest as an offering; 33 the one among the sons of Aaron who offers the blood and fat of the offering of well-being shall have the right thigh for a portion. 34 For I have taken the breast of the elevation offering and the thigh that is offered from the Israelites, from their sacrifices of well-being, and have given them to Aaron the priest and to his sons, as a perpetual due from the Israelites.(C)
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- 7.30 Or the Lord’s gift
Leviticus 3:14-17
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14 You shall present as your offering from it, as an offering by fire[a] to the Lord, the fat that covers the entrails and all the fat that is around the entrails, 15 the two kidneys with the fat that is on them at the loins, and the appendage of the liver, which you shall remove with the kidneys. 16 Then the priest shall turn these into smoke on the altar as a food offering by fire[b] for a pleasing odor.
“All fat is the Lord’s.(A) 17 It shall be a perpetual statute throughout your generations, in all your settlements: you must not eat any fat or any blood.”(B)
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