Leviticus 3:1-6

Common English Bible

The well-being sacrifice

3 If the offering is a communal sacrifice of well-being,^[a] the one who offers the herd animal—whether it is male or female—must present a flawless specimen before the Lord. ²You must press your hand on the head of the offering and slaughter it at the meeting tent’s entrance. Aaron’s sons the priests will toss the blood against every side of the altar. ³Then you can offer a food gift to the Lord from the communal sacrifice of well-being: the fat that covers and surrounds the insides; ⁴the two kidneys and the fat around them at the loins; and the lobe on the liver, which should be removed with the kidneys. ⁵Aaron’s sons will completely burn all of this on the altar—along with the entirely burned offering on the wood that is on the altar fire—as a food gift of soothing smell to the Lord.

⁶If the offering for a communal sacrifice of well-being for the Lord is from the flock—whether it is male or female—you must present a flawless specimen.

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Leviticus 3:1 Or peace offering

Leviticus 4:1-7

Common English Bible

The purification offering

4 The Lord said to Moses, ²Say to the Israelites: Do the following whenever someone sins unintentionally against any of the Lord’s commands, doing something that shouldn’t be done:

³If it is the anointed priest who has sinned, making the people guilty of sin, he must present to the Lord a flawless bull from the herd as a purification offering^[a] for the sin he has committed. ⁴He will bring the bull before the Lord at the entrance to the meeting tent and press his hand on the bull’s head. Then he will slaughter the bull before the Lord. ⁵The anointed priest will take some of the bull’s blood and take it into the meeting tent. ⁶The priest will dip his finger into the blood and sprinkle some of it seven times before the Lord, toward the sanctuary’s inner curtain. ⁷Then the priest will put some of the blood on the horns of the altar of perfumed incense, which is in the meeting tent before the Lord. But he will pour out all the rest of the bull’s blood at the base of the altar of entirely burned offerings, which is at the meeting tent’s entrance.