Leviticus 7

New American Standard Bible

The Priest’s Part in the Offerings

7 ‘Now this is the law of the ^(A)guilt offering; it is most holy. ²In ^(B)the place where they slaughter the burnt offering they are to slaughter the guilt offering, and the priest shall sprinkle its blood around on the altar. ³Then he shall offer from it all its fat: the ^(C)fat tail and the fat that covers the entrails, ⁴and the two kidneys with the fat that is on them, which is on the loins; and he shall remove the lobe on the liver ^(D)with the kidneys. ⁵The priest shall offer them up in smoke on the altar as an offering by fire to the Lord; it is a guilt offering. ⁶^(E)Every male among the priests may eat it. It shall be eaten in a holy place; it is most holy. ⁷The guilt offering is like the ^(F)sin offering: there is one law for them. The ^(G)priest who makes atonement with it ^[a]shall have it. ⁸Also the priest who presents anyone’s burnt offering, ^[b]that priest shall have for himself the hide of the burnt offering which he has presented. ⁹Likewise, every grain offering that is baked in the oven and everything prepared in a ^[c]pan or on a ^(H)griddle ^[d]shall belong to the priest who presents it. ¹⁰Every grain offering, mixed with oil or dry, shall ^[e]belong to all the sons of Aaron, ^[f]to all alike.

¹¹‘Now this is the law of the ^(I)sacrifice of peace offerings which shall be presented to the Lord. ¹²If he offers it by way of ^(J)thanksgiving, then along with the sacrifice of thanksgiving he shall offer ^(K)unleavened cakes mixed with oil, and unleavened wafers ^[g]spread with oil, and cakes of well stirred fine flour mixed with oil. ¹³With the sacrifice of his peace offerings for thanksgiving, he shall present his offering with cakes of ^(L)leavened bread. ¹⁴Of ^[h]this he shall present one of every offering as a ^[i]contribution to the Lord; ^(M)it shall ^[j]belong to the priest who sprinkles the blood of the peace offerings.

¹⁵‘^(N)Now as for the flesh of the sacrifice of his thanksgiving peace offerings, it shall be eaten on the day of his offering; he shall not leave any of it over until morning. ¹⁶But if the sacrifice of his offering is a ^[k]^(O)vow or a ^[l]voluntary offering, it shall be eaten on the day that he offers his sacrifice, and on the next ^[m]day what is left of it may be eaten; ¹⁷^(P)but what is left over from the flesh of the sacrifice on the third day shall be burned with fire. ¹⁸So if any of the flesh of the sacrifice of his peace offerings is ever eaten on the third day, he who offers it will not be accepted, and it will not be credited to him. It will be an ^(Q)unclean thing, and the person who eats it shall bear his punishment.

¹⁹‘Also the flesh that touches anything unclean shall not be eaten; it shall be burned with fire. ^[n]As for other flesh, anyone who is clean may eat such flesh. ²⁰^(R)But the person who eats the flesh of the sacrifice of peace offerings which belong to the Lord, ^[o]when he is unclean, that person ^(S)shall be cut off from his people. ²¹^(T)When anyone touches anything unclean, whether human uncleanness, or an unclean animal, or any unclean ^[p]detestable thing, and eats of the flesh of the sacrifice of peace offerings which belong to the Lord, that person shall be cut off from his people.’”

²²Then the Lord spoke to Moses, saying, ²³“Speak to the sons of Israel, saying, ‘You shall not eat ^(U)any fat from an ox, a sheep, or a goat. ²⁴Also the fat of an animal which dies and the fat of an animal ^(V)torn by animals may be put to any other use, but you certainly are not to eat it. ²⁵For whoever eats the fat of the animal from which ^[q]an offering by fire is offered to the Lord, the person who eats it shall also be cut off from his people. ²⁶And ^(W)you are not to eat any blood, either of bird or animal, in any of your dwellings. ²⁷Any person who eats any blood, that person shall also be cut off from his people.’”

²⁸Then the Lord spoke to Moses, saying, ²⁹“Speak to the sons of Israel, saying, ‘He who offers ^(X)the sacrifice of his peace offerings to the Lord shall bring his offering to the Lord from the sacrifice of his peace offerings. ³⁰His own hands are to bring offerings by fire to the Lord. He shall bring the fat with the breast, so that the ^(Y)breast may be ^[r]presented as a wave offering before the Lord. ³¹And the priest shall offer up the fat in smoke on the altar, but ^(Z)the breast shall belong to Aaron and to his sons. ³²And you shall give ^(AA)the right thigh to the priest as a ^[s]contribution from the sacrifices of your peace offerings. ³³The one among the sons of Aaron who offers the blood of the peace offerings and the fat, the right thigh shall be his as his portion. ³⁴For I have taken from the sons of Israel ^(AB)the breast of the wave offering and the thigh of the ^[t]contribution from the sacrifices of their peace offerings, and have given them to Aaron the priest and to his sons as their allotted portion forever from the sons of Israel.

³⁵‘This is the ^(AC)allotment to Aaron and the allotment to his sons from the offerings by fire to the Lord, on that day when he presented them to serve as priests to the Lord. ³⁶^[u]These the Lord had commanded to be given them from the sons of Israel on the day that He ^(AD)anointed them. It is their allotted portion forever throughout their generations.’”

³⁷This is the law of the burnt offering, the grain offering, the sin offering and the guilt offering, and ^(AE)the ordination offering and the sacrifice of peace offerings, ³⁸^(AF)which the Lord commanded Moses on Mount Sinai on the day that He commanded the sons of Israel to ^[v]present their offerings to the Lord in the wilderness of Sinai.

Footnotes

Leviticus 7:7 Lit it shall be for him
Leviticus 7:8 Lit for the priest, it shall be for him
Leviticus 7:9 Lit lidded cooking pan
Leviticus 7:9 Lit for the priest, it shall be for him
Leviticus 7:10 Lit be
Leviticus 7:10 Lit a man as his brother
Leviticus 7:12 Or anointed
Leviticus 7:14 Lit it
Leviticus 7:14 Or uplifted offering
Leviticus 7:14 Lit be for
Leviticus 7:16 Or vowed offering
Leviticus 7:16 Or freewill offering
Leviticus 7:16 Lit day and what
Leviticus 7:19 Lit And the flesh
Leviticus 7:20 Lit and his uncleanness is on him
Leviticus 7:21 Some mss swarming thing
Leviticus 7:25 Lit he offers an offering by fire
Leviticus 7:30 Lit waved
Leviticus 7:32 Or uplifted offering
Leviticus 7:34 Or uplifted offering
Leviticus 7:36 Lit Which
Leviticus 7:38 Or offer

Psalm 7-8

New American Standard Bible

The Lord Implored to Defend the Psalmist against the Wicked.

A ^[a]Shiggaion of David, which he sang to the Lord ^[b]concerning Cush, a Benjaminite.

7 O Lord my God, ^(A)in You I have taken refuge;
Save me from all those who pursue me, and ^(B)rescue me,
²Or he will tear ^[c]my soul ^(C)like a lion,
Dragging me away, while there is no one to rescue me.

³O Lord my God, if I have done this,
If there is ^(D)injustice in my hands,
⁴If I have ^(E)done evil to ^[d]my friend,
Or have ^(F)plundered ^[e]my enemy for no reason,
⁵Let the enemy pursue ^[f]my soul and overtake ^[g]it;
And let him trample my life to the ground
And lay my glory in the dust. Selah

⁶^(G)Arise, Lord, in Your anger;
^(H)Raise Yourself against ^(I)the rage of my enemies,
And ^(J)stir Yourself ^[h]for me; You have ordered judgment.
⁷Let the assembly of the ^(K)peoples encompass You,
And return on high over it.
⁸The Lord ^(L)judges the peoples;
^[i]^(M)Vindicate me, Lord, according to my righteousness and my integrity that is in me.
⁹Please let ^(N)the evil of the wicked come to an end, but ^(O)establish the righteous;
For the righteous God ^(P)puts hearts and ^[j]minds to the test.
¹⁰My ^(Q)shield is ^[k]with God,
Who ^(R)saves the upright in heart.
¹¹God is a ^(S)righteous judge,
And a God who ^(T)shows indignation every day.

¹²If one ^(U)does not repent, He will ^(V)sharpen His sword;
He has ^(W)bent His bow and taken aim.
¹³He has also prepared deadly weapons for Himself;
He makes His ^(X)arrows fiery shafts.
¹⁴Behold, an evil person is pregnant with injustice,
And he ^(Y)conceives harm and gives birth to lies.
¹⁵He has dug a pit and hollowed it out,
And has ^(Z)fallen into the hole which he made.
¹⁶His ^(AA)harm will return on his own head,
And his ^(AB)violence will descend on the top of his own head.

¹⁷I will give thanks to the Lord ^(AC)according to His righteousness
And will ^(AD)sing praise to the name of the Lord Most High.

The Lord’s Glory and Mankind’s Dignity.

For the music director; on the Gittith. A Psalm of David.

8 Lord, our Lord,
How majestic is Your name in all the earth,
You who have ^[l]^(AE)displayed Your splendor above the heavens!
²^(AF)From the mouths of infants and nursing babies You have established ^[m]^(AG)strength
Because of Your enemies,
To do away with ^(AH)the enemy and the revengeful.

³When I ^[n]^(AI)consider ^(AJ)Your heavens, the work of Your fingers,
The ^(AK)moon and the stars, which You have set in place;
⁴^(AL)What is man that You think of him,
And a son of man that You are concerned about him?
⁵Yet You have made him a ^(AM)little lower than ^[o]God,
And ^(AN)You crown him with ^(AO)glory and majesty!
⁶You have him ^(AP)rule over the works of Your hands;
You have ^(AQ)put everything under his feet,
⁷All sheep and oxen,
And also the animals of the field,
⁸The birds of the sky, and the fish of the sea,
Whatever passes through the paths of the seas.