Sacrifices To Make Things Right
1 The sacrifice to make things right is very sacred. 2 The animal must be killed in the same place where the sacrifice to please me7.2 sacrifice to please me: See the note at 1.1-3. is killed, and the animal’s blood must be splattered against the four sides of the bronze altar. 3 Offer all of the animal’s fat, including the fat on its tail and on its insides, 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.7.6 holy place: The courtyard of the sacred tent (see 6.16,17).
7 The ceremony for this sacrifice and the one for sin are the same, 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 me7.8 sacrifice to please me: See the note at 1.1-3. may keep the skin of the animal, 9 just as he may eat the bread from a sacrifice to give thanks to me.7.9 sacrifice to give thanks to me: See the note at 2.1.10 All other grain sacrifices—with or without olive oil in them—are to be divided equally among the priests of Aaron’s family.
Sacrifices To Ask the Lord’s Blessing
The Lord said: