20 But the person who eats the flesh of the sacrifice of the peace offering that belongs to the aLord, bwhile he is unclean, that person cshall be cut off from his people.
21 Moreover the person who touches any unclean thing, such as ahuman uncleanness, an bunclean animal, or any cabominable unclean thing, and who eats the flesh of the sacrifice of the peace offering that belongs to the Lord, that person dshall be cut off from his people.’ ”
23 “Speak to the children of Israel, saying: a‘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.
26aMoreover 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.’ ”
29 “Speak to the children of Israel, saying: a‘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.
30aHis own hands shall bring the offerings made by fire to the Lord. The fat with the breast he shall bring, that the bbreast may be waved as a wave offering before the Lord.
31aAnd the priest shall burn the fat on the altar, but the bbreast shall be Aaron’s and his sons’.
32aAlso 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 athe 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 to1 minister to the Lord as priests.
36 The Lord commanded this to be given to them by the children of Israel, aon the day that He anointed them, by a statute forever throughout their generations.
37 This is the law aof the burnt offering, bthe grain offering, cthe sin offering, dthe trespass offering, ethe consecrations, and fthe sacrifice of the peace offering,
38 which the Lord commanded Moses on Mount Sinai, on the day when He commanded the children of Israel ato offer their offerings to the Lord in the Wilderness of Sinai.
LEVITICUS. So called from its treating of the laws relating to the ritual, the services, and sacrifices of the Jewish religion, the superintendence of which was entrusted to the Levitical priesthood. It is chiefly, however, the duties of the priests, "the sons of Aaron," which this book describes; and its claim to be the work of Moses is established by the following passages:— II Chronicles 30:16; Nehemiah 8:14; Jeremiah 7:22-23; Ezekiel 20:11Matthew 8:4; Luke 2:22; John 8:5; Romans 10:4; Romans 13:9; II Corinthians 6:16; Galatians 3:12; I Peter 1:16.
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