Sacrifices to Ask The Lord’s Blessing

Leviticus 7:1–21
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The sacrifice to make things right is very sacred (v. 1).The animal must be killed in the same place where the sacrifice to please me is killed, and the animal’s blood must be splattered against the four sides of the bronze altar (v. 2). Offer all of the animal’s fat, including the fat on its tail and on its insides (v. 3), as well as the lower part of the liver and the two kidneys with their fat (v. 4). One of the priests will lay these pieces on the altar and send them up in smoke to me (v. 5). This sacrifice for making things right is very holy (v. 6). The ceremony for this sacrifice and the one for sin are just alike, and the meat may be eaten only by the priest who performs this ceremony of forgiveness (v. 7).

In fact, the priest who offers a sacrifice to please me may keep the skin of the animal (v. 8), just as he may eat the bread from a sacrifice to give thanks to me(v. 9), All other grain sacrifices-with or without olive oil in them-are to be divided equally among the priests of Aaron’s family (v. 10).The Lord said: Here are the instructions for offering a sacrifice to ask my blessing (v. 11) Use the finest flour to make three kinds of bread without yeast two in the form of loaves mixed with olive oil and one in the form of thin wafers brushed with oil (v. 12). You must also make some bread with yeast (v. 13). which they will belong to the priest who splattered the blood against the bronze altar (v. 14).

When you offer an animal to ask a blessing from me or to thank me, the meat belongs to you, but it must be eaten the same day (v. 15). It is different with the sacrifices you offer when you make me a promise or voluntarily give me something (v. 16). The meat from those sacrifices may be kept and eaten the next day, but any that is left must be destroyed (vv. 17-18). Don’t eat any of the meat that touches something unclean. Instead, burn it (v. 19). Don’t eat any of this meat if you have become unclean by touching something unclean (vv. 20-21). If you do, you will no longer belong to the community of Israel.

Application

Lord, help me to be a person that quickly forgives others!