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Leviticus 7:1-10·~1 min

The Guilt Offering

The guilt offering is declared most holy, slaughtered at the altar, and offered with its fat burned to the LORD. Its meat is reserved for the male priests to eat in a holy place.

1Now this is the law of the guilt offering, which is most holy: 2The guilt offering must be slaughtered in the place where the burnt offering is slaughtered, and the priest shall splatter its blood on all sides of the altar. 3And all the fat from it shall be offered: the fat tail, the fat that covers the entrails, 4both kidneys with the fat on them near the loins, and the lobe of the liver, which is to be removed with the kidneys. 5The priest shall burn them on the altar as a food offering to the LORD; it is a guilt offering. 6Every male among the priests may eat of it. It must be eaten in a holy place; it is most holy.

The guilt offering follows the same law as the sin offering and belongs to the priest who makes atonement. Other rules then assign the hide of burnt offerings and various grain offerings to the priests.

7The guilt offering is like the sin offering; the same law applies to both. It belongs to the priest who makes atonement with it. 8As for the priest who presents a burnt offering for anyone, the hide of that offering belongs to him. 9Likewise, every grain offering that is baked in an oven or cooked in a pan or on a griddle belongs to the priest who presents it, 10and every grain offering, whether dry or mixed with oil, belongs equally to all the sons of Aaron.

Section summaryThis section sets the guilt offering alongside the sin offering in holiness and procedure, naming its blood rites, the fat burned to the LORD, and the priestly right to eat it. It also adds which portions of burnt and grain offerings belong to the priests.
Role in the chapterIt clarifies how the guilt offering is administered and who receives its portions. The section also widens the frame to priestly provision, linking several offerings together under one ordered system.