The Skeptics Annotated Bible (104 page)

10
And every meat offering, mingled with oil, and dry, shall all the sons of Aaron have
, one as much as another.

(7.10)
“And every meat offering, mingled with oil, and dry, shall all the sons of Aaron have.”
And Aaron’s sons get all the meat and oil.

11 And this is the law of the sacrifice of peace offerings, which he shall offer unto the LORD.

12 If he offer it for a thanksgiving, then he shall offer with the sacrifice of thanksgiving unleavened cakes mingled with oil, and unleavened wafers anointed with oil, and cakes mingled with oil, of fine flour, fried.

13 Besides the cakes, he shall offer for his offering leavened bread with the sacrifice of thanksgiving of his peace offerings.

(7.14-19) More of God’s holy rules for animal sacrifice

14 And of it he shall offer one out of the whole oblation for an heave offering unto the LORD, and
it shall be the priest’s that sprinkleth the blood of the peace offerings.

(7.14)
“It shall be the priest’s that sprinkleth the blood of the peace offerings.”

15 And
the flesh of the sacrifice of his peace offerings for thanksgiving shall be eaten the same day that it is offered; he shall not leave any of it until the morning.

(7.15)
“The flesh of the sacrifice of his peace offerings for thanksgiving shall be eaten the same day that it is offered; he shall not leave any of it until the morning.
” Be sure to eat all your sacrificed animals the same day that you kill them. Leftovers are not allowed!

16 But if the sacrifice of his offering be a vow, or a voluntary offering, it shall be eaten the same day that he offereth his sacrifice: and on the morrow also the remainder of it shall be eaten:

17 But the remainder of the flesh of the sacrifice on the third day shall be burnt with fire.

18 And
if any of the flesh of the sacrifice of his peace offerings be eaten at all on the third day
, it shall not be accepted, neither shall it be imputed unto him that offereth it:
it shall be an abomination, and the soul that eateth of it shall bear his iniquity.

(7.18)
“If any of the flesh of the sacrifice of his peace offerings be eaten at all on the third day … it shall be an abomination, and the soul that eateth of it shall bear his iniquity.”
Don’t eat any of your dead sacrificial animals on the third day after you kill them. That is an abomination to God and he will never forgive you for it!

19
And the flesh that toucheth any unclean thing shall not be eaten
; it shall be burnt with fire: and as for the flesh, all that be clean shall eat thereof.

(7.19)
“And the flesh that toucheth any unclean thing shall not be eaten.”
Don’t eat any of your dead sacrificed animals if they have touched any unclean thing.

(7:20-27) Don’t eat any sacrificed animals while you have your uncleanness upon you, or after touching any unclean thing (like “the uncleanness of man, or any unclean beast, or any other abominable unclean thing”), or while eating fat or blood. If you do any of these things, you’ll be exiled.

20
But the soul that eateth of the flesh of the sacrifice of peace offerings
, that pertain unto the LORD,
having his uncleanness upon him, even that soul shall be cut off from his people.

(7.20)
“But the soul that eateth of the flesh of the sacrifice of peace offerings … having his uncleanness upon him, even that soul shall be cut off from his people.”

21 Moreover
the soul that shall touch any unclean thing, as the uncleanness of man, or any unclean beast, or any abominable unclean thing, and eat of the flesh of the sacrifice of peace offerings, which pertain unto the LORD, even that soul shall be cut off from his people.

(7.21)
“The soul that shall touch any unclean thing, as the uncleanness of man, or any unclean beast, or any abominable unclean thing, and eat of the flesh of the sacrifice of peace offerings, which pertain unto the LORD, even that soul shall be cut off from his people.”

22 And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying,

23 Speak unto the children of Israel, saying,
Ye shall eat no manner of fat
, of ox, or of sheep, or of goat.

24 And the fat of the beast that dieth of itself, and the fat of that which is torn with beasts, may be used in any other use: but ye shall in no wise eat of it.

25
For whosoever eateth the fat of the beast, of which men offer an offering made by fire unto the LORD
, even the soul that eateth it
shall be cut off from his people.

(7.23-25)
“Ye shall eat no manner of fat … for whosoever eateth the fat of the beast, of which men offer an offering made by fire unto the LORD … shall be cut off from his people.”

26
Moreover ye shall eat no manner of blood
, whether it be of fowl or of beast, in any of your dwellings.

27
Whatsoever soul it be that eateth any manner of blood, even that soul shall be cut off from his people.

(7:26-27)
“Moreover ye shall eat no manner of blood … Whatsoever soul it be that eateth any manner of blood, even that soul shall be cut off from his people.”

28 And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying,

29 Speak unto the children of Israel, saying, He that offereth the sacrifice of his peace offerings unto the LORD shall bring his oblation unto the LORD of the sacrifice of his peace offerings.

(7.30-36) Wave, breast, and heave offerings “by a statute forever.”

30 His own hands shall bring the offerings of the LORD made by fire,
the fat with the breast
, it shall he bring, that the breast
may be waved for a wave offering before the LORD.

(7.30)
“The fat with the breast … may be waved for a wave offering before the LORD.”
Wave the fat and the breast for “a wave offering before the Lord.”

31 And
the priest shall burn the fat upon the altar: but the breast shall be Aaron’s and his sons’.

(7.31)
“The priest shall burn the fat upon the altar: but the breast shall be Aaron’s and his sons’.”

32 And
the right shoulder shall ye give unto the priest for an heave offering
of the sacrifices of your peace offerings.

(7.32)
“The right shoulder shall ye give unto the priest for an heave offering.”

33
He among the sons of Aaron, that offereth the blood of the peace offerings, and the fat, shall have the right shoulder for his part.

(7.33)
“He among the sons of Aaron, that offereth the blood of the peace offerings, and the fat, shall have the right shoulder for his part.”
Aaron’s sons get the right shoulder from all peace offerings.

34
For the wave breast and the heave shoulder
have I taken of the children of Israel from off the sacrifices of their peace offerings, and have given them unto Aaron the priest and unto his sons
by a statute for ever
from among the children of Israel.

(7.34)
“For the wave breast and the heave shoulder … by a statute for ever.”
Be sure to do your wave breast or heave shoulder today. It is a statute forever.

35 This is the portion of the anointing of Aaron, and of the anointing of his sons, out of the offerings of the LORD made by fire, in the day when he presented them to minister unto the LORD in the priest’s office;

36 Which the LORD commanded to be given them of the children of Israel, in the day that he anointed them,
by a statute for ever
throughout their generations.

(7.36)
“By a statute forever”

37 This is the law of the burnt offering, of the meat offering, and of the sin offering, and of the trespass offering, and of the consecrations, and of the sacrifice of the peace offerings;

38 Which the LORD commanded Moses in mount Sinai, in the day that he commanded the children of Israel to offer their oblations unto the LORD, in the wilderness of Sinai.

8
And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying,

2 Take Aaron and his sons with him, and the garments, and the anointing oil, and a bullock for the sin offering, and two rams, and a basket of unleavened bread;