Leviticus 7:5

The priest must burn them on the altar to be offerings to me, Yahweh. They are an offering for the people to be forgiven for not doing what they were required to do.

Translation for Translators

In The King James Version

And the priest shall burn them upon the altar for an offering made by fire unto the LORD: it is a trespass offering.

In Context

4That includes the kidneys with their fat near the lower back muscle, and the protruding lobe that is attached to the liver.

6All the males in the priest’s family are permitted to eat its meat, but it must be eaten in a sacred place, because it is very sacred.

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Cross References

Leviticus 1:13Then one of the priests will take all of it and completely burn all of it on the altar. And the aroma as it burns will be pleasing to Yahweh.

Leviticus 2:9He will take a part of it that will symbolize that all the offering belongs to Yahweh. He will burn that part on the altar, and the aroma as it burns will be pleasing to Yahweh.

Leviticus 3:3From that offering, you must offer to Yahweh, as a sacrifice that will be burned in the fire, all the fat that covers the inner parts of the animal, or which is attached to them—

Galatians 2:20It is as though I was with Christ when he was crucified {died on the cross} [MET] (OR, It is as though my old way of life ended when Christ died on the cross.) No longer am I directing the way I behave as I did before I believed in Christ. Now Christ is directing how I behave. And whatever I do now while I live, I do it trusting in God’s Son. He is the one who loved me and offered himself as a sacrifice for me.

1 Peter 4:1Therefore, because Christ suffered physically, you also must think the way that he did when he was willing to suffer, because those who suffer physically because of belonging to Jesus have stopped sinning the way they used to sin.

Matthew Henry on Leviticus 7:2-11

Law of the Trespass-Offering. ( b. c. 1490.) 1 Likewise this is the law of the trespass offering: it is most holy. 2 In the place where they kill the burnt offering shall they kill the trespass offering: and the blood thereof shall he sprinkle round about upon the altar. 3 And he shall offer of it all the fat thereof; the rump, and the fat that covereth the inwards, 4 And the two kidneys, and the fat that is on them, which is by the flanks, and the caul that is above the liver, with the kidneys, it shall he take… Read the whole commentary →

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