Leviticus 7:6

All 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.

Translation for Translators

In The King James Version

Every male among the priests shall eat thereof: it shall be eaten in the holy place: it is most holy.

In Context

5The 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.

7“The regulation is the same for the offerings to enable people to be forgiven for the sins they have committed and the offerings for when they are guilty of not giving to me the things that are required to be given to me. The meat of those offerings belongs to the priest who offers them in order that the people will be forgiven.

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Cross References

Leviticus 6:11Then he must take off those clothes and put on other clothes, and take the ashes outside the camp, to a place that is acceptable to me.

Leviticus 6:29Any male in a priest’s family may eat some of the cooked meat; that meat is very holy.

Numbers 18:9The parts of the offerings that are not completely burned on the altar belong to you. Those parts of the sacred offerings, including the offerings of grain, the offerings for sins and for the people to be forgiven for not giving me what they are required to give, are set apart, and are to be given to you and your sons.

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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