Contemporary English Version Anglicised

Leviticus 7:13-24 Contemporary English Version Anglicised (CEVUK00)

13. You must also make some bread with yeast.

14. Give me one loaf or wafer from each of these four kinds of bread, after which they will belong to the priest who splattered the blood against the bronze altar.

15. 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.

16. It is different with the sacrifices you offer when you make me a promise or voluntarily give me something. The meat from those sacrifices may be kept and eaten the next day,

17-18. but any that is left must be destroyed. If you eat any after the second day, your sacrifice will be useless and unacceptable, and you will be both disgusting and guilty.

19. Don't eat any of the meat that touches something unclean. Instead, burn it. The rest of the meat may be eaten by anyone who is clean and acceptable to me.

20-21. But don't eat any of this meat if you have become unclean by touching something unclean from a human or an animal or from any other creature. If you do, you will no longer belong to the community of Israel.

22. The Lord told Moses

23. to say to the people:Don't eat the fat of cattle, sheep, or goats.

24. If one of your animals dies or is killed by some wild animal, you may do anything with its fat except eat it.