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.
25. If you eat the fat of an animal that can be used as a sacrifice to me, you will no longer belong to the community of Israel.
26. And no matter where you live, you must not eat the blood of any bird or animal,
27. or you will no longer belong to the community of Israel.
28. The Lord also told Moses
29-30. to say to the people of Israel:If you want to offer a sacrifice to ask my blessing, you must bring the part to be burnt and lay it on the bronze altar. But you must first lift up the choice ribs with their fat to show that the offering is dedicated to me.
31. A priest from Aaron's family will then send the fat up in smoke, but the ribs belong to the priests.
32-33. The upper joint of the right hind leg is for the priest who offers the blood and the fat of the animal.
34. I have decided that the people of Israel must always give the choice ribs and the upper joint of the right hind leg to Aaron's descendants