Contemporary English Version Anglicised

Leviticus 7:7-19 Contemporary English Version Anglicised (CEVUK00)

7. The ceremony for this sacrifice and the one for sin are alike, and the meat may be eaten only by the priest who performs this ceremony of forgiveness.

8. In fact, the priest who offers a sacrifice to please me may keep the skin of the animal,

9. just as he may eat the bread from a sacrifice to give thanks to me.

10. All other grain sacrifices—with or without olive oil in them—are to be divided equally among the priests of Aaron's family.

11. Here are the instructions for offering a sacrifice to ask my blessing:

12. If you offer it to give thanks, you must offer some bread together with it. Use the finest flour to make three kinds of bread without yeast—two in the form of loaves mixed with olive oil and one in the form of thin wafers brushed with oil.

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.