Sinai & The Law

Meat which touches something unclean is not to be eaten but burned up completely. As for the meat, everyone who is clean may eat it;

but a person in a state of uncleanness who eats any meat from the sacrifice of peace offerings made to ADONAI will be cut off from his people.

Anyone who touches something unclean - whether the uncleanness be from a person, from an unclean animal or from some other unclean detestable thing - and then eats the meat from the sacrifice of peace offerings for ADONAI, that person will be cut off from his people.'"

ADONAI said to Moshe,

"Say to the people of Isra'el, 'You are not to eat the fat of bulls, sheep or goats.

The fat of animals that die of themselves or are killed by wild animals may be used for any other purpose, but under no circumstances are you to eat it.

For whoever eats the fat of animals of the kind used in presenting an offering made by fire to ADONAI will be cut off from his people.

You are not to eat any kind of blood, whether from birds or animals, in any of your homes.

Whoever eats any blood will be cut off from his people.'"

ADONAI said to Moshe,

"Say to the people of Isra'el, 'A person who offers his sacrifice of peace offerings to ADONAI is to bring part of his sacrifice of peace offerings as his offering for ADONAI.

He is to bring with his own hands the offerings for ADONAI made by fire - he is to bring the breast with its fat. The breast is to be waved as a wave offering before ADONAI.

The cohen is to make the fat go up in smoke on the altar, but the breast will belong to Aharon and his descendants.

You are to give the right thigh from your sacrifices of peace offerings to the cohen as a contribution.

The descendant of Aharon who offers the blood of the peace offerings is to have the right thigh as his share.

For the breast that has been waved and the thigh that has been contributed I have taken from the people of Isra'el out of their sacrifices of peace offerings and given them to Aharon the cohen and to his descendants as their share forever from the people of Isra'el.'"

On the day when Aharon and his sons were presented to serve ADONAI in the office of cohen, this portion was set aside for him and his descendants from the offerings for ADONAI made by fire.

On the day they were anointed, ADONAI ordered that this be given to them by the people of Isra'el. It is their share forever through all their generations.

This is the law for the burnt offering, the grain offering, the sin offering, the guilt offering, the consecration offering and the sacrifice of peace offerings

which ADONAI ordered Moshe on Mount Sinai on the day he ordered the people of Isra'el to present their offerings to ADONAI, in the Sinai Desert.

ADONAI said to Moshe,

"Take Aharon and his sons with him, the garments, the anointing oil, the bull for the sin offering, the two rams and the basket of matzah;

and assemble the entire community at the entrance to the tent of meeting."

Moshe did as ADONAI ordered him, and the community was assembled at the entrance to the tent of meeting.

Moshe said to the community, "This is what ADONAI has ordered to be done."