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Leviticus 7:11“‘This is the law of the guilt offering. It is most holy.Copy LinkKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AIFlowchartCross Refs:Lev 6:17Lev 6:25Lev 21:22Lev 5:1-6Lev 5:14-6:7Ezek 40:39Ezek 44:29Ezek 46:20Lev 14:12-13Lev 19:21-22
Leviticus 7:22In the place where they slaughter the burnt offering they must slaughter the guilt offering, and the officiating priest must splash the blood against the altar’s sides.Copy LinkKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AIFlowchartCross Refs:Lev 1:5Lev 1:11Lev 1:3Lev 4:29Lev 4:33Lev 6:251 Pet 1:2Ezek 36:25Ezek 40:39Heb 11:28
Leviticus 7:33Then the one making the offering must present all its fat: the fatty tail, the fat covering the entrails,Copy LinkKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AIFlowchartCross Refs:Exod 29:13Lev 3:15-16Lev 3:3-5Lev 3:9-11Lev 4:8-10Ps 51:17Ps 51:6
Leviticus 7:44the two kidneys and the fat on their sinews, and the protruding lobe on the liver (which he must remove along with the kidneys).Copy LinkKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AIFlowchartCross Refs:Lev 3:4
Leviticus 7:55Then the priest must offer them up in smoke on the altar as a gift to the Lord. It is a guilt offering.Copy LinkKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AIFlowchartCross Refs:1 Pet 4:1-2Gal 2:20Gal 5:24Lev 1:13Lev 1:9Lev 2:16Lev 2:2Lev 2:9Lev 3:16
Leviticus 7:66Any male among the priests may eat it. It must be eaten in a holy place. It is most holy.Copy LinkKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AIFlowchartCross Refs:Lev 6:29Lev 2:3Num 18:9-10Lev 6:16-18
Leviticus 7:77The law is the same for the sin offering and the guilt offering; it belongs to the priest who makes atonement with it.Copy LinkKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AIFlowchartCross Refs:Lev 6:25-261 Cor 9:13Lev 14:13
Leviticus 7:88“‘As for the priest who presents someone’s burnt offering, the hide of that burnt offering which he presented belongs to him.Copy LinkKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AIFlowchartCross Refs:Exod 29:14Gen 3:21Lev 1:6Lev 4:11Num 19:5Rom 13:14
Leviticus 7:99Every grain offering which is baked in the oven or made in the pan or on the griddle belongs to the priest who presented it.Copy LinkKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AIFlowchartCross Refs:Ezek 44:29Gal 6:6Lev 2:10Lev 2:3-7Num 18:91 Cor 9:131 Cor 9:7Lev 5:13Lev 6:16-18
Leviticus 7:1010Every grain offering, whether mixed with olive oil or dry, belongs to all the sons of Aaron, each one alike.Copy LinkKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AIFlowchartCross Refs:2 Cor 8:14Exod 16:18
Leviticus 7:1111“‘This is the law of the peace-offering sacrifice which he is to present to the Lord.Copy LinkKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AIFlowchartCross Refs:Ezek 45:15Lev 22:18-21Lev 3:1-17
Leviticus 7:1212If he presents it on account of thanksgiving, along with the thank-offering sacrifice he must present unleavened loaves mixed with olive oil, unleavened wafers smeared with olive oil, and well-soaked, ring-shaped loaves made of choice wheat flour mixed with olive oil.Copy LinkKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AIFlowchartCross Refs:Lev 2:4Num 6:151 Pet 2:52 Cor 9:11-15Eph 5:20Heb 13:15Hos 14:2Luke 17:16Luke 17:18Ps 107:21-22
Leviticus 7:1313He must present this grain offering in addition to ring-shaped loaves of leavened bread which regularly accompany the sacrifice of his thanksgiving peace offering.Copy LinkKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AIFlowchartCross Refs:Amos 4:5Lev 23:171 Tim 4:4Matt 13:33
Leviticus 7:1414He must present one of each kind of grain offering as a contribution offering to the Lord; it belongs to the priest who splashes the blood of the peace offering.Copy LinkKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AIFlowchartCross Refs:Num 18:19Exod 29:27-28Lev 6:26Num 15:19-21Num 18:24-32Num 18:8-11Num 31:29Num 31:41
Leviticus 7:1515The meat of his thanksgiving peace offering must be eaten on the day of his offering; he must not set any of it aside until morning.Copy LinkKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AIFlowchartCross Refs:Lev 22:29-30
Leviticus 7:1616“‘If his offering is a votive or freewill sacrifice, it may be eaten on the day he presents his sacrifice, and also the leftovers from it may be eaten on the next day,Copy LinkKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AIFlowchartCross Refs:Deut 12:6Lev 19:5-8Deut 12:11Deut 12:17Deut 12:26Ezek 46:12Lev 22:18-21Lev 22:23Lev 22:29Lev 23:38
Leviticus 7:1717but the leftovers from the meat of the sacrifice must be burned up in the fire on the third day.Copy LinkKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AIFlowchartCross Refs:Exod 12:101 Cor 15:4Hos 6:2Exod 19:11Exod 29:14Gen 22:4Lev 10:16Lev 19:7Lev 6:22-23
Leviticus 7:1818If some of the meat of his peace-offering sacrifice is ever eaten on the third day it will not be accepted; it will not be accounted to the one who presented it since it is spoiled, and the person who eats from it will bear his punishment for iniquity.Copy LinkKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AIFlowchartCross Refs:Lev 19:7-8Lev 11:41Lev 22:25Num 18:271 Pet 2:24Amos 5:22Ezek 18:20Heb 9:28Hos 8:13Isa 1:11-14
Leviticus 7:1919The meat which touches anything ceremonially unclean must not be eaten; it must be burned up in the fire. As for ceremonially clean meat, everyone who is ceremonially clean may eat the meat.Copy LinkKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AIFlowchartCross Refs:Rom 14:202 Cor 6:17Acts 10:15-16Acts 10:28Lev 11:24-39Luke 11:41Num 19:11-16Rom 14:14Titus 1:15
Leviticus 7:2020The person who eats meat from the peace-offering sacrifice which belongs to the Lord while that person’s uncleanness persists will be cut off from his people.Copy LinkKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AIFlowchartCross Refs:Lev 15:2-331 Cor 11:28Gen 17:14Lev 22:3-7
Leviticus 7:2121When a person touches anything unclean (whether human uncleanness, or an unclean animal, or an unclean detestable creature) and eats some of the meat of the peace-offering sacrifice which belongs to the Lord, that person will be cut off from his people.’”Copy LinkKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AIFlowchartCross Refs:Ezek 4:14Lev 11:10-13Lev 11:20Lev 12:1-13:59Lev 15:1-33Lev 5:2-3Deut 14:10Deut 14:12-20Deut 14:3Deut 14:7-8
Leviticus 7:2222Then the Lord spoke to Moses:Copy LinkKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AIFlowchart
Leviticus 7:2323“Tell the Israelites, ‘You must not eat any fat of an ox, sheep, or goat.Copy LinkKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AIFlowchartCross Refs:Lev 3:16-171 Sam 2:15-171 Sam 2:29Acts 28:27Deut 32:38Lev 17:6Lev 4:8-10Rom 13:13Rom 8:13
Leviticus 7:2424Moreover, the fat of an animal that has died of natural causes and the fat of an animal torn by beasts may be used for any other purpose, but you must certainly never eat it.Copy LinkKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AIFlowchartCross Refs:Exod 22:31Lev 17:15Lev 22:8Deut 14:21Ezek 4:14Ezek 44:31
Leviticus 7:2525If anyone eats fat from the animal from which he presents a gift to the Lord, that person will be cut off from his people.Copy LinkKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AIFlowchart
Leviticus 7:2626And you must not eat any blood of the birds or of the domesticated land animals in any of the places where you live.Copy LinkKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AIFlowchartCross Refs:Gen 9:4Acts 15:20Lev 17:10-14Lev 3:171 Sam 14:33-341 Tim 4:4Acts 15:29Eph 1:7Ezek 33:25John 6:53
Leviticus 7:2727Any person who eats any blood—that person will be cut off from his people.’”Copy LinkKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AIFlowchartCross Refs:Heb 10:29Lev 7:20-21Lev 7:25
Leviticus 7:2828Then the Lord spoke to Moses:Copy LinkKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AIFlowchart
Leviticus 7:2929“Tell the Israelites, ‘The one who presents his peace-offering sacrifice to the Lord must bring part of his offering to the Lord as his sacrifice.Copy LinkKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AIFlowchartCross Refs:1 John 1:7Col 1:20Lev 3:1-17
Leviticus 7:3030With his own hands he must bring the Lord ’s gifts. He must bring the fat with the breast to wave the breast as a wave offering before the Lord,Copy LinkKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AIFlowchartCross Refs:Num 6:20Lev 3:14Lev 3:3-4Lev 3:92 Cor 8:12Exod 29:24-28John 10:18Lev 8:27Lev 9:21Ps 110:3
Leviticus 7:3131and the priest must offer the fat up in smoke on the altar, but the breast will belong to Aaron and his sons.Copy LinkKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AIFlowchartCross Refs:Lev 3:11Lev 3:16Lev 3:5Lev 7:34Lev 5:13Lev 6:16Lev 6:26Lev 8:29Num 18:18
Leviticus 7:3232The right thigh you must give as a contribution offering to the priest from your peace-offering sacrifice.Copy LinkKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AIFlowchartCross Refs:Lev 7:34Lev 9:21Num 6:201 Cor 9:13-14Deut 18:3Lev 10:14Num 18:18-19Lev 8:25-26
Leviticus 7:3333The one from Aaron’s sons who presents the blood of the peace offering and fat will have the right thigh as his share,Copy LinkKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AIFlowchartCross Refs:Lev 26:1-46Lev 6:1-30Lev 7:3
Leviticus 7:3434for the breast of the wave offering and the thigh of the contribution offering I have taken from the Israelites out of their peace-offering sacrifices and have given them to Aaron the priest and to his sons from the people of Israel as a perpetual allotted portion.’”Copy LinkKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AIFlowchartCross Refs:Num 18:18-19Lev 10:14-15Deut 18:3Exod 29:27-28Exod 29:9Lev 3:17Lev 7:30-32
Leviticus 7:3535This is the allotment of Aaron and the allotment of his sons from the Lord ’s gifts on the day Moses presented them to serve as priests to the Lord.Copy LinkKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AIFlowchartCross Refs:1 John 2:201 John 2:272 Cor 1:21Exod 28:1Exod 29:1Exod 29:21Exod 29:7Exod 40:13-15Isa 10:27Isa 61:1
Leviticus 7:3636This is what the Lord commanded to give to them from the Israelites on the day Moses anointed them —a perpetual allotted portion throughout their generations.Copy LinkKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AIFlowchartCross Refs:Lev 8:12Lev 8:30Exod 40:13-15
Leviticus 7:3737This is the law for the burnt offering, the grain offering, the sin offering, the guilt offering, the ordination offering, and the peace-offering sacrifice,Copy LinkKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AIFlowchartCross Refs:Exod 29:1Exod 29:38-42Lev 1:1-5:6Lev 6:20-7:7Lev 6:9-18Lev 7:11-21
Leviticus 7:3838which the Lord commanded Moses on Mount Sinai on the day he commanded the Israelites to present their offerings to the Lord in the desert of Sinai.Copy LinkKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AIFlowchartCross Refs:Lev 1:1-2
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