Fat: Offered in Sacrifice

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Verses

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  1. You must not offer the blood of My sacrifices with anything leavened, nor may the fat of My feast remain until morning.
  2. Take all the fat that covers the entrails and the lobe of the liver, and both kidneys with the fat on them, and burn them on the altar.
  3. Take the fat from the ram, the fat tail, the fat covering the entrails, the lobe of the liver, both kidneys with the fat on them, and the right thigh (since this is a ram for ordination),
  4. Then Aaron’s sons the priests are to arrange the pieces, including the head and the fat, atop the burning wood on the altar.
  5. From the peace offering he is to bring a food offering to the LORD: the fat that covers the entrails, all the fat that is on them, …
  6. And from the peace offering he shall bring a food offering to the LORD consisting of its fat: the entire fat tail cut off close to the backbone, the fat that covers the entrails, all the fat that is on them, …
  7. And from his offering he shall present a food offering to the LORD: the fat that covers the entrails, all the fat that is on them, …
  8. Then he shall remove all the fat from the bull of the sin offering—the fat that covers the entrails, all the fat that is on them, …
  9. And all the fat from it shall be offered: the fat tail, the fat that covers the entrails, …
  10. Moses also took all the fat that was on the entrails, the lobe of the liver, and both kidneys and their fat, and burned it all on the altar.
  11. And Moses took the fat—the fat tail, all the fat that was on the entrails, the lobe of the liver, and both kidneys with their fat—as well as the right thigh.
  12. And from the basket of unleavened bread that was before the LORD, he took one cake of unleavened bread, one cake of bread made with oil, and one wafer, and he placed them on the fat portions and on the right thigh.
  13. They are to bring the thigh of the contribution and the breast of the wave offering, together with the fat portions of the food offerings, to wave as a wave offering before the LORD. It will belong permanently to you and your children, as the LORD has commanded.”
  14. The priest will then splatter the blood on the altar of the LORD at the entrance to the Tent of Meeting and burn the fat as a pleasing aroma to the LORD.
  15. Even before the fat was burned, the servant of the priest would come and say to the man who was sacrificing, “Give the priest some meat to roast, because he will not accept boiled meat from you, but only raw.”
  16. And if any man said to him, “The fat must be burned first; then you may take whatever you want,” the servant would reply, “No, you must give it to me right now. If you refuse, I will take it by force!”
  17. You have not bought Me sweet cane with your silver, nor satisfied Me with the fat of your sacrifices. But you have burdened Me with your sins; you have wearied Me with your iniquities.