Leviticus 7:1-10

How are the offerings and their portions assigned to the priests?

Berean Standard Bible

1 “Now this is the law of the guilt offering, which is most holy: 2 The guilt offering must be slaughtered in the place where the burnt offering is slaughtered, and the priest shall splatter its blood on all sides of the altar. 3 And all the fat from it shall be offered: the fat tail, the fat that covers the entrails, 4 both kidneys with the fat on them near the loins, and the lobe of the liver, which is to be removed with the kidneys. 5 The priest shall burn them on the altar as a food offering to the LORD; it is a guilt offering. 6 Every male among the priests may eat of it. It must be eaten in a holy place; it is most holy. 7 The guilt offering is like the sin offering; the same law applies to both. It belongs to the priest who makes atonement with it. 8 As for the priest who presents a burnt offering for anyone, the hide of that offering belongs to him. 9 Likewise, every grain offering that is baked in an oven or cooked in a pan or on a griddle belongs to the priest who presents it, 10 and every grain offering, whether dry or mixed with oil, belongs equally to all the sons of Aaron.

What is the context?

The guilt offering is declared most holy. Its blood and specified fat go to the altar, and eligible priests eat it in a holy place. The passage connects its rules with those for the sin offering.

Other allocations follow: the presenting priest receives a burnt offering’s hide and specified cooked grain offerings, while dry or oil-mixed grain offerings are shared among Aaron’s sons. These provisions assign benefits within sanctuary service rather than leaving them to private appropriation.

How is this passage commonly understood?

Wesley explains the distinction between cooked and uncooked grain offerings as practical distribution among the priests. The USCCB notes also discuss possible development in the custom and a tension with chapter 2’s general provision. The practical explanation and the historical-development proposal are readings of the relationship between the laws, not events narrated by this paragraph.

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