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Leviticus 3

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Leviticus 3 explains the peace offering. Whether the animal comes from the herd or flock, it must be without blemish. The worshipper lays a hand upon the offering, the animal is killed, the priests sprinkle its blood, and specified fat portions are burned upon the altar. The chapter repeatedly states that all the fat is the LORD’s and closes with a statute prohibiting Israel from eating fat or blood.

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Before you read Leviticus 3

Coming from

Leviticus 2 described the grain offering and the portions given to God and the priests.

In this chapter

The chapter gives the procedure for peace offerings from cattle, sheep, or goats.

Leads into

Leviticus 4 introduces sin offerings for unintentional sin by priests, the congregation, rulers, and common people.

Key understanding

Leviticus 3 explains the peace offering. Whether the animal comes from the herd or flock, it must be without blemish. The worshipper lays a hand upon the offering, the animal is killed, the priests sprinkle its blood, and specified fat portions are burned upon the altar. The chapter repeatedly states that all the fat is the LORD’s and closes with a statute prohibiting Israel from eating fat or blood.

Major truths in this chapterExplore deeper

Truth 1

The peace offering is voluntary worship governed by precise instructions.

Truth 2

The animal must be without blemish, reinforcing the seriousness of what is brought before God.

Truth 3

Blood is sprinkled around the altar and distinguished from the fat portions burned to the LORD.

Truth 4

Specific internal fat portions belong to the LORD in this sacrificial system.

Truth 5

The closing prohibition on eating blood anticipates the fuller explanation in Leviticus 17.

Connections to the rest of ScriptureExplore deeper

Connection 1

Leviticus 7 gives further regulations concerning peace offerings and the eating of sacrificial meat.

Connection 2

Leviticus 17 explains that the life of the flesh is in the blood and that blood is given upon the altar for atonement.

Connection 3

Deuteronomy repeatedly describes sacrificial meals and rejoicing before the LORD.

Connection 4

Romans 5:1 teaches peace with God through faith in Jesus Christ, a greater reality than the fellowship symbolized in Israel’s sacrifices.

What is clear, and where care is neededExplore deeper

Keep this clear 1

The peace offering should not be reduced to a modern emotional idea of inner calm; it is a concrete sacrificial category.

Keep this clear 2

The prohibition of fat concerns the specified sacrificial fat and should be read carefully in its covenant context.

Keep this clear 3

The blood prohibition has special theological significance in Leviticus and is not merely a health regulation.

Keep this clear 4

Participation in sacrifice never replaces faith; the ritual belongs to Israel’s covenant worship.

Read Leviticus 3 watching for…

The repeated laying on of hands.

The blood sprinkled around the altar.

Which fat portions are burned.

The phrase “all the fat is the LORD’s.”

The final prohibition concerning fat and blood.

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Chapter outline4 sections
1-5The peace offering from the herd6-11The peace offering from the flock12-16The peace offering from the goats17Fat and blood are forbidden as food
1

And if his oblation be a sacrifice of peace offering, if he offer it of the herd; whether it be a male or female, he shall offer it without blemish before the LORD.

2

And he shall lay his hand upon the head of his offering, and kill it at the door of the tabernacle of the congregation: and Aaron's sons the priests shall sprinkle the blood upon the altar round about.

3

And he shall offer of the sacrifice of the peace offering an offering made by fire unto the LORD; the fat that covereth the inwards, and all the fat that is upon the inwards,

4

And the two kidneys, and the fat that is on them, which is by the flanks, and the caul above the liver, with the kidneys, it shall he take away.

5

And Aaron's sons shall burn it on the altar upon the burnt sacrifice, which is upon the wood that is on the fire: it is an offering made by fire, of a sweet savour unto the LORD.

6

And if his offering for a sacrifice of peace offering unto the LORD be of the flock; male or female, he shall offer it without blemish.

7

If he offer a lamb for his offering, then shall he offer it before the LORD.

8

And he shall lay his hand upon the head of his offering, and kill it before the tabernacle of the congregation: and Aaron's sons shall sprinkle the blood thereof round about upon the altar.

9

And he shall offer of the sacrifice of the peace offering an offering made by fire unto the LORD; the fat thereof, and the whole rump, it shall he take off hard by the backbone; and the fat that covereth the inwards, and all the fat that is upon the inwards,

10

And the two kidneys, and the fat that is upon them, which is by the flanks, and the caul above the liver, with the kidneys, it shall he take away.

11

And the priest shall burn it upon the altar: it is the food of the offering made by fire unto the LORD.

12

And if his offering be a goat, then he shall offer it before the LORD.

13

And he shall lay his hand upon the head of it, and kill it before the tabernacle of the congregation: and the sons of Aaron shall sprinkle the blood thereof upon the altar round about.

14

And he shall offer thereof his offering, even an offering made by fire unto the LORD; the fat that covereth the inwards, and all the fat that is upon the inwards,

15

And the two kidneys, and the fat that is upon them, which is by the flanks, and the caul above the liver, with the kidneys, it shall he take away.

16

And the priest shall burn them upon the altar: it is the food of the offering made by fire for a sweet savour: all the fat is the LORD's.

17

It shall be a perpetual statute for your generations throughout all your dwellings, that ye eat neither fat nor blood.

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