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" 'These are the regulations for the fellowship offering ^(F15) a person may present to the LORD :

" 'If he offers it as an expression of thankfulness, then along with this thank offering he is to offer cakes of bread made without yeast and mixed with oil, wafers made without yeast and spread with oil, and cakes of fine flour well-kneaded and mixed with oil.

Along with his fellowship offering of thanksgiving he is to present an offering with cakes of bread made with yeast.

He is to bring one of each kind as an offering, a contribution to the LORD ; it belongs to the priest who sprinkles the blood of the fellowship offerings.

The meat of his fellowship offering of thanksgiving must be eaten on the day it is offered; he must leave none of it till morning.

" 'If, however, his offering is the result of a vow or is a freewill offering, the sacrifice shall be eaten on the day he offers it, but anything left over may be eaten on the next day.

Any meat of the sacrifice left over till the third day must be burned up.

If any meat of the fellowship offering is eaten on the third day, it will not be accepted. It will not be credited to the one who offered it, for it is impure; the person who eats any of it will be held responsible.

" 'Meat that touches anything ceremonially unclean must not be eaten; it must be burned up. As for other meat, anyone ceremonially clean may eat it.

But if anyone who is unclean eats any meat of the fellowship offering belonging to the LORD , that person must be cut off from his people.

If anyone touches something unclean-whether human uncleanness or an unclean animal or any unclean, detestable thing-and then eats any of the meat of the fellowship offering belonging to the LORD , that person must be cut off from his people.' "