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You may add yeast and honey to an offering of the first crops of your harvest, but these must never be offered on the altar as a pleasing aroma to the Lord .

"If you present an animal from the herd as a peace offering to the Lord , it may be a male or a female, but it must have no defects.

"If you present an animal from the flock as a peace offering to the Lord , it may be a male or a female, but it must have no defects.

But he must take whatever is left of the bull—its hide, meat, head, legs, internal organs, and dung—

"If the entire Israelite community sins by violating one of the Lord 's commands, but the people don't realize it, they are still guilty.

"If one of Israel's leaders sins by violating one of the commands of the Lord his God but doesn't realize it, he is still guilty.

"If any of the common people sin by violating one of the Lord 's commands, but they don't realize it, they are still guilty.

"But if you cannot afford to bring a sheep, you may bring to the Lord two turtledoves or two young pigeons as the penalty for your sin. One of the birds will be for a sin offering, and the other for a burnt offering.

You must bring them to the priest, who will present the first bird as the sin offering. He will wring its neck but without severing its head from the body.

Aaron and his sons may eat the rest of the flour, but it must be baked without yeast and eaten in a sacred place within the courtyard of the Tabernacle.

But the offering for sin may not be eaten if its blood was brought into the Tabernacle as an offering for purification in the Holy Place. It must be completely burned with fire.

"If you bring an offering to fulfill a vow or as a voluntary offering, the meat must be eaten on the same day the sacrifice is offered, but whatever is left over may be eaten on the second day.

"Meat that touches anything ceremonially unclean may not be eaten; it must be completely burned up. The rest of the meat may be eaten, but only by people who are ceremonially clean.

Then the priest will burn the fat on the altar, but the breast will belong to Aaron and his descendants.

But you must not leave the entrance of the Tabernacle or you will die, for you have been anointed with the Lord 's anointing oil." So they did as Moses commanded.

But the breast and thigh that were lifted up as a special offering may be eaten in any place that is ceremonially clean. These parts have been given to you and your descendants as your portion of the peace offerings presented by the people of Israel.

You may not, however, eat the following animals that have split hooves or that chew the cud, but not both. The camel chews the cud but does not have split hooves, so it is ceremonially unclean for you.

The hyrax chews the cud but does not have split hooves, so it is unclean.

The hare chews the cud but does not have split hooves, so it is unclean.

The pig has evenly split hooves but does not chew the cud, so it is unclean.