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"Speak to Aaron and to his sons, saying, 'This is the law of the sin offering: in the place where the burnt offering is slaughtered, the sin offering shall be slaughtered before the LORD; it is most holy.

'The priest who offers it for sin shall eat it. It shall be eaten in a holy place, in the courtyard of the tent of meeting.

'Whoever touches its flesh will become consecrated; and when any of its blood spatters on a garment, you shall wash what spattered on it in a holy place.

'Also the earthenware vessel in which it was boiled shall be broken; and if it was boiled in a bronze vessel, then it shall be scoured and rinsed in water.

'But no sin offering of which any of the blood is brought into the tent of meeting to make atonement in the Holy Place shall be eaten; it shall be burned with fire.

'In the place where they slaughter the burnt offering they are to slaughter the guilt offering, and the priest shall sprinkle its blood around on the altar.

'Then he shall offer from it all its fat: the fat tail and the fat that covers the entrails,

and the two kidneys with the fat that is on them, which is on the loins; and he shall remove the lobe on the liver with the kidneys.

'The priest shall offer them up in smoke on the altar as an offering by fire to the LORD; it is a guilt offering.

'Every male among the priests may eat it. It shall be eaten in a holy place; it is most holy.

'The guilt offering is like the sin offering: there is one law for them. The priest who makes atonement with it shall have it.

'Also the priest who presents anyone's burnt offering, that priest shall have for himself the hide of the burnt offering which he has presented.

'Likewise, every grain offering that is baked in the oven and everything prepared in a pan or on a griddle shall belong to the priest who presents it.

'Every grain offering, mixed with oil or dry, shall belong to all the sons of Aaron, to all alike.

'Now this is the law of the sacrifice of peace offerings which shall be presented to the LORD.

'If he offers it by way of thanksgiving, then along with the sacrifice of thanksgiving he shall offer unleavened cakes mixed with oil, and unleavened wafers spread with oil, and cakes of well stirred fine flour mixed with oil.

'With the sacrifice of his peace offerings for thanksgiving, he shall present his offering with cakes of leavened bread.

'Of this he shall present one of every offering as a contribution to the LORD; it shall belong to the priest who sprinkles the blood of the peace offerings.

'Now as for the flesh of the sacrifice of his thanksgiving peace offerings, it shall be eaten on the day of his offering; he shall not leave any of it over until morning.

'But if the sacrifice of his offering is a vow or a voluntary offering, it shall be eaten on the day that he offers his sacrifice, and on the next day what is left of it may be eaten;