09. Instructions for Priests (guilt, peace offering) (Lev 7:1-21)

These are instructions about the Guilt and Peace offerings for the priests to know.

πŸ‘‰ Read Leviticus 7:1-21

The Guilt offering is (          ) holy. The instruction for it is the same as the (         ) offering. The (             ) must present all its fat. The priest must burn it up in (            ) on the altar.

(             ) of burnt offering, and every baked (                ) offering belonged to the priest who presented it.

The peace offering has three occasions: thanksgiving, (              ), and (                ) sacrifice. They present with unleavened loaves, unleavened (             ), and (               ) loaves.

The meat of the peace offering sacrifice may be eaten by (              ). The leftover meat of votive or freewill peace offering should be burned up on the (             ) day. Anyone who is ceremonially (            ) and eats it will be cut off from the people.

Answers and Meditation

Most, sin, offeror, smoke

The portion that the priest should eat is stated as ‘most holy.’ The remaining portion of grain offerings, sin offerings, and guilt offerings. (2:3, 2:10, 6:17, 6:25, 6:29, 7:1, 7:6) On the other hand, the peace offering sacrifice is not called most holy.

 

The hide, grain

This is the compensation for the priest.

 

Votive, freewill, wafers, ring-shaped

It is interesting that they should present leavened bread for thanksgiving peace offering (13). However, this leavened bread is not offered to the Lord but only for people to eat. (Pastor Samuel)

They should bring a thanksgiving peace offering and a grain offering too, which of unleavened bread.


everyone who is clean, third, unclean

'Sacrifice for peace' is the literal translation of peace offering. A sacrifice is required to make shalom (peace) between God and us. Two parts are in the peace offering procedure: death of the sacrifice and eating of the sacrifice. God will take the smoke of fat portion as a food gift (3:11), and people will eat the meat. God and humans eat together the sacrifice and thus enjoy peaceful fellowship.

The death of Jesus Christ and the Last Supper mean that he has become a sacrifice for peace between God and us.

For thanksgiving peace offerings, they could eat only on that day. For freewill peace offering, they could eat that day and the next. Violation of the eating rule invalidated the whole peace offering. This means that eating was a part of the peace offering.

Verses 17 – 21, the Bible uses a long passage to warn them to treat the peace offering meat carefully because it belongs to the Lord. Sunday lunch fellowship could be understood as a peace offering meal. Though the food is prepared by humans, we should acknowledge that it belongs to God. It is more than just eating together.

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