29 Bible Verses about Food For Priests Defined

You may eat the choice breast from this second ram, but you must first lift them up to show that this meat is dedicated to me.

The priest will burn the fat on the altar. However, the breast will belong to Aaron and his sons. You will also give the priest the right thigh as a contribution.

I have taken the breast and thigh that was presented to me from the contribution offering from the Israelites. I have given them to the priest Aaron and his sons. This is a long lasting law for generations to come.

The meat is yours, like the breast and the right thigh that are presented.

The priest will pay compensation and make peace with Jehovah for your sin (what you did wrong). You will be forgiven. The offering will belong to the priest like the grain offering.

Any thing left is for Aaron and his sons to eat. It will be eaten as unleavened cakes in a holy place. They must eat it in the court of the Tent of Meeting. It shall not be baked with leaven. I have given it as their share from my offerings by fire. It is most holy, like the sin offering and the guilt offering. Every male among the sons of Aaron may eat it. It is a long lasting ordinance throughout your generations, from the offerings by fire to Jehovah. Whoever touches them will become consecrated.'

The priest who makes the offering for sin will eat it in a holy place, in the courtyard of the Tent of Meeting. This is in the same place where the burnt offering is slaughtered.

Every male among the priests may eat it. It will be eaten in a holy place. It is very holy.

Every grain offering, whether baked in an oven or prepared in a skillet or a frying pan, belongs to the priest who offers it. Every grain offering, whether mixed with olive oil or dry, will be shared equally by all of Aaron's sons.

He will present one of every offering as a contribution to Jehovah. It will belong to the priest who sprinkles the blood of the peace offerings.

The priest will burn the fat on the altar. However, the breast will belong to Aaron and his sons.

He will slaughter the lamb in the holy place where the animals for the sin offerings and the burnt offerings are slaughtered. He must do this because the repayment offering, like the sin offering, belongs to the priest and is very holy.

After the sunsets he is clean. Then he may eat the sacred offerings, which are his food.

Any contribution over and above the holy offerings that the Israelites bring to the priest belongs to the priest. Each person's holy offerings will belong to that person. Everything given to the priest will belong to the priest.'

I have given you, your sons, and your daughters all the holy contributions which the Israelites offer to Jehovah. These contributions will be yours from generation to generation. It is an everlasting promise of salt in Jehovah's presence for you and your descendants.

Instead, I will give the Levites what the Israelites contribute to Jehovah, one-tenth of the Israelites' income. This is why I said about them: They will own no property as the other Israelites do.

Did I choose him out of all the tribes of Israel to be my priest, to offer upon my altar, to burn incense, to wear an ephod in my presences me? Did I give to the house of your father all the offerings made by fire from the sons of Israel?

The man said: The northern and southern side rooms that face the open area are holy rooms. These rooms are where the priests who come near Jehovah eat the holiest offerings. Because these rooms are holy, the priests keep the holiest offerings there: the grain offerings, the offerings for sin, and the guilt offerings.

They will eat grain offerings, offerings for sin, and guilt offerings. Everything in Israel that is devoted to Jehovah will belong to them.

The offering for sin must not be eaten if some of the blood was brought into the holy place in the Tent of Meeting to pay compensation for wrongdoing and make peace with Jehovah. It must be burned.

Every grain offering made by a priest must be completely burned. It must not be eaten.

Why did you not eat the sin offering in a sacred place? It is very holy! Jehovah gave it to you in order to take away the sin of the community.

Aaron answered: If I had eaten the sin offering today, would Jehovah have approved? The people presented their sin offering to Jehovah today. They brought their burnt offering, but still these terrible things have happened to me.

The rest of the grain offering will belong to Aaron and his sons. It is most holy and set apart from Jehovah's offering by fire.

The rest of the offering belongs to the priests. It is very holy, since it is taken from the food offered to Jehovah.

When cattle or sheep are sacrificed, the priests are to be given the shoulder, the jaw, and the stomach.

Any thing left is for Aaron and his sons to eat. It will be eaten as unleavened cakes in a holy place. They must eat it in the court of the Tent of Meeting.

You shall take the ram of ordination and boil its flesh in a holy place.

Moses told Aaron and his sons: Cook the meat at the entrance to the Tent of Meeting. Take the meat and the bread in the basket of the ordination offering. Eat them there as I commanded when I said: 'Aaron and his sons will eat it.'