25 For with regard to whoever eats such fat from animal species from which sacrifices are brought as fire-offerings to God, the person who eats it will be cut off from his people—he will die prematurely and childless.
In contrast, fat from animal species that are not offered up as sacrifices, i.e., of wild animals that are permitted to be eaten, is permitted to be eaten.
26 As you fruther recall, you must also not consume any blood in any of your dwelling places, even outside the Land of Israel. This prohibition applies to the blood of fowl and to that of animals; the blood of permitted fish and grasshoppers, however, is permitted.
27 As is the case with forbidden fat, with regard to any person who consumes any blood, that person will be cut off from his people—he will die prematurely and childless.’ ”
Peace-Offerings: The Priests’ Perquisites
28 God spoke to Moses, saying:
29 “Speak to the Israelites, saying: ‘When someone brings his peace-promoting feast-offering to God, he must bring, from his peace-promoting feast-offering, his sacrifice to God—i.e., those parts of the animal that are to be burned up on the Altar (the fat) and those parts that are to be given to the priest (the breast and the right thigh [i.e., the middle section of the right hind leg])—together, in the following manner:
30 His own hands must bring the fire-offerings of God, i.e., the fat, which the priest must bring from the slaughtering place, placed on top of the breast and the thigh. The priest brings the breast and thigh, not to burn them up on the Altar but to wave them with the offerer as a wave-offering before God, as follows: A second priest takes first the fat and then the breast and thigh from the first priest and places them in the hand of the offerer, such that the breast and thigh are now on top of the fat.
The second priest then places his hand under the offerer’s hand, and the offerer and the second priest, while standing in one place, together “wave” the fat, the breast, and the thigh—i.e., move them to the north and back to the starting position, then to the south and back, then to the east and back, and then to the west and back—and then raise them and lower them to the starting position, and finally lower them and raise them back to the starting position.
If the offerer is a woman, the priest waves and raises and lowers the fat and meat by himself on her behalf.
31 The second priest then takes first the breast and thigh and then the fat from the hand of the offerer and places them into the hand of a third priest, such that the fat is again on top of the breast and thigh.
The third priest must then put down the meat, ascend the Altar with the fat, and burn up the fat on the Altar, and only after it is burned up will the breast and thigh be permitted to Aaron and his sons to eat. 32 Together with the breast, you must give the middle section of the right thigh to the priest, as a raised-offering taken from your peace-promoting feast-offerings, as described above.
