Leviticus 7 – The Law of the Offerings: Holiness, Justice, and Fellowship
Leviticus 7 provides a detailed recap and clarification of the sacrificial system—especially the guilt offering and peace offering. It emphasizes proper handling, sacred portions for the priests, and the importance of purity, reverence, and communal joy in worship.
Sacred Order in Worship
As the final chapter in the sacrificial laws section, Leviticus 7 reinforces the importance of obedience, reverence, and order in approaching a holy God. The offerings were not mechanical acts—they were spiritual encounters requiring proper hearts, clean hands, and communal integrity.
✔ Clarifies guilt and peace offerings.
✔ Establishes what portions belong to priests.
✔ Reinforces holiness laws in handling offerings.
✔ Reminds Israel of their covenant responsibilities.
📖 Key Verse: “Therefore I have said… that the children of Israel shall eat neither fat nor blood.” – Leviticus 7:26
🔎 When God gives life, He also sets boundaries to preserve it.
Leviticus Chapter 7 Overview
Leviticus 7:1–10 – The Guilt Offering and the Priestly Portion
📖 Leviticus 7:1 – “Likewise this is the law of the trespass offering: it is most holy.”
🔎 Set apart and sacred:
🔹 The guilt (trespass) offering reemphasized the seriousness of sin involving deceit, damage, or defilement.
🔹 It was “most holy”—meaning it could only be handled by consecrated priests.
📖 Leviticus 7:6–10 – Priests eat the offering in a holy place, and each receives according to their role.
🔎 Sacred provision:
🔹 Offerings not only honored God—they sustained His servants.
🔹 God ordained that the faithful ministering priests share in the blessings of the altar.
➡️ Faith Insight: Ministry is holy labor. Those who serve at the altar are also nourished by it (1 Corinthians 9:13).
Leviticus 7:11–21 – The Peace Offering and the Table of Fellowship
📖 Leviticus 7:12 – “If he offer it for a thanksgiving, then he shall offer with the sacrifice unleavened cakes…”
🔎 A feast of joy:
🔹 The peace offering was unique—it included a shared meal.
🔹 Different types of bread (unleavened and leavened) accompanied the sacrifice, symbolizing sincerity and fullness of celebration.
📖 Leviticus 7:19–20 – “The flesh… that toucheth any unclean thing shall not be eaten…”
🔎 Purity protects communion:
🔹 Participation required cleanness—no one unclean could eat from the offering.
🔹 The sacred meal symbolized peace with God—and it could not be defiled.
➡️ Spiritual Insight: Communion with God requires inward cleansing and outer reverence. Fellowship must be holy to be real.
Leviticus 7:22–27 – The Prohibition of Fat and Blood
📖 Leviticus 7:23 – “Ye shall eat no manner of fat, of ox, or of sheep, or of goat.”
🔎 Honoring what belongs to God:
🔹 Fat and blood were sacred—they belonged to the Lord and symbolized life and blessing.
🔹 To eat what God claimed as His own was to violate the boundary of holiness.
📖 Leviticus 7:26 – “Ye shall eat no manner of blood… it is the life of all flesh.”
🔎 Reverence for life:
🔹 The blood carried life—it atoned, it sanctified.
🔹 God’s people were not to treat life casually.
➡️ Christ Connection: The blood of Jesus fulfills the symbol—His life poured out brings eternal peace (Hebrews 9:22).
Leviticus 7:28–38 – The Portion for the Priest and the Perpetual Ordinance
📖 Leviticus 7:30 – “His own hands shall bring the offerings of the Lord…”
🔎 Participation matters:
🔹 The worshiper actively brought the offering—worship was not a passive ritual.
🔹 Offerings were waved before the Lord, symbolizing presentation and joy.
📖 Leviticus 7:35–36 – “This is the portion… which the Lord commanded to be given…”
🔎 Honor for faithful servants:
🔹 The priests were given designated portions—not by man’s idea, but by God’s command.
🔹 Their service was a calling, not a career.
➡️ Faith Insight: Worship includes giving, serving, sharing—and it all belongs to the Lord.
Leviticus Chapter 7 - Deeper Study
Overview: The Covenant of Worship
🔹 Theme: Worship is sacred, structured, and shared.
🔹 Focus: Laws that guard purity, establish justice, and cultivate fellowship.
🔹 Outcome: A community that honors both the presence and the patterns of God.
Living Leviticus 7 Today
🔎 This chapter calls us to respect the sacred, honor God’s servants, and treat worship as both holy and joyful.
🔹 We avoid spiritual casualness by preparing our hearts before we worship.
🔹 We support those who labor in ministry as God commanded.
🔹 We remember that the blood of Christ was given—not to be consumed—but to cover and redeem.
📖 “Let us offer the sacrifice of praise to God continually…” – Hebrews 13:15
➡️ Modern Application: Worship is not a performance—it’s a shared covenant experience. Let your offering be reverent, joyful, and whole.
Key Takeaways
🔑 Guilt and peace offerings restore what sin disrupted.
🔑 Communion must be kept clean—externally and internally.
🔑 Sacred things (like blood, fat, and priestly portions) belong to God alone.
🔑 Worship is participatory—we bring, share, honor, and remember.
Prophetic Patterns & Dual Fulfillment
🔮 The blood and fat point to the sacred life of Jesus offered fully to the Father (Hebrews 10:10–14).
🔮 The shared peace offering foreshadows communion—the New Covenant meal (1 Corinthians 11:23–26).
🔮 The priestly portion reveals our future as kings and priests with Christ (Revelation 1:6).
Historical & Cultural Context
📜 Clean vs. Unclean – Maintaining ceremonial purity was essential to remain in covenant fellowship.
📜 Portioning Offerings – In ancient Near Eastern cultures, sharing a meal signified peace, loyalty, and relational bond.
📜 Wave Offerings – Symbolized presenting the gift back to God before consumption—a reminder that all things come from Him.
Final Reflection: A Sacred Meal with God
Leviticus 7 draws the laws of offering to a close by reminding us that every sacrifice, portion, and law had a purpose—to prepare the people for communion with their God. Worship is holy, but it is also shared. And at its heart is a table—a place of peace.
📌 Are you offering God what belongs to Him?
📌 Are you treating communion as sacred or as routine?
📌 Are you sharing in God’s presence with reverence and joy?
🚀 The fire has burned, the offering made—come now, and eat in peace.
Lev 7:1 Likewise this is the law of the trespass offering: it is most holy.
Lev 7:2 In the place where they kill the burnt offering shall they kill the trespass offering: and the blood thereof shall he sprinkle round about upon the altar.
Lev 7:3 And he shall offer of it all the fat thereof; the rump, and the fat that covereth the inwards,
Lev 7:4 And the two kidneys, and the fat that is on them, which is by the flanks, and the caul that is above the liver, with the kidneys, it shall he take away:
Lev 7:5 And the priest shall burn them upon the altar for an offering made by fire unto the LORD: it is a trespass offering.
Lev 7:6 Every male among the priests shall eat thereof: it shall be eaten in the holy place: it is most holy.
Lev 7:7 As the sin offering is, so is the trespass offering: there is one law for them: the priest that maketh atonement therewith shall have it.
Lev 7:8 And the priest that offereth any man’s burnt offering, even the priest shall have to himself the skin of the burnt offering which he hath offered.
Lev 7:9 And all the meat offering that is baken in the oven, and all that is dressed in the fryingpan, and in the pan, shall be the priest’s that offereth it.
Lev 7:10 And every meat offering, mingled with oil, and dry, shall all the sons of Aaron have, one as much as another.
Lev 7:11 And this is the law of the sacrifice of peace offerings, which he shall offer unto the LORD.
Lev 7:12 If he offer it for a thanksgiving, then he shall offer with the sacrifice of thanksgiving unleavened cakes mingled with oil, and unleavened wafers anointed with oil, and cakes mingled with oil, of fine flour, fried.
Lev 7:13 Besides the cakes, he shall offer for his offering leavened bread with the sacrifice of thanksgiving of his peace offerings.
Lev 7:14 And of it he shall offer one out of the whole oblation for an heave offering unto the LORD, and it shall be the priest’s that sprinkleth the blood of the peace offerings.
Lev 7:15 And the flesh of the sacrifice of his peace offerings for thanksgiving shall be eaten the same day that it is offered; he shall not leave any of it until the morning.
Lev 7:16 But if the sacrifice of his offering be a vow, or a voluntary offering, it shall be eaten the same day that he offereth his sacrifice: and on the morrow also the remainder of it shall be eaten:
Lev 7:17 But the remainder of the flesh of the sacrifice on the third day shall be burnt with fire.
Lev 7:18 And if any of the flesh of the sacrifice of his peace offerings be eaten at all on the third day, it shall not be accepted, neither shall it be imputed unto him that offereth it: it shall be an abomination, and the soul that eateth of it shall bear his iniquity.
Lev 7:19 And the flesh that toucheth any unclean thing shall not be eaten; it shall be burnt with fire: and as for the flesh, all that be clean shall eat thereof.
Lev 7:20 But the soul that eateth of the flesh of the sacrifice of peace offerings, that pertain unto the LORD, having his uncleanness upon him, even that soul shall be cut off from his people.
Lev 7:21 Moreover the soul that shall touch any unclean thing, as the uncleanness of man, or any unclean beast, or any abominable unclean thing, and eat of the flesh of the sacrifice of peace offerings, which pertain unto the LORD, even that soul shall be cut off from his people.
Lev 7:22 And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying,
Lev 7:23 Speak unto the children of Israel, saying, Ye shall eat no manner of fat, of ox, or of sheep, or of goat.
Lev 7:24 And the fat of the beast that dieth of itself, and the fat of that which is torn with beasts, may be used in any other use: but ye shall in no wise eat of it.
Lev 7:25 For whosoever eateth the fat of the beast, of which men offer an offering made by fire unto the LORD, even the soul that eateth it shall be cut off from his people.
Lev 7:26 Moreover ye shall eat no manner of blood, whether it be of fowl or of beast, in any of your dwellings.
Lev 7:27 Whatsoever soul it be that eateth any manner of blood, even that soul shall be cut off from his people.
Lev 7:28 And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying,
Lev 7:29 Speak unto the children of Israel, saying, He that offereth the sacrifice of his peace offerings unto the LORD shall bring his oblation unto the LORD of the sacrifice of his peace offerings.
Lev 7:30 His own hands shall bring the offerings of the LORD made by fire, the fat with the breast, it shall he bring, that the breast may be waved for a wave offering before the LORD.
Lev 7:31 And the priest shall burn the fat upon the altar: but the breast shall be Aaron’s and his sons’.
Lev 7:32 And the right shoulder shall ye give unto the priest for an heave offering of the sacrifices of your peace offerings.
Lev 7:33 He among the sons of Aaron, that offereth the blood of the peace offerings, and the fat, shall have the right shoulder for his part.
Lev 7:34 For the wave breast and the heave shoulder have I taken of the children of Israel from off the sacrifices of their peace offerings, and have given them unto Aaron the priest and unto his sons by a statute for ever from among the children of Israel.
Lev 7:35 This is the portion of the anointing of Aaron, and of the anointing of his sons, out of the offerings of the LORD made by fire, in the day when he presented them to minister unto the LORD in the priest’s office;
Lev 7:36 Which the LORD commanded to be given them of the children of Israel, in the day that he anointed them, by a statute for ever throughout their generations.
Lev 7:37 This is the law of the burnt offering, of the meat offering, and of the sin offering, and of the trespass offering, and of the consecrations, and of the sacrifice of the peace offerings;
Lev 7:38 Which the LORD commanded Moses in mount Sinai, in the day that he commanded the children of Israel to offer their oblations unto the LORD, in the wilderness of Sinai.
Date Written
1445–1405 BC
Written By
Moses
Language
Hebrew
Verses
38