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The Torah · JPS Tanakh, Gender-Sensitive Edition

Vayikra (Leviticus) 3

1If your offering is a sacrifice of well-being uncertain.—If you offer of the herd, whether a male or a female, you shall bring before GOD one without blemish.

Translator's notea your — In this chapter, Heb. 3rd-person references to the offerer are rendered in the 2nd person, in accord with v. 17.
Translator's noteb sacrifice of well-being — In contrast to others “peace offering.” Exact meaning of Heb. shelamim

2You shall lay a hand upon the head of your offering and slaughter it at the entrance of the Tent of Meeting; and Aaron’s sons, the priests, shall dash the blood against all sides of the altar.

3Then present from the sacrifice of well-being, as an offering by fire to GOD, the fat that covers the entrails and all the fat that is about the entrails;

4the two kidneys and the fat that is on them, that is at the loins; and the protuberance on the liver, which you shall remove with the kidneys.

5Aaron’s sons shall turn these into smoke on the altar, with the burnt offering that is upon the wood that is on the fire, as an offering by fire, of pleasing odor to GOD.

6And if your offering for a sacrifice of well-being to GOD is from the flock, whether a male or a female, you shall offer one without blemish.

7If you present a sheep as your offering, you shall bring it before GOD

8and lay a hand upon the head of your offering. It shall be slaughtered before the Tent of Meeting, and Aaron’s sons shall dash its blood against all sides of the altar.

9Then present, as an offering by fire to GOD, the fat from the sacrifice of well-being: the whole broad tail, which you shall remove close to the backbone; the fat that covers the entrails and all the fat that is about the entrails;

10the two kidneys and the fat that is on them, that is at the loins; and the protuberance on the liver, which you shall remove with the kidneys.

11The priest shall turn these into smoke on the altar as food, an offering by fire to GOD.

12And if your offering is a goat, you shall bring it before GOD

13and lay a hand upon its head. It shall be slaughtered before the Tent of Meeting, and Aaron’s sons shall dash its blood against all sides of the altar.

14Then present as your offering from it, as an offering by fire to GOD, the fat that covers the entrails and all the fat that is about the entrails;

15the two kidneys and the fat that is on them, that is at the loins; and the protuberance on the liver, which you shall remove with the kidneys.

16The priest shall turn these into smoke on the altar as food, an offering by fire, of pleasing odor.All fat is GOD’s.

17It is a law for all time throughout the ages, in all your settlements: you must not eat any fat or any blood.

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About this text. JPS Tanakh, Gender-Sensitive Edition, Jewish Publication Society (2023). CC BY-NC 4.0. Translators' footnotes are shown as separate translator's notes. Non-commercial licence: this text is never placed behind a paywall or paired with rewards. Original: Hebrew (Miqra according to the Masorah), CC BY-SA 4.0. Sources for The Torah · How Divine Reader works