¹j“This is the law of the kguilt offering. lIt is most holy. ²mIn the place where they kill the burnt offering they shall kill the guilt offering, and its blood shall be thrown against the sides of the altar. ³And nall its fat shall be offered, the fat tail, the fat that covers the entrails, ⁴the two kidneys with the fat that is on them at the loins, and the long lobe of the liver that he shall remove owith the kidneys. ⁵The priest shall burn them on the altar as a food offering to the Lord; it is a guilt offering. ⁶pEvery male among the priests may eat of it. It shall be eaten in a holy place. qIt is most holy. ⁷The rguilt offering is just like the sin offering; there is one law for them. The priest who makes atonement with it shall have it. ⁸And the priest who offers any man's burnt offering shall have for himself the skin of the burnt offering that he has offered. ⁹And severy grain offering baked tin the oven and all that is prepared uon a pan or a griddle shall belong to the priest who offers it. ¹⁰And every grain offering, mixed with oil or dry, shall be shared equally among all the sons of Aaron.

¹¹“And this is the law of the sacrifice of peace offerings that one may offer to the Lord. ¹²If he offers it for a thanksgiving, then he shall offer with the thanksgiving sacrifice vunleavened loaves mixed with oil, unleavened wafers smeared with oil, and loaves of fine flour wwell mixed with oil. ¹³xWith the sacrifice of his peace offerings for thanksgiving he shall bring his offering with loaves of leavened bread. ¹⁴And from it he shall offer one loaf from each offering, as a ygift to the Lord. zIt shall belong to the priest who throws the blood of the peace offerings. ¹⁵And the flesh of the sacrifice of his peace offerings afor thanksgiving shall be eaten on the day of his offering. He shall not leave any of it until the morning. ¹⁶But bif the sacrifice of his offering is a vow offering or a freewill offering, it shall be eaten on the day that he offers his sacrifice, and on the next day what remains of it shall be eaten. ¹⁷But what remains of the flesh of the sacrifice on the third day shall be burned up with fire. ¹⁸If any of the flesh of the sacrifice of his peace offering is eaten on the third day, he who offers it shall not be accepted, neither shall it be credited to him. It is ctainted, and he who eats of it shall bear his iniquity.

¹⁹“Flesh that touches any unclean thing shall not be eaten. It shall be burned up with fire. All who are clean may eat flesh, ²⁰but the person who eats of the flesh of the sacrifice of the Lord's peace offerings dwhile an uncleanness is on him, that person shall be cut off from his people. ²¹And if anyone touches an unclean thing, whether ehuman uncleanness or an funclean beast or any gunclean detestable creature, and then eats some flesh from the sacrifice of the Lord's peace offerings, that person shall be cut off from his people.”

²²The Lord spoke to Moses, saying, ²³“Speak to the people of Israel, saying, hYou shall eat no fat, of ox or sheep or goat. ²⁴The fat of an animal ithat dies of itself and the fat of one that is torn by beasts may be put to any other use, but on no account shall you eat it. ²⁵For every person who eats of the fat of an animal of which a food offering may be made to the Lord shall be cut off from his people. ²⁶Moreover, jyou shall eat no blood whatever, whether of fowl or of animal, in any of your dwelling places. ²⁷Whoever eats any blood, that person shall be cut off from his people.”

²⁸The Lord spoke to Moses, saying, ²⁹“Speak to the people of Israel, saying, kWhoever offers the sacrifice of his peace offerings to the Lord shall bring his offering to the Lord from the sacrifice of his peace offerings. ³⁰lHis own hands shall bring the Lord's food offerings. He shall bring the fat with mthe breast, that the breast may be waved as a wave offering before the Lord. ³¹nThe priest shall burn the fat on the altar, but othe breast shall be for Aaron and his sons. ³²And othe right thigh you shall give to the priest as a contribution from the sacrifice of your peace offerings. ³³Whoever among the sons of Aaron offers the blood of the peace offerings and the fat shall have the right thigh for a portion. ³⁴For the breast that is owaved and the thigh that is ocontributed I have taken from the people of Israel, out of the sacrifices of their peace offerings, and phave given them to Aaron the priest and to his sons, as a perpetual due from the people of Israel. ³⁵This is the portion of Aaron and of his sons from the Lord's food offerings, from the day they were presented to serve as priests of the Lord. ³⁶The Lord commanded this to be given them by the people of Israel, qfrom the day that he anointed them. It is a perpetual due throughout their generations.”

³⁷This is the law rof the burnt offering, of the grain offering, of the sin offering, sof the guilt offering, tof the ordination offering, and uof the peace offering, ³⁸which the Lord commanded Moses on Mount Sinai, on the day that he commanded the people of Israel vto bring their offerings to the Lord, in the wilderness of Sinai.

Psalm 7

In You Do I Take Refuge

A lShiggaion1 of David, which he sang to the Lord concerning the words of Cush, a Benjaminite.

¹O Lord my God, in you do I mtake refuge;

nsave me from all my pursuers and deliver me,

²lest like oa lion they tear my soul apart,

rending it in pieces, with pnone to deliver.

³O Lord my God, qif I have done this,

if there is rwrong in my hands,

⁴if I have repaid smy friend2 with evil

or tplundered my enemy without cause,

⁵let the enemy pursue my soul and overtake it,

and let him utrample my life to the ground

and lay my glory in the dust. Selah

⁶vArise, O Lord, in your anger;

wlift yourself up against the fury of my enemies;

xawake for me; you have appointed a judgment.

⁷Let the assembly of the peoples be gathered about you;

over it return on high.

⁸The Lord yjudges the peoples;

zjudge me, O Lord, according to my righteousness

and according to the integrity that is in me.

⁹Oh, let the evil of the wicked come to an end,

and may you establish the righteous—

you who atest bthe minds and hearts,3

O righteous God!

¹⁰My shield is cwith God,

who saves dthe upright in heart.

¹¹God is ea righteous judge,

and a God who feels findignation every day.

¹²If a man4 does not repent, God5 will gwhet his sword;

he has hbent and ireadied his bow;

¹³he has prepared for him his deadly weapons,

making his jarrows kfiery shafts.

¹⁴Behold, the wicked man lconceives evil

and is lpregnant with mischief

and gives birth to lies.

¹⁵He makes ma pit, digging it out,

and falls into the hole that he has made.

¹⁶His nmischief returns upon his own head,

and on his own skull his violence descends.

¹⁷I will give to the Lord the thanks due to his righteousness,

and I will osing praise to the name of the Lord, the Most High.

Psalm 8

How Majestic Is Your Name

To the choirmaster: according to The pGittith.1 A Psalm of David.

¹O Lord, our Lord,

how majestic is your qname in all the earth!

You have set your rglory above the heavens.

²sOut of the mouth of babies and infants,

you have established tstrength because of your foes,

to still uthe enemy and the avenger.

³When I vlook at your heavens, the work of your wfingers,

the moon and the stars, xwhich you have set in place,

⁴ywhat is man that you are zmindful of him,

and athe son of man that you bcare for him?

⁵Yet you have made him a little lower than cthe heavenly beings2

and crowned him with dglory and honor.

⁶You have given him edominion over the works of your hands;

fyou have put all things under his feet,

⁷all sheep and oxen,

and also the beasts of the field,

⁸the birds of the heavens, and the fish of the sea,

whatever passes along the paths of the seas.

⁹O Lord, our Lord,

how majestic is your name in all the earth!

¹pA good name is to be chosen rather than great riches,

and favor is better than silver or gold.

²qThe rich and the poor meet together;

the Lord is rthe Maker of them all.

³sThe prudent sees danger and hides himself,

but the simple go on and suffer for it.

⁴The reward for humility and fear of the Lord

is triches and honor and life.1

⁵uThorns and snares are in the way of the crooked;

whoever vguards his soul will keep far from them.

⁶wTrain up a child in the way he should go;

even when he is old he will not depart from it.

⁷xThe rich rules over the poor,

and the borrower is the slave of the lender.

⁸Whoever ysows injustice will reap calamity,

and zthe rod of his fury will fail.

⁹aWhoever has a bountiful2 eye will be blessed,

for he bshares his bread with the poor.

¹⁰cDrive out a scoffer, dand strife will go out,

and equarreling and abuse will cease.

¹¹He who floves purity of heart,

and whose gspeech is gracious, hwill have the king as his friend.

¹²The eyes of the Lord keep watch over knowledge,

but he ioverthrows the words of the traitor.

¹³jThe sluggard says, “There is a lion outside!

I shall be killed in the streets!”

¹⁴The mouth of kforbidden3 women is la deep pit;

mhe with whom the Lord is angry will fall into it.

¹⁵Folly is bound up in the heart of a child,

but nthe rod of discipline drives it far from him.

¹⁶Whoever oppresses the poor to increase his own wealth,

or gives to the rich, owill only come to poverty.

Words of the Wise

¹⁷pIncline your ear, and hear qthe words of the wise,

rand apply your heart to my knowledge,

¹⁸for it will be pleasant if you keep them within you,

if all of them are ready on your lips.

¹⁹That your trust may be in the Lord,

I have made them known to you today, even to you.

²⁰Have I not written for you sthirty sayings

of counsel and knowledge,

²¹to tmake you know what is right and true,

that you may give a true answer to those who sent you?

²²uDo not rob the poor, because he is poor,

or vcrush the afflicted at wthe gate,

²³for xthe Lord will plead their cause

and rob of life those who rob them.

²⁴Make no friendship with a man given to anger,

nor go with a wrathful man,

²⁵lest you learn his ways

and entangle yourself in a snare.

²⁶Be not one of those who ygive pledges,

who put up security for debts.

²⁷If you have nothing with which to pay,

why should zyour bed be taken from under you?

²⁸Do not move the ancient alandmark

that your fathers have set.

²⁹Do you see a man skillful in his work?

He will bstand before kings;

he will not stand before obscure men.

Greeting

¹Paul, aSilvanus, and Timothy,

To the church of the bThessalonians in God the Father and the Lord Jesus Christ:

cGrace to you and peace.

The Thessalonians' Faith and Example

²dWe give thanks to God always for all of you, constantly1 ementioning you in our prayers, ³remembering before four God and Father gyour work of faith and labor of hlove and isteadfastness of hope in our Lord Jesus Christ. ⁴For we know, jbrothers2 loved by God, kthat he has chosen you, ⁵because lour gospel came to you not only in word, but also in power and min the Holy Spirit and with full nconviction. You know owhat kind of men we proved to be among you for your sake. ⁶And pyou became imitators of us qand of the Lord, for ryou received the word in much affliction, swith the tjoy of the Holy Spirit, ⁷so that you became an example to all the believers in Macedonia and in Achaia. ⁸For not only has the word of the Lord usounded forth from you in Macedonia and Achaia, but your faith in God has gone forth veverywhere, so that we need not say anything. ⁹For they themselves report concerning us the kind of wreception we had among you, and how xyou turned to God yfrom idols to serve the living and ztrue God, ¹⁰and ato wait for his Son bfrom heaven, cwhom he raised from the dead, Jesus dwho delivers us from ethe wrath to come.