Daily Bread

The Fellowship Offering

¹¹ “‘These are the regulations for the fellowship offering anyone may present to the Lord:

¹² “‘If they offer it as an expression of thankfulness, then along with this thank offering^(A) they are to offer thick loaves^(B) made without yeast^(C) and with olive oil mixed in, thin loaves^(D) made without yeast and brushed with oil,^(E) and thick loaves of the finest flour well-kneaded and with oil mixed in. ¹³ Along with their fellowship offering of thanksgiving^(F) they are to present an offering with thick loaves of bread made with yeast.^{(G) 14} They are to bring one of each kind as an offering, a contribution to the Lord; it belongs to the priest who splashes the blood of the fellowship offering against the altar. ¹⁵ The meat of their fellowship offering of thanksgiving must be eaten on the day it is offered; they must leave none of it till morning.^(H)

¹⁶ “‘If, however, their offering is the result of a vow^(I) or is a freewill offering,^(J) the sacrifice shall be eaten on the day they offer it, but anything left over may be eaten on the next day.^{(K) 17} Any meat of the sacrifice left over till the third day must be burned up.^{(L) 18} If any meat of the fellowship offering^(M) is eaten on the third day, the one who offered it will not be accepted.^(N) It will not be reckoned^(O) to their credit, for it has become impure; the person who eats any of it will be held responsible.^(P)

¹⁹ “‘Meat that touches anything ceremonially unclean must not be eaten; it must be burned up. As for other meat, anyone ceremonially clean may eat it. ²⁰ But if anyone who is unclean^(Q) eats any meat of the fellowship offering belonging to the Lord, they must be cut off from their people.^{(R) 21} Anyone who touches something unclean^(S)—whether human uncleanness or an unclean animal or any unclean creature that moves along the ground^[a]—and then eats any of the meat of the fellowship offering belonging to the Lord must be cut off from their people.’”