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18 If someone eats the meat of a peace offering on the third day, the offering shall not be pleasing. It shall be of no benefit to the person who offered it. It shall be an abomination, and whoever eats of it shall bear the guilt of his iniquity. 19 Any meat that has come into contact with something unclean is not to be eaten. It is to be burned in the fire. All who are clean may eat the meat of a peace offering, 20 but the person who is unclean and who eats the meat of the peace offering to the Lord is to be cut off[a] from his people.

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Footnotes

  1. Leviticus 7:20 Cut off: the offender is banished from the community of God and in some cases executed (see Lev 18:29).

18 If any meat of the fellowship offering(A) is eaten on the third day, the one who offered it will not be accepted.(B) It will not be reckoned(C) to their credit, for it has become impure; the person who eats any of it will be held responsible.(D)

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(E) eats any meat of the fellowship offering belonging to the Lord, they must be cut off from their people.(F)

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