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Offering Outline & Definitions from Leviticus, chapters 1-7 in order:

1.Olah offering / Whole Burnt Offering: Olah means, ascend or elevate, and is referred to as the elevation offering.1.Acceptable animals used were an unblemished bull, ram, lamb, goat, dove or pigeon.

2.It was slaughtered in the courtyard of the tabernacle, north of the alter.

3.The blood was placed on the horns of the outer (brazened) alter, and the rest was poured out around the alter.

4.The meat was cut in pieces. The head, fat, organs and all its parts were placed on the alter and burned.

5.Nothing was eaten in this offering; it was all burned to Yahweh.

6.But the hide was given to the priest who offered it. If birds were being used, the crop was taken out and placed where the ashes were carried to. Then the WHOLE thing was burned.

7.This is why it was called “The Whole Burnt Offering.”

8.It was considered MOST holy.

2.Minka offering / Meal or grain offering: 1.It was a bloodless offering; there’s no sacrifice or slaughtering.

2.It can be roasted grain, beaten grain (taken off the stalk and offered in some sort of basket), fine flour (the grain being crushed or ground), baked loaves (as in bread), fried, boiled, or in wafer form (see, God likes waffles-Waffle House, this one’s for you).

3.They were ornamented with frankincense and oil.

4.It was NEVER to be given with yeast (rot, sin, mixture).

5.It was ALWAYS to be mixed with salt (preservative, stabalizer).

6.A portion was burned on the alter and the rest given to the priest to eat in the courtyard, because it was most holy.

3.Milu (mill-lew) offering / Consecration offering: almost a sub-offering of the Minka offering.1.One tenth of an epha of fine flour baked and mixed with oil.

2.Half was burned in the morning, and half in the evening.

3.Nothing was eaten of it.

Next we get into a set of offerings referred to as the Shalomeme offerings. There’s a total of 4 of them, and were given for different reasons, but the base of these reasons was your love for Yahweh, and were celebratory in nature.

4.1) Zibach Shalomeme Offering / Peace Offering: Zibach: Slaughter. Shalomeme: Whole, complete, or peace. 1.It consists of a male or female bull, lamb or goat.

2.A Minka offering was also offered with cakes, wafers or fine flour, all unleavened and mixed with oil, along with a baked cake as a wave offering as well.

3.They would slaughter the animals in the courtyard north of the alter.

4.The blood would be applied to that brazen alter (which was the outer alter).

5.The meat would be cut into pieces and the fat and the kidneys would be placed on the alter to burn. And the breast and right shoulder would be given to the priest.

6.The rest of the meat was to be eaten by the person offering it and any of his guests, so long as they be in an acceptable state, or clean state.

5.2) Another form of the Zibach Shalomeme: Todah Shalomeme/Thank offering: 1.If it was a thank offering, it had to be eaten in the same day it was offered.

2.Where this sacrifice was done and what was done with the meat and the blood, as well as who was to partake of it is the same as the Zibach Shalomeme.

6.3) Another form of the Zibach Shalomeme: Nadar Shalomeme / Vow Offering: 1.Where this sacrifice was done and what was done with the meat and the blood, as well as who was to partake of it is the same as the Zibach Shalomeme.

2.The only difference from the Todah and Zibach was you had two days to eat it. The third day the leftovers were to be burned.

7.4) Another form of the Zibach Shalomeme: Needabash Shalomeme / Voluntary Offering: 1.Where this sacrifice was done and what was done with the meat and the blood, as well as who was to partake of it is the same as the Zibach Shalomeme.

2.The only difference from the Todah and Zibach was you had two days to eat it. The third day the leftovers were to be burned.

3.NOTE: these Shalomeme offerings were a meal to be celebrated.

8.Chattaah (Khat-taw-aw) Offering / Sin offering: This offering is for unintentional sin ONLY.1.There are two divisions to this offering. They are determined by where the blood is placed.

2.The first division is a sacrifice offered for the anointed priest and the whole congregation.

3.It was an unblemished bull, killed in the courtyard.

4.The blood was sprinkled on the alter of incense before the vale that separates the holy place from the most holy place, and smeared on its horns, which was the inner alter located inside the tabernacle, or the holy place.

5.The kidneys and the fat were burned on the alter and the rest of the meat was to be burned outside the camp. Nothing was to be eaten.

6.So, when the blood was sprinkled in the holy place, on that alter of incense, nothing was to be eaten of it.

7.The second division was a sin offering for a ruler of common Israelite:

8.The sacrifice for a ruler was an unblemished male goat. For a common Israelite it was an unblemished female goat.

9.The only difference from the first division above and this one is the blood was sprinkled on the outer alter, the brazen alter.

10.And because it the blood was applied on the outer alter, the priests were to eat the rest of the meat.

9.Asham Offering / Guilt Offering: Asham means ashamed, and this offering is for unintentional sin.1.Female lamb or goat, two turtle doves, or two pigeons. And if they can’t afford any of these, a tenth of an epha of flour with no oil or incense mixed in (because it’s a guilt offering, there’s no ornaments mixed in).

2.It was slaughtered in the outer court. Blood was applied to the outer alter and the rest was poured out at the base of the alter.

3.And again, the fat and kidneys are burnt and the meat is eaten by the priests I the courtyard.

4.If it’s a bird, the whole thing is burnt like we’ve seen in other offerings. And if it’s a meal offering, it follows the Minka offering.

10. Asham Offering / Guilt Offering for INTENTIONAL Sin: 1.The same Asham offering is also used for intentional sin, but only AFTER the long process of making it right and so on is completed. Once that’s taken care of…

2.The only difference was that the offering had to be a male ram.

Directions that go along with all of these offerings we just went through:

- No fat is to be eaten by the Israelites, nor the priests, EVER! This is the fat found around the organs, not the fat that’s dispersed throughout the meat that is usually burnt up when you cook it. It’s the hard fat, if you will.

- No blood is ever to be consumed either.

- No leavened is to ever be burnt on the alter. The only case when leavened bread is offered is in the Wave Offering. That’s not to be burnt.

- No honey is ever to be burned on the alter.

- You can never eat of the meat of a sacrifice when the blood is applied to the inner alter of Incense.

- The offerings that allow for you to eat/partake of it, can never be eaten in an unclean state. Such offerings are holy.

- Once the deadline for when you can eat of an offering is past (one day or two), you must burn it and not eat anymore of it.

And ALL the offerings must be offered with SALT, which represents preservation, or something that lasts.