Levitical Sacrifices

Reference	Name	Items Sacrificed	Person's Action	Priest's Action	Consumation
Leviticus 1:1-9	Fire Offering	Perfect male from herd or flock--livestock	Bring animal near, lay hand on animal, and kill it	Sprinkle blood, skin animal and cut in pieces, wash pieces.	sons of Aaron burn all of it on altar
Lev. 1:10-17	Burnt Offering	Perfect male, sheep or goat	bring near, slaughter	sprinkle blood, cut in pieces, wash	priests burn whole, keep fire burning, take ashes outside
		Dove or related bird		nip off head, rip partly in two, drain blood, remove crop and feathers	burn what is not discarded
Lev. 2:1-11	Food Offering	fine flour, oil, and frankincense (no leaven, no honey) raw-in a pan baked-unleavened fried -in griddle	bring near, SALT IT	offer handful to God-burn on altar	Levites eat it
Lev. 2:12-16	Firstfruits	grain	bring near, put oil & frankincense on it	burn memorial portion of grain, burn all incense	priest eats grain
		fruit	give to Jehovah	don't burn	priest eats it
Lev. 3:1-17	Peace Offering	perfect male or female from herd (livestock) or flock (sheep)	bring near, lay hand on , slaughter, remove fat	sprinkle blood, burn fat, wave fat and one bread cake	priest eats it
	Thanks Offering	peace offering, plus unleavened bread
Lev. 4:1-34 Sin/Guilt Offering	Priest Person sinning in ignorance affecting whole assembly Whole As'bly	perfect male bullock	bring near, lay hand on head, slaughter	sprinkle blood at veil and altar horns, remove fat, burn it	burn all but the fat in the trash pit outside camp
	Ruler	perfect male goat	bring near, lay hand, slaughter	sprinkle blood on altar	burn fat on altar, eaten by priests in a holy place. Priests may keep and use the hide.
	Any person sinning in ignorance	perfect female goat or lamb
	Priest's Offering	flour and oil (unleavened bread)	offer to God in addition to memorial portions of lay peoples' offerings			Completely burned--not to be eaten
		baked or fried cakes mixed	bring to Jehovah on day of anointing and every morning and evening.
	Freewill Offering	any clean animal--not necessarily perfect
	Fellowship	lamb	present to God	wave offering	both sacrificer and priest eat it together as a meal.

Other General Principles:

offerings were to be salted--the salt of the covenant not to be neglected

Fat or blood never to be eaten

Honey or leaven were never to be burned in a sacrifice

The breast and right thigh of all offerings as well as all the meat from guilt offerings and food offerings were to be distributed among ALL the sons of Aaron--anything else could be kept by the priest who sacrificed it.

edible sacrifices had to be eaten in two days. Anything left over had to be be burned on the third day.

~Compiled by Nate Wilson