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3:1  When you offer sacrifices to ask my blessing, you may offer either a bull or a cow, but there must be nothing wrong with the animal.
3:2  Lead it to the entrance of the sacred tent, lay your hand on its head, and have it killed there. A priest from Aaron's family will splatter its blood against the four sides of the altar.
3:3  Offer all of the fat on the animal's insides,
3:4  as well as the lower part of the liver and the two kidneys with their fat.
3:5  Some of the priests will lay these pieces on the altar and send them up in smoke with a smell that pleases me, together with the sacrifice that is offered to please me.
3:6  Instead of a bull or a cow, you may offer any sheep or goat that has nothing wrong with it.
3:7  If you offer a sheep, you must present it to me at the entrance to the sacred tent.
3:8  Lay your hand on its head and have it killed there. A priest will then splatter its blood against the four sides of the altar.
3:9  Offer the fat on the tail, the tailbone, and the insides,
3:10  as well as the lower part of the liver and the two kidneys with their fat.
3:11  One of the priests will lay these pieces on the altar and send them up in smoke as a food offering for me.
3:12  If you offer a goat, you must also present it to me
3:13  at the entrance to the sacred tent. Lay your hand on its head and have it killed there. A priest will then splatter its blood against the four sides of the altar.
3:14  Offer all of the fat on the animal's insides,
3:15  as well as the lower part of the liver and the two kidneys with their fat.
3:16  One of the priests will put these pieces on the altar and send them up in smoke as a food offering with a smell that pleases me. All fat belongs to me.
3:17  So you and your descendants must never eat any fat or any blood, not even in the privacy of your own homes. This law will never change.