"Then he shall offer from the sacrifice of the peace offering an offering made by fire to the Lord. The fat that covers the entrails and all the fat that is on the entrails...you shall eat neither fat nor blood." v.3, 17
Read chapter 3.
Everyone always says the fat is the best part. And it was and why the fat, the best, is to be given to the Lord. When an animal was sacrificed to the Lord the sacrificer was given instructions to cut the fat off certain parts of the innards and the priests would then burn it on the altar. This showed the choice or the best animal, with the fat in those parts showed that the animal was well fed and taken care of. This doesn't meant that they weren't allowed to eat any kind of fat, but that spoken of in the specific animals spoken here. The Israelites were not to eat the fat or the blood. These two things were holy, set apart, to God and to be seen as a distinction of common and sacred things. This chapter describes the peace offering and ultimately the blood that Christ shed on the cross for us was the peace offering giving us union with God. What sacred things have been made common in today's society?
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