利未記7:28-38

7:28 耶和華對摩西說：
7:29 「你曉諭以色列人說：獻平安祭給耶和華的，要從平安祭中取些來奉給耶和華。
7:30 他親手獻給耶和華的火祭，就是脂油和胸，要帶來，好把胸在耶和華面前作搖祭，搖一搖。
7:31 祭司要把脂油在壇上焚燒，但胸要歸亞倫和他的子孫。
7:32 你們要從平安祭中把右腿作舉祭，奉給祭司。
7:33 亞倫子孫中，獻平安祭牲血和脂油的，要得這右腿為分；
7:34 因為我從以色列人的平安祭中，取了這搖的胸和舉的腿給祭司亞倫和他子孫，作他們從以色列人中所永得的分。」
7:35 這是從耶和華火祭中，作亞倫受膏的分和他子孫受膏的分，正在摩西（原文是他）叫他們前來給耶和華供祭司職分的日子，
7:36 就是在摩西（原文是他）膏他們的日子，耶和華吩咐以色列人給他們的。這是他們世世代代永得的分。
7:37 這就是燔祭、素祭、贖罪祭、贖愆祭，和平安祭的條例，並承接聖職的禮，
7:38 都是耶和華在西奈山所吩咐摩西的，就是他在西奈曠野吩咐以色列人獻供物給耶和華之日所說的。

 ²⁸ The Lord said to Moses, ²⁹ “Say to the Israelites: ‘Anyone who brings a fellowship offering to the Lord is to bring part of it as their sacrifice to the Lord. ³⁰ With their own hands they are to present the food offering to the Lord; they are to bring the fat, together with the breast, and wave the breast before the Lord as a wave offering. ³¹ The priest shall burn the fat on the altar, but the breast belongs to Aaron and his sons. ³² You are to give the right thigh of your fellowship offerings to the priest as a contribution. ³³ The son of Aaron who offers the blood and the fat of the fellowship offering shall have the right thigh as his share. ³⁴ From the fellowship offerings of the Israelites, I have taken the breast that is waved and the thigh that is presented and have given them to Aaron the priest and his sons as their perpetual share from the Israelites.’”

³⁵ This is the portion of the food offerings presented to the Lord that were allotted to Aaron and his sons on the day they were presented to serve the Lord as priests. ³⁶ On the day they were anointed, the Lord commanded that the Israelites give this to them as their perpetual share for the generations to come.

³⁷ These, then, are the regulations for the burnt offering, the grain offering, the sin offering, the guilt offering, the ordination offering and the fellowship offering, ³⁸ which the Lord gave Moses at Mount Sinai in the Desert of Sinai on the day he commanded the Israelites to bring their offerings to the Lord.

 

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    上帝不會讓事奉祂的人無所得，在這裡明明地說：「因為我從以色列人的平安祭中，取了這搖的胸和舉的腿給祭司亞倫和他子孫，作他們從以色列人中所永得的分。」（34節）

    雖然我們不是為肚腹的需要來事奉上帝，但是上帝顧念服事祂的人的辛勞和不容易，為祂的祭司有豐盛的預備，並且要成為永得的分！這是何等的愛護與關照呢！

    求主幫助我們，不要害怕全職的服事，若是清楚上帝的呼召，就不要遲延、不要躊躇，上帝必為我們預備「永得的分」，人會虧待我們，但是上帝不會，上帝必保守到底的！

利未記7:22-27

7:22 耶和華對摩西說：
7:23 「你曉諭以色列人說：牛的脂油、綿羊的脂油、山羊的脂油，你們都不可吃。
7:24 自死的和被野獸撕裂的，那脂油可以做別的使用，只是你們萬不可吃。
7:25 無論何人吃了獻給耶和華當火祭牲畜的脂油，那人必從民中剪除。
7:26 在你們一切的住處，無論是雀鳥的血是野獸的血，你們都不可吃。
7:27 無論是誰吃血，那人必從民中剪除。」

 ²² The Lord said to Moses, ²³ “Say to the Israelites: ‘Do not eat any of the fat of cattle, sheep or goats. ²⁴ The fat of an animal found dead or torn by wild animals may be used for any other purpose, but you must not eat it. ²⁵ Anyone who eats the fat of an animal from which a food offering may be^[c] presented to the Lord must be cut off from their people. ²⁶ And wherever you live, you must not eat the blood of any bird or animal. ²⁷ Anyone who eats blood must be cut off from their people.’”

 

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    上帝在這裡明明禁止以色列人吃牛的脂油、綿羊的脂油、山羊的脂油；以及禁止吃血。因為油脂是要獻給耶和華上帝，而血是要除人的罪；所以，上帝禁止他們去吃血和油脂。

    在這樣的經文，用「健康」做理由來解釋，是不恰當的！是要以上帝的教導和啟示為依據來解釋，這才是恰當的。我們解釋聖經要依照聖經的法則，不要受到時代思潮的影響，這樣會很容易曲解聖經。

    求主幫助，也讓我們對於律法的要求能夠清楚其意義，再以救恩的原則來檢視，使我們能正確地實踐，才可以榮耀上帝的名。

利未記7:11-21

7:11 「人獻與耶和華平安祭的條例乃是這樣：
7:12 他若為感謝獻上，就要用調油的無酵餅和抹油的無酵薄餅，並用油調勻細麵做的餅，與感謝祭一同獻上。
7:13 要用有酵的餅和為感謝獻的平安祭，與供物一同獻上。
7:14 從各樣的供物中，他要把一個餅獻給耶和華為舉祭，是要歸給灑平安祭牲血的祭司。
7:15 為感謝獻平安祭牲的肉，要在獻的日子吃，一點不可留到早晨。
7:16 若所獻的是為還願，或是甘心獻的，必在獻祭的日子吃，所剩下的第二天也可以吃。
7:17 但所剩下的祭肉，到第三天要用火焚燒；
7:18 第三天若吃了平安祭的肉，這祭必不蒙悅納，人所獻的也不算為祭，反為可憎嫌的，吃這祭肉的，就必擔當他的罪孽。
7:19 「挨了污穢物的肉就不可吃，要用火焚燒。至於平安祭的肉，凡潔淨的人都要吃；
7:20 只是獻與耶和華平安祭的肉，人若不潔淨而吃了，這人必從民中剪除。
7:21 有人摸了甚麼不潔淨的物，或是人的不潔淨，或是不潔淨的牲畜，或是不潔可憎之物，吃了獻與耶和華平安祭的肉，這人必從民中剪除。」

 ¹¹ “‘These are the regulations for the fellowship offering anyone may present to the Lord:

¹² “‘If they offer it as an expression of thankfulness, then along with this thank offering they are to offer thick loaves made without yeast and with olive oil mixed in, thin loaves made without yeast and brushed with oil, and thick loaves of the finest flour well-kneaded and with oil mixed in. ¹³ Along with their fellowship offering of thanksgiving they are to present an offering with thick loaves of bread made with yeast. ¹⁴ They are to bring one of each kind as an offering, a contribution to the Lord; it belongs to the priest who splashes the blood of the fellowship offering against the altar. ¹⁵ The meat of their fellowship offering of thanksgiving must be eaten on the day it is offered; they must leave none of it till morning.

¹⁶ “‘If, however, their offering is the result of a vow or is a freewill offering, the sacrifice shall be eaten on the day they offer it, but anything left over may be eaten on the next day. ¹⁷ Any meat of the sacrifice left over till the third day must be burned up. ¹⁸ If any meat of the fellowship offering is eaten on the third day, the one who offered it will not be accepted. It will not be reckoned to their credit, for it has become impure; the person who eats any of it will be held responsible.

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 eats any meat of the fellowship offering belonging to the Lord, they must be cut off from their people. ²¹ Anyone who touches something unclean—whether human uncleanness or an unclean animal or any unclean creature that moves along the ground^[b]—and then eats any of the meat of the fellowship offering belonging to the Lord must be cut off from their people.’”

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    平安祭是歡樂的祭典，大家可以快快樂樂地吃著祭物來歡樂！然而在歡樂之中仍然有規矩要守，不可以放肆、任意而為！畢竟這是一個尋求與上帝、與人和好的祭典。

    就像該給祭司的就要給祭司，因為獻給上帝的祭物，有一部分是歸給祭司的，如14節說：「從各樣的供物中，他要把一個餅獻給耶和華為舉祭，是要歸給灑平安祭牲血的祭司。」

    吃祭物的規矩特別注意到「潔淨」，這是提醒參與的人想到上帝是聖潔的上帝，是侵犯不得的！在獻祭的事上更是要手潔心清，表示對上帝的崇敬！詩人也說：「誰能登耶和華的山？誰能站在他的聖所？就是手潔心清、不向虛妄、起誓不懷詭詐的人。他必蒙耶和華賜福，又蒙救他的上帝使他成義。」(詩篇24:3-5)

利未記7章

                 利未記7:1-10  ,

                 利未記7:11-21  ,

                 利未記7:22-27  ,

                 利未記7:28-38   ,

利未記7:1-10

7:1 「贖愆祭的條例乃是如此：這祭是至聖的。
7:2 人在那裡宰燔祭牲，也要在那裡宰贖愆祭牲；其血，祭司要灑在壇的周圍。
7:3 又要將肥尾巴和蓋臟的脂油，
7:4 兩個腰子和腰子上的脂油，就是靠腰兩旁的脂油，並肝上的網子和腰子，一概取下。
7:5 祭司要在壇上焚燒，為獻給耶和華的火祭，是贖愆祭。
7:6 祭司中的男丁都可以吃這祭物；要在聖處吃，是至聖的。
7:7 贖罪祭怎樣，贖愆祭也是怎樣，兩個祭是一個條例。獻贖愆祭贖罪的祭司要得這祭物。
7:8 獻燔祭的祭司，無論為誰奉獻，要親自得他所獻那燔祭牲的皮。
7:9 凡在爐中烤的素祭和煎盤中做的，並鐵鏊上做的，都要歸那獻祭的祭司。
7:10 凡素祭，無論是油調和的是乾的，都要歸亞倫的子孫，大家均分。」

 “‘These are the regulations for the guilt offering, which is most holy: ² The guilt offering is to be slaughtered in the place where the burnt offering is slaughtered, and its blood is to be splashed against the sides of the altar. ³ All its fat shall be offered: the fat tail and the fat that covers the internal organs, ⁴ both kidneys with the fat on them near the loins, and the long lobe of the liver, which is to be removed with the kidneys. ⁵ The priest shall burn them on the altar as a food offering presented to the Lord. It is a guilt offering. ⁶ Any male in a priest’s family may eat it, but it must be eaten in the sanctuary area; it is most holy.

⁷ “‘The same law applies to both the sin offering^[a] and the guilt offering: They belong to the priest who makes atonement with them. ⁸ The priest who offers a burnt offering for anyone may keep its hide for himself. ⁹ Every grain offering baked in an oven or cooked in a pan or on a griddle belongs to the priest who offers it, ¹⁰ and every grain offering, whether mixed with olive oil or dry, belongs equally to all the sons of Aaron.

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    祭司承受聖職，雖然沒有產業，上帝就是他們的產業，可以享受以色列人所獻的祭物，即使是燔祭，也可以得著燔祭牲的皮，這是多麼大的恩典！因此，事奉上帝的人，不要為生計感到缺乏，上帝必定有預備的！

    詩人大衛也是這樣稱頌上帝：「耶和華是我的產業，是我杯中的分；我所得的，你為我持守。用繩量給我的地界，坐落在佳美之處；我的產業實在美好。我必稱頌那指教我的耶和華；我的心腸在夜間也警戒我。」(詩篇16:5-7)

    也因為這樣，我們不要問上帝為何讓我們感到缺乏，反倒要問自己是不是好好愛上帝，是否將上帝看為人生最重要的？有沒有好好愛上帝，以上帝為我們的牧者？詩人大衛也說過：「耶和華是我的牧者，我必不致缺乏。」(詩篇23:1)