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God told Moses to command Aaron and the priests about the rituals of the sacrifices (korbanot in Hebrew). (Lev. 6:1.)

The burnt offering ('olah) was to burn on the altar until morning, when the priest was to clear the ashes to a place outside the camp. (Lev. 6:2–4.) The priests were to keep the fire burning, every morning feeding it wood. (Lev. 6:5–6.)

The meal offering (mincha) was to be presented before the altar, a handful of it burned on the altar, and the balance eaten by the priests as unleavened cakes in the Tent of Meeting. (Lev. 6:7–11.) On the occasion of the High Priest’s anointment, the meal offering was to be prepared with oil on a griddle and then entirely burned on the altar. (Lev. 6:12–16.)

The sin offering (chattat) was to be slaughtered at the same place as the burnt offering, and the priest who offered it was to eat it in the Tent of Meeting. (Lev. 6:17–22.) If blood of the sin offering was brought into the Tent of Meeting for expiation, the entire offering was to be burned on the altar. (Lev. 6:23.)

The guilt offering (asham) was to be slaughtered at the same place as the burnt offering, the priest was to dash its blood on the altar, burn its fat, broad tail, kidneys, and protuberance on the liver on the altar, and the priest who offered it was to eat the balance of its meat in the Tent of Meeting. (Lev. 7:1–7.)

The priest who offered a burnt offering kept the skin. (Lev. 7:8.) The priest who offered it was to eat any baked or grilled meal offering, but every other meal offering was to be shared among all the priests. (Lev. 7:9–10.)

The peace offering (shelamim), if offered for thanksgiving, was to be offered with unleavened cakes or wafers with oil, which would go to the priest who dashed the blood of the peace offering. (Lev. 7:11–14.) All the meat of the peace offering had to be eaten on the day that it was offered. (Lev. 7:15.) If offered as a votive or a freewill offering, it could be eaten for two days, and what was then left on the third day was to be burned. (Lev. 7:16–18.)

Meat that touched anything unclean could not be eaten; it had to be burned. (Lev. 7:19.) And only a person who was clean could eat meat from peace offerings, at pain of exile. (Lev. 7:20–21.) One could eat no fat or blood, at pain of exile. (Lev. 7:22–27.)

The person offering the peace offering had to present the offering and its fat himself, the priest would burn the fat on the altar, the breast would go to the priests, and the right thigh would go to the priest who offered the sacrifice. (Lev. 7:28–34.)