We finish the rules on sacrifices. Just think, priests and Rabbis here on afterwards had to keep all this stuff straight.
Sin offerings:
Head priest - bull
Entire community - bull
Israelite leader - male goat
Regular citizen - female goat or female lamb (but the female lamb must have a pink bow in her hair, awwww)
Poor people - 2 pigeons or doves, or if you're really poor, some flour (French Bible says 4 kilograms)
Guilt offerings : a ram plus financial restitution and a financial penalty
General rules:
The offerings burn on the altar throughout the night. The ashes are cleaned the next morning. The altar fire is to burn continually.
Grain offerings - a portion is burned but the priests get to eat the rest. Unless it's the day of a priest anointing then the entire portion is burned.
The meat of sin offerings must be eaten by the priest who offers it and any male (females too?) person of the family offering can eat it. This imparts holiness onto those eating it.
Fellowship offerings (i.e., thanksgiving offerings) can be eaten too and there is no requirement of who can and cannot eat it. However, the priests get the meat from the thigh and chest.
You can't eat the fat or blood of animal, but the fat of animals killed in the wild can be used for other purposes. I assume this includes candle-making.
It sounds like they did not cook with lard.
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