Leviticus 7 · Verse 15

Leviticus 7:15

And the flesh of the sacrifice of his peace offerings for thanksgiving shall be eaten the same day that it is offered; he shall not leave any of it until the morning.

Leviticus 7:15, King James Version

Leviticus 7:15 in other translations

BSB	The meat of the sacrifice of his peace offering of thanksgiving must be eaten on the day he offers it; none of it may be left until morning.
WEB	The flesh of the sacrifice of his peace offerings for thanksgiving shall be eaten on the day of his offering. He shall not leave any of it until the morning.
ASV	And the flesh of the sacrifice of his peace-offerings for thanksgiving shall be eaten on the day of his oblation; he shall not leave any of it until the morning.
YLT	as to the flesh of the sacrifice of the thank-offering of his peace-offerings, in the day of his offering it is eaten; he doth not leave of it till morning.
DARBY	And the flesh of the sacrifice of his peace-offering of thanksgiving shall be eaten the same day that it is presented; he shall not let any of it remain until the morning.
BBE	And the flesh of the praise-offering is to be taken as food on the day when it is offered; no part of it may be kept till the morning.
Webster	And the flesh of the sacrifice of his peace-offerings for thanksgiving shall be eaten the same day that it is offered; he shall not leave any of it until the morning.

What does Leviticus 7:15 mean?

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown on Leviticus 7:15-17

15-17. the flesh of the sacrifice of his peace offerings ... shall be eaten the same day that it is offered--The flesh of the sacrifices was eaten on the day of the offering or on the day following. But if any part of it remained till the third day, it was, instead of being made use of, to be burned with fire. In the East, butcher-meat is generally eaten the day it is killed, and it is rarely kept a second day, so that as a prohibition was issued against any of the flesh in the peace offerings being used on the third day, it has been thought, not without reason, that this injunction must have been given to prevent a superstitious notion arising that there was some virtue or holiness belonging to it.

Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset & David Brown, 1871 · public domain

Adam Clarke's Commentary

Verse 15 He shall not leave any of it until the morning - Because in such a hot country it was apt to putrefy, and as it was considered to be holy, it would have been very improper to expose that to putrefaction which had been consecrated to the Divine Being. Mr. Harmer supposes that the law here refers rather to the custom of drying flesh which had been devoted to religious purposes, which is practiced among the Mohammedans to the present time. This, he thinks, might have given rise to the prohibition, as the sacred flesh thus preserved might have been abused to superstitious purposes. Therefore God says, Lev 7:18, "If any of the flesh of the sacrifice - be eaten at all on the third day, it shall not be accepted, neither shall it be imputed unto him that offereth it; it is an abomination, and the soul that eateth of it shall bear his iniquity." That is, on Mr. Harmer's hypothesis, This sacred flesh shall avail nothing to him that eats it after the first or second day on which it is offered; however consecrated before, it shall not be considered sacred after that time. See Harmer's Obs., vol. i., p. 394, edit. 1808.

Adam Clarke, 1831 · public domain

Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on Leviticus 7:11-27

As to the peace-offerings, in the expression of their sense of mercy, God left them more at liberty, than in the expression of their sense of sin; that their sacrifices, being free-will offerings, might be the more acceptable, while, by obliging them to bring the sacrifices of atonement, God shows the necessity of the great Propitiation. The main reason why blood was forbidden of old, was because the Lord had…

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Leviticus 7:15 in the original Hebrew

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וּבְשַׂ֗רu.ve.Sarand [the] meat ofH1320

זֶ֚בַחZe.vach[the] sacrifice ofH2077

תּוֹדַ֣תto.Dat[the] thanksgiving ofH8426

שְׁלָמָ֔יוshe.la.Mavpeace offering<s> hisH8002

בְּי֥וֹםbe.Yomon [the] day ofH3117

קָרְבָּנ֖וֹka.re.ba.Nopresent hisH7133

יֵאָכֵ֑לye.'a.Khelit will be eatenH398

לֹֽא\־lo'-notH3808

יַנִּ֥יחַya.Ni.achhe will leaveH5117

מִמֶּ֖נּוּmi.Me.nuany of itH4480

עַד\־'ad-untilH5704

בֹּֽקֶר\׃Bo.kermorningH1242

Source: STEPBible TAHOT/TAGNT (Tyndale House, CC BY 4.0).

Cross references for Leviticus 7:15

Leviticus 22:29-30
And when ye will offer a sacrifice of thanksgiving unto the Lord, offer it at your own will. On the same day it shall be eaten up; ye shall leave none of it until the morrow: I am the Lord.

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Context

Leviticus 7:14
And of it he shall offer one out of the whole oblation for an heave offering unto the Lord, and it shall be the priest’s that sprinkleth the blood of the peace offerings.
Leviticus 7:15
And the flesh of the sacrifice of his peace offerings for thanksgiving shall be eaten the same day that it is offered; he shall not leave any of it until the morning.
Leviticus 7:16
But if the sacrifice of his offering be a vow, or a voluntary offering, it shall be eaten the same day that he offereth his sacrifice: and on the morrow also the remainder of it shall be eaten:

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Leviticus 7:15 in other languages

Spanish Reina-Valera 1909	Y la carne del sacrificio de sus pacíficos en hacimiento de gracias, se comerá en el día que fuere ofrecida: no dejarán de ella nada para otro día.
French Bible J.N. Darby 1885	Et la chair de son sacrifice d’action de grâces de prospérités sera mangée le jour où elle sera présentée; on n’en laissera rien jusqu’au matin.
German Elberfelder 1871	Und das Fleisch seines Dank-Friedensopfers soll am Tage seiner Darbringung gegessen werden; er soll nichts davon liegen lassen bis an den Morgen.
Latin Clementine Vulgate	cujus carnes eadem comedentur die, nec remanebit ex eis quidquam usque mane.