Make an altar of earth for me, and on it sacrifice your sheep and your cattle as offerings to be completely burnt and as fellowship offerings. In every place that I set aside for you to worship me, I will come to you and bless you.

If you do this, as God commands, you will not wear yourself out, and all these people can go home with their disputes settled.”

Then Moses went back to Jethro, his father-in-law, and said to him, “Please let me go back to my relatives in Egypt to see if they are still alive.” Jethro agreed and said goodbye to him.

But you and your families may eat the breast and the hind leg that are presented as the special gift and the special contribution to the Lord for the priests. You may eat them in any ritually clean place. These offerings have been given to you and your children as the part that belongs to you from the fellowship offerings of the people of Israel.

The fire must always be kept burning on the altar and never allowed to go out.

The following are the regulations for the fellowship offerings presented to the Lord.

If a sheep or goat is used as a fellowship offering, it may be male or female, but it must be without any defects.

Then Moses said to Aaron, “This is what the Lord was speaking about when he said, ‘All who serve me must respect my holiness; I will reveal my glory to my people.’ ” But Aaron remained silent.

and present the following parts of the animal as a food offering to the Lord: the fat, the entire fat tail cut off near the backbone, all the fat covering the internal organs,

When anyone offers one of his cattle as a fellowship offering, it is to be a bull or a cow without any defects.