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28 If a person cooks the meat in a clay pot, he must break the pot. He must break it when he has cooked the meat. If a person cooks the meat in a metal pot, he must wash the pot. He must wash it well when he has cooked the meat. And he must wash it again with clean water. 29 The meat is holy.[a] Only the priests' sons can eat it. 30 They must take the blood of a sin offering into the Tent of Meeting. It is a sacrifice to atone for sin. Nobody should eat any of that offering. The priest must burn it.

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Footnotes

  1. 6:29 In these verses, ‘holy’ does not mean ‘very, very good’. It means that it now belongs to the Lord.

28 The clay pot(A) the meat is cooked in must be broken; but if it is cooked in a bronze pot, the pot is to be scoured and rinsed with water. 29 Any male in a priest’s family may eat it;(B) it is most holy.(C) 30 But any sin offering whose blood is brought into the tent of meeting to make atonement(D) in the Holy Place(E) must not be eaten; it must be burned up.(F)

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