Do not offer the blood of a sacrifice to me along with anything containing yeast, and do not let the fat of my festival offering remain until morning. The ritual prohibitions about sacrifice — no yeast with blood offerings, no fat left until morning — maintain the integrity of the sacrificial act. Leaven, associated with corruption and incompleteness in the Passover narrative, cannot contaminate the blood offering. The fat that must be consumed by morning mirrors the manna that could not be kept overnight — both require complete offering in their appointed time. Leviticus 7:15–17 specifies that the thanksgiving offering must be eaten the same day. The ritual urgency of the same-day consumption reflects the theological urgency of the offering: what is given to God is given completely and without reservation.

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