1 Samuel 2:15

New American Bible - revised edition

In fact, even before the fat was burned, the priest’s servant would come and say to the one offering the sacrifice, “Give me some meat to roast for the priest. He will not accept boiled meat from you, only raw meat.”

Cross References

Exodus 12:9

Do not eat any of it raw or even boiled in water, but roasted, with its head and shanks and inner organs.

Leviticus 3:16

The priest shall burn these on the altar as food, a sweet-smelling oblation. All the fat belongs to the Lord.

Romans 16:18

For such people do not serve our Lord Christ but their own appetites, and by fair and flattering speech they deceive the hearts of the innocent.

Philippians 3:19

Their end is destruction. Their God is their stomach; their glory is in their “shame.” Their minds are occupied with earthly things.

Jude 1:12

These are blemishes on your love feasts, as they carouse fearlessly and look after themselves. They are waterless clouds blown about by winds, fruitless trees in late autumn, twice dead and uprooted.

1 Samuel 2:14

and would thrust it into the basin, kettle, caldron, or pot. Whatever the fork brought up, the priest would take for himself. They treated all the Israelites who came to the sanctuary at Shiloh in this way.

1 Samuel 2:16

And if this one protested, “Let the fat be burned first, then take whatever you wish,” he would reply, “No, give it to me now, or else I will take it by force.”