5 "When you sacrifice a Peace-Offering to God, do it as you've been taught so it is acceptable. 6 Eat it on the day you sacrifice it and the day following. Whatever is left until the third day is to be burned up. 7 If it is eaten on the third day it is polluted meat and not acceptable. 8 Whoever eats it will be held responsible because he has violated what is holy to God. That person will be cut off from his people.
Matthew Henry's Commentary on Leviticus 19:5-8
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There are some ceremonial precepts in this chapter, but most of these precepts are binding on us, for they are explanations of the ten commandments. It is required that Israel be a holy people, because the God of Israel is a holy God, verse 35. We must make conscience of obeying God's precepts. We are not to pick and choose our duty, but must aim at standing complete in all the will of God. And the nearer our lives and tempers are to the precepts of God's law, the happier shall we be, and the happier shall we make all around us, and the better shall we adorn the gospel.