TAINTED MEAT, ritually spoiled — a technical term for an otherwise-legitimate offering that fails PURELY because of when it is eaten, not what it is made of. A peace-offering left past its deadline (the third day, v17-18) becomes piggul: not eaten at all yet already worthless, credited to no one, and eating it anyway carries the same guilt as the spoiling itself. ⚠ The identical law recurs almost verbatim at Leviticus 19:5-8, already on these pages, the same 'third day' deadline and the same word — this translation keeps 'tainted meat' at both, matching itself rather than switching to the shelf's more common 'an abomination.' Rabbinic law later expanded piggul into its own detailed category — an offering can become piggul at the very moment of sacrifice if the priest privately INTENDS to eat it too late, even if he never actually does — reading this chapter's timing rule as being about intention as much as elapsed time. → first discussed at Lev 7:18