Of all the offerings in Leviticus, this is the only one where the person who brought the animal gets a meal out of it. The fat and the blood go to God, the breast and the right thigh go to the priests, and the rest is eaten by the household that brought it — which, given a time limit of a day or two and the size of an ox, means it gets shared well beyond the household. The chapter also relaxes a rule: unlike the burnt offering, this animal may be male or female. What it does not relax is the fat. Verse 16 says flatly that all the fat is the LORD’s, and verse 17 makes eating fat or blood a permanent prohibition binding everywhere Israel lives.