“You shall also take the one ram, and Aaron and his sons shall lay their hands on the head of the ram.
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“You shall also take the one ram, and Aaron and his sons shall lay their hands on the head of the ram.
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Thou shalt also take one ram; and Aaron and his sons shall put their hands upon the head of the ram.
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Thou shalt also take the one ram; and Aaron and his sons shall lay their hands upon the head of the ram.
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Passages linked to Exodus 29:15 in the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge, ordered by reader-vote popularity; verse text shown in World English Bible.
- Exodus 29:19 “You shall take the other ram, and Aaron and his sons shall lay their hands on the head of the ram.
- Exodus 29:3 You shall put them into one basket, and bring them in the basket, with the bull and the two rams.
- Exodus 29:10 “You shall bring the bull before the Tent of Meeting; and Aaron and his sons shall lay their hands on the head of the bull.
- Leviticus 1:4-9 He shall lay his hand on the head of the burnt offering, and it shall be accepted for him to make atonement for him. He shall kill the bull before Yahweh. Aaron’s sons, the priests, shall present the blood and sprinkle the blood around on the altar that is at the door of the Tent of Meeting. He shall skin the burnt offering, and cut it into pieces. The sons of Aaron the priest shall put fire on the altar, and lay wood in order on the fire; and Aaron’s sons, the priests, shall lay the pieces, the head, and the fat in order on the wood that is on the fire which is on the altar; but he shall wash its innards and its legs with water. The priest shall burn all of it on the altar, for a burnt offering, an offering made by fire, of a pleasant aroma to Yahweh.
- Leviticus 8:18-21 He presented the ram of the burnt offering. Aaron and his sons laid their hands on the head of the ram. He killed it; and Moses sprinkled the blood around on the altar. He cut the ram into its pieces; and Moses burned the head, and the pieces, and the fat. He washed the innards and the legs with water; and Moses burned the whole ram on the altar. It was a burnt offering for a pleasant aroma. It was an offering made by fire to Yahweh, as Yahweh commanded Moses.
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John Trapp 1656 · Public Domain Exo 29:15 Thou shalt also take one ram; and…
Exo 29:15 Thou shalt also take one ram; and Aaron and his sons shall put their hands upon the head of the ram.
Ver. 15. Thou shalt also take.] After the sin offering, other offerings: till sin be expiated, no service is accepted.
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John Gill 1763 · Public Domain Thou shalt also take one ram,.... One of the…
Thou shalt also take one ram,.... One of the two he was bid to take, Exo 29:1,
and Aaron and his sons shall put their hands upon the head of the ram; confessing their sins, acknowledging their guilt, and by this act transferring the same to the ram, which was to be a burnt offering, and was typical of the imputation of sin to Christ, as before observed.
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John Wesley 1765 · Public Domain There must be a burnt-offering, a ram wholly burnt,…
There must be a burnt-offering, a ram wholly burnt, in token of the dedication of themselves wholly to God, as living sacrifices, kindled with the fire, and ascending in the flame of holy love. This sin-offering must be offered, and then the burnt- offering, for till guilt be removed no acceptable service can be performed.
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Joseph Benson 1811 · Public Domain Exo 29:15. There must be a burnt-offering, a ram…
Exo 29:15. There must be a burnt-offering, a ram wholly burned, in token of the dedication of themselves wholly to God, as living sacrifices, kindled with the fire, and ascending in the flame of holy love. The sin-offering must first be offered, and then the burnt-offering, for till guilt be removed no acceptable service can be performed.
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Daniel D. Whedon 1874 · Public Domain 15-18. Take one ram — While the bullock served…
15-18. Take one ram — While the bullock served as a sin offering, this was to be a burnt offering unto the Lord. As in the one case, so in the other, the symbolical putting their hands upon the head of the victim was performed by Aaron and his sons, but the blood was sprinkled round about upon the altar, and the whole ram was burned upon the altar. Lev_1:3-13; Lev_8:18-21, notes.
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The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges 1878 · Public Domain 15–18. The burnt-offering (Lev_8:18-21),—such as would naturally form part…
15–18. The burnt-offering (Lev_8:18-21),—such as would naturally form part of a solemn ceremony. On the ritual, see more fully Leviticus 1.
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Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers 1878 · Public Domain (15) One ram.—Heb., the one ram: i.e., one of…
(15) One ram.—Heb., the one ram: i.e., one of the two rams already mentioned in Exo_29:1.
Put their hands upon the head of the ram.
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—Again identifying themselves with the animal, as in Exo_29:10, but with a different purpose from their former one. Then they transferred their sins to the victim; now they claimed a part in the victim’s dedication to God, offering themselves with it, and becoming, themselves, “a sweet savour, an offering made by fire unto the Lord” (Exo_29:18).
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The Pulpit Commentary 1880 · Public Domain One ram. Literally "the one rami.e. , "one of…
One ram. Literally "the one rami.e. , "one of the two rams mentioned in verse 1. Put their hands. Here, again, the object was to identify themselves with the victim, and make it their representative; though now, as the ram was to be a burnt offering, self-sacrifice, rather than expiation, was the leading thought.
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unfoldingWord translationNotes 2017 · CC BY-SA 4.0 You must kill the ram
You must kill the ram
For these consecration sacrifices for the priests, it was Moses, not Aaron or his sons, who had to kill the animals.
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on the altar
Unlike the bull offering that was burned outside of the tent, the ram was to be burned on the inner altar.
the inner parts
"the organs." See how you translated this in Exodus 29:13.
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burnt offering
Yahweh
sacrifice
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Tyndale Open Study Notes 2022 · CC BY-SA 4.0 29:15-18 The next offering was a gift of thanks…
29:15-18 The next offering was a gift of thanks to God; it also represented the complete giving of oneself to God.
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