You shall kill the ram, and you shall take its blood, and sprinkle it around on the altar. You shall cut the ram into its pieces, and wash its innards, and its legs, and put them with its pieces, and with its head. You shall burn the whole ram on the altar: it is a burnt offering to Yahweh; it is a pleasant aroma, an offering made by fire to Yahweh.
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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. You shall kill the ram, and you shall take its blood, and sprinkle it around on the altar. You shall cut the ram into its pieces, and wash its innards, and its legs, and put them with its pieces, and with its head. You shall burn the whole ram on the altar: it is a burnt offering to Yahweh; it is a pleasant aroma, an offering made by fire to Yahweh.
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You shall kill the ram, and you shall take its blood, and sprinkle it around on the altar.
You shall cut the ram into its pieces, and wash its innards, and its legs, and put them with its pieces, and with its head.
You shall burn the whole ram on the altar: it is a burnt offering to Yahweh; it is a pleasant aroma, an offering made by fire to Yahweh.
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And thou shalt slay the ram, and thou shalt take his blood, and sprinkle it round about upon the altar.
And thou shalt cut the ram in pieces, and wash the inwards of him, and his legs, and put them unto his pieces, and unto his head.
And thou shalt burn the whole ram upon the altar: it is a burnt offering unto the LORD: it is a sweet savour, an offering made by fire unto the LORD.
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And thou shalt slay the ram, and thou shalt take its blood, and dash it round about against the altar.
And thou shalt cut the ram into its pieces, and wash its inwards, and its legs, and put them with its pieces, and with its head.
And thou shalt make the whole ram smoke upon the altar; it is a burnt-offering unto the LORD; it is a sweet savour, an offering made by fire unto the LORD.
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- Genesis 8:21 (v18) Yahweh smelled the pleasant aroma. Yahweh said in his heart, “I will not again curse the ground any more for man’s sake because the…
- Genesis 22:2 (v18) He said, “Now take your son, your only son, Isaac, whom you love, and go into the land of Moriah. Offer him there as a burnt offering on…
- Genesis 22:7 (v18) Isaac spoke to Abraham his father, and said, “My father?” He said, “Here I am, my son.” He said, “Here is the fire and the wood, but where…
- Genesis 22:13 (v18) Abraham lifted up his eyes, and looked, and saw that behind him was a ram caught in the thicket by his horns. Abraham went and took the…
- Exodus 29:11-12 (v16) You shall kill the bull before Yahweh at the door of the Tent of Meeting. You shall take of the blood of the bull, and put it on the horns…
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- Exodus 29:25 (v18) You shall take them from their hands, and burn them on the altar on the burnt offering, for a pleasant aroma before Yahweh: it is an…
- Leviticus 1:9 (v17) 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…
- Leviticus 1:13 (v17) but the innards and the legs he shall wash with water. The priest shall offer the whole, and burn it on the altar. It is a burnt offering,…
- Leviticus 1:17 (v18) He shall tear it by its wings, but shall not divide it apart. The priest shall burn it on the altar, on the wood that is on the fire. It is…
- Leviticus 8:21 (v17) 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.…
- Leviticus 9:14 (v17) He washed the innards and the legs, and burned them on the burnt offering on the altar.
- Leviticus 9:24 (v18) Fire came out from before Yahweh, and consumed the burnt offering and the fat upon the altar. When all the people saw it, they shouted, and…
- 1 Samuel 7:9 (v18) Samuel took a suckling lamb, and offered it for a whole burnt offering to Yahweh. Samuel cried to Yahweh for Israel; and Yahweh answered…
- 1 Kings 3:4 (v18) The king went to Gibeon to sacrifice there; for that was the great high place. Solomon offered a thousand burnt offerings on that altar.
- 1 Kings 18:38 (v18) Then Yahweh’s fire fell, and consumed the burnt offering, the wood, the stones, and the dust, and licked up the water that was in the…
- Psalms 50:8 (v18) I don’t rebuke you for your sacrifices. Your burnt offerings are continually before me.
- Isaiah 1:11 (v18) “What are the multitude of your sacrifices to me?”, says Yahweh. “I have had enough of the burnt offerings of rams and the fat of fed…
- Jeremiah 4:14 (v17) Jerusalem, wash your heart from wickedness, that you may be saved. How long will your evil thoughts lodge within you?
- Jeremiah 6:20 (v18) To what purpose does frankincense from Sheba come to me, and the sweet cane from a far country? Your burnt offerings are not acceptable,…
- Jeremiah 7:21-22 (v18) Yahweh of Armies, the God of Israel says: “Add your burnt offerings to your sacrifices and eat meat. For I didn’t speak to your fathers or…
- Matthew 23:26 (v17) You blind Pharisee, first clean the inside of the cup and of the platter, that its outside may become clean also.
- Mark 12:33 (v18) and to love him with all the heart, and with all the understanding, with all the soul, and with all the strength, and to love his neighbor…
- Ephesians 5:2 (v18) Walk in love, even as Christ also loved us and gave himself up for us, an offering and a sacrifice to God for a sweet-smelling fragrance.
- Philippians 4:18 (v18) But I have all things and abound. I am filled, having received from Epaphroditus the things that came from you, a sweet-smelling fragrance,…
- Hebrews 10:6-10 (v18) You had no pleasure in whole burnt offerings and sacrifices for sin. Then I said, ‘Behold, I have come (in the scroll of the book it is…
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Geneva Bible translators 1599 · Public Domain On v18 Or, savor of rest, which causeth the wrath of…
Or, savor of rest, which causeth the wrath of God to cease.
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John Trapp 1656 · Public Domain On vv16–18 Exo 29:16 And thou shalt slay the ram, and…
Exo 29:16 And thou shalt slay the ram, and thou shalt take his blood, and sprinkle [it] round about upon the altar.
Ver. 16. Sprinkle it.] See 1Pe 1:2.
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Matthew Poole 1685 · Public Domain On vv16, 18 Which signifies, that not only our persons, but our…
Which signifies, that not only our persons, but our very altars and sacrifices, and best services, need the sprinkling of Christ’s blood upon them to render them acceptable to God.
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John Gill 1763 · Public Domain On vv16–18 And thou shalt slay the ram,.... As he was…
And thou shalt slay the ram,.... As he was ordered to slay the bullock, acting in this as a priest, as in that:
and thou shall take his blood, and sprinkle it round about upon the altar; the blood being received into a basin, it was not to be put upon the altar with the finger, as the blood of the bullock, but was to be sprinkled probably with a bunch of hyssop, round about upon the altar, on the top and sides: as the deity of Christ is the altar which sanctifies every gift, this may signify that his blood has its virtue and efficacy from that, to make atonement for the sins of men, and to cleanse them from them.
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Adam Clarke 1810 · Public Domain On v18 Verse 18. It is a burnt-offering] See Clarke on…
Verse 18. It is a burnt-offering] See Clarke on Le 7:1, &c.
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Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary 1859 · Public Domain On vv16, 18 About, upon the altar, and at the foot of…
About, upon the altar, and at the foot of it. So the pagans did. (Eusebius, præp. iv. 9.)
George Leo Haydock (1774–1849), Haydock's Catholic Family Bible and Commentary, 1859 edition — public domain. Excludes Psalms (Douay-Rheims chapter numbering differs from Protestant) and Deuterocanonical books (Catholic canon only).
The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges 1878 · Public Domain On vv16–18 16. sprinkle] toss: viz. in a volume, out of…
16. sprinkle] toss: viz. in a volume, out of a tossing-vessel or basin (see on Exo_27:3). ‘Sprinkle’ not only conveys an incorrect idea of the action meant, but also confuses it with an entirely different action, correctly represented by ‘sprinkle’ (Lev_4:6; Lev_4:17; Lev_5:9 &c.): it is to be regretted that the distinction, obliterated in AV., but correctly pointed out in the Speaker’s Commentary (1. ii. 499b) in 1871, should not have been preserved in RV. The reader who desires to understand correctly the sacrificial ritual of the Hebrew should correct on the margin of his copy of the RV. toss or throw for ‘sprinkle’ (with against for ‘upon,’ where altar follows: see the next note) here, v. 20, Exo_24:6, Lev_1:5; Lev_1:11; Lev_3:2; Lev_3:8; Lev_3:13; Lev_7:2; Lev_7:14; Lev_8:19; Lev_8:24; Lev_9:12; Lev_9:18; Lev_17:6, Num_18:17; Num_19:13; Num_19:20 (but vv. 4, 18, 19, 21 ‘sprinkle’ is correct), 2Ki_16:13; 2Ki_16:15, Eze_43:18, 2Ch_29:22; 2Ch_30:16; 2Ch_35:11; also Eze_36:25 and Exo_9:8; Exo_9:10.
upon] against. As the Jews expressly state, the blood was thrown not upon the altar, but against the sides of it, and in such a manner that with two movements of the ‘tossing-vessel’ the blood was thrown against its four sides (Zebâḥim v. 4 ff.; Rashi on Lev_1:5). So Lev_1:5; Lev_1:11, &c.
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Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers 1878 · Public Domain On vv16–18 (16) Thou shalt take his blood, and sprinkle it.—Rather,…
(16) Thou shalt take his blood, and sprinkle it.—Rather, scatter it. The act of throwing the blood from a basin against the lower part of the altar is intended. The verb is a different one from that rightly translated “sprinkle” in Exo_29:21. The LXX. render it by προσχεῖν, and the Vulg. by fundere.
Round about upon the altar.—Practically, this was done by casting it on two of the corners of the altar—the north-east and the south-west—thus moistening all the four sides (Middoth, 3:2).
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The Pulpit Commentary 1880 · Public Domain On vv16–18 Thou shalt take his blood and sprinkle it. Rather,…
Thou shalt take his blood and sprinkle it. Rather, "and cast it." The blood was to be thrown from a basin, not sprinkled with the hand or with hyssop. Rabbinical tradition says that it was so cast at two of the corners, and thus moistened all the four sides. This was regarded as casting it "on the altar round about."
The Pulpit Commentary (1880–1919), ed. H.D.M. Spence-Jones & Joseph S. Exell — public domain. Text from a community e-Sword module.
Tyndale Open Study Notes 2022 · CC BY-SA 4.0 On v18 29:18 pleasing aroma: Such language is anthropomorphism, describing God…
29:18 pleasing aroma: Such language is anthropomorphism, describing God with human terms and experiences. God’s delight in an appropriately offered sacrifice is like a human’s enjoyment of a pleasing smell.
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