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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Passages linked to Exodus 29:17 in the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge, ordered by reader-vote popularity; verse text shown in World English Bible.
- Leviticus 1:9 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 1:13 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, an offering made by fire, of a pleasant aroma to Yahweh.
- Leviticus 8:21 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.
- Leviticus 9:14 He washed the innards and the legs, and burned them on the burnt offering on the altar.
- Jeremiah 4:14 Jerusalem, wash your heart from wickedness, that you may be saved. How long will your evil thoughts lodge within you?
- Matthew 23:26 You blind Pharisee, first clean the inside of the cup and of the platter, that its outside may become clean also.
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John Trapp 1656 · Public Domain Exo 29:17 And thou shalt cut the ram in…
Exo 29:17 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.
Ver. 17. Wash the inwards of him.] This signified that entire holiness, that thorough sanctification. {1Th 5:23}
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John Gill 1763 · Public Domain And thou shalt cut the ram in pieces,.... For…
And thou shalt cut the ram in pieces,.... For the better convenience of laying it upon the wood on the altar, that it might be burnt; for it was to be a whole burnt offering:
and wash the inwards of him, and his legs; denoting the purity of the sacrifice of Christ, and that when his people give up themselves to God as a whole burnt offering, in the flames of love and zeal, their affections should be pure and sincere:
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and put them unto his pieces, and unto his head; lay them together, so that they might be entirely consumed at once; signifying that Christ was both in soul and body an offering and a sacrifice of a sweet smelling savour to God; zeal for the honour of whose house, and the glory of his name, ate him up, as well as the fire of divine wrath; and so our whole souls, bodies and spirits, should be presented to the Lord as a holy, living, and acceptable sacrifice to him, which is more strongly suggested in the next verse.
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The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges 1878 · Public Domain 17. cut … into its pieces] i.e. divide it…
17. cut … into its pieces] i.e. divide it by its joints. So Lev_1:6 al.
and wash, &c.] Lev_1:9; Lev_1:13.
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and put them, &c.] viz. on the altar: cf. v. 18, and Lev_1:8 f., 12 f.
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Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers 1878 · Public Domain (17) Thou shalt cut the ram in pieces.—This was…
(17) Thou shalt cut the ram in pieces.—This was the ordinary practice, not only among the Hebrews, but also among other nations, as the Egyptians (Herod. ii. 40), the Greeks, the Romans, and others. It was probably found to facilitate the burning of the animal, which was with difficulty consumed entire. The shoulder, thigh, head, ribs, rump, heart, and kidneys appear separate in the representations of sacrifices on Egyptian altars.
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The Pulpit Commentary 1880 · Public Domain Thou shalt cut the ram in pieces. Literally, "into…
Thou shalt cut the ram in pieces. Literally, "into its pieces," which Kalisch supposes to mean "into its natural limbs." Egyptian sculptures show us animals thus cut up, and offered at sacrificial feasts to ancestors. Wash its inwardsi.e. , its "intestines probably the stomach and bowels only. Its legs. The lower joints of the leg, with the foot, to which it was likely that dust might attach. Put them unto his piecesi.e. , "replace them after washing with the other pieces," or joints, into which the animal had been cut.
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