Exodus 30:9 BSB — MannaFest

Exodus 30:9

On this altar you must not offer unauthorized incense or a burnt offering or grain offering; nor are you to pour a drink offering on it.

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ASV

Ye shall offer no strange incense thereon, nor burnt-offering, nor meal-offering; and ye shall pour no drink-offering thereon.

KJV

Ye shall offer no strange incense thereon, nor burnt sacrifice, nor meat offering; neither shall ye pour drink offering thereon.

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Original language & word study

11 tagged words

Original	Transliteration	Meaning	Word study
לֹא־	lo'-	not	H3808 →
תַעֲל֥וּ	ta.'a.Lu	you must offer up	H5927 →
עָלָ֛יו	'a.Lav	on it	H5921 →
קְטֹ֥רֶת	ke.To.ret	incense	H7004 →
זָרָ֖ה	za.Rah	strange	H2114 →
וְעֹלָ֣ה	ve.'o.Lah	and a burnt offering	H5930 →
וּמִנְחָ֑ה	u.min.Chah	and a grain offering	H4503 →
וְנֵ֕סֶךְ	ve.Ne.sekh	and a drink offering	H5262 →
לֹ֥א	lo'	not	H3808 →
תִסְּכ֖וּ	ti.se.Khu	you must pour out	H5258 →
עָלָֽיו׃	'a.Lav	on it	H5921 →

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Follow this verse’s cross-references two steps out. Each card is a verse this one points to, and beneath it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several different paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it. Every stop shows its own words, and every stop is a page.

Through
Leviticus 10:1
Now Aaron’s sons Nadab and Abihu took their censers, put fire in them and added incense, and offered unauthorized fire before the LORD, contrary to His command.
leads to
- Numbers 26:61
  but Nadab and Abihu died when they offered unauthorized fire before the LORD.
- Leviticus 16:12
  Then he must take a censer full of burning coals from the altar before the LORD, and two handfuls of finely ground fragrant incense, and take them inside the veil.
- Deuteronomy 12:32
  See that you do everything I command you; do not add to it or subtract from it.
- Numbers 16:46
  Moses said to Aaron, “Take your censer, place fire from the altar in it, and add incense. Go quickly to the congregation and make atonement for them, because wrath has come out from the…
- Exodus 24:1
  Then the LORD said to Moses, “Come up to the LORD—you and Aaron, Nadab and Abihu, and seventy of Israel’s elders—and you are to worship at a distance.

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