Thou shalt part it in pieces, and pour oil thereon: it is a meat offering.
Thou shalt part it in pieces, and pour oil thereon: it is a meal-offering.
divide thou it into parts, and thou hast poured on it oil; it is a present.
Thou shalt part it in pieces, and pour oil thereon: it is an oblation.
Leviticus — A holy people before a holy God. Five offerings, a priesthood, a purity code — and at the centre, a single day that carries the sins of a year to a cleansed Most Holy Place.
Voices2
Thou shalt part it in pieces,....
John Gill· Exposition of the Old Testament (1748-1763)reformed
This offering made by fire is here said to be of a sweet savour unto the Lord; and so are our spiritual offerings, which are made by the fire of holy love, particularly that of almsgiving, which is said to be an odour of a sweet smell, a sacrifice acceptable, well pleasing to God ( Phil. iv. 18 ), and with such sacrifices God is well pleased, Heb. xiii.
Matthew Henry· Commentary on the Whole Bible, 1710puritan
Rare words are the text's own signal of a deliberate thread — the fewer the occurrences, the more the places it appears belong together.
The verses this one reaches4
My God, my God, why have You forsaken me? Why are You so far from saving me, so far from my words of groaning?
After Jesus had spoken these words, He went out with His disciples across the Kidron Valley, where they entered a garden.
Next, he is to skin the burnt offering and cut it into pieces.
Now the Passover and the Feast of Unleavened Bread were two days away, and the chief priests and scribes were looking for a covert way to arrest Jesus and kill Him.
The walk2
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 1:6Next, he is to skin the burnt offering and cut it into pieces.
leads to
As for the priest who presents a burnt offering for anyone, the hide of that offering belongs to him.
And the LORD God made garments of skin for Adam and his wife, and He clothed them.
The whole web at once: see the Arc.
