Leviticus 3:11 KJV — MannaFest

Leviticus 3:11

And the priest shall burn it upon the altar: it is the food of the offering made by fire unto the Lord.

KJV

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ASV

And the priest shall burn it upon the altar: it is the food of the offering made by fire unto Jehovah.

WEB

Then the priest is to burn them on the altar as food, an offering made by fire to the LORD.

YLT

and the priest hath made it a perfume on the altar--bread of a fire-offering to Jehovah.

DBT

and the priest shall burn it on the altar: [it is] the food of the offering by fire to Jehovah.

About this book

Old Testament

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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.

Author: Moses — receives these laws at Sinai; the repeated formula is ‘the LORD spake unto Moses, saying’
Date: Composed during Israel's year at Sinai (15th–13th century BC)

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Numbers 28:2
Command the children of Israel, and say unto them, My offering, and my bread for my sacrifices made by fire, for a sweet savour unto me, shall ye observe to offer unto me in their due season.
Leviticus 21:6
They shall be holy unto their God, and not profane the name of their God: for the offerings of the Lord made by fire, and the bread of their God, they do offer: therefore they shall be holy.
Leviticus 21:17
Speak unto Aaron, saying, Whosoever he be of thy seed in their generations that hath any blemish, let him not approach to offer the bread of his God.
Leviticus 21:8
Thou shalt sanctify him therefore; for he offereth the bread of thy God: he shall be holy unto thee: for I the Lord, which sanctify you, am holy.
Leviticus 3:5
And Aaron’s sons shall burn it on the altar upon the burnt sacrifice, which is upon the wood that is on the fire: it is an offering made by fire, of a sweet savour unto the Lord.

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Burnt it - The parts now mentioned; the rest fell to the priest, chap. vii, 31. The food - That is, the fuel of the fire, or the matter of the offering. It is called food, Hebrew. bread, to note God's acceptance of it, and delight in it; as men delight in their food.

John Wesley (NT Notes)· Explanatory Notes upon the Bible, 1765evangelical

It fed the holy fire; it was acceptable to God as our food is to us; and since in the tabernacle God did, as it were, keep house among them, by the offerings on the altar he kept a good table, as Solomon in his court, 1 Kings iv. Here is a general rule laid down, that all the fat is the Lord's (

Matthew Henry· Commentary on the Whole Bible, 1710puritan

To command by an express law the tail of a certain sheep to be offered in sacrifice to God, might well surprise us; but the wonder ceases, when we are told of those broad-tailed Eastern sheep, and of the extreme delicacy of that part which was so particularly specified in the statute [PAXTON].

Jamieson, Fausset & Brown· Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible, 1871reformed

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