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Leviticus 6:23

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Every grain offering for a priest shall be burned completely; it is not to be eaten.”

BSB

The same verse in ASV and KJV ▾

ASV

And every meal-offering of the priest shall be wholly burnt: it shall not be eaten.

KJV

For every meat offering for the priest shall be wholly burnt: it shall not be eaten.

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This verse in Leviticus 6

Commentary

4 notes on this verse

A commentator

Adam Clarke

1762–1832

Commentary on the Bible · Written before 1832.

For every meat-offering for the priest shall be wholly burnt - Whatever the priest offered was wholly the Lord’s, and therefore must be entirely consumed: the sacrifices of the common people were offered to the Lord, but the priests partook of them; and thus they who ministered at the altar were fed by the altar. Had the priests been permitted to live on their own offerings as they did on those of the people, it would have been as if they had offered nothing, as they would have taken again to themselves what they appeared to give unto the Lord.

This site's exposition

And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying

on Leviticus 6:19-24

Every other meat offering feeds the priest, and the priest's own feeds nobody. A tenth part of an ephah, half in the morning and half at night, is offered in the day he is anointed and by each successor anointed in his stead, and verse 22 has the whole of it burnt. Adam Clarke reads in the day when he is anointed as the opening of a standing obligation rather than one occasion, since verse 20 calls it a meat offering perpetual. A fourth speech begins at verse 24, and this single chapter carries four of the thirty-three places in Leviticus where the LORD spake unto Moses.

The record, by era

The Puritans and the Awakening1 voice

For every meat offering for the priest shall be wholly burnt,.... Wherefore the priest that offered this for the high priest got nothing by it: he served him gratis: it shall not be eaten; neither by himself, nor any other priest.

The Nineteenth Century1 voice

Not be eaten - Compare Lev 6:30; Lev 4:12 note.

The words behind it

7 Hebrew words

Every Hebrew word of this verse in the order it stands, with what it means and the door to its own study. The last column counts the times a word stands in the whole Bible: the rarer the word, the more the places it appears belong together.

  • וְכָל־and every

    vekholH3605 →5413 times

  • מִנְחַ֥תgrain offering of

    minchatH4503 →211 times

  • כֹּהֵ֛ןa priest

    kohenH3548 →750 times

  • כָּלִ֥ילa whole offering

    kalilH3632 →

  • תִּהְיֶ֖הit will be

    tihyehH1961 →3559 times

  • לֹ֥אnot

    lo'H3808 →5168 times

  • תֵאָכֵֽל׃ פit will be eaten

    teakhelH398 →810 times

A shaded row is a word that stands 400 times or fewer in the Bible.

Related verses

2 in all, six open

The walk

1 stop

Each card is a verse this one points to, and under it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it.

  • Through

    Leviticus 2:10

    But the remainder of the grain offering shall belong to Aaron and his sons; it is a most holy part of the offerings made by fire to the LORD.

    it leads to

    • Leviticus 2:3

      The remainder of the grain offering shall belong to Aaron and his sons; it is a most holy part of the offerings made by fire to the LORD.

Where this verse is studied

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About Leviticus

Moses and Aaron Appear before Pharaoh, Gustave Doré, 1866. Public domain.
Moses and Aaron Appear before Pharaoh, Gustave Doré, 1866. Public domain.
Leviticus: the study guide →Read Leviticus 6 →

This page draws on Adam Clarke, Commentary on the Bible; Albert Barnes, Notes, Explanatory and Practical, on the Old and New Testaments (1832-1869); Jamieson, Fausset & Brown, Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible; John Gill, Exposition of the Old Testament and John Gill, Exposition of the Old Testament (1748-1763).

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