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Leviticus 9:14

in Leviticus 9

He washed the entrails and the legs and burned them atop the burnt offering on the altar.

BSB

The same verse in ASV and KJV

ASV

And he washed the inwards and the legs, and burnt them upon the burnt-offering on the altar.

KJV

And he did wash the inwards and the legs, and burnt them upon the burnt offering on the altar.

This verse in Leviticus 9

Commentary

3 notes on this verse

This site's exposition

And he slew the burnt offering

on Leviticus 9:12-14

Chapters 1 to 7 are the law and this is the law being done, in the same verbs and the same order, slew and presented and sprinkled and burnt. Aaron's sons hand him the blood and he does the rest with his own hands, so the division of labour that later priests keep begins here. The washing of the inwards and the legs at verse 14 is the instruction of 1:9 carried out to the letter.

The record, by era

The Puritans and the Awakening2 voices

A commentator

Matthew Henry

1662–1714

Commentary on the Whole Bible (1710)

proposed

), the meaning is that he burnt them immediately with ordinary fire, as formerly, or that he laid them upon the altar ready to be burnt with the fire from heaven which they expected (

quarantine:debris (2026-07-29) — leading-punctuation

And he did wash the inwards and the legs,.... As Moses also had done, Lev 8:21. and burnt them upon the burnt offering on the altar; upon the pieces, and the head, before mentioned, said to be burnt, or "after" the burnt offering, after they were burnt: the Septuagint version is as before.

The words behind it

9 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.

  • וַיִּרְחַ֥ץand he washed

    vaiyirchatzH736472 times

  • אֶת־<obj.>

    ʾet-H85310935 times

  • הַקֶּ֖רֶבthe entrails

    hakerevH7130227 times

  • וְאֶת־and <obj.>

    veetH85310935 times

  • הַכְּרָעָ֑יִםthe legs

    hakeraayimH37679 times

  • וַיַּקְטֵ֥רand he made [them] smoke

    vaiyakterH6999116 times

  • עַל־on

    ʾal-H59215755 times

  • הָעֹלָ֖הthe burnt offering

    haolahH5930287 times

  • הַמִּזְבֵּֽחָה׃the altar towards

    hamizbechahH4196401 times

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

The walk

5 stops

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 8:21

    He washed the entrails and legs with water and burned the entire ram on the altar as a burnt offering, a pleasing aroma, an offering made by fire to the LORD, just as the…

    it leads to

    • Exodus 29:18

      Then burn the entire ram on the altar; it is a burnt offering to the LORD, a pleasing aroma, an offering made by fire to the LORD.

    • Ephesians 5:2

      and walk in love, just as Christ loved us and gave Himself up for us as a fragrant sacrificial offering to God.

    • Leviticus 2:9

      The priest is to remove the memorial portion from the grain offering and burn it on the altar as an offering made by fire, a pleasing aroma to the LORD.

    • Leviticus 1:17

      He shall tear it open by its wings, without dividing the bird completely. And the priest is to burn it on the altar atop the burning wood. It is a burnt offering, an offering…

    • Genesis 8:21

      When the LORD smelled the pleasing aroma, He said in His heart, “Never again will I curse the ground because of man, even though every inclination of his heart is evil from his youth.…

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.

This page draws on Jamieson, Fausset & Brown, Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible; John Gill, Exposition of the Old Testament; John Gill, Exposition of the Old Testament (1748-1763) and Matthew Henry, Commentary on the Whole Bible.