Leviticus 6:23
in Leviticus 6Every 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
5 notes on this verseFor 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
Then the LORD said to Moses
on Leviticus 6:19-24
Every other grain offering feeds a priest, and the priest's own feeds nobody. A tenth of an ephah, half in the morning and half in the evening, is burned completely.
This site's exposition
Every grain offering for a priest shall be burned completely
No grain offering brought for a priest is eaten. Adam Clarke explains that the priests were fed from the offerings of the people. If they ate their own, they would take back what they seemed to give to the LORD.
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
A commentator
Albert Barnes1798–1870
Notes, Explanatory and Practical, on the Old and New Testaments (1832-1869)
proposed
Not be eaten - Compare Lev 6:30; Lev 4:12 note.
The words behind it
7 Hebrew wordsEvery 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.
| Hebrew | Sound | Meaning | Word study | In the Bible |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| וְכָל־ | vekhol | and every | H3605 → | 5413 times |
| מִנְחַ֥ת | minchat | grain offering of | H4503 → | 211 times |
| כֹּהֵ֛ן | kohen | a priest | H3548 → | 750 times |
| כָּלִ֥יל | kalil | a whole offering | H3632 → | |
| תִּהְיֶ֖ה | tihyeh | it will be | H1961 → | 3559 times |
| לֹ֥א | lo' | not | H3808 → | 5168 times |
| תֵאָכֵֽל׃ פ | teakhel | it will be eaten | H398 → | 810 times |
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.
The walk
1 stopEach 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 2:10But 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.
- Leviticus 2:3
Where this verse is studied
On this page
Studies5
About Leviticus
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).