Leviticus 9:16
in Leviticus 9He presented the burnt offering and offered it according to the ordinance.
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The same verse in ASV and KJV ▾
ASV
And he presented the burnt-offering, and offered it according to the ordinance.
KJV
And he brought the burnt offering, and offered it according to the manner.
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This verse in Leviticus 9
Commentary
5 notes on this verseThis site's exposition
Aaron then presented the people’s offering
on Leviticus 9:15-17
The grain offering is burned in addition to the morning’s burnt offering. The daily offering of Exodus 29:38-42 kept its place on the greatest day the camp had seen. The extraordinary service was laid on top of the ordinary one.
This site's exposition
offered it according to the ordinance
The people's burnt offering is the calf and the lamb of verse 3, as John Gill identifies it. The ordinance is the procedure of Leviticus 1, which Gill calls the appointment of God for that kind of offering.
The record, by era
The Puritans and the Awakening3 voices
The burnt-offering - Which also was offered for the people, as the last mentioned sin-offering was.
quarantine:scripture (2026-07-29) — scripture-overlap:88%@v15-18
), 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 brought the burnt offering,.... The calf and the lamb, Lev 9:3. and offered it according to the manner; judgment, ordinance, and appointment of God respecting that sort of offerings; see Lev 1:1.
The words behind it
5 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| וַיַּקְרֵ֖ב | vaiyakrev | and he presented | H7126 → | 280 times |
| אֶת־ | ʾet- | <obj.> | H853 → | 10935 times |
| הָעֹלָ֑ה | haolah | the burnt offering | H5930 → | 287 times |
| וַֽיַּעֲשֶׂ֖הָ | vaiyaaseha | and he offered it | H6213 → | 2628 times |
| כַּמִּשְׁפָּֽט׃ | kamishpat | according to the ordinance | H4941 → | 422 times |
וַיַּקְרֵ֖בand he presented
vaiyakrevH7126 →280 times
אֶת־<obj.>
ʾet-H853 →10935 times
הָעֹלָ֑הthe burnt offering
haolahH5930 →287 times
וַֽיַּעֲשֶׂ֖הָand he offered it
vaiyaasehaH6213 →2628 times
כַּמִּשְׁפָּֽט׃according to the ordinance
kamishpatH4941 →422 times
A shaded row is a word that stands 400 times or fewer in the Bible.
Where this verse is studied
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About Leviticus
This page draws on Alfred Edersheim, The Temple: Its Ministry and Services; John Gill, Exposition of the Old Testament; John Gill, Exposition of the Old Testament (1748-1763); John Wesley, Explanatory Notes upon the Old Testament and Matthew Henry, Commentary on the Whole Bible.