The priest shall take the basket out of your hand, and set it down before Yahweh your God’s altar.
Parallel translations
- KJV And the priest shall take the basket out of thine hand, and set it down before the altar of the LORD thy God.
- BSB Then the priest shall take the basket from your hands and place it before the altar of the LORD your God,
- NKJV “Then the priest shall take the basket out of your hand and set it down before the altar of the Lord your God.
- NASB Then the priest shall take the basket from your hand and set it before the altar of the Lord your God.
- NLT The priest will then take the basket from your hand and set it before the altar of the Lord your God.
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Cross-references & the web
Cross-references · 3
- Matt 5:23–24“If therefore you are offering your gift at the altar, and there remember that your brother has anything against you,
- Heb 13:10–12We have an altar from which those who serve the holy tabernacle have no right to eat.
- Matt 23:19You blind fools! For which is greater, the gift, or the altar that sanctifies the gift?
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