Cut the ram into pieces, wash the entrails and legs, and place them with its head and other pieces.
Parallel translations
- WEB You shall cut the ram into its pieces, and wash its innards, and its legs, and put them with its pieces, and with its head.
- KJV And thou shalt cut the ram in pieces, and wash the inwards of him, and his legs, and put them unto his pieces, and unto his head.
- NKJV Then you shall cut the ram in pieces, wash its entrails and its legs, and put them with its pieces and with its head.
- NASB Then you shall cut the ram into its pieces, and wash its entrails and its legs, and put them with its pieces and its head.
- NLT Cut the ram into pieces, and wash off the internal organs and the legs. Set them alongside the head and the other pieces of the body,
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Quick answer
The ram was cut into pieces, its organs and legs washed, and all arranged with its head. The whole animal was prepared to be wholly burned.
Overview
Washing and arranging every part prepared the ram for complete offering, leaving nothing impure or withheld. The thoroughness expressed total devotion to God. This wholeness pictures the entire, unblemished self-offering of Christ to the Father on our behalf.
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Cross-references · 6
- Lev 1:13The entrails and legs must be washed with water, and the priest shall bring all of it and burn it on the altar; it is a burnt offering, an offering made by fire, a pleasing aroma to the LORD.
- Matt 23:26Blind Pharisee! First clean the inside of the cup and dish, so that the outside may become clean as well.
- Lev 1:9The entrails and legs must be washed with water, and the priest shall burn all of it on the altar as a burnt offering, an offering made by fire, a pleasing aroma to the LORD.
- Lev 9:14He washed the entrails and the legs and burned them atop the burnt offering on the altar.
- Lev 8:21He 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 LORD had commanded Moses.
- Jer 4:14Wash the evil from your heart, O Jerusalem, so that you may be saved. How long will you harbor wicked thoughts within you?
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The Passover lamb whose blood turns away death, the exodus through the sea, the manna, the rock, and the tabernacle where God dwells with his people all foreshadow Jesus — our Passover, our redemption, the bread from heaven, and God-with-us in the flesh.
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