You are to take the ram of ordination and boil its flesh in a holy place.
Parallel translations
- WEB “You shall take the ram of consecration, and boil its meat in a holy place.
- KJV And thou shalt take the ram of the consecration, and seethe his flesh in the holy place.
- NKJV “And you shall take the ram of the consecration and boil its flesh in the holy place.
- NASB “Now you shall take the ram of ordination and boil its flesh in a holy place.
- NLT “Take the ram used in the ordination ceremony, and boil its meat in a sacred place.
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Quick answer
The ram of consecration was to be boiled in a holy place. Its meat was prepared for the sacred meal.
Overview
Cooking the ordination ram in a holy place kept the offering set apart from common use. The meat would be eaten in a fellowship meal tied to the consecration. Sharing in the sacrifice pictures communion with God, fulfilled as believers feed on Christ by faith (John 6:51).
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Cross-references · 4
- Lev 8:31And Moses said to Aaron and his sons, “Boil the meat at the entrance to the Tent of Meeting and eat it there with the bread that is in the basket of ordination offerings, as I commanded, saying, ‘Aaron and his sons are to eat it.’
- 1 Sam 2:15Even before the fat was burned, the servant of the priest would come and say to the man who was sacrificing, “Give the priest some meat to roast, because he will not accept boiled meat from you, but only raw.”
- 1 Sam 2:13or for the custom of the priests with the people. When any man offered a sacrifice, the servant of the priest would come with a three-pronged meat fork while the meat was boiling
- Ezek 46:20–24and said to me, “This is the place where the priests shall boil the guilt offering and the sin offering, and where they shall bake the grain offering, so that they do not bring them into the outer court and transmit holiness to the people.”
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