This shall be a continual burnt offering throughout your generations at the door of the tabernacle of the congregation before the LORD: where I will meet you, to speak there unto thee.
Parallel translations
- WEB It shall be a continual burnt offering throughout your generations at the door of the Tent of Meeting before Yahweh, where I will meet with you, to speak there to you.
- BSB For the generations to come, this burnt offering shall be made regularly at the entrance to the Tent of Meeting before the LORD, where I will meet you to speak with you.
- NKJV This shall be a continual burnt offering throughout your generations at the door of the tabernacle of meeting before the Lord, where I will meet you to speak with you.
- NASB It shall be a continual burnt offering throughout your generations at the doorway of the tent of meeting before the Lord, where I will meet with you, to speak to you there.
- NLT “These burnt offerings are to be made each day from generation to generation. Offer them in the Lord’s presence at the Tabernacle entrance; there I will meet with you and speak with you.
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Quick answer
This continual burnt offering was to be perpetual at the tent's entrance, where God promised to meet and speak with His people. Atonement and God's communicative presence belong together.
Overview
God ties His meeting with Israel to the place of ongoing sacrifice, showing that He draws near to a people covered by atonement. The Tent of Meeting was the appointed location where the holy God would graciously commune with sinners. This finds its goal in Christ, through whom God meets and speaks to His people and grants bold access into His presence (Hebrews 4:16).
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- Exod 25:22And there I will meet with thee, and I will commune with thee from above the mercy seat, from between the two cherubims which are upon the ark of the testimony, of all things which I will give thee in commandment unto the children of Israel.
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