This is the law of the burnt offering, the grain offering, the sin offering and the guilt offering, and the ordination offering and the sacrifice of peace offerings,
Parallel translations
- WEB This is the law of the burnt offering, of the meal offering, and of the sin offering, and of the trespass offering, and of the consecration, and of the sacrifice of peace offerings;
- KJV This is the law of the burnt offering, of the meat offering, and of the sin offering, and of the trespass offering, and of the consecrations, and of the sacrifice of the peace offerings;
- BSB This is the law of the burnt offering, the grain offering, the sin offering, the guilt offering, the ordination offering, and the peace offering,
- NKJV This is the law of the burnt offering, the grain offering, the sin offering, the trespass offering, the consecrations, and the sacrifice of the peace offering,
- NLT These are the instructions for the burnt offering, the grain offering, the sin offering, and the guilt offering, as well as the ordination offering and the peace offering.
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Quick answer
This verse summarizes the laws of the burnt, grain, sin, trespass, ordination, and peace offerings. It draws together the whole sacrificial system just described.
Overview
As a concluding summary, it gathers the six categories of offerings into one body of law, showing their unity within Israel's worship. Each offering addressed an aspect of approaching a holy God. Together they foreshadow Christ, in whom every type of sacrifice finds its fulfillment (Hebrews 10:1-14).
Cross-references & the web
Cross-references · 6
- Exod 29:1“This is the thing that you shall do to them to make them holy, to minister to me in the priest’s office: take one young bull and two rams without defect,
- Lev 6:9–18“Command Aaron and his sons, saying, ‘This is the law of the burnt offering: the burnt offering shall be on the hearth on the altar all night until the morning; and the fire of the altar shall be kept burning on it.
- Lev 6:20“This is the offering of Aaron and of his sons, which they shall offer to Yahweh in the day when he is anointed: one tenth of an ephah of fine flour for a meal offering perpetually, half of it in the morning, and half of it in the evening.
- Exod 29:38–42“Now this is that which you shall offer on the altar: two lambs a year old day by day continually.
- Lev 1:1Yahweh called to Moses, and spoke to him from the Tent of Meeting, saying,
- Lev 7:11–21“‘This is the law of the sacrifice of peace offerings, which one shall offer to Yahweh.
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Every sacrifice, every priest, and every day of atonement points beyond itself to the one perfect offering and the great High Priest who, by his own blood, makes the unclean holy once for all.
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