What remains of the flesh and of the bread you shall burn with fire.
Parallel translations
- WEB What remains of the meat and of the bread you shall burn with fire.
- KJV And that which remaineth of the flesh and of the bread shall ye burn with fire.
- BSB Then you must burn up the remainder of the meat and bread.
- NASB And the remainder of the flesh and of the bread you shall burn in the fire.
- NLT Any meat or bread that is left over must then be burned up.
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Quick answer
Whatever meat and bread remain are to be burned with fire. Leftovers of the holy offering were not to be kept or treated as common.
Overview
The remaining portions were destroyed to preserve the offering's holiness, consistent with the earlier laws on sacred food. This guarded against any profaning of what had been consecrated. It reflects the reverence due to all that is set apart for God.
Cross-references & the web
Cross-references · 7
- Exod 29:34If anything of the meat of the consecration, or of the bread, remains to the morning, then you shall burn the remainder with fire: it shall not be eaten, because it is holy.
- Exod 12:10You shall let nothing of it remain until the morning; but that which remains of it until the morning you shall burn with fire.
- Lev 7:17but what remains of the meat of the sacrifice on the third day shall be burned with fire.
- Prov 27:1Don’t boast about tomorrow; for you don’t know what a day may bring.
- Eccl 9:10Whatever your hand finds to do, do it with your might; for there is no work, nor device, nor knowledge, nor wisdom, in Sheol, where you are going.
- 2 Cor 6:2for he says, “At an acceptable time I listened to you, in a day of salvation I helped you.” Behold, now is the acceptable time. Behold, now is the day of salvation.
- Heb 3:13–14but exhort one another day by day, so long as it is called “today”; lest any one of you be hardened by the deceitfulness of sin.
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