And a several tenth deal of flour mingled with oil for a meat offering unto one lamb; for a burnt offering of a sweet savour, a sacrifice made by fire unto the LORD.
Parallel translations
- WEB and one tenth part of fine flour mixed with oil for a meal offering to every lamb; for a burnt offering of a pleasant aroma, an offering made by fire to Yahweh.
- BSB and a tenth of an ephah of fine flour mixed with oil as a grain offering with each lamb. This is a burnt offering, a pleasing aroma, an offering made by fire to the LORD.
- NKJV and one-tenth of an ephah of fine flour, mixed with oil, as a grain offering for each lamb, as a burnt offering of sweet aroma, an offering made by fire to the Lord.
- NASB and a tenth of an ephah of fine flour mixed with oil as a grain offering for each lamb, as a burnt offering of a soothing aroma, an offering by fire to the Lord.
- NLT and two quarts with each lamb. This burnt offering will be a special gift, a pleasing aroma to the Lord.
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A tenth of an ephah of flour and oil accompanied each lamb, completing the new-moon burnt offering that rose as a pleasant aroma to God.
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Every animal had its matching grain offering, so the whole monthly sacrifice ascended together as a unified act of worship. The 'pleasant aroma' language signals God's acceptance of His people's appointed devotion. The total dedication of the burnt offering, wholly consumed for God, foreshadows Christ's complete consecration of Himself on our behalf.
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