On each of the seven days of the festival, this is how you must prepare the food offering that is presented as a special gift, a pleasing aroma to the Lord. These will be offered in addition to the regular burnt offerings and liquid offerings.
Parallel translations
- WEB In this way you shall offer daily, for seven days, the food of the offering made by fire, of a pleasant aroma to Yahweh. It shall be offered in addition to the continual burnt offering, and its drink offering.
- KJV After this manner ye shall offer daily, throughout the seven days, the meat of the sacrifice made by fire, of a sweet savour unto the LORD: it shall be offered beside the continual burnt offering, and his drink offering.
- BSB Offer the same food each day for seven days as an offering made by fire, a pleasing aroma to the LORD. It is to be offered with its drink offering and the regular burnt offering.
- NKJV In this manner you shall offer the food of the offering made by fire daily for seven days, as a sweet aroma to the Lord; it shall be offered besides the regular burnt offering and its drink offering.
- NASB In this way you shall present daily, for seven days, the food of the offering by fire, of a soothing aroma to the Lord; it shall be presented with its drink offering in addition to the continual burnt offering.
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For all seven days the same offerings were repeated as food of a pleasant aroma, sustained alongside the continual burnt offering.
Overview
Day after day Israel renewed the prescribed sacrifices, and God accepted them as a pleasing aroma. The week-long repetition trained the nation in sustained, patterned worship. The unceasing 'pleasant aroma' anticipates Christ, who 'gave himself up for us, an offering and a sacrifice to God for a sweet-smelling fragrance' (Ephesians 5:2).
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