It is a continual burnt offering, which was ordained in Mount Sinai for a pleasant aroma, an offering made by fire to Yahweh.
Parallel translations
- KJV It is a continual burnt offering, which was ordained in mount Sinai for a sweet savour, a sacrifice made by fire unto the LORD.
- BSB This is a regular burnt offering established at Mount Sinai as a pleasing aroma, an offering made by fire to the LORD.
- NKJV It is a regular burnt offering which was ordained at Mount Sinai for a sweet aroma, an offering made by fire to the Lord.
- NASB It is a continual burnt offering which was ordained on Mount Sinai as a soothing aroma, an offering by fire to the Lord.
- NLT This is the regular burnt offering instituted at Mount Sinai as a special gift, a pleasing aroma to the Lord.
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Quick answer
This continual burnt offering was the one ordained at Mount Sinai as a pleasing aroma to Yahweh.
Overview
The text roots the daily offering in the covenant given at Sinai, underscoring its abiding authority and acceptability before God. By recalling Sinai, God assures the new generation that the worship established with their fathers remains binding, a steadfast means of fellowship until its fulfillment in Christ.
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- Amos 5:25“Did you bring to me sacrifices and offerings in the wilderness forty years, house of Israel?
- Ps 50:8I don’t rebuke you for your sacrifices. Your burnt offerings are continually before me.
- Ezek 46:14You shall prepare a meal offering with it morning by morning, the sixth part of an ephah, and the third part of a hin of oil, to moisten the fine flour; a meal offering to Yahweh continually by a perpetual ordinance.
- Exod 29:38–42“Now this is that which you shall offer on the altar: two lambs a year old day by day continually.
- 2 Chr 2:4Behold, I am about to build a house for the name of Yahweh my God, to dedicate it to him, to burn before him incense of sweet spices, for the continual show bread, and for the burnt offerings morning and evening, on the Sabbaths, on the new moons, and on the set feasts of Yahweh our God. This is an ordinance forever to Israel.
- 2 Chr 31:3He also appointed the king’s portion of his posessions for the burnt offerings, for the morning and evening burnt offerings, and the burnt offerings for the Sabbaths, for the new moons, and for the set feasts, as it is written in Yahweh’s law.
- Lev 6:9“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.
- Exod 31:18He gave to Moses, when he finished speaking with him on Mount Sinai, the two tablets of the testimony, stone tablets, written with God’s finger.
- Ezra 3:4They kept the feast of tents, as it is written, and offered the daily burnt offerings by number, according to the ordinance, as the duty of every day required;
- Exod 24:18Moses entered into the middle of the cloud, and went up on the mountain; and Moses was on the mountain forty days and forty nights.
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