This is a regular burnt offering established at Mount Sinai as a pleasing aroma, an offering made by fire to the LORD.
Parallel translations
- WEB It is a continual burnt offering, which was ordained in Mount Sinai for a pleasant aroma, an offering made by fire to Yahweh.
- 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.
- 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 5:25Did you bring Me sacrifices and offerings forty years in the wilderness, O house of Israel?
- Ps 50:8I do not rebuke you for your sacrifices, and your burnt offerings are ever before Me.
- Ezek 46:14You are also to provide with it every morning a grain offering of a sixth of an ephah with a third of a hin of oil to moisten the fine flour—a grain offering to the LORD. This is a permanent statute.
- Exod 29:38–42This is what you are to offer regularly on the altar, each day: two lambs that are a year old.
- 2 Chr 2:4Behold, I am about to build a house for the Name of the LORD my God to dedicate to Him for burning fragrant incense before Him, for displaying the showbread continuously, and for making burnt offerings every morning and evening as well as on the Sabbaths, New Moons, and appointed feasts of the LORD our God. This is ordained for Israel forever.
- 2 Chr 31:3The king contributed from his own possessions for the regular morning and evening burnt offerings and for the burnt offerings on the Sabbaths, New Moons, and appointed feasts, as written in the Law of the LORD.
- Lev 6:9“Command Aaron and his sons that this is the law of the burnt offering: The burnt offering is to remain on the hearth of the altar all night, until morning, and the fire must be kept burning on the altar.
- Exod 31:18When the LORD had finished speaking with Moses on Mount Sinai, He gave him the two tablets of the Testimony, tablets of stone inscribed by the finger of God.
- Ezra 3:4They also celebrated the Feast of Tabernacles in accordance with what is written, and they offered burnt offerings daily based on the number prescribed for each day.
- Exod 24:18Moses entered the cloud as he went up on the mountain, and he remained on the mountain forty days and forty nights.
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