It is a continual burnt offering, which was ordained in mount Sinai for a sweet savour, a sacrifice made by fire unto 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.
- 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.
Cross-references & the web
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- Amos 5:25Have ye offered unto me sacrifices and offerings in the wilderness forty years, O house of Israel?
- Ps 50:8I will not reprove thee for thy sacrifices or thy burnt offerings, to have been continually before me.
- Ezek 46:14And thou shalt prepare a meat offering for it every morning, the sixth part of an ephah, and the third part of an hin of oil, to temper with the fine flour; a meat offering continually by a perpetual ordinance unto the LORD.
- Exod 29:38–42Now this is that which thou shalt offer upon the altar; two lambs of the first year day by day continually.
- 2 Chr 2:4Behold, I build an house to the name of the LORD my God, to dedicate it to him, and to burn before him sweet incense, and for the continual shewbread, and for the burnt offerings morning and evening, on the sabbaths, and on the new moons, and on the solemn feasts of the LORD our God. This is an ordinance for ever to Israel.
- 2 Chr 31:3He appointed also the king’s portion of his substance for the burnt offerings, to wit, for the morning and evening burnt offerings, and the burnt offerings for the sabbaths, and for the new moons, and for the set feasts, as it is written in the law of the LORD.
- Lev 6:9Command Aaron and his sons, saying, This is the law of the burnt offering: It is the burnt offering, because of the burning upon the altar all night unto the morning, and the fire of the altar shall be burning in it.
- Exod 31:18And he gave unto Moses, when he had made an end of communing with him upon mount Sinai, two tables of testimony, tables of stone, written with the finger of God.
- Ezra 3:4They kept also the feast of tabernacles, as it is written, and offered the daily burnt offerings by number, according to the custom, as the duty of every day required;
- Exod 24:18And Moses went into the midst of the cloud, and gat him up into the mount: and Moses was in the mount forty days and forty nights.
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