Leviticus 6:5
\6:12\The fire on the altar is to be kept burning; it is never to go out; every morning the priest is to put wood on it, placing the burned offering in order on it, and there the fat of the peace-offering is to be burned.
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6\6:13\Let the fire be kept burning on the altar at all times; it is never to go out.
Cross References
Exodus 22:1If a man takes without right another man's ox or his sheep, and puts it to death or gets a price for it, he is to give five oxen for an ox, or four sheep for a sheep, in payment: the thief will have to make payment for what he has taken; if he has no money, he himself will have to be exchanged for money, so that payment may be made.
Exodus 22:7If a man puts money or goods in the care of his neighbour to keep for him, and it is taken from the man's house, if they get the thief, he will have to make payment of twice the value.
Exodus 30:7And on this altar sweet spices are to be burned by Aaron every morning when he sees to the lights.
Numbers 5:7Let them say openly what they have done; and make payment for the wrong done, with the addition of a fifth part, and give it to him to whom the wrong was done.
2 Samuel 12:6And he will have to give back four times the value of the lamb, because he has done this and because he had no pity.
Proverbs 6:30Men do not have a low opinion of a thief who takes food when he is in need of it:
Matthew Henry on Leviticus 6:2-8
Law of the Trespass-Offering. ( b. c. 1490.) 1 And the Lord spake unto Moses, saying, 2 If a soul sin, and commit a trespass against the Lord , and lie unto his neighbour in that which was delivered him to keep, or in fellowship, or in a thing taken away by violence, or hath deceived his neighbour; 3 Or have found that which was lost, and lieth concerning it, and sweareth falsely; in any of all these that a man doeth, sinning therein: 4 Then it shall be, because he hath sinned, and is guilty, that he shall restore… Read the whole commentary →