Leviticus 6:23

Every offering that a priest gives that is made from grain must be completely burned; none of it is to be eaten.”

Translation for Translators

In The King James Version

For every meat offering for the priest shall be wholly burnt: it shall not be eaten.

In Context

22I have commanded that the descendants of Aaron who are appointed in turn to become the Supreme Priests after Aaron dies are the ones who must prepare those things. These offerings must be completely burned on the altar to be sacrifices to me, Yahweh.

24Yahweh also said to Moses/me,

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Cross References

Leviticus 4:5Then the Supreme Priest must take some of that blood into the Sacred Tent.

Leviticus 4:21Then the priest must take the other parts of the bull outside the camp and burn them, like he does when he himself has sinned. That will be the offering for the sin that all the people have committed, and they will be forgiven.

Leviticus 16:27The carcasses of the bull and the goat that were slaughtered to be an offering/sacrifice for the people’s sins, whose blood was taken inside the Very Holy Place to enable Yahweh to forgive the Israeli people, must be carried outside the camp and burned. The hides/skins of the animals, the inner organs, and the dung must also be burned.

Matthew Henry on Leviticus 6:15-24

Law of the Meat-Offering. ( b. c. 1490.) 14 And this is the law of the meat offering: the sons of Aaron shall offer it before the Lord , before the altar. 15 And he shall take of it his handful, of the flour of the meat offering, and of the oil thereof, and all the frankincense which is upon the meat offering, and shall burn it upon the altar for a sweet savour, even the memorial of it, unto the Lord . 16 And the remainder thereof shall Aaron and his sons eat: with unleavened bread shall it be eaten in the holy… Read the whole commentary →

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