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Leviticus 1:9
The entrails and legs must be washed with water, and the priest shall burn all of it on the altar as a burnt offering, a food offering, a pleasing aroma to the LORD.
Berean Standard Bible
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Study note
Setting — The Lord gives this instruction to Moses for Aaron’s sons the priests, immediately after they arrange the sacrificial pieces on the altar wood.
The words — וְ/הִקְטִ֨יר (ve./hik.Tir) = and he will make smoke/rise and הַ/כֹּהֵ֤ן (ha./ko.Hen) = the priest.
The thread — The same washing and burning sequence repeats in Leviticus 1:13, while the concept of a burnt offering rising as a pleasing aroma connects to Genesis 8:21 and Ephesians 5:2.
Why it lands — The text commands the complete purification and combustion of the animal before the altar, establishing that the offering must be fully presented to God without partial retention.
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The Hebrew words
King James Version
But his inwards and his legs shall he wash in water: and the priest shall burn all on the altar, to be a burnt sacrifice, an offering made by fire, of a sweet savour unto the Lord.
Cross-references
- Genesis 8:21 When the LORD smelled the pleasing aroma, He said in His heart, “Never again will I curse the ground because of man, even though every inclination of his heart is evil from his youth. And never again will I destroy all living creatures as I have done.
- Leviticus 1:13 The entrails and legs must be washed with water, and the priest shall present all of it and burn it on the altar; it is a burnt offering, a food offering, a pleasing aroma to the LORD.
- Ephesians 5:2 and walk in love, just as Christ loved us and gave Himself up for us as a fragrant sacrificial offering to God.
- Exodus 29:18 Then burn the entire ram on the altar; it is a burnt offering to the LORD, a pleasing aroma, a food offering to the LORD.
- Leviticus 3:11 Then the priest is to burn them on the altar as food, a food offering to the LORD.
- Ezekiel 20:41 When I bring you from the peoples and gather you from the lands to which you have been scattered, I will accept you as a pleasing aroma. And I will show My holiness through you in the sight of the nations.
- 2 Corinthians 2:15 For we are to God the sweet aroma of Christ among those who are being saved and those who are perishing.
- Exodus 29:25 Then take them from their hands and burn them on the altar atop the burnt offering as a pleasing aroma before the LORD; it is a food offering to the LORD.
- Leviticus 1:17 He shall tear it open by its wings, without dividing the bird completely. And the priest is to burn it on the altar atop the burning wood. It is a burnt offering, a food offering, a pleasing aroma to the LORD.
- Leviticus 8:21 He washed the entrails and legs with water and burned the entire ram on the altar as a burnt offering, a pleasing aroma, a food offering to the LORD, just as the LORD had commanded Moses.