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Leviticus 8:28
Then Moses took these from their hands and burned them on the altar with the burnt offering. This was an ordination offering, a pleasing aroma, a food offering to the LORD.
Berean Standard Bible
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Study note
Setting — Moses acts during the ordination of Aaron and his sons, taking ritual items from their palms and placing them on the altar after they were waved before the LORD. This occurs at the conclusion of the consecration rites before the priests begin their service.
The words — וַ/יַּקְטֵר (va/i.yak.Ter) means "and he made [them] smoke," describing the combustion of the offering on the altar. מֹשֶׁ֤ה (mo.Sheh) identifies Moses as the agent executing this specific ritual act.
The thread — The same procedural instruction to take items from the priests' hands and burn them on the altar appears in Exodus 29:25. This ritual pattern establishes the foundational precedent for later priestly ordination rites.
Why it lands — The text requires the reader to recognize that priestly consecration demands the complete surrender of ritual objects to divine consumption. It establishes a procedural standard where human service begins only after God receives the prescribed offering.
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The Hebrew words
King James Version
And Moses took them from off their hands, and burnt them on the altar upon the burnt offering: they were consecrations for a sweet savour: it is an offering made by fire unto the Lord.
Cross-references
- 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.
- Psalms 22:13 They open their jaws against me like lions that roar and maul.
- Zechariah 13:7 Awake, O sword, against My Shepherd, against the man who is My Companion, declares the LORD of Hosts. Strike the Shepherd, and the sheep will be scattered, and I will turn My hand against the little ones.
- Hebrews 10:14 because by a single offering He has made perfect for all time those who are being sanctified.