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Leviticus 9:17
Next he presented the grain offering, took a handful of it, and burned it on the altar in addition to the morning’s burnt offering.
Berean Standard Bible
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Study note
Setting — Aaron performs this ritual during the seventh day of his consecration, immediately after presenting the burnt offering and before slaughtering the people’s peace offerings.
The words — וַ/יַּקְרֵב (va/yak.rev) indicates the formal presentation of the offering, and וַ/יַּקְטֵר (va/yak.ter) specifies the action of making it smoke on the altar.
The thread — The procedure references Leviticus 2:1 for grain offering composition, Exodus 29:38 for the established morning burnt offering, and Leviticus 3:5 for the instruction to burn the portion atop the existing altar fire.
Why it lands — The text requires the priest to add a measured handful of the grain offering to the altar without altering the established morning burnt offering, demonstrating that supplementary rituals must integrate precisely with prescribed worship order.
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The Hebrew words
King James Version
And he brought the meat offering, and took an handful thereof, and burnt it upon the altar, beside the burnt sacrifice of the morning.
Cross-references
- Leviticus 2:1 “When anyone brings a grain offering to the LORD, his offering must consist of fine flour. He is to pour olive oil on it, put frankincense on it,
- Exodus 29:38 This is what you are to offer regularly on the altar, each day: two lambs that are a year old.
- Leviticus 3:5 Then Aaron’s sons are to burn it on the altar atop the burnt offering that is on the burning wood, as a food offering, a pleasing aroma to the LORD.
- Leviticus 9:1 On the eighth day Moses summoned Aaron and his sons and the elders of Israel.
- John 6:53 So Jesus said to them, “Truly, truly, I tell you, unless you eat the flesh and drink the blood of the Son of Man, you have no life in you.
- Galatians 2:20 I have been crucified with Christ, and I no longer live, but Christ lives in me. The life I live in the body, I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me and gave Himself up for me.