The Burnt Offering—Priests’ Duties
Leviticus 6:8-13
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Lev.6.8 - Details
Original Text
Morphology
- והרים: VERB,qal,impf,3,m,sg
- ממנו: PREP+PRON,3,m,sg
- בקמצו: PREP+NOUN,m,sg,abs+PRON,3,m,sg
- מסלת: PREP+NOUN,f,sg,abs
- המנחה: NOUN,f,sg,def
- ומשמנה: NOUN,m,sg,abs
- ואת: CONJ
- כל: DET
- הלבנה: NOUN,f,sg,def
- אשר: PRON,rel
- על: PREP
- המנחה: NOUN,f,sg,def
- והקטיר: VERB,hiph,perf,3,m,sg
- המזבח: NOUN,m,sg,def
- ריח: NOUN,m,sg,abs
- ניחח: ADJ,m,sg
- אזכרתה: NOUN,f,sg,abs,poss:3,f,sg
- ליהוה: PREP+NOUN,m,sg,def
Parallels
- Leviticus 2:2 (verbal): Almost identical priestly instruction: the priest takes a handful (the memorial portion) of the meal offering and burns it on the altar as a pleasing aroma to Yahweh.
- Numbers 15:4–10 (thematic): Regulations for grain/meal offerings: part of the offering is presented and a portion burned on the altar; continues the theme of memorial portions and 'sweet savour' to Yahweh.
- Exodus 29:18 (verbal): Uses similar cultic language of burning an offering on the altar and describing it as a pleasing/sweet aroma to the LORD in the context of consecration sacrifices.
- Psalm 141:2 (thematic): Uses the image of prayer as incense/a pleasing aroma before God, echoing the cultic motif of offerings that ascend as a sweet smell to Yahweh.
- Ephesians 5:2 (allusion): New Testament appropriation of sacrificial language — Christ’s self‑offering described as a 'fragrant offering' to God, echoing the OT idea of offerings as a 'pleasing aroma.'
Alternative generated candidates
- And he shall lift from it a handful of the fine flour of the grain offering and of its oil, and all the frankincense that is on the grain offering; and he shall burn it on the altar as a pleasing aroma—its memorial portion—to the LORD.
- And he shall take from it with his handful some of the fine flour of the grain offering and some of its oil, and all the frankincense that is on the grain offering; and he shall turn it into smoke on the altar as a pleasing aroma—its memorial portion—to the LORD.
Lev.6.9 - Details
Original Text
Morphology
- והנותרת: CONJ+NOUN,f,sg,def
- ממנה: PREP+PRON,3,f,sg
- יאכלו: VERB,qal,impf,3,m,pl
- אהרן: NOUN,m,sg,abs
- ובניו: CONJ+NOUN,m,pl,abs+PRON,3,m,sg
- מצות: NOUN,f,pl,abs
- תאכל: VERB,qal,impf,3,f,sg
- במקום: PREP+NOUN,m,sg,abs
- קדש: NOUN,f,sg,abs
- בחצר: PREP+NOUN,f,sg,abs
- אהל: NOUN,m,sg,construct
- מועד: NOUN,m,sg,abs
- יאכלוה: VERB,qal,impf,3,m,pl,suff,3,f,sg
Parallels
- Leviticus 2:3 (structural): Part of the grain-offering instructions; establishes the same priestly disposition of offerings (portions belonging to Aaron and his sons) and the ritual handling of cereal offerings.
- Leviticus 6:16-18 (verbal): Within the same chapter, lays out parallel regulations that priests must eat certain offerings in a holy place and emphasizes who may eat and where they may eat them.
- Numbers 18:11-13 (thematic): Gives the broader allocation of sacred portions to Aaron and his sons, explicitly stating that these portions are to be eaten in a holy place—same rule applied to priestly portions.
- Exodus 29:33 (verbal): In the consecration rites for Aaron and his sons, prescribes that their designated portions (breast and thigh of the sacrifice) ’shall be eaten in a holy place,’ using language closely parallel to Leviticus 6:9.
Alternative generated candidates
- And what remains from it Aaron and his sons shall eat; it shall be eaten unleavened in a holy place; in the court of the tent of meeting they shall eat it.
- And what remains of it Aaron and his sons shall eat; it shall be eaten unleavened; in a holy place, in the court of the Tent of Meeting, they shall eat it.
Lev.6.10 - Details
Original Text
Morphology
- לא: PART_NEG
- תאפה: VERB,qal,impf,2,m,sg
- חמץ: NOUN,m,sg,abs
- חלקם: NOUN,m,sg,abs+PRON,3,m,pl
- נתתי: VERB,qal,perf,1,_,sg
- אתה: PRON,2,m,sg
- מאשי: NOUN,m,pl,constr
- קדש: NOUN,f,sg,abs
- קדשים: NOUN,m,pl,abs
- הוא: PRON,3,m,sg
- כחטאת: PREP_sim+NOUN,f,sg,abs
- וכאשם: CONJ+PREP_sim+NOUN,m,sg,abs
Parallels
- Leviticus 2:11 (verbal): Explicit prohibition against leaven in grain offerings—parallels the command not to bake leaven for the priests' portion (both regulate leaven in sacrificial/ceremonial bread).
- Leviticus 7:6-7 (structural): Declares the priests' portion (the wave/heave offering) to be most holy and reserved for Aaron and his sons—echoes the statement that the portion is "most holy" and belongs to the priests as in Lev 6:10.
- Numbers 18:9-13 (thematic): God grants the heave/wave offerings and other sacred portions to Aaron and his sons as a perpetual priestly portion and emphasizes their holiness—parallels the allocation of the priests' bread and its status as 'most holy' in Lev 6:10.
- Deuteronomy 18:3-5 (thematic): Sets out the priests' rights to portions of sacrifices and firstfruits as their due—themewise connection with Lev 6:10's assignment of a holy portion to the priests.
- Leviticus 22:10-16 (thematic): Rules about who may eat holy things and how uncleanness affects access to sacred portions—connects with Lev 6:10's characterization of the priests' portion as holy and comparable to sin and guilt offerings (restrictions on use/consumption).
Alternative generated candidates
- It shall not be baked with leaven. I have given it as their portion from my offerings by fire; it is most holy, like the sin offering and like the guilt offering.
- It shall not be baked with leaven. I have assigned it as their share from my offerings by fire; it is most holy, like the sin offering and like the guilt offering.
Lev.6.11 - Details
Original Text
Morphology
- כל: DET
- זכר: NOUN,m,sg,abs
- בבני: PREP+NOUN,m,pl,const
- אהרן: NOUN,m,sg,abs
- יאכלנה: VERB,qal,impf,3,m,pl
- חק: NOUN,m,sg,abs
- עולם: NOUN,m,sg,abs
- לדרתיכם: PREP+NOUN,m,pl,abs+PRON,2,m,pl
- מאשי: NOUN,m,pl,constr
- יהוה: NOUN,prop,m,sg,abs
- כל: DET
- אשר: PRON,rel
- יגע: VERB,qal,impf,3,m,sg
- בהם: PREP+PRON,3,m,pl
- יקדש: VERB,qal,impf,3,m,sg
Parallels
- Leviticus 7:6-10 (verbal): Prescribes that the priestly portions (from peace and other offerings) belong to Aaron and his sons and are to be eaten by them—directly parallel in subject and language to Lev 6:11’s rule that male descendants of Aaron shall eat the offering.
- Leviticus 22:10-12 (thematic): Regulates who may eat holy things and bars non-priests (or the ritually unclean) from eating them until purification—echoes Lev 6:11’s requirement that those who touch sacred offerings be holy.
- Numbers 18:8-10 (verbal): God’s allocation of the sacred portions to Aaron and his sons and the command that these portions are their right parallels Lev 6:11’s designation of priestly consumption as a perpetual statute.
- Deuteronomy 18:3-4 (thematic): Affirms the Levites’/priests’ right to the people’s offerings as their share and support—the broader legal-theological background to Lev 6:11’s priestly entitlement to sacred food.
- Ezekiel 44:29 (allusion): Describes priests’ duty and privilege to eat God’s offerings and stresses purity requirements for those who partake—reflects the post-exilic concern with priestly exclusivity and holiness found already in Lev 6:11.
Alternative generated candidates
- Every male among the sons of Aaron may eat it; it is a perpetual statute for your generations from the LORD’s offerings by fire. Whatever touches them shall become holy.
- Every male among the sons of Aaron shall eat it—a perpetual statute throughout your generations—from the LORD's offerings by fire; whatever touches them shall become holy.
Lev.6.12 - Details
Original Text
Morphology
- וידבר: VERB,qal,impf,3,m,sg
- יהוה: NOUN,prop,m,sg,abs
- אל: NEG
- משה: NOUN,prop,m,sg,abs
- לאמר: INF,qal,infc
Parallels
- Leviticus 1:1 (verbal): Uses the same divine-speech formula to introduce priestly/sacrificial instructions — 'And the LORD called unto Moses, and spake unto him…', a near linguistic parallel within Leviticus.
- Exodus 19:3 (verbal): Another instance of God addressing Moses with an introductory 'saying' formula as He delivers commands from Sinai — similar phrasing and function.
- Exodus 20:1 (structural): The Decalogue also begins with a formula of divine speech ('And God spake all these words, saying'), serving the same structural role of introducing authoritative commandments.
- Numbers 1:1 (structural): Begins a major set of instructions with 'And the LORD spake unto Moses', using the same structural device to introduce census/administrative law.
Alternative generated candidates
- And the LORD spoke to Moses, saying:
- And the LORD spoke to Moses, saying:
Lev.6.13 - Details
Original Text
Morphology
- זה: PRON,dem,m,sg
- קרבן: NOUN,m,sg,abs
- אהרן: NOUN,m,sg,abs
- ובניו: CONJ+NOUN,m,pl,abs+PRON,3,m,sg
- אשר: PRON,rel
- יקריבו: VERB,qal,impf,3,pl
- ליהוה: PREP+NOUN,m,sg,def
- ביום: PREP
- המשח: NOUN,m,sg,def
- אתו: PRON,3,m,sg,acc
- עשירת: NUM,ord,f,sg,cons
- האפה: NOUN,f,sg,abs
- סלת: NOUN,f,sg,abs
- מנחה: NOUN,f,sg,abs
- תמיד: ADV
- מחציתה: NOUN,f,sg,abs+prs3f
- בבקר: PREP
- ומחציתה: CONJ+NOUN,f,sg,abs+prs3f
- בערב: PREP+NOUN,m,sg,abs
Parallels
- Exodus 29:38-42 (verbal): Prescribes the daily (morning and evening) burnt and accompanying grain offering—same measure (a tenth of an ephah of fine flour) and the split morning/evening pattern as in Lev 6:13.
- Numbers 28:3-8 (verbal): Repeats the institution of the continual daily offerings (morning and evening lambs and the grain offering of a tenth of an ephah), paralleling the liturgical schedule and quantity in Leviticus 6:13.
- Exodus 30:7-8 (thematic): Commands Aaron to perform a twice-daily cultic duty (burning incense morning and evening); thematically parallels the obligation of priests to maintain regular morning-and-evening worship actions described in Lev 6:13.
- Leviticus 24:5-9 (thematic): Describes Aaron and his sons’ responsibility for the continual placement of the showbread before the LORD—another example of perpetual priestly duties and offerings that parallels the sustained, regular nature of the offering in Lev 6:13.
Alternative generated candidates
- This is the offering of Aaron and his sons that they shall present to the LORD on the day he is anointed: a tenth of an ephah of fine flour, a regular grain offering; half of it in the morning and half of it in the evening.
- This is the offering of Aaron and his sons that they shall present to the LORD on the day he is anointed: a tenth of an ephah of fine flour as a regular grain offering—half of it in the morning and half of it in the evening.
And he shall lift from it a handful of the fine flour of the grain offering and of its oil, and all the frankincense that is on the grain offering; and he shall burn on the altar, as a pleasing aroma, its memorial portion to the LORD. And what remains of it Aaron and his sons shall eat. It shall be eaten unleavened in a holy place; in the court of the tent of meeting they shall eat it.
It shall not be baked with leaven. I have given it as their portion from my offerings by fire; it is most holy, like the sin offering and like the guilt offering.
Every male among the sons of Aaron shall eat it; a statute forever throughout your generations, from the LORD's offerings by fire. Whatever touches them shall become holy. And the LORD spoke to Moses, saying:
This is the offering of Aaron and his sons that they shall present to the LORD on the day he is anointed: a tenth of an ephah of fine flour, a perpetual grain offering; half of it in the morning and half of it in the evening.