Leviticus 6:8-18

The Priests and the Offerings

8 ^[a] The LORD spoke to Moses, saying,

9 "Command Aaron and his sons, saying, This is the law of the burnt offering. The burnt offering shall be on the hearth on the altar all night until the morning, and the fire of the altar shall be kept burning on it.

10 And ¹the priest shall put on his linen garment and put his linen undergarment on his body, and he shall take up the ashes to which the fire has reduced the burnt offering on the altar and put them ²beside the altar.

11 Then ³he shall take off his garments and put on other garments and carry the ashes ⁴outside the camp to a clean place.

12 The fire on the altar shall be kept burning on it; it shall not go out. The priest shall burn wood on it every morning, and he shall arrange the burnt offering on it and shall burn on it ⁵the fat of the peace offerings.

13 Fire shall be kept burning on the altar continually; it shall not go out.

14 "And this is the law of ⁶the grain offering. The sons of Aaron shall offer it before the LORD in front of the altar.

15 And one shall take from it a handful of the fine flour of the grain offering and its oil and all the frankincense that is on the grain offering and burn this as its ⁷memorial portion on the altar, a pleasing aroma to the LORD.

16 And ⁸the rest of it Aaron and his sons shall eat. It shall be eaten unleavened ⁹in a holy place. In the court of the tent of meeting they shall eat it.

17 ¹⁰It shall not be baked with leaven. ¹¹I have given it as their portion of my food offerings. ¹²It is a thing most holy, like the sin offering and the guilt offering.

18 Every male among the children of Aaron may eat of it, as decreed forever throughout your generations, from the LORD's food offerings. Whatever touches them shall become holy."

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Leviticus 6:8-18 Meaning and Commentary

INTRODUCTION TO LEVITICUS 6

This chapter treats of the trespass offering for sins committed knowingly and wilfully, Le 6:1-7 and of the law of the burnt offering, and of cleansing the altar of burnt offering, and keeping the fire burning on it continually, Le 6:8-13 and of the meat offering, which is repeated with some additional circumstances, Le 6:14-18 and of the offering at the consecration of the high priest, Le 6:19-23 and of the sin offering, and where to be killed and eaten, and by whom, Le 6:24-30.

Taken from John Gill's Exposition of the Bible

Cross References 12

1. Leviticus 16:4; Ezekiel 44:18; See Exodus 28:39-43
2. Leviticus 1:16
3. Leviticus 16:23; Ezekiel 42:14; Ezekiel 44:19
4. See Leviticus 4:12
5. Leviticus 3:3, 9, 14
6. Leviticus 2:1; Numbers 15:4
7. Leviticus 2:2, 9
8. Leviticus 2:3, 10; Ezekiel 44:29; [1 Corinthians 9:13]
9. ver. 26; Leviticus 10:12, 13
10. Leviticus 2:11
11. Numbers 18:9
12. ver. 25, 29; Leviticus 2:3; Leviticus 7:1

Footnotes 1

[a]. Ch 6:1 in Hebrew

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