Leviticus 6:9

9 "Give Aaron and the priests who are in his family line a command. Tell them, 'Here are some more rules for burnt offerings. The burnt offering must remain on the altar through the whole night. The fire on the altar must be kept burning until morning.

Leviticus 6:9 Meaning and Commentary

Leviticus 6:9

Command Aaron and his sons
Who were nominated, selected, and appointed to the office, though not yet consecrated to it and invested with it, see ( Leviticus 8:1 )

saying, this [is] the law of the burnt offering;
of the daily sacrifice, morning and evening:

it [is] the burnt offering, because of, [or] for the burning upon
the altar all night unto the morning;
as there was nothing offered on the altar of burnt offering after the evening daily sacrifice, nor anything before the morning daily sacrifice, it was the more difficult to keep the fire of the altar burning in the night; wherefore a slow fire was used in the evening sacrifice, and several things remained to be burnt in the night: so Maimonides ^F16 says, the remainder of the fat of the members were burnt all night until the pillar of the morning (first rays of the rising sun, Editor.):

and the fire of the altar shall be burning in it;
not without it, as Aben Ezra observes, but on it; that is, should be ever burning on it, night and day, as it is after declared.

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FOOTNOTES:

F16 In Misn. Beracot, c. 1. sect. 1.

Leviticus 6:9 In-Context

7 "The priest will sacrifice the ram to pay for the person's sin. He will do it in my sight. And the person will be forgiven for any of the things he did that made him guilty."

8 The LORD spoke to Moses. He said,

9 "Give Aaron and the priests who are in his family line a command. Tell them, 'Here are some more rules for burnt offerings. The burnt offering must remain on the altar through the whole night. The fire on the altar must be kept burning until morning.

10 " 'The priest must put on his linen clothes. He must put on linen underwear next to his body. He must remove the ashes of the burnt offering that the fire has burned up on the altar. He must place them beside the altar.

11 Then he must take his clothes off and put others on. He must carry the ashes outside the camp to a place that is "clean."