Leviticus 6:16

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Every meal offering offered for the priest is to be completely burned: nothing of it is to be taken for food.

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Referenced Verses

  • Lev 2:3 : 3 And the rest of the meal offering will be for Aaron and his sons; it is most holy among the Lord's fire offerings.
  • Ezek 44:29 : 29 Their food is to be the meal offering and the sin-offering and the offering for error; and everything given specially to the Lord in Israel will be theirs.
  • Lev 10:12-13 : 12 And Moses said to Aaron and to Eleazar and Ithamar, his sons who were still living, Take the rest of the meal offering from the offerings of the Lord made by fire, and take it for your food, without leaven, at the side of the altar, for it is most holy. 13 It is to be for your food in a holy place, because it is your right and your sons' right, from the offerings of the Lord made by fire: for so am I ordered.
  • Exod 12:8 : 8 And let your food that night be the flesh of the lamb, cooked with fire in the oven, together with unleavened bread and bitter-tasting plants.
  • 1 Cor 5:8 : 8 Let us then keep the feast, not with old leaven, and not with the leaven of evil thoughts and acts, but with the unleavened bread of true thoughts and right feelings.
  • 1 Cor 9:13-15 : 13 Do you not see that the servants of the holy things get their living from the Temple, and the servants of the altar have their part in the food which is offered on the altar? 14 Even so did the Lord give orders that the preachers of the good news might get their living from the good news. 15 But I have not made use of any of these things: and I am not writing this in the hope that it may be so for me: for it would be better for me to undergo death, than for any man to make this pride of mine of no effect.
  • Num 18:9-9 : 9 This is to be yours of the most holy things, out of the fire offerings; every offering of theirs, every meal offering and sin-offering, and every offering which they make on account of error, is to be most holy for you and your sons. 10 As most holy things they are to be your food: let every male have them for food; it is to be holy to you.
  • Lev 2:10-11 : 10 And the rest of the meal offering will be for Aaron and his sons; it is most holy among the Lord's fire offerings. 11 No meal offering which you give to the Lord is to be made with leaven; no leaven or honey is to be burned as an offering made by fire to the Lord.
  • Lev 5:13 : 13 And the priest will take away his sin and he will have forgiveness: and the rest of the offering will be the priest's, in the same way as the meal offering.

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Lev 10:12-13
    2 verses
    86%

    12 And Moses said to Aaron and to Eleazar and Ithamar, his sons who were still living, Take the rest of the meal offering from the offerings of the Lord made by fire, and take it for your food, without leaven, at the side of the altar, for it is most holy.

    13 It is to be for your food in a holy place, because it is your right and your sons' right, from the offerings of the Lord made by fire: for so am I ordered.

  • Lev 6:17-23
    7 verses
    85%

    17 And the Lord said to Moses,

    18 Say to Aaron and his sons, This is the law for the sin-offering: the sin-offering is to be put to death before the Lord in the same place as the burned offering; it is most holy.

    19 The priest by whom it is offered for sin, is to take it for his food in a holy place, in the open space of the Tent of meeting.

    20 Anyone touching the flesh of it will be holy: and if any of the blood is dropped on any clothing, the thing on which the blood has been dropped is to be washed in a holy place.

    21 But the vessel of earth in which the flesh was cooked is to be broken; or if a brass vessel was used, it is to be rubbed clean and washed out with water.

    22 Every male among the priests may take it for his food: it is most holy.

    23 No sin-offering, the blood of which is taken into the Tent of meeting, to take away sin in the holy place, may be used for food: it is to be burned with fire.

  • Lev 2:2-4
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    85%

    2 And let him take it to Aaron's sons, the priests; and having taken in his hand some of the meal and of the oil, with all the perfume, let him give it to the priest to be burned on the altar, as a sign, an offering made by fire, for a sweet smell to the Lord.

    3 And the rest of the meal offering will be for Aaron and his sons; it is most holy among the Lord's fire offerings.

    4 And when you give a meal offering cooked in the oven, let it be of unleavened cakes of the best meal mixed with oil, or thin unleavened cakes covered with oil.

  • Lev 2:9-11
    3 verses
    84%

    9 And he is to take from the meal offering a part, for a sign, burning it on the altar; an offering made by fire for a sweet smell to the Lord.

    10 And the rest of the meal offering will be for Aaron and his sons; it is most holy among the Lord's fire offerings.

    11 No meal offering which you give to the Lord is to be made with leaven; no leaven or honey is to be burned as an offering made by fire to the Lord.

  • Lev 24:9
    83%

    9 And it will be for Aaron and his sons; they are to take it for food in a holy place: it is the most holy of all the offerings made by fire to the Lord, a rule for ever.

  • Lev 8:31-32
    2 verses
    82%

    31 And Moses said to Aaron and to his sons, The flesh is to be cooked in water at the door of the Tent of meeting, and there you are to take it as food, together with the bread in the basket, as I have given orders, saying, It is the food of Aaron and his sons.

    32 And that which is over of the flesh and of the bread is to be burned with fire.

  • Exod 29:31-34
    4 verses
    82%

    31 Then take the sheep of the wave offering and let its flesh be cooked in water in a holy place.

    32 And let Aaron and his sons make a meal of it, with the bread in the basket, at the door of the Tent of meeting.

    33 All those things which were used as offerings to take away sin, and to make them holy to be priests, they may have for food: but no one who is not a priest may have them, for they are holy food.

    34 And if any of the flesh of the offering or of the bread is over till the morning, let it be burned with fire; it is not to be used for food, for it is holy.

  • Lev 7:6
    80%

    6 Every male among the priests may have it as food in a holy place: it is most holy.

  • Num 18:9-10
    2 verses
    80%

    9 This is to be yours of the most holy things, out of the fire offerings; every offering of theirs, every meal offering and sin-offering, and every offering which they make on account of error, is to be most holy for you and your sons.

    10 As most holy things they are to be your food: let every male have them for food; it is to be holy to you.

  • Lev 6:14-15
    2 verses
    77%

    14 Let it be made with oil on a flat plate; when it is well mixed and cooked, let it be broken and taken in as a meal offering, for a sweet smell to the Lord.

    15 And the same offering is to be given by that one of his sons who takes his place as priest; by an order for ever, all of it is to be burned before the Lord.

  • Lev 21:22
    77%

    22 He may take of the bread of God, the holy and the most holy;

  • Num 18:31
    76%

    31 It is to be your food, for you and your families in every place: it is your reward for your work in the Tent of meeting.

  • Exod 29:23
    76%

    23 And take one bit of bread and one cake of oiled bread and one thin cake out of the basket of unleavened bread which is before the Lord:

  • Lev 8:26
    76%

    26 And out of the basket of unleavened bread which was before the Lord he took one unleavened cake, and one cake of bread with oil on it, and one thin cake, and put them on the fat and on the right leg:

  • Lev 7:31
    76%

    31 And the fat is to be burned by the priest on the altar, but the breast is for Aaron and his sons.

  • Lev 3:5
    75%

    5 That it may be burned by Aaron's sons on the altar, on the burned offering which is on the wood on the fire: it is an offering made by fire of a sweet smell to the Lord.

  • Lev 19:6
    75%

    6 Let it be used for food on the same day on which it is offered, or on the day after; and whatever is over on the third day is to be burned with fire.

  • Lev 10:17
    75%

    17 Why did you not make a meal of the sin-offering in the holy place? For it is most holy and he has given it to you, so that the sin of the people may be put on it, to take away their sin before the Lord.

  • Lev 7:15-16
    2 verses
    75%

    15 And the flesh of the praise-offering is to be taken as food on the day when it is offered; no part of it may be kept till the morning.

    16 But if his offering is made because of an oath or given freely, it may be taken as food on the day when it is offered; and the rest may be used up on the day after:

  • Num 6:15
    75%

    15 And a basket of unleavened bread, cakes of the best meal mixed with oil, and thin unleavened cakes covered with oil, with their meal offering and drink offerings.

  • Lev 2:16
    75%

    16 And part of the meal of the offering and part of the oil and all the perfume is to be burned for a sign by the priest: it is an offering made by fire to the Lord.

  • Lev 22:30
    74%

    30 Let it be used for food on the same day; do not keep any part of it till the morning: I am the Lord.

  • Lev 7:9-10
    2 verses
    74%

    9 And every meal offering which is cooked in the oven and everything made in a cooking pot or on a flat plate, is for the priest by whom it is offered.

    10 And every meal offering, mixed with oil or dry, is for all the sons of Aaron in equal measure.

  • Exod 29:2
    74%

    2 And unleavened bread, and unleavened cakes mixed with oil, and thin unleavened cakes on which oil has been put, made of the best bread-meal;

  • Exod 12:10
    74%

    10 Do not keep any of it till the morning; anything which is not used is to be burned with fire.