Verse 6

It is a continual burnt offering that was instituted on Mount Sinai as a pleasing aroma, an offering made by fire to the LORD.

Referenced Verses

  • Amos 5:25 : 25 You did not bring me sacrifices and grain offerings during the forty years you spent in the wilderness, family of Israel.
  • Exod 29:38-42 : 38 “Now this is what you are to prepare on the altar every day continually: two lambs a year old. 39 The first lamb you are to prepare in the morning, and the second lamb you are to prepare around sundown. 40 With the first lamb offer a tenth of an ephah of fine flour mixed with a fourth of a hin of oil from pressed olives, and a fourth of a hin of wine as a drink offering. 41 The second lamb you are to offer around sundown; you are to prepare for it the same meal offering as for the morning and the same drink offering, for a soothing aroma, an offering made by fire to the LORD. 42 “This will be a regular burnt offering throughout your generations at the entrance of the tent of meeting before the LORD, where I will meet with you to speak to you there.
  • Exod 31:18 : 18 He gave Moses two tablets of testimony when he had finished speaking with him on Mount Sinai, tablets of stone written by the finger of God.
  • Lev 6:9 : 9 “Command Aaron and his sons,‘This is the law of the burnt offering. The burnt offering is to remain on the hearth on the altar all night until morning, and the fire of the altar must be kept burning on it.
  • 2 Chr 2:4 : 4 Look, I am ready to build a temple to honor the LORD my God and to dedicate it to him in order to burn fragrant incense before him, to set out the bread that is regularly displayed, and to offer burnt sacrifices each morning and evening, and on Sabbaths, new moon festivals, and at other times appointed by the LORD our God. This is something Israel must do on a permanent basis.
  • 2 Chr 31:3 : 3 The king contributed some of what he owned for burnt sacrifices, including the morning and evening burnt sacrifices and the burnt sacrifices made on Sabbaths, new moon festivals, and at other appointed times prescribed in the law of the LORD.
  • Ezra 3:4 : 4 They observed the Feast of Shelters as required and offered the proper number of daily burnt offerings according to the requirement for each day.
  • Ps 50:8 : 8 I am not condemning you because of your sacrifices, or because of your burnt sacrifices that you continually offer me.
  • Ezek 46:14 : 14 And you will provide a grain offering with it morning by morning, a sixth of an ephah, and a third of a gallon of olive oil to moisten the choice flour, as a grain offering to the LORD; this is a perpetual statute.
  • Exod 24:18 : 18 Moses went into the cloud when he went up the mountain, and Moses was on the mountain forty days and forty nights.