Leviticus 8:20

Contemporary English Version

Moses had the animal cut up, and he washed its insides and hind legs. Then he laid the head, the fat, and the rest of the ram on the altar and sent them up in smoke with a smell that pleased the Lord . All this was done just as the Lord had commanded.

Parallel Translations

Hebrew Names Version
He cut the ram into its pieces; and Moshe burned the head, and the pieces, and the fat.

King James Version
And he cut the ram into pieces; and Moses burnt the head, and the pieces, and the fat.

Lexham English Bible
Then he cut the ram into pieces, and Moses turned into smoke the head and the pieces and the suet,

New Century Version
He cut the male sheep into pieces and burned the head, the pieces, and the fat.

New English Translation
Then he cut the ram into parts, and Moses offered the head, the parts, and the suet up in smoke,

Amplified Bible
When he had cut the ram into pieces, Moses offered up the head, the pieces, and the fat in smoke.

New American Standard Bible
When he had cut the ram into its pieces, Moses offered up the head and the pieces and the suet in smoke.

Geneva Bible (1587)
And Moses cut the ram in pieces, & burnt the head with the pieces, and the fat,

Legacy Standard Bible
And he cut the ram into its pieces. Then Moses offered up the head and the pieces and the suet in smoke.

Complete Jewish Bible
When the ram had been cut in pieces, Moshe made the head, the pieces and the fat go up in smoke.

Darby Translation
And the ram he cut up into its pieces; and Moses burned the head, and the pieces, and the fat;

Easy-to-Read Version
He cut the ram into pieces. He washed the inner parts and legs with water. Then he burned the whole ram on the altar. He burned the head, the pieces, and the fat as a burnt offering. It was a sweet-smelling gift to the Lord . Moses did everything just as the Lord commanded.

English Standard Version
He cut the ram into pieces, and Moses burned the head and the pieces and the fat.

George Lamsa Translation
And he cut the ram into pieces; and Moses burned the head and the pieces and the fat.

Good News Translation
He cut the ram in pieces, washed the internal organs and the hind legs with water, and burned the head, the fat, and all the rest of the ram on the altar, just as the Lord had commanded. This burnt offering was a food offering, and its odor was pleasing to the Lord .

Christian Standard Bible®
Moses cut the ram into pieces and burned the head, the pieces, and the fat,

Literal Translation
and he cut the ram into its pieces, and Moses burned it as incense with the head, and the pieces, and the fat.

Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
hewed the ramme in peces, and burnt the heade, the peces, and the fatt.

American Standard Version
And he cut the ram into its pieces; and Moses burnt the head, and the pieces, and the fat.

Bible in Basic English
And when the sheep had been cut into parts, the head and the parts and the fat were burned by Moses.

Bishop's Bible (1568)
And Moyses cut the Ramme into his peeces, and burnt the head, the peeces, and the fat.

JPS Old Testament (1917)
And when the ram was cut into its pieces, Moses made the head, and the pieces, and the suet smoke.

King James Version (1611)
And he cut the ramme into pieces, and Moses burnt the head, and the pieces, and the fat.

Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
And Moses offered up the whole ram on the altar: it is a whole-burnt-offering for a sweet-smelling savour; it is a burnt-offering to the Lord, as the Lord commanded Moses.

English Revised Version
And he cut the ram into its pieces; and Moses burnt the head, and the pieces, and the fat.

Berean Standard Bible
He cut the ram into pieces and burned the head, the pieces, and the fat.

Wycliffe Bible (1395)
And he kittide thilke ram in to gobetis, and brente with fier the heed therof, and membris,

Young's Literal Translation
and the ram he hath cut into its pieces, and Moses maketh perfume with the head, and the pieces, and the fat,

Update Bible Version
And he cut the ram into its pieces; and Moses burnt the head, and the pieces, and the fat.

Webster's Bible Translation
And he cut the ram into pieces; and Moses burnt the head, and the pieces, and the fat.

World English Bible
He cut the ram into its pieces; and Moses burned the head, and the pieces, and the fat.

New King James Version
And he cut the ram into pieces; and Moses burned the head, the pieces, and the fat.

New Living Translation
Then he cut the ram into pieces, and he burned the head, some of its pieces, and the fat on the altar.

New Life Bible
He cut the ram into pieces. And Moses burned the head, the pieces, and the fat.

New Revised Standard
The ram was cut into its parts, and Moses turned into smoke the head and the parts and the suet.

J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
and the ram itself, was cut up into its pieces, - and Moses made a perfume with the head and with the pieces and with the fat;

Douay-Rheims Bible
And cutting the ram into pieces, the head thereof, and the joints, and the fat he burnt in the fire.

Revised Standard Version
And when the ram was cut into pieces, Moses burned the head and the pieces and the fat.

New American Standard Bible (1995)
When he had cut the ram into its pieces, Moses offered up the head and the pieces and the suet in smoke.

Contextual Overview

¹⁴ Moses led out the bull that was to be sacrificed for sin, and Aaron and his sons laid their hands on its head. ¹⁵ After it was killed, Moses dipped a finger in the blood and smeared some of it on each of the four corners of the bronze altar, before pouring out the rest at the foot of the altar. This purified the altar and made it a fit place for offering the sacrifice for sin. ¹⁶ Moses then took the fat on the bull's insides, as well as the lower part of the liver and the two kidneys with their fat, and sent them up in smoke on the altar fire. ¹⁷ Finally, he took the skin and the flesh of the bull, together with the food still in its stomach, and burned them outside the camp, just as the Lord had commanded. ¹⁸ Moses led out the ram for the sacrifice to please the Lord . After Aaron and his sons had laid their hands on its head, ¹⁹ Moses killed the ram and splattered its blood against the four sides of the altar. ²⁰Moses had the animal cut up, and he washed its insides and hind legs. Then he laid the head, the fat, and the rest of the ram on the altar and sent them up in smoke with a smell that pleased the Lord . All this was done just as the Lord had commanded. ²² Moses led out the ram for the ceremony of ordination. Aaron and his sons laid their hands on its head, ²³ and it was killed. Moses smeared some of its blood on Aaron's right earlobe, some on his right thumb, and some on the big toe of his right foot. ²⁴ Moses did the same thing for Aaron's sons, before splattering the rest of the blood against the four sides of the altar.

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Reciprocal: Ezekiel 40:43 - upon

Cross-References

Genesis 4:4
and Abel also gave an offering to the Lord . He killed the first-born lamb from one of his sheep and gave the Lord the best parts of it. The Lord was pleased with Abel and his offering,

Genesis 7:2
Take seven pairs of every kind of animal that can be used for sacrifice and one pair of all others.

Genesis 8:1
God did not forget about Noah and the animals with him in the boat. So God made a wind blow, and the water started going down.

Genesis 8:4
Then on the seventeenth day of the seventh month of the year, the boat came to rest somewhere in the Ararat mountains.

Genesis 8:8
Noah wanted to find out if the water had gone down, and he sent out a dove.

Genesis 8:15
God said to Noah,

Genesis 8:16
"You, your wife, your sons, and your daughters-in-law may now leave the boat.

Genesis 8:17
Let out the birds, animals, and reptiles, so they can mate and live all over the earth."

Genesis 13:4
where he had earlier camped and built an altar. There he worshiped the Lord .

Genesis 13:18
Abram took down his tents and went to live near the sacred trees of Mamre at Hebron, where he built an altar in honor of the Lord .

Gill's Notes on the Bible

And he cut the ram into pieces,.... Cut off its head and quartered it:

and Moses burnt the head, and the pieces, and the fat; even all of it, as the following verse shows.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Moses as the mediator of the covenant of the Law Galatians 3:19; Hebrews 8:6 was called to perform the priestly functions, in consecrating those on whom henceforth those functions were to devolve, and in inaugurating the legal order of sacrifices. See Exodus 40:23 note. The sin-offering was now offered for the first time. The succession in which the sacrifices followed each other on this occasion, first the sin-offering, then the burnt-offering, and lastly the peace-offering, has its ground in the meaning of each sacrifice, and became the established custom in later ages. The worshipper passed through a spiritual process. He had transgressed the Law, and he needed the atonement signified by the sin-offering: if his offering had been made in truth and sincerity, he could then offer himself as an accepted person, as a sweet savour, in the burnt-offering; and in consequence, he could enjoy communion with the Lord and with his brethren in the peace-offering.

Leviticus 8:14-17

See the marginal references. The flesh of the sin-offering could not be eaten by any but a legally consecrated priest (Leviticus 6:25 note). Moses therefore could not eat of it himself, though he was, for the occasion, performing the duties of a priest. Those whom he was consecrating could not eat it, not only because they were not yet duly installed, but because the sacrifice was offered on their behalf, and the body of the victim stood to them in the same relation as that of the regular sin-offering afterward stood to the high priest.

Leviticus 8:15

Purified the altar ... sanctified it, to make reconciliation upon it - The altar had been sanctified by the anointing oil Leviticus 8:11 like the priests who were to officiate at it; it was now, like them, sanctified by blood, in acknowledgment of the alienation of all nature, in itself, from God, and the need of a reconciliation to Him of all things by blood. Colossians 1:20; Hebrews 9:21-22. See Leviticus 17:11; Exodus 28:38.

Leviticus 8:18-21

Atonement having been made, Aaron and his sons were now permitted, by the laying on of their hands, to make themselves one with the victim, which was to be sent up to Yahweh as “a burnt sacrifice for a sweet savour, an offering made by fire unto the Lord.” All was done strictly according to the ritual Leviticus 1:3-9, except that Moses performed the duties of the priest.

Leviticus 8:22

The ram of consecration - The sacrifice of this ram was by far the most unique part of the whole ceremony. The words may be literally rendered “the ram of the fillings”, and the name has been supposed to have reference to the ceremony in which Moses filled the hands of the priests; see Leviticus 8:27. The offering was in the highest sense “the sacrifice of completion or fulfilling”, as being the central point of the consecrating rite. The final perfection of the creature is consecration to the Lord.

Leviticus 8:23, Leviticus 8:24

Before casting forth the blood round the altar in the usual manner, Moses took a portion of the blood and put some of it on the right extremities of each of the priests. This, being performed with the blood of the peace-offering, has been supposed to figure the readiness of the priest who is at peace with Yahweh to hear with the ear and obey the divine word, to perform with the hand the sacred duties of his office, and to walk with the feet in the way of holiness.

Leviticus 8:25-28

In the rite of filling the hands of the priests, Moses took the portions of the victim which usually belonged to the altar, with the right shoulder (or leg); he placed upon them one cake of each of the three kinds of unleavened bread contained in the basket (see Leviticus 8:2 note), and then put the whole first upon the hands of Aaron and in succession upon the hands of his sons: in each case, according to Jewish tradition, he put his own hands under the hands of the priest, moving them backwards and forwards, so as to wave the mass to and fro.

In this remarkable ceremony the gifts of the people appear to have been made over to the priests, as if in trust, for the service of the altar. The articles were presented to Yahweh and solemnly waved in the hands of the priests, but not by their own act and deed. The mediator of the Law, who was expressly commissioned on this occasion, was the agent in the process.

Leviticus 8:25

The rump - See Leviticus 3:9 note.

Leviticus 8:29

The heave-shoulder was the ordinary perquisite of the officiating priest, but the wave-breast appears to have been awarded to Moses as the servant of Yahweh now especially appointed for the priestly service.

Leviticus 8:30

The sprinkling was on their garments as well as their persons, because it belonged to them in reference to the office with which they had been formally invested by putting on the garments. (See Exodus 28:3 note). The union of the two symbols of the atoning blood and the inspiring unction appears to be a fit conclusion of the entire rite.

Leviticus 8:33-36

The rites of consecration were to last a whole week, and thus, like the longer of the annual festivals, were connected in an emphatic manner with the sabbatical number of the covenant. During this period the priests were not to leave the holy precinct for the sake of any worldly business; and the whole series of ceremonies, including the sacrifice of the Ram of consecration, was to be gone through on each day. Compare the marginal references.

Leviticus 8:33

Rather, ye shall not go away from the entrance of the tent. With this agree Cranmer, the Geneva Bible, etc. The meaning is evidently that they were not to go out of the court, as is more clearly expressed in Leviticus 8:35.

Leviticus 8:35

That ye die not - See Exodus 28:35 note.