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Good News Translation

Leviticus 3:11

The officiating priest shall burn all this on the altar as a food offering to the Lord .

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Fat;   Priest;   Torrey's Topical Textbook - Offerings;   Sacrifices;  

Dictionaries:

- American Tract Society Bible Dictionary - Sacrifice;   Baker Evangelical Dictionary of Biblical Theology - Priest, Priesthood;   Easton Bible Dictionary - Fat;   Fausset Bible Dictionary - Abstinence;   Priest;   Holman Bible Dictionary - Expiation, Propitiation;   Laying on of Hands;   Leviticus;   Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - Priests and Levites;   Propitiation;   Sacrifice and Offering;   Hastings' Dictionary of the New Testament - Sheep, Shepherd;   Morrish Bible Dictionary - Kidneys;   People's Dictionary of the Bible - Offering;   Watson's Biblical & Theological Dictionary - Offerings;  

Encyclopedias:

- Condensed Biblical Cyclopedia - Tabernacle, the;   Worship, the;   International Standard Bible Encyclopedia - Law in the Old Testament;   Sacrifice;   Kitto Biblical Cyclopedia - Abstinence;   The Jewish Encyclopedia - Peace-Offering;  

Parallel Translations

Hebrew Names Version
The Kohen shall burn it on the altar: it is the food of the offering made by fire to the LORD.
King James Version
And the priest shall burn it upon the altar: it is the food of the offering made by fire unto the Lord .
Lexham English Bible
The priest shall turn it into smoke on the altar as a food offering made by fire for Yahweh.
New Century Version
Then the priest will burn these parts on the altar as food; it will be an offering made by fire to the Lord .
New English Translation
Then the priest must offer it up in smoke on the altar as a food gift to the Lord .
Amplified Bible
'The priest shall offer it up in smoke on the altar as food, an offering by fire to the LORD.
New American Standard Bible
'Then the priest shall offer it up in smoke on the altar as food, an offering by fire to the LORD.
Geneva Bible (1587)
Then the Priest shall burne it vpon the altar, as the meat of an offring made by fire vnto the Lord.
Legacy Standard Bible
Then the priest shall offer it up in smoke on the altar as food, an offering by fire to Yahweh.
Contemporary English Version
One of the priests will lay these pieces on the altar and send them up in smoke as a food offering for me.
Complete Jewish Bible
The cohen will make it go up in smoke on the altar; it is food, an offering made by fire to Adonai .
Darby Translation
and the priest shall burn it on the altar: [it is] the food of the offering by fire to Jehovah.
Easy-to-Read Version
Then the priest will take that part to the altar to be burned up as food, a gift to the Lord .
English Standard Version
And the priest shall burn it on the altar as a food offering to the Lord .
George Lamsa Translation
And the priest shall burn it upon the altar; it is a food offering made by fire to the LORD.
Christian Standard Bible®
Then the priest will burn the food on the altar, as a fire offering to the Lord.
Literal Translation
And the priest shall burn it as incense on the altar, bread of the fire offering to Jehovah.
Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
And the prest shal burne it vpon the altare, for ye meate of the offerynge vnto ye LORDE.
American Standard Version
And the priest shall burn it upon the altar: it is the food of the offering made by fire unto Jehovah.
Bible in Basic English
That it may be burned by the priest on the altar; it is the food of the offering made by fire to the Lord.
Bishop's Bible (1568)
And the priest shall burne them vpon the aulter, to be the foode of a sacrifice made by fire vnto the Lorde.
JPS Old Testament (1917)
And the priest shall make it smoke upon the altar; it is the food of the offering made by fire unto the LORD.
King James Version (1611)
And the Priest shall burne it vpon the Altar: it is the food of the offering made by fire vnto the Lord.
Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
the priest shall offer these on the altar: it is a sacrifice of sweet savour, a burnt-offering to the Lord.
English Revised Version
And the priest shall burn it upon the altar: it is the food of the offering made by fire unto the LORD.
Berean Standard Bible
Then the priest is to burn them on the altar as food, an offering made by fire to the LORD.
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
And the preest schal brenne tho on the auter, in to the fedyng of fier, and of the offryng to the Lord.
Young's Literal Translation
and the priest hath made it a perfume on the altar -- bread of a fire-offering to Jehovah.
Update Bible Version
And the priest shall burn it on the altar: it is the food of the offering made by fire to Yahweh.
Webster's Bible Translation
And the priest shall burn it upon the altar: [it is] the food of the offering made by fire to the LORD.
World English Bible
The priest shall burn it on the altar: it is the food of the offering made by fire to Yahweh.
New King James Version
and the priest shall burn them on the altar as food, an offering made by fire to the LORD.
New Living Translation
and the priest will burn them on the altar. It is a special gift of food presented to the Lord .
New Life Bible
Then the religious leader will burn them on the altar, a food gift by fire to the Lord.
New Revised Standard
Then the priest shall turn these into smoke on the altar as a food offering by fire to the Lord .
J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
Then shall the priest make a perfume, at the altar, - the food of an altar-flame, unto Yahweh.
Douay-Rheims Bible
And the priest shall burn them upon the altar, for the food of the fire, and of the oblation of the Lord.
Revised Standard Version
And the priest shall burn it on the altar as food offered by fire to the LORD.
New American Standard Bible (1995)
'Then the priest shall offer it up in smoke on the altar as food, an offering by fire to the LORD.

Contextual Overview

6 If a sheep or goat is used as a fellowship offering, it may be male or female, but it must be without any defects. 7 If you offer a sheep, 8 you shall put your hand on its head and kill it in front of the Tent. The priests shall throw its blood against all four sides of the altar 9 and present the following parts of the animal as a food offering to the Lord : the fat, the entire fat tail cut off near the backbone, all the fat covering the internal organs, 10 the kidneys and the fat on them, and the best part of the liver. 11 The officiating priest shall burn all this on the altar as a food offering to the Lord . 12 If you offer a goat, 13 you shall put your hand on its head and kill it in front of the Tent. The priests shall throw its blood against all four sides of the altar 14 and present the following parts as a food offering to the Lord : all the fat on the internal organs, 15 the kidneys and the fat on them, and the best part of the liver.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

burn: Leviticus 3:5, Psalms 22:14, Isaiah 53:4-10, Romans 8:32

the food: Leviticus 3:16, Leviticus 21:6, Leviticus 21:8, Leviticus 21:17, Leviticus 21:21, Leviticus 21:22, Leviticus 22:25, Numbers 28:2, Ezekiel 44:7, Malachi 1:7, Malachi 1:12, 1 Corinthians 10:21, Revelation 3:20

Reciprocal: Exodus 29:25 - offering Leviticus 1:9 - burn all Leviticus 5:12 - according Leviticus 7:31 - the priest Leviticus 17:6 - burn Isaiah 9:5 - fuel 1 Corinthians 10:18 - are

Cross-References

Genesis 4:10
Then the Lord said, "Why have you done this terrible thing? Your brother's blood is crying out to me from the ground, like a voice calling for revenge.
Psalms 50:21
You have done all this, and I have said nothing, so you thought that I am like you. But now I reprimand you and make the matter plain to you.
Romans 3:20
For no one is put right in God's sight by doing what the Law requires; what the Law does is to make us know that we have sinned.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

And the priest shall burn it upon the altar,.... The fat of the tail, of the inwards, the two kidneys, and the caul of the liver:

[it is] the food of the offering made by fire unto the Lord; or "bread"; this part of the offering that was burnt belonged to the Lord; it was his food, and what was accepted of by him, and therefore is elsewhere called the bread of God, Leviticus 21:8.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Burn it - See Leviticus 1:9 note.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Leviticus 3:11. It is the food of the offering — We have already remarked that God is frequently represented as feasting with his people on the sacrifices they offered; and because these sacrifices were consumed by that fire which was kindled from heaven, therefore they were considered as the food of that fire, or rather of the Divine Being who was represented by it. "In the same idiom of speech," says Dodd, "the gods of the heathens are said, Deuteronomy 32:38, to eat the fat and drink,,the wine which were consumed on their altars.


 
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