the Week of Proper 6 / Ordinary 11
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Leviticus 6:13
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Fire shall be kept burning on the altar continually; it shall not go out.
The fire shall ever be burning upon the altar; it shall never go out.
A perpetual fire must be kept burning on the altar; it must not be quenched.
The fire must be kept burning on the altar all the time; it must not go out.
A continual fire must be kept burning on the altar. It must not be extinguished.
'The fire shall be burning continually on the altar; it shall not [be allowed to] go out.
'Fire shall be kept burning continually on the altar; it is not to go out.
The fire shall euer burne vpon the altar, and neuer go out.
Fire shall be kept burning continually on the altar; it shall not go out.
The altar fire must always be kept burning—it must never go out.
"This is the offering for Adonai that Aharon and his sons are to offer on the day he is anointed: two quarts of fine flour, half of it in the morning and half in the evening, as a grain offering from then on.
A continual fire shall be kept burning on the altar: it shall never go out.
That fire must always be kept burning on the altar. It must never be allowed to stop burning.
Fire shall be kept burning on the altar continually; it shall not go out.
The fire shall be kept burning upon the altar continually; it shall never go out.
Fire must be kept burning on the altar continually; it must not go out.
Fire shall be continually burning on the altar; it shall never go out.
The fyre shall euer burne vpon the altare, and neuer go out.
Fire shall be kept burning upon the altar continually; it shall not go out.
Let the fire be kept burning on the altar at all times; it is never to go out.
The fire shall euer burne vpon the aulter, and neuer go out.
This is the offering of Aaron and of his sons, which they shall offer unto the LORD in the day when he is anointed: the tenth part of an ephah of fine flour for a meal-offering perpetually, half of it in the morning, and half thereof in the evening.
The fire shall euer be burning vpon the Altar: it shall neuer goe out.
And the fire shall always burn on the altar; it shall not be extinguished.
Fire shall be kept burning upon the altar continually; it shall not go out.
The fire must be kept burning on the altar continually; it must not be extinguished.
This is euerlastynge fier, that schal neuer faile in the auter.
fire is continually burning on the altar, it is not quenched.
Fire shall be kept burning on the altar continually; it shall not go out.
The fire shall ever be burning upon the altar; it shall never go out.
Fire shall be kept burning on the altar continually; it shall not go out.
A fire shall always be burning on the altar; it shall never go out.
Remember, the fire must be kept burning on the altar at all times. It must never go out.
Fire should always be kept burning on the altar. It is not to go out.
A perpetual fire shall be kept burning on the altar; it shall not go out.
fire, shall continually be kept burning on the altar, it shall not be suffered to go out.
This is the perpetual fire which shall never go out on the altar.
Fire shall be kept burning upon the altar continually; it shall not go out.
'Fire shall be kept burning continually on the altar; it is not to go out.
Contextual Overview
Bible Verse Review
from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge
Reciprocal: Leviticus 1:7 - fire Leviticus 6:9 - because of the burning Leviticus 9:24 - there came a fire Numbers 4:13 - General Nehemiah 10:34 - as it is written Isaiah 31:9 - whose fire Ezekiel 40:46 - the keepers
Cross-References
When people had spread all over the world, and daughters were being born,
some of the heavenly beings saw that these young women were beautiful, so they took the ones they liked.
In those days, and even later, there were giants on the earth who were descendants of human women and the heavenly beings. They were the great heroes and famous men of long ago.
he was sorry that he had ever made them and put them on the earth. He was so filled with regret
that he said, "I will wipe out these people I have created, and also the animals and the birds, because I am sorry that I made any of them."
but everyone else was evil in God's sight, and violence had spread everywhere.
God looked at the world and saw that it was evil, for the people were all living evil lives.
The Lord destroyed all living beings on the earth—human beings, animals, and birds. The only ones left were Noah and those who were with him in the boat.
"Simeon and Levi are brothers. They use their weapons to commit violence.
That country has many rivers and rich treasures, but its time is up, and its thread of life is cut.
Gill's Notes on the Bible
The fire shall ever be burning upon the altar,.... This was what first fell from heaven, Leviticus 9:24 and which in after ages was maintained by constant fuel put unto it, there being every day burnt offerings upon it; which was an emblem of the love of Christ to his people, which is ever in a flame and burning, and can never be quenched by the many waters of their sins and iniquities; nor by all the sufferings he underwent to atone for them; nor by all the meanness and afflictions they are attended with; his love is fervent towards them, and always the same: and also of their love to him, which is unquenchable by the persecutions of men, by afflictions by the hand of God, by divine desertions, by Satan's temptations, or their own corruptions: it likewise may be an emblem of the graces of the Spirit of God in the hearts of his people, which have both light and heat in them; and though they are sometimes very low as to exercise, yet are in a wonderful manner preserved amidst great oppositions made unto them from within and from without; and may also be a symbol of the word of God, sometimes compared to fire for its light and heat, and may be signified by the fire on the altar for its perpetuity, which continues and abides, notwithstanding the attempts of men and devils to get it out of the world; and though the ministers of it die, that lives, and has been preserved in the worst of times, and will burn most clearly, and shine most brightly in the end of the world. This perpetual fire may also point at the prayers of saints, the fervency of them, and their perseverance in them; or rather to the efficacy and acceptance of the sacrifice of Christ, which always continues; nor may it be amiss applied to the afflictions of God's people, which constantly attend them in this world, and they must expect to have while in it; and even to the wrath of God on wicked men to all eternity, and which is the fire that cannot be quenched:
it shall never go out; as it is highly probable it never did, until the destruction of the temple by Nebuchadnezzar; though the author of second Maccabees states that:
"For when our fathers were led into Persia, the priests that were then devout took the fire of the altar privily, and hid it in an hollow place of a pit without water, where they kept it sure, so that the place was unknown to all men.'' 2 Maccabees 1:19)
pretends that some devout priests, who were carried captives into Persia, hid the fire of the altar privily in the hollow of a pit, where was no water, and in which it was kept sure and unknown to men, and was found and restored in the times of Nehemiah,
"20 Now after many years, when it pleased God, Neemias, being sent from the king of Persia, did send of the posterity of those priests that had hid it to the fire: but when they told us they found no fire, but thick water; 21 Then commanded he them to draw it up, and to bring it; and when the sacrifices were laid on, Neemias commanded the priests to sprinkle the wood and the things laid thereupon with the water. 22 When this was done, and the time came that the sun shone, which afore was hid in the cloud, there was a great fire kindled, so that every man marvelled.'' (2 Maccabees 1)
but this is contrary to what the Jews always assert b, that the fire from heaven was wanting in the second temple; and yet from the account Josephus c gives of a festival called "Xylophoria", or the feast of the wood carrying, it seems to have been then in being, and great care was taken to preserve it that it might not go out; for, he says, at that feast it is a custom for all to bring wood to the altar, that so there might never be wanting fuel for the fire, for it always remained unextinguished: as to, what some have observed out of Diodorus Siculus d, that Antiochus Epiphanes, when he went into the temple, quenched this fire, it appears to be a mistake; for Diodorus does not say that he put out the fire of the altar, but that he extinguished the immortal lamp, as it was called by them (the Jews), which was always burning in the temple; by which he plainly means the lamp in the candlestick, and perhaps what the Jews call the western lamp, which was always burning, and was the middle lamp bending to the west, and to which the rest bent: the Heathens in many places imitated this perpetual fire: the Brahmans among the Indians speak of fire falling from heaven, kept by them on everlasting hearths, or in fire pans e, for that purpose: the Persians had their perpetual fire, having a great opinion of that element: in the march of Darius against Alexander, it is observed by the historian f, that the fire which the Persians call sacred and eternal was placed on altars of silver, and he is said to adjure his soldiers by the gods of their country, and by the eternal fire on the altars, c. to rescue the Persian name and nation from the last degree of reproach g: the Grecians have many traces of this continual fire on the altar among them: at Mantinia, as Pausanias h relates, was a temple of Ceres and Proserpina, where a fire was kindled, and great care taken that it might not be extinguished and in the temple of Pan, a fire burned which was never quenched: and the same writer says i, with the Eleans was an altar which had fire continually burning on it night and day: and Aelianus k makes mention of an altar of Venus at Eryce in Sicily, which burnt night and day; and of which he says many things wonderful and fabulous: and it is well known that the Romans had their goddess Vesta, whom Velleius Paterculus l calls the keeper of the perpetual fires; and there were certain virgins, called the "vestal" virgins, whose business it was to take care that the fire never went out; and is by Virgil m called the eternal fire: and Vesta itself is thought by some learned men to be the same with אש-יה "Esh-jah", the fire of Jehovah: now these were all satanical imitations of the perpetual fire on the altar of God.
b T. Hieros. Taaniot, fol. 65. 1. T. Bab. Yoma, fol. 21. 2. c De Bello Jud. l. 2. c. 17. sect. 6. d Eclog. 1. ex l. 34. p. 902. e Ammian. Marcellin. l. 23. f Curt. Hist. l. 3. c. 3. g Curt. Hist. l. 4. c. 14. h Arcadica sive, l. 8. p. 469, 516. i Eliac. 1. sive, l. 5. p. 316. k Hist. Animal. l. 10. c. 50. l Hist. l. 2. in fine. m "Vos aeterni igneis", &c. Aeneid. l. 2.
Barnes' Notes on the Bible
The fire shall ever be burning - This was a symbol of the never-ceasing worship which Yahweh required of His people. It was essentially connected with their acts of sacrifice.
Clarke's Notes on the Bible
Verse Leviticus 6:13. The fire shall ever be burning — See on Leviticus 6:9 and Leviticus 6:20. In imitation of this perpetual fire, the ancient Persian Magi, and their descendants the Parsees, kept up a perpetual fire; the latter continue it to the present day. This is strictly enjoined in the Zend Avesta, which is a code of laws as sacred among them as the Pentateuch is among the Jews. A Sagnika Brahmin preserves the fire that was kindled at his investiture with the poita, and never suffers it to go out, using the same fire at his wedding and in all his burnt-offerings, till at length his body is burnt with it. - WARD's Customs.
