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Leviticus 3:16

The religious leader will burn them on the altar, a food gift by fire for a pleasing smell. All fat is the Lord's.

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

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

Dictionaries:

- American Tract Society Bible Dictionary - Fat;   Sacrifice;   Baker Evangelical Dictionary of Biblical Theology - Priest, Priesthood;   Fausset Bible Dictionary - Fat;   Holman Bible Dictionary - Expiation, Propitiation;   Leviticus;   Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - Liver;   Priests and Levites;   Propitiation;   Sacrifice and Offering;   Morrish Bible Dictionary - Fat;   People's Dictionary of the Bible - Food;   Offering;   Smith Bible Dictionary - Fat;   Food;   Unclean Meats;   Wilson's Dictionary of Bible Types - Fat;   Watson's Biblical & Theological Dictionary - Offerings;  

Encyclopedias:

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

Parallel Translations

Hebrew Names Version
The Kohen shall burn them on the altar: it is the food of the offering made by fire, for a sweet savor; all the fat is the LORD's.
King James Version
And the priest shall burn them upon the altar: it is the food of the offering made by fire for a sweet savour: all the fat is the Lord 's.
Lexham English Bible
The priest shall turn them into smoke on the altar as a food offering; all the fat is an offering made by fire as an appeasing fragrance for Yahweh.
New Century Version
The priest will burn these parts on the altar as food. It is an offering made by fire, and its smell is pleasing to the Lord . All the fat belongs to the Lord .
New English Translation
Then the priest must offer them up in smoke on the altar as a food gift for a soothing aroma—all the fat belongs to the Lord .
Amplified Bible
'The priest shall offer them up in smoke on the altar as food. It is an offering by fire, a sweet and soothing aroma; all the fat is the LORD'S.
New American Standard Bible
'The priest shall offer them up in smoke on the altar as food, an offering by fire as a soothing aroma; all fat is the LORD'S.
Geneva Bible (1587)
So the Priest shall burne them vpon the altar, as the meate of an offering made by fire for a sweete sauour: all the fatte is the Lordes.
Legacy Standard Bible
And the priest shall offer them up in smoke on the altar as food, an offering by fire for a soothing aroma; all fat is Yahweh's.
Contemporary English Version
One of the priests will put these pieces on the altar and send them up in smoke as a food offering with a smell that pleases me. All fat belongs to me.
Complete Jewish Bible
The cohen will make them go up in smoke on the altar; it is food, an offering made by fire to be a fragrant aroma; all the fat belongs to Adonai .
Darby Translation
and the priest shall burn them on the altar: [it is] the food of the offering by fire for a sweet odour. All the fat [shall be] Jehovah's.
Easy-to-Read Version
Then the priest will bring that food as a sweet-smelling gift to the Lord. The fat belongs to the Lord .
English Standard Version
And the priest shall burn them on the altar as a food offering with a pleasing aroma. All fat is the Lord 's.
George Lamsa Translation
And the priest shall burn them upon the altar; it is a food offering made by fire for a sweet savour; all the fat is the LORDS.
Good News Translation
The priest shall burn all this on the altar as a food offering pleasing to the Lord . All the fat belongs to the Lord .
Christian Standard Bible®
Then the priest will burn the food on the altar, as a fire offering for a pleasing aroma.
Literal Translation
And the priest shall burn them as incense on the altar, bread of the fire offering for a soothing fragrance; all the fat is Jehovah's.
Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
And the prest shal burne it vpo the altare, for the meate of the sacrifice to a swete sauoure.
American Standard Version
And the priest shall burn them upon the altar: it is the food of the offering made by fire, for a sweet savor; all the fat is Jehovah's.
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 for a sweet smell: all the fat is the Lord's.
Bishop's Bible (1568)
And the priest shall burne them vpon the aulter, for the foode of the sacrifice made by fire for a sweete sauour: All the fat is the Lordes.
JPS Old Testament (1917)
And the priest shall make them smoke upon the altar; it is the food of the offering made by fire, for a sweet savour; all the fat is the LORD'S.
King James Version (1611)
And the Priest shall burne them vpon the Altar: it is the food of the offering made by fire, for a sweet sauour: All the fat is the Lords.
Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
And the priest shall offer it upon the altar: it is a burnt-offering, a smell of sweet savour to the Lord. All the fat belongs to the Lord.
English Revised Version
And the priest shall burn them upon the altar: it is the food of the offering made by fire, for a sweet savour: all the fat is the LORD'S.
Berean Standard Bible
Then the priest will burn the food on the altar as an offering made by fire, a pleasing aroma. All the fat is the LORD's.
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
And the preest schal brenne tho on the auter, in to the fedyng of fier, and of swettest odour; al the fatnesse schal be the Lordis,
Young's Literal Translation
and the priest hath made them a perfume on the altar -- bread of a fire-offering, for sweet fragrance; all the fat [is] Jehovah's.
Update Bible Version
And the priest shall burn them on the altar: it is the food of the offering made by fire, for a sweet savor; all the fat is Yahweh's.
Webster's Bible Translation
And the priest shall burn them upon the altar: [it is] the food of the offering made by fire for a sweet savor: all the fat [is] the LORD'S.
World English Bible
The priest shall burn them on the altar: it is the food of the offering made by fire, for a sweet savor; all the fat is Yahweh's.
New King James Version
and the priest shall burn them on the altar as food, an offering made by fire for a sweet aroma; all the fat is the LORD's.
New Living Translation
and the priest will burn them on the altar. It is a special gift of food, a pleasing aroma to the Lord . All the fat belongs to the Lord .
New Revised Standard
Then the priest shall turn these into smoke on the altar as a food offering by fire for a pleasing odor. All fat is the Lord 's.
J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
Then shall the priest make a perfume at the altar, - the food of an altar-flame for a satisfying odour, - all the fat - unto Yahweh.
Douay-Rheims Bible
And the priest shall burn them upon the altar, for the food of the fire, and of a most sweet savour. All the fat shall be the Lord’s.
Revised Standard Version
And the priest shall burn them on the altar as food offered by fire for a pleasing odor. All fat is the LORD's.
New American Standard Bible (1995)
'The priest shall offer them up in smoke on the altar as food, an offering by fire for a soothing aroma; all fat is the LORD'S.

Contextual Overview

6 If his peace gift to the Lord is from the flock, male or female, he will give one that is perfect. 7 If he gives a lamb, then he will give it to the Lord. 8 He will lay his hand on the head of his gift, and kill it in front of the meeting tent. Aaron's sons will put its blood around on the altar. 9 And from the peace gifts he will bring as a gift by fire to the Lord, its fat, the whole fat tail, taking it off close to the backbone, and the fat that covers and is upon the inside parts, 10 and the two kidneys with the fat that is on them, and the part that is on the liver, which he will take away with the kidneys. 11 Then the religious leader will burn them on the altar, a food gift by fire to the Lord. 12 ‘If his gift is a goat, then he will give it to the Lord. 13 He will lay his hand on its head, and kill it in front of the meeting tent. The sons of Aaron will put its blood around on the altar. 14 Then he will give from it as his gift by fire to the Lord, the fat that covers and is on the inside parts, 15 and the two kidneys with the fat that is on them, and the part that is on the liver, which he will take away with the kidneys.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

it is the food: Leviticus 3:11

all the fat: Leviticus 3:3-5, Leviticus 3:9-11, Leviticus 3:14, Leviticus 3:15, Leviticus 4:8-19, Leviticus 4:26, Leviticus 4:31, Leviticus 7:23-25, Leviticus 8:25, Leviticus 9:24, Leviticus 17:6, Exodus 29:13, Exodus 29:22, 1 Samuel 2:15, 1 Samuel 2:16, 2 Chronicles 7:7, Isaiah 53:10, Matthew 22:37

Reciprocal: Genesis 4:4 - fat Exodus 29:25 - offering Leviticus 3:17 - eat neither Leviticus 7:3 - General Leviticus 7:5 - General Leviticus 7:31 - the priest Leviticus 9:19 - General Leviticus 21:17 - bread Deuteronomy 12:23 - the blood is 2 Kings 16:13 - he burnt 2 Chronicles 29:35 - the fat Psalms 37:20 - smoke Isaiah 9:5 - fuel Isaiah 43:24 - neither Ezekiel 44:7 - when Ezekiel 44:15 - the fat Ephesians 5:2 - for a

Cross-References

Genesis 3:1
Now the snake was more able to fool others than any animal of the field which the Lord God had made. He said to the woman, "Did God say that you should not eat from any tree in the garden?"
Genesis 3:6
The woman saw that the tree was good for food, and pleasing to the eyes, and could fill the desire of making one wise. So she took of its fruit and ate. She also gave some to her husband, and he ate.
Genesis 3:7
Then the eyes of both of them were opened, and they knew they were without clothes. So they sewed fig leaves together and made themselves clothing.
Genesis 3:8
Then they heard the sound of the Lord God walking in the garden in the evening. The man and his wife hid themselves from the Lord God among the trees of the garden.
Genesis 3:9
But the Lord God called to the man. He said to him, "Where are you?"
Genesis 3:10
And the man said, "I heard the sound of You in the garden. I was afraid because I was without clothes. So I hid myself."
Genesis 3:11
The Lord God said, "Who told you that you were without clothes? Have you eaten from the tree of which I told you not to eat?"
Genesis 3:12
The man said, "The woman whom You gave to be with me, she gave me fruit of the tree, and I ate."
Genesis 3:16
To the woman He said, "I will make your pain much worse in giving birth. You will give birth to children in pain. Yet your desire will be for your husband, and he will rule over you."
Genesis 3:17
Then He said to Adam, "Because you have listened to the voice of your wife, and have eaten from the tree of which I told you, "Do not eat from it," the ground is cursed because of you. By hard work you will eat food from it all the days of your life.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

And the priest shall burn them upon the altar,.... Which shows that not the fat only, but the inwards and the kidneys, were burnt also; so Maimonides says l, that the priest salted the parts, and burned them upon the altar; and the priests might not have the breast and shoulder (which were what belonged to them) until the parts were burnt:

[it is] the food of the offering made by fire; which the Lord ate of, or accepted of:

for a sweet savour; as a type of the sweet smelling sacrifice of Christ, with which he is well pleased;

all the fat is the Lord's; that is, all that was upon the parts mentioned in the several sacrifices of peace offerings, which was to be taken off and burnt: though the Jewish writers understand it of all fat in general, and so interpret the law that follows.

l Ut supra, (Maaseh Hakorbanot) c. 9. sect. 11.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Rather, as food of an offering made by fire for a sweet savour, shall all the fat be for Yahweh. Our bodily taste and smell furnish figures of the satisfaction with which the Lord accepts the appointed symbols of the true worship of the heart. All that was sent up in the fire of the altar, including the parts of the sin-offering Leviticus 4:31, as well as the burnt-offering (Leviticus 1:9, etc.), was accepted for “a sweet savour”: but the word food may here have a special fitness in its application to the peace-offering, which served for food also to the priests and the offerer, and so symbolized communion between the Lord, His ministers, and His worshippers.

The fat is the Lord’s - The significance of this appears to consist in the fact that its proper development in the animal is, in general, a mark of perfection.


 
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