The Skeptics Annotated Bible (103 page)

8 And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying,

9 Command Aaron and his sons, saying, This is the law of the burnt offering: It is the burnt offering, because of the burning upon the altar all night unto the morning, and the fire of the altar shall be burning in it.

10 And the priest shall put on his linen garment, and his linen breeches shall he put upon his flesh, and take up the ashes which the fire hath consumed with the burnt offering on the altar, and he shall put them beside the altar.

11 And he shall put off his garments, and put on other garments, and carry forth the ashes without the camp unto a clean place.

12 And the fire upon the altar shall be burning in it; it shall not be put out: and the priest shall burn wood on it every morning, and lay the burnt offering in order upon it; and he shall burn thereon the fat of the peace offerings.

13 The fire shall ever be burning upon the altar; it shall never go out.

14 And this is the law of the meat offering: the sons of Aaron shall offer it before the LORD, before the altar.

15 And he shall take of it his handful, of the flour of the meat offering, and of the oil thereof, and all the frankincense which is upon the meat offering, and shall burn it upon the altar for
a sweet savour
, even the memorial of it,
unto the LORD.

(6.15)
“A sweet savour … unto the LORD”

16 And the remainder thereof shall Aaron and his sons eat: with unleavened bread shall it be eaten in the holy place; in the court of the tabernacle of the congregation they shall eat it.

17 It shall not be baken with leaven. I have given it unto them for their portion of my offerings made by fire; it is most holy, as is the sin offering, and as the trespass offering.

18 All the males among the children of Aaron shall eat of it. It shall be a statute for ever in your generations concerning the offerings of the LORD made by fire: every one that toucheth them shall be holy.

19 And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying,

20 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 meat offering perpetual, half of it in the morning, and half thereof at night.

21 In a pan it shall be made with oil; and when it is baken, thou shalt bring it in: and the baken pieces of the meat offering shalt thou offer for
a sweet savour unto the LORD.

(6.21)
“A sweet savour unto the Lord”

22 And the priest of his sons that is anointed in his stead shall offer it: it is a statute for ever unto the LORD; it shall be wholly burnt.

23 For every meat offering for the priest shall be wholly burnt: it shall not be eaten.

24 And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying,

25 Speak unto Aaron and to his sons, saying,
This is the law of the sin offering
: In the place where the burnt offering is killed shall
the sin offering be killed before the LORD: it is most holy.

(6.25)
“This is the law of the sin offering … the sin offering
[shall]
be killed before the LORD: it is most holy.”

26 The priest that offereth it for sin shall eat it: in the holy place shall it be eaten, in the court of the tabernacle of the congregation.

27
Whatsoever shall touch the flesh thereof shall be holy
: and when there is sprinkled of the blood thereof upon any garment, thou shalt wash that whereon it was sprinkled in the holy place.

(6.27)
“Whatsoever shall touch the flesh thereof shall be holy.”
Whatever touches the dead body of a burnt offering is holy.

28 But the earthen vessel wherein it is sodden shall be broken: and if it be sodden in a brasen pot, it shall be both scoured, and rinsed in water.

29 All the males among the priests shall eat thereof: it is most holy.

30 And no sin offering, whereof any of the blood is brought into the tabernacle of the congregation to reconcile withal in the holy place, shall be eaten: it shall be burnt in the fire.

(7.1-4) The holy law of trespass offering: Find an animal; kill it; sprinkle the blood around; offer God the fat, rump, kidneys, and caul; burn and eat it in the holy place, for “it is most holy.”

7
Likewise
this is the law of the trespass offering: it is most holy
.

(7.1)
“This is the law of the trespass offering: it is most holy.”

2 In the place where they kill the burnt offering shall they
kill the trespass offering: and the blood thereof shall he sprinkle round about upon the altar.

(7.2)
“Kill the trespass offering: and the blood thereof shall he sprinkle round about upon the altar.”

3 And he shall
offer of it all the fat thereof; the rump, and the fat that covereth the inwards,

4
And the two kidneys, and the fat that is on them
, which is by the flanks,
and the caul that is above the liver
, with the kidneys, it shall he take away:

(7.3-4)
“Offer of it all the fat thereof; the rump, and the fat that covereth the inwards, and the two kidneys, and the fat that is on them … and the caul that is above the liver.”

5 And the priest shall burn them upon the altar for an offering made by fire unto the LORD: it is a trespass offering.

6 Every male among the priests shall eat thereof: it shall be eaten in the holy place: it is most holy.

7 As the sin offering is, so is the trespass offering: there is one law for them: the priest that maketh atonement therewith shall have it.

(7.8-10) The priest gets all the skin to himself. Lucky!

8 And the priest that offereth any man’s burnt offering, even
the priest shall have to himself the skin of the burnt offering
which he hath offered.

(7.8)
“The priest shall have to himself the skin of the burnt offering.”

9
And all the meat offering that is baken in the oven, and all that is dressed in the fryingpan, and in the pan, shall be the priest’s
that offereth it.

(7.9)
“And all the meat offering that is baken in the oven, and all that is dressed in the fryingpan, and in the pan, shall be the priest’s.”
The priest also gets all the meat in the frying pan.