16 Then the priest will burn the food on the altar, as a food offering for a pleasing aroma.[a]

“All fat belongs to the Lord.

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  1. 3:16 Sam, LXX add to the Lord

16 The priest shall burn them on the altar(A) as a food offering,(B) a pleasing aroma.(C) All the fat(D) is the Lord’s.(E)

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16 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.

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16 and the priest shall burn them on the altar as food, an offering made by fire for a sweet aroma; (A)all the fat is the Lord’s.

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They are to be holy to their God and not profane the name of their God.(A) For they present the food offerings to the Lord, the food of their God, and they must be holy.

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They must be holy to their God(A) and must not profane the name of their God.(B) Because they present the food offerings to the Lord,(C) the food of their God,(D) they are to be holy.(E)

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They shall be holy unto their God, and not profane the name of their God: for the offerings of the Lord made by fire, and the bread of their God, they do offer: therefore they shall be holy.

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They shall be (A)holy to their God and not profane the name of their God, for they offer the offerings of the Lord made by fire, and the (B)bread of their God; (C)therefore they shall be holy.

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You are to consider him holy since he presents the food of your God. He will be holy to you because I, the Lord who sets you apart, am holy.

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Regard them as holy,(A) because they offer up the food of your God.(B) Consider them holy, because I the Lord am holy—I who make you holy.(C)

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Thou shalt sanctify him therefore; for he offereth the bread of thy God: he shall be holy unto thee: for I the Lord, which sanctify you, am holy.

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Therefore you shall [a]consecrate him, for he offers the bread of your God. He shall be holy to you, for (A)I the Lord, who (B)sanctify you, am holy.

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  1. Leviticus 21:8 set him apart

17 “Tell Aaron: None of your descendants throughout your generations who has a physical defect(A) is to come near to present the food(B) of his God.

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17 “Say to Aaron: ‘For the generations to come none of your descendants who has a defect(A) may come near to offer the food of his God.(B)

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17 Speak unto Aaron, saying, Whosoever he be of thy seed in their generations that hath any blemish, let him not approach to offer the bread of his God.

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17 “Speak to Aaron, saying: ‘No man of your descendants in succeeding generations, who has any defect, may approach to offer the bread of his God.

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21 No descendant of the priest Aaron who has a defect is to come near to present the food offerings to the Lord. He has a defect and is not to come near to present the food of his God. 22 He may eat the food of his God from what is especially holy as well as from what is holy.

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21 No descendant of Aaron the priest who has any defect(A) is to come near to present the food offerings to the Lord.(B) He has a defect; he must not come near to offer the food of his God.(C) 22 He may eat the most holy food of his God,(D) as well as the holy food;

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21 No man that hath a blemish of the seed of Aaron the priest shall come nigh to offer the offerings of the Lord made by fire: he hath a blemish; he shall not come nigh to offer the bread of his God.

22 He shall eat the bread of his God, both of the most holy, and of the holy.

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21 No man of the descendants of Aaron the priest, who has a defect, shall come near to offer the offerings made by fire to the Lord. He has a defect; he shall not come near to offer the bread of his God. 22 He may eat the bread of his God, both the most holy and the holy;

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25 Neither you nor[a] a foreigner are to present food to your God from any of these animals. They will not be accepted for you because they are deformed and have a defect.”(A)

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  1. 22:25 Lit nor from the hand of

25 and you must not accept such animals from the hand of a foreigner and offer them as the food of your God.(A) They will not be accepted on your behalf, because they are deformed and have defects.(B)’”

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25 Neither from a stranger's hand shall ye offer the bread of your God of any of these; because their corruption is in them, and blemishes be in them: they shall not be accepted for you.

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25 Nor (A)from a foreigner’s hand shall you offer any of these as (B)the bread of your God, because their (C)corruption is in them, and defects are in them. They shall not be accepted on your behalf.’ ”

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Your threshing will continue until grape harvest, and the grape harvest will continue until sowing time; you will have plenty of food to eat and live securely in your land.(A)

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Your threshing will continue until grape harvest and the grape harvest will continue until planting, and you will eat all the food you want(A) and live in safety in your land.(B)

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And your threshing shall reach unto the vintage, and the vintage shall reach unto the sowing time: and ye shall eat your bread to the full, and dwell in your land safely.

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(A)Your threshing shall last till the time of vintage, and the vintage shall last till the time of sowing;

you shall eat your bread to the full, and (B)dwell in your land safely.

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