Leviticus - 7:5



5 and the priest shall burn them on the altar for an offering made by fire to Yahweh: it is a trespass offering.

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And the priest shall burn them upon the altar: it is the burnt sacrifice of the Lord for a trespass.
and the priest shall burn them upon the altar for an offering made by fire unto the LORD: it is a guilt offering.
and the priest hath made them a perfume on the altar, a fire-offering to Jehovah; it is a guilt-offering.
They are to be burned by the priest on the altar for an offering made by fire to the Lord: it is an offering for wrongdoing.
And the priest shall make them smoke upon the altar for an offering made by fire unto the LORD; it is a guilt-offering.
And the priest shall burn them upon the altar. It is the incense of the Lord on behalf of a transgression.
Adolebitque illa sacerdos super altare oblationem ignitam Jehovae: oblatio pro delicto est.

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And the priest shall burn them upon the altar,.... Fat taken off of the several parts before mentioned, and the kidneys: which were to be
for an offering made by fire unto the Lord; and was acceptable to him, being typical of the offering of Christ, which is a sweet smelling savour, bearing the fire of divine wrath in the room and stead of his people:
it is the trespass offering; an offering for a trespass committed, to make atonement for it; and this part of it, the burning of the fat, was properly the offering to the Lord, all the rest were the priest's, as follows.

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