Leviticus 6:13 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

A perpetual fire shall be kept burning on the altar; it shall not go out.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

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

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

The fire shall be burning continually upon the altar; it shall not go out.

American Standard Version (1901)

Fire shall be kept burning upon the altar continually; it shall not go out.

Common English Bible

A continuous fire must be kept burning on the altar; it must not go out.

Catholic Public Domain Version

This is the perpetual fire which shall never fail upon the altar.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

This is the perpetual fire which shall never go out on the altar.

Leviticus 6:13 Cross References

Exodus 29:1

“Now this is what you shall do to them to consecrate them to serve me as priests. Take one young bull and two rams without blemish,

Exodus 29:2

and unleavened bread, unleavened cakes mixed with oil, and unleavened wafers spread with oil. You shall make them of choice wheat flour.

Exodus 29:40

and with the first lamb one-tenth of a measure of choice flour mixed with one-fourth of a hin of beaten oil, and one-fourth of a hin of wine for a drink offering.

Isaiah 31:9

His rock shall pass away in terror, and his officers desert the standard in panic,” says the Lord, whose fire is in Zion and whose furnace is in Jerusalem.

Ezekiel 40:46

and the chamber that faces north is for the priests who have charge of the altar; these are the descendants of Zadok, who alone among the descendants of Levi may come near to the Lord to minister to him.”

Leviticus 6:12

The fire on the altar shall be kept burning; it shall not go out. Every morning the priest shall add wood to it, lay out the burnt offering on it, and turn into smoke the fat pieces of the offerings of well-being.

Leviticus 6:14

“This is the rule of the grain offering: The sons of Aaron shall offer it before the Lord, in front of the altar.

Leviticus 6:9

“Command Aaron and his sons: This is the rule of the burnt offering. The burnt offering itself shall remain on the hearth upon the altar all night until the morning, while the fire on the altar shall be kept burning.

Leviticus 9:24

Fire came out from the Lord and consumed the burnt offering and the fat on the altar, and when all the people saw it, they shouted and fell on their faces.