1 Kings 18:23

New International Reader's Version

Get two bulls for us. Let Baal’s prophets choose one for themselves. Let them cut it into pieces. Then let them put it on the wood. But don’t let them set fire to it. I’ll prepare the other bull. I’ll put it on the wood. But I won’t set fire to it.

Cross References

1 Kings 18:22

Then Elijah said to them, “I’m the only one of the Lord’s prophets left. But Baal has 450 prophets.

1 Kings 18:24

Then you pray to your god. And I’ll pray to the Lord. The god who answers by sending fire down is the one and only God.” Then all the people said, “What you are saying is good.”

Leviticus 1:8

Then they must place the pieces of the animal on the burning wood on the altar. The pieces include the head and the fat.