‘This is what you are to do for them to consecrate them to serve me as priests. Take a young bull and two unblemished rams,
Leviticus 6:13 - Christian Standard Bible Anglicised Fire must be kept burning on the altar continually; it must not go out. Tuilleadh leaganachaKing 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. |
‘This is what you are to do for them to consecrate them to serve me as priests. Take a young bull and two unblemished rams,
with unleavened bread, unleavened cakes mixed with oil, and unleavened wafers coated with oil. Make them out of fine wheat flour,
With the first lamb offer two litres of fine flour mixed with one litre of oil from crushed olives, and a drink offering of one litre of wine.
His rock will pass away because of fear, and his officers will be afraid because of the signal flag. This is the Lord’s declaration #– #whose fire is in Zion and whose furnace is in Jerusalem.
The chamber that faces north is for the priests who keep charge of the altar. These are the sons of Zadok, the ones from the sons of Levi who may approach the Lord to serve him.’
The fire on the altar is to be kept burning; it must not go out. Every morning the priest will burn wood on the fire. He is to arrange the burnt offering on the fire and burn the fat portions from the fellowship offerings on it.
‘Now this is the law of the grain offering: Aaron’s sons will present it before the Lord in front of the altar.
‘Command Aaron and his sons: This is the law of the burnt offering; the burnt offering itself must remain on the altar’s hearth all night until morning, while the fire of the altar is kept burning on it.
Fire came from the Lord and consumed the burnt offering and the fat portions on the altar. And when all the people saw it, they shouted and fell face down.