Leviticus 3:16

Leviticus 3:16 in other versions

• King James Version (KJV)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.
• New International Version (NIV)The priest shall burn them on the altar as a food offering, a pleasing aroma. All the fat is the Lord’s.
• English Standard Version (ESV)And the priest shall burn them on the altar as a food offering with a pleasing aroma. All fat is the Lord's.
• New King James Version (NKJV)and the priest shall burn them on the altar as food, an offering made by fire for a sweet aroma; all the fat is the Lord’s.

Context of Leviticus 3:16

14The person must take all the fat round the inside parts. He must give it to the Lord for a burnt offering. 15He must also give the kidneys with the fat on them and the best piece of the liver. The priest will burn them as food on the altar. The smell of them while they are burning will give the Lord pleasure. 17Israel's people must not eat any fat or drink any blood. This rule is for them and for their children everywhere. They must obey this rule always.’

Leviticus 3:16 word by word

וְהִקְטִירָ֥ם הַכֹּהֵ֖ן הַמִּזְבֵּ֑חָה לֶ֤חֶם אִשֶּׁה֙ לְרֵ֣יחַ נִיחֹ֔חַ כָּל־חֵ֖לֶב לַיהוָֽה׃Read the interlinear

Words taken from the KJV.

• And the priestכֹּהֵןkôhên · priestH3548
• shall burnקָטַרqâţar · to offer: burnH6999
• them upon the altarמִזְבֵּחַmizbêach · altarH4196
• the foodלֶ֫חֶםlechem · foodH3899
• of the offering made by fireאִשֶּׁה'ishshâh · food offeringH801
• for a sweetנִיחֹחַnîychôach nîychôach · soothingH5207
• savourרֵיחַrêyach · aromaH7381
• all the fatחֵ֫לֶבcheleb chêleb · fatH2459
• the Lord’sיְהֹוָהyehôvâh · LORDH3068

Cross-references for Leviticus 3:16

• Leviticus 3:11The priest will burn them as food on the altar. They are a burnt offering to the Lord.
• Leviticus 3:3The person must burn some pieces of the animal as a gift to the Lord. It is a friendship offering.
• Leviticus 4:8He must cut all the fat from inside the dead animal.
• Leviticus 7:23‘Tell Israel's people this. They must not eat the fat from sheep, cows or goats.
• Leviticus 8:25Moses took the fat tail and the fat and the kidneys from inside the animal. He took the best piece of the liver from inside the animal. He took the top part of the right back leg.
• Leviticus 9:24Then the Lord sent a fire to show that he accepted the gifts. It completely burnt all the fat and the offerings that were on the altar. The people were very happy when they saw this. They shouted and they fell down with their faces to the ground.
• Leviticus 17:6He must shake the blood of the animal on the Lord's altar. That altar is at the door of the Tent of Meeting. The priest must burn the fat. The smell of it while it is burning will give the Lord pleasure.
• Exodus 29:13Take all the fat that is round the inside parts of the animal. Take the best part of the liver. Take both the kidneys with the fat that is round them. Burn all these things on the altar.
• 1 Samuel 2:15Their servant would even come before the fat was removed from the meat to be burned as a sacrifice. He would say to the person who had brought the sacrifice, ‘Give me some of the meat for the priest to bake. He will not accept meat that has already boiled. He will only accept meat that is fresh.’
• 2 Chronicles 7:7On the same day, Solomon gave to the Lord the yard that was in front of the temple. He offered burnt offerings and grain offerings to the Lord. He also offered the fat from the friendship offerings there. The bronze altar that Solomon had made was too small to contain all these offerings, so he made these sacrifices in the middle of the yard instead.
• Isaiah 53:10But it was the Lord who chose to hurt his servant. He caused his servant to receive much pain. His servant died to remove people's guilt. As a result, God will bless him with many descendants, and he will have a long life. What the Lord wants will happen, because of what his servant does.
• Matthew 22:37Jesus replied to him, ‘You should love the Lord your God completely: Love him with all your mind. Love him with all that you are. Love him in all that you think.

Commentaries on Leviticus 3:16

• Barnes’ Notes on the Bible · v. 16Rather, as food of an offering made by fire for a sweet savour, shall all the fat be for Yahweh. Our bodily taste and smell furnish figures of the satisfaction with which the Lord accepts the appointed symbols of the true worship of the heart. All that was sent up in the fire of the altar, including the parts of the sin-offering Leviticus 4:31, as well as the burnt-offering (Leviticus 1:9, etc.), was accepted for “a sweet savour”: but the word food may…Read the comment
• Matthew Henry Concise Commentary · v. 6-17Verses 6-17 Here is a law that they should eat neither fat nor blood. As for the fat, it means the fat of the inwards, the suet. The blood was forbidden for the same reason; because it was God's part of every sacrifice. God would not permit the blood that made atonement to be used as a common thing, He 10:29; nor will he allow us, though we have the comfort of the atonement made, to claim for ourselves any share in the honour of making it. This taught the…Read the comment
• Tyndale Open Study Notes · v. 12-16The offering of goats followed a similar pattern to that of cattle and sheep. People considered both goats and sheep as offerings from the flock (see Leviticus 3:6).Read the comment
• Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary · v. 1-171. if his oblation be a sacrifice of peace offering--"Peace" being used in Scripture to denote prosperity and happiness generally, a peace offering was a voluntary tribute of gratitude for health or other benefits. In this view it was eucharistic, being a token of thanksgiving for benefits already received, or it was sometimes votive, presented in prayer for benefits wished for in the future. of the herd--This kind of offering being of a festive…Read the comment

Topics related to Leviticus 3:16

• Fat
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• Peace offerings
• Criticism
• Exodus, the Book of
• Fat
• Genesis
• Law in the Old Testament
• Leviticus
• Priests and Levites
• Sabbath
• Sacrifice

Commentaries on Leviticus 3

• Adam Clarke Bible Commentary
• Barnes’ Notes on the Bible
• Matthew Henry Concise Commentary
• Tyndale Open Study Notes
• Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary
• Rashi on Tanakh
• Calvin’s Commentaries
• Keil & Delitzsch Commentary
• John Wesley’s Notes
• Darby Translation Notes
• Geneva Bible Translation Notes
• Kingcomments
• Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary
• Matthew Henry’s Modern English Commentary
• Scofield Reference Notes, 1917 Edition
• Seventh-day Adventist Bible Commentary
• EGW Writings