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 priest must present part of this offering as a special gift to the Lord. This includes all the fat around the internal organs, 15the two kidneys and the fat around them near the loins, and the long lobe of the liver. These must be removed with the kidneys, and the priest will burn them on the altar. It is a special gift of food, a pleasing aroma to the Lord. All the fat belongs to the Lord. 17“You must never eat any fat or blood. This is a permanent law for you, and it must be observed from generation to generation, wherever you live.”

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 3:11and the priest will burn them on the altar. It is a special gift of food presented to the Lord.
• Leviticus 3:3The priest must present part of this peace offering as a special gift to the Lord. This includes all the fat around the internal organs,
• Leviticus 4:8Then the priest must remove all the fat of the bull to be offered as a sin offering. This includes all the fat around the internal organs,
• Leviticus 7:23“Give the following instructions to the people of Israel. You must never eat fat, whether from cattle, sheep, or goats.
• Leviticus 8:25Next Moses took the fat, including the fat of the broad tail, the fat around the internal organs, the long lobe of the liver, and the two kidneys and the fat around them, along with the right thigh.
• Leviticus 9:24Fire blazed forth from the Lord’s presence and consumed the burnt offering and the fat on the altar. When the people saw this, they shouted with joy and fell face down on the ground.
• Leviticus 17:6Then the priest will be able to splatter the blood against the Lord’s altar at the entrance of the Tabernacle, and he will burn the fat as a pleasing aroma to the Lord.
• Exodus 29:13Take all the fat around the internal organs, the long lobe of the liver, and the two kidneys and the fat around them, and burn it all on the altar.
• 1 Samuel 2:15Sometimes the servant would come even before the animal’s fat had been burned on the altar. He would demand raw meat before it had been boiled so that it could be used for roasting.
• 2 Chronicles 7:7Solomon then consecrated the central area of the courtyard in front of the Lord’s Temple. He offered burnt offerings and the fat of peace offerings there, because the bronze altar he had built could not hold all the burnt offerings, grain offerings, and sacrificial fat.
• Isaiah 53:10But it was the Lord’s good plan to crush him and cause him grief. Yet when his life is made an offering for sin, he will have many descendants. He will enjoy a long life, and the Lord’s good plan will prosper in his hands.
• Matthew 22:37Jesus replied, “‘You must love the Lord your God with all your heart, all your soul, and all your mind.’

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

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• Peace offerings
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• Exodus, the Book of
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• 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