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Leviticus 6:11(5:20) Then the Lord spoke to Moses:Copy LinkKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AIFlowchart
Leviticus 6:22“When a person sins and commits a trespass against the Lord by deceiving his fellow citizen in regard to something held in trust, or a pledge, or something stolen, or by extorting something from his fellow citizen,Copy LinkKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AIFlowchartCross Refs:Col 3:9Acts 5:4Exod 22:7-10Lev 19:11Lev 5:15Num 5:6-8Prov 24:28Amos 8:5Eph 4:25Gen 26:7
Leviticus 6:33or has found something lost and denies it and swears falsely concerning any one of the things that someone might do to sin —Copy LinkKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AIFlowchartCross Refs:Exod 23:4Lev 19:12Deut 22:1-4Exod 22:9-11Jer 5:2Jer 7:9Mal 3:5Prov 30:9Zech 5:4
Leviticus 6:44when it happens that he sins and he is found guilty then he must return whatever he had stolen, or whatever he had extorted, or the thing that he had held in trust, or the lost thing that he had found,Copy LinkKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AIFlowchartCross Refs:Amos 3:10Ezek 18:12Ezek 18:18Ezek 18:7Gen 21:25Isa 59:6Job 20:19Job 24:2Lev 4:13-15Lev 5:3-4
Leviticus 6:55or anything about which he swears falsely. He must restore it in full and add one-fifth to it; he must give it to its owner when he is found guilty.Copy LinkKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AIFlowchartCross Refs:Lev 5:161 Sam 12:32 Sam 12:6Exod 22:9Luke 19:8Num 5:7-8Exod 22:1Exod 22:4Exod 22:7Isa 58:6
Leviticus 6:66Then he must bring his guilt offering to the Lord, a flawless ram from the flock, convertible into silver shekels, for a guilt offering to the priest.Copy LinkKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AIFlowchartCross Refs:Lev 5:15Lev 5:18Isa 53:10-11
Leviticus 6:77So the priest will make atonement on his behalf before the Lord and he will be forgiven for whatever he has done to become guilty.”Copy LinkKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AIFlowchartCross Refs:Lev 4:261 John 1:91 John 2:1-21 Cor 6:9-111 John 1:7Exod 34:7Ezek 18:21-23Ezek 18:26-27Ezek 33:14-16Ezek 33:19
Leviticus 6:88(6:1) Then the Lord spoke to Moses:Copy LinkKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AIFlowchart
Leviticus 6:99“Command Aaron and his sons, ‘This is the law of the burnt offering. The burnt offering is to remain on the hearth on the altar all night until morning, and the fire of the altar must be kept burning on it.Copy LinkKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AIFlowchartCross Refs:Exod 29:38-42Lev 6:12-13Num 28:3Lev 1:1-17Num 28:9
Leviticus 6:1010Then the priest must put on his linen robe and must put linen leggings over his bare flesh, and he must take up the fatty ashes of the burnt offering that the fire consumed on the altar, and he must place them beside the altar.Copy LinkKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AIFlowchartCross Refs:Exod 28:39-43Lev 16:4Exod 39:27-29Ezek 44:17-18Lev 1:13Lev 1:16-17Lev 1:9Num 16:21Num 16:35Ps 20:3
Leviticus 6:1111Then he must take off his clothes and put on other clothes, and he must bring the fatty ashes outside the camp to a ceremonially clean place,Copy LinkKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AIFlowchartCross Refs:Ezek 44:19Lev 4:12Heb 13:11-13Lev 14:40-41Lev 16:23-24Lev 16:27Lev 4:21
Leviticus 6:1212but the fire which is on the altar must be kept burning on it. It must not be extinguished. So the priest must kindle wood on it morning by morning, and he must arrange the burnt offering on it and offer the fat of the peace offering up in smoke on it.Copy LinkKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AIFlowchartCross Refs:Lev 9:24Exod 29:38-42Lev 1:7-9Lev 3:3-5Neh 13:31Lev 3:14-16Lev 3:9-11Num 4:13-14
Leviticus 6:1313A continual fire must be kept burning on the altar. It must not be extinguished.Copy LinkKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AIFlowchart
Leviticus 6:1414“‘This is the law of the grain offering. The sons of Aaron are to present it before the Lord in front of the altar,Copy LinkKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AIFlowchartCross Refs:John 6:32Lev 2:1-2Num 15:4Num 15:6Num 15:9
Leviticus 6:1515and the priest must take up with his hand some of the choice wheat flour of the grain offering and some of its olive oil, and all of the frankincense that is on the grain offering, and he must offer its memorial portion up in smoke on the altar as a soothing aroma to the Lord.Copy LinkKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AIFlowchartCross Refs:Lev 2:2Lev 2:9
Leviticus 6:1616Aaron and his sons are to eat what is left over from it. It must be eaten unleavened in a holy place; they are to eat it in the courtyard of the Meeting Tent.Copy LinkKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AIFlowchartCross Refs:Ezek 44:29Lev 2:3Lev 10:12-13Exod 12:8Lev 6:261 Cor 5:81 Cor 9:13-15Lev 2:10-11Lev 5:13Num 18:9-10
Leviticus 6:1717It must not be baked with yeast. I have given it as their portion from my gifts. It is most holy, like the sin offering and the guilt offering.Copy LinkKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AIFlowchartCross Refs:Lev 2:11Lev 2:3Lev 6:25Num 18:9-10Exod 29:33-34Lev 6:29Lev 7:11 Pet 2:22Exod 29:37Exod 40:10
Leviticus 6:1818Every male among the sons of Aaron may eat it. It is a perpetual allotted portion throughout your generations from the gifts of the Lord. Anyone who touches these gifts must be holy.’”Copy LinkKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AIFlowchartCross Refs:Lev 6:29Num 18:101 Pet 1:161 Pet 2:9Exod 29:37Hag 2:12-14Lev 21:21-22Lev 22:3-7Lev 3:17Lev 6:27
Leviticus 6:1919Then the Lord spoke to Moses:Copy LinkKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AIFlowchart
Leviticus 6:2020“This is the offering of Aaron and his sons which they must present to the Lord on the day when he is anointed: a tenth of an ephah of choice wheat flour as a continual grain offering, half of it in the morning and half of it in the evening.Copy LinkKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AIFlowchartCross Refs:Exod 16:36Exod 29:2Exod 29:35-42Heb 5:1Heb 7:27Heb 8:3-4Lev 2:1-16Lev 5:1Lev 5:11Num 18:26-32
Leviticus 6:2121It must be made with olive oil on a griddle and you must bring it well soaked, so you must present a grain offering of broken pieces as a soothing aroma to the Lord.Copy LinkKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AIFlowchartCross Refs:Lev 2:5Lev 7:91 Chr 9:31
Leviticus 6:2222The high priest who succeeds him from among his sons must do it. It is a perpetual statute; it must be offered up in smoke as a whole offering to the Lord.Copy LinkKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AIFlowchartCross Refs:Heb 7:23Isa 53:10Deut 10:6Exod 29:22-25Lev 4:3Lev 8:21
Leviticus 6:2323Every grain offering of a priest must be a whole offering; it must not be eaten.”Copy LinkKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AIFlowchartCross Refs:Lev 2:10Lev 6:16-17
Leviticus 6:2424Then the Lord spoke to Moses:Copy LinkKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AIFlowchart
Leviticus 6:2525“Tell Aaron and his sons, ‘This is the law of the sin offering. In the place where the burnt offering is slaughtered the sin offering must be slaughtered before the Lord. It is most holy.Copy LinkKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AIFlowchartCross Refs:Lev 4:24Lev 1:11Lev 1:3Lev 1:5Lev 4:29Lev 4:2-21Lev 4:33-34Lev 6:17Lev 21:22
Leviticus 6:2626The priest who offers it for sin is to eat it. It must be eaten in a holy place, in the courtyard of the Meeting Tent.Copy LinkKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AIFlowchartCross Refs:Lev 10:17-18Ezek 44:28-29Ezek 42:13Ezek 46:20Hos 4:8Exod 27:9-18Exod 38:9-19Exod 40:33Lev 6:16Num 18:9-10
Leviticus 6:2727Anyone who touches its meat must be holy, and whoever spatters some of its blood on a garment must wash whatever he spatters it on in a holy place.Copy LinkKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AIFlowchartCross Refs:Exod 29:372 Cor 7:12 Cor 7:11Exod 30:29Hag 2:12Lev 11:32Lev 6:18Matt 9:21Matt 14:36
Leviticus 6:2828Any clay vessel it is boiled in must be broken, and if it was boiled in a bronze vessel, then that vessel must be rubbed out and rinsed in water.Copy LinkKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AIFlowchartCross Refs:Lev 11:33Lev 15:12Heb 9:9-10
Leviticus 6:2929Any male among the priests may eat it. It is most holy.Copy LinkKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AIFlowchartCross Refs:Lev 6:17-18Lev 6:25Num 18:10
Leviticus 6:3030But any sin offering from which some of its blood is brought into the Meeting Tent to make atonement in the sanctuary must not be eaten. It must be burned up in the fire.Copy LinkKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AIFlowchartCross Refs:Heb 13:11Lev 10:18Lev 16:27-28Lev 4:3-21Heb 9:11-12
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