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Bible Verses About The Altar of Burnt Offering

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  1. “You shall set the altar of burnt offering before the door of the tabernacle of the Tent of Meeting.

  2. You shall anoint the altar of burnt offering, with all its vessels, and sanctify the altar: and the altar will be most holy.

  3. He set the altar of burnt offering at the door of the tabernacle of the Tent of Meeting, and offered on it the burnt offering and the meal offering, as the LORD commanded Moses.

  4. and Aaron’s sons, the priests, shall lay the pieces, the head, and the fat in order on the wood that is on the fire which is on the altar;

  5. but its innards and its legs he shall wash with water. The priest shall burn all of it on the altar, for a burnt offering, an offering made by fire, of a pleasant aroma to the LORD.

  6. The priest shall put some of the blood on the horns of the altar of sweet incense before the LORD, which is in the Tent of Meeting; and he shall pour out all of rest of the blood of the bull at the base of the altar of burnt offering, which is at the door of the Tent of Meeting.

  7. He shall put some of the blood on the horns of the altar which is before the LORD, that is in the Tent of Meeting; and the rest of the blood he shall pour out at the base of the altar of burnt offering, which is at the door of the Tent of Meeting.

  8. The priest shall take some of the blood of the sin offering with his finger, and put it on the horns of the altar of burnt offering. He shall pour out the rest of its blood at the base of the altar of burnt offering.

  9. Fire shall be kept burning on the altar continually; it shall not go out.

  10. Moses took the anointing oil, and anointed the tabernacle and all that was in it, and sanctified them.

  11. He sprinkled it on the altar seven times, and anointed the altar and all its vessels, and the basin and its base, to sanctify them.

  12. He killed it; and Moses took the blood, and put it around on the horns of the altar with his finger, and purified the altar, and poured out the blood at the base of the altar, and sanctified it, to make atonement for it.

  13. Fire came out from before the LORD, and consumed the burnt offering and the fat upon the altar. When all the people saw it, they shouted, and fell on their faces.

  14. Blind, injured, maimed, having a wart, festering, or having a running sore: you shall not offer these to the LORD, nor make an offering by fire of them on the altar to the LORD.

  15. On the day that Moses had finished setting up the tabernacle, and had anointed it and sanctified it, with all its furniture, and the altar with all its vessels, and had anointed and sanctified them;

  16. the princes of Israel, the heads of their fathers’ houses, offered. These were the princes of the tribes. These are they who were over those who were numbered:

  17. and they brought their offering before the LORD, six covered wagons, and twelve oxen; a wagon for every two of the princes, and for each one an ox: and they presented them before the tabernacle.

  18. The LORD spoke to Moses, saying,

  19. “Accept these from them, that they may be used in doing the service of the Tent of Meeting; and you shall give them to the Levites, to every man according to his service.”

  20. Moses took the wagons and the oxen, and gave them to the Levites.

  21. He gave two wagons and four oxen to the sons of Gershon, according to their service:

  22. and he gave four wagons and eight oxen to the sons of Merari, according to their service, under the direction of Ithamar the son of Aaron the priest.

  23. But to the sons of Kohath he gave none, because the service of the sanctuary belonged to them; they carried it on their shoulders.

  24. The princes gave offerings for the dedication of the altar in the day that it was anointed, even the princes gave their offerings before the altar.

  25. The LORD said to Moses, “They shall offer their offering, each prince on his day, for the dedication of the altar.”