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19 and he slaughtered it.[a] Moses then splashed the blood against the altar’s sides. 20 Then he[b] cut the ram into parts,[c] and Moses offered the head, the parts, and the suet up in smoke, 21 but the entrails and the legs he washed with water,[d] and Moses offered the whole ram up in smoke on the altar—it was a burnt offering for a soothing aroma, a gift to the Lord, just as the Lord had commanded Moses.[e]

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Footnotes

  1. Leviticus 8:19 tn Aaron probably did the slaughtering (cf. the notes on Lev 8:15-16 above).
  2. Leviticus 8:20 tn Again, Aaron probably cut the ram up into parts (v. 20a), but Moses presented them on the altar (v. 20b; cf. the note on v. 15 above).
  3. Leviticus 8:20 tn Heb “cut it into its parts.” One could translate here, “quartered it” (J. Milgrom, Leviticus [AB], 1:133; cf. Lev 1:6, 12 above).
  4. Leviticus 8:21 tn Again, Aaron probably did the washing (v. 21a), but Moses presented the portions on the altar (v. 21b; cf. the note on v. 15 above).
  5. Leviticus 8:21 tn See Lev 1:9, 13.