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Contemporary English Version

Exodus 29:17

Cut up the ram, wash its insides and legs, and lay all of its parts on the altar, including the head.

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Offerings;   Torrey's Topical Textbook - Priests;  

Dictionaries:

- Baker Evangelical Dictionary of Biblical Theology - Priest, Christ as;   Worship;   Easton Bible Dictionary - Fat;   Food;   Fausset Bible Dictionary - Priest;   Holman Bible Dictionary - Bull;   Dedicate, Dedication;   High Priest;   Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - Leviticus;   Priests and Levites;   Sacrifice and Offering;   People's Dictionary of the Bible - High priest;   Priest;   Wilson's Dictionary of Bible Types - Leg;   Watson's Biblical & Theological Dictionary - Priest;  

Encyclopedias:

- Condensed Biblical Cyclopedia - Priesthood, the;   International Standard Bible Encyclopedia - Abel (1);   Leg;   Sacrifice;   The Jewish Encyclopedia - Anatomy;   Priestly Code;   Sidra;   Urim and Thummim;  

Parallel Translations

Hebrew Names Version
You shall cut the ram into its pieces, and wash its innards, and its legs, and put them with its pieces, and with its head.
King James Version
And thou shalt cut the ram in pieces, and wash the inwards of him, and his legs, and put them unto his pieces, and unto his head.
Lexham English Bible
And you will cut the ram into pieces and wash its inner parts, and you will put its legs with its pieces and with its head.
New Century Version
Then cut it into pieces and wash its inner organs and its legs, putting them with its head and its other pieces.
New English Translation
Then you are to cut the ram into pieces and wash the entrails and its legs and put them on its pieces and on its head
Amplified Bible
"Then you shall cut the ram into pieces, and wash its intestines and legs, and place them with its pieces and its head,
New American Standard Bible
"Then you shall cut the ram into its pieces, and wash its entrails and its legs, and put them with its pieces and its head.
Geneva Bible (1587)
And thou shalt cut the ramme in pieces, and wash the inwards of him and his legges, and shalt put them vpon the pieces thereof, and vpon his head.
Legacy Standard Bible
Then you shall cut the ram into its pieces, and wash its entrails and its legs, and put them with its pieces and its head.
Complete Jewish Bible
Quarter the ram, wash the inner organs and the lower parts of the legs, and put them with the quarters and the head.
Darby Translation
And thou shalt cut up the ram into its pieces, and wash its inwards, and its legs, and put [them] upon its pieces, and upon its head;
Easy-to-Read Version
Then cut the ram into several pieces. Wash all the parts from inside the ram and the legs. Put these things with the head and the other pieces of the ram.
English Standard Version
Then you shall cut the ram into pieces, and wash its entrails and its legs, and put them with its pieces and its head,
George Lamsa Translation
And then you shall cut the ram into pieces, and wash its entrails and its legs, and put them over its pieces and over its head.
Good News Translation
Cut the ram in pieces; wash its internal organs and its hind legs, and put them on top of the head and the other pieces.
Christian Standard Bible®
Cut the ram into pieces. Wash its entrails and legs, and place them with its head and its pieces on the altar.
Literal Translation
And you shall cut the ram into pieces; and you shall wash its inward parts, and its legs, and shall place them on its pieces and on its head.
Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
But the ramme shalt thou deuyde in peces, and wash his bowels and his legges, and laye them vpon the peces and the heade,
American Standard Version
And thou shalt cut the ram into its pieces, and wash its inwards, and its legs, and put them with its pieces, and with its head.
Bible in Basic English
Then the sheep is to be cut up into its parts, and after washing its legs and its inside parts, you are to put them with the parts and the head,
Bishop's Bible (1568)
And cut the Ramme in peeces, and washe the inwardes of hym, and his legges, and put them vnto the peeces, and vnto his head.
JPS Old Testament (1917)
And thou shalt cut the ram into its pieces, and wash its inwards, and its legs, and put them with its pieces, and with its head.
King James Version (1611)
And thou shalt cut the ramme in pieces, and wash the inwards of him, and his legs, and put them vnto his pieces, and vnto his head.
Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
And thou shalt divide the ram by his several limbs, and thou shalt wash the inward parts and the feet with water, and thou shalt put them on the divided parts with the head.
English Revised Version
And thou shalt cut the ram into its pieces, and wash its inwards, and its legs, and put them with its pieces, and with its head.
Berean Standard Bible
Cut the ram into pieces, wash the entrails and legs, and place them with its head and other pieces.
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
Forsothe thou schalt kitte thilk ram in to smale gobetis, and thou schalt putte hise entrailis waischun, and feet on the fleischis koruun, and on his heed;
Young's Literal Translation
and the ram thou dost cut into its pieces, and hast washed its inwards, and its legs, and hast put [them] on its pieces, and on its head;
Update Bible Version
And you shall cut the ram into its pieces, and wash its insides, and its legs, and put them with its pieces, and with its head.
Webster's Bible Translation
And thou shalt cut the ram in pieces, and wash the inwards of him, and his legs, and put [them] to his pieces, and to his head.
World English Bible
You shall cut the ram into its pieces, and wash its innards, and its legs, and put them with its pieces, and with its head.
New King James Version
Then you shall cut the ram in pieces, wash its entrails and its legs, and put them with its pieces and with its head.
New Living Translation
Cut the ram into pieces, and wash off the internal organs and the legs. Set them alongside the head and the other pieces of the body,
New Life Bible
Cut the ram into pieces. Wash its inside parts and its legs. And put them with its pieces and its head.
New Revised Standard
Then you shall cut the ram into its parts, and wash its entrails and its legs, and put them with its parts and its head,
J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
but the ram itself, shalt thou cut up into its pieces, - and shalt bathe its inner part, and its legs, and lay upon its pieces and upon its head;
Douay-Rheims Bible
And thou shalt cut the ram in pieces, and having washed his entrails and feet, thou shalt put them upon the flesh that is cut in pieces, and upon his head.
Revised Standard Version
Then you shall cut the ram into pieces, and wash its entrails and its legs, and put them with its pieces and its head,
New American Standard Bible (1995)
"Then you shall cut the ram into its pieces, and wash its entrails and its legs, and put them with its pieces and its head.

Contextual Overview

1 The Lord said to Moses: When you ordain one of Aaron's sons as my priest, choose a young bull and two rams that have nothing wrong with them. 2 Then from your finest flour make three batches of dough without yeast. Shape some of it into larger loaves, some into smaller loaves mixed with olive oil, and the rest into thin wafers brushed with oil. 3 Put all of this bread in a basket and bring it when you come to sacrifice the three animals to me. 4 Bring Aaron and his sons to the entrance of the sacred tent and have them wash themselves. 5 Dress Aaron in the priestly shirt, the robe that goes under the sacred vest, the vest itself, the breastpiece, and the sash. 6 Put on his turban with its narrow strip of engraved gold 7 and then ordain him by pouring olive oil on his head. 8 Next, dress Aaron's sons in their special shirts 9 and caps and their sashes, then ordain them, because they and their descendants will always be priests. 10 Lead the bull to the entrance of the sacred tent, where Aaron and his sons will lay their hands on its head.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

wash the: Leviticus 1:9, Leviticus 1:13, Leviticus 8:21, Leviticus 9:14, Jeremiah 4:14, Matthew 23:26

unto: or, upon

Reciprocal: Leviticus 1:8 - General

Cross-References

Genesis 29:1
As Jacob continued on his way to the east,
Genesis 29:2
he looked out in a field and saw a well where shepherds took their sheep for water. Three flocks of sheep were lying around the well, which was covered with a large rock.
Genesis 29:6
"How is he?" Jacob asked. "He's fine," they answered. "And here comes his daughter Rachel with the sheep."
Genesis 29:12
He told her that he was the son of her aunt Rebekah, and she ran and told her father about him.
Genesis 29:18
Since Jacob was in love with Rachel, he answered, "If you will let me marry Rachel, I'll work seven years for you."
Genesis 29:19
Laban replied, "It's better for me to let you marry Rachel than for someone else to have her. So stay and work for me."
Genesis 29:20
Jacob worked seven years for Laban, but the time seemed like only a few days, because he loved Rachel so much.
Genesis 29:22
So Laban gave a big feast and invited all their neighbors.
Genesis 30:22
Finally, God remembered Rachel—he answered her prayer by giving her a son. "God has taken away my disgrace," she said.
Genesis 39:6
Potiphar left everything up to Joseph, and with Joseph there, the only decision he had to make was what he wanted to eat. Joseph was well-built and handsome,

Gill's Notes on the Bible

And thou shalt cut the ram in pieces,.... For the better convenience of laying it upon the wood on the altar, that it might be burnt; for it was to be a whole burnt offering:

and wash the inwards of him, and his legs; denoting the purity of the sacrifice of Christ, and that when his people give up themselves to God as a whole burnt offering, in the flames of love and zeal, their affections should be pure and sincere:

and put [them] unto his pieces, and unto his head; lay them together, so that they might be entirely consumed at once; signifying that Christ was both in soul and body an offering and a sacrifice of a sweet smelling savour to God; zeal for the honour of whose house, and the glory of his name, ate him up, as well as the fire of divine wrath; and so our whole souls, bodies and spirits, should be presented to the Lord as a holy, living, and acceptable sacrifice to him, which is more strongly suggested in the next verse.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

The consecration of the priests. See the notes to Lev. 8–9.

Exodus 29:4

Door of the tabernacle - Entrance of the tent. See Leviticus 8:3.

Exodus 29:27

The “waving” was the more solemn process of the two: it was a movement several times repeated, while “heaving” was simply a “lifting up” once.

Exodus 29:33

A stranger - One of another family, i. e. in this case, one not of the family of Aaron.


 
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