18 You shall burn the whole ram on the altar: it is a burnt offering to Yahweh; it is a pleasant aroma, an offering made by fire to Yahweh.
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It is a burnt-offering - See Clarke's note on Leviticus 7:1, etc.
And thou shalt burn the whole ram upon the altar: it [is] a burnt offering unto the LORD: (d) it [is] a sweet savour, an offering made by fire unto the LORD.
(d) Or, savour of rest, which causes the wrath of God to cease.
And thou shalt burn the whole ram upon the altar,.... For which reason his head, his pieces, his inwards, and his legs, were to be put together, and laid in order upon the altar:
it is a burnt offering unto the Lord; offered up to him, and accepted by him, as follows:
it is a sweet savour; or "a smell of rest" (y), in which God acquiesces, and rests, and takes delight and pleasure; it is, as the Septuagint version:
for a smell of sweet savour, or a sweet smelling savour; which phrase the apostle makes use of, and applies to the sacrifice of Christ, Ephesians 5:2,
an offering made by fire unto the Lord; which being consumed by fire ascended upwards to the Lord, and became acceptable to him, as the sacrifice of his own Son, in his fiery sufferings and death, was unto him.
(y) "odor quietis", Montanus, Fagius, Vatablus, Cartwright, Piscator.
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