2 Samuel 6:17-19

Contemporary English Version

¹⁷They put the chest inside a tent that David had set up for it. David worshiped the Lord by sacrificing animals and burning them on an altar,^[a] ¹⁸then he blessed the people in the name of the Lord All-Powerful. ¹⁹^(A) He gave all the men and women in the crowd a small loaf of bread, some meat, and a handful of raisins, then everyone went home.

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Footnotes

6.17 sacrificing … altar: The Hebrew mentions two kinds of sacrifices. In one kind of sacrifice, the whole animal was burned on the altar. In the other kind, only part was burned, and the worshipers ate the rest, as in verse 19 (see Leviticus 1.2-17; 3.1-17).