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Ezekiel 40:37-39
Contemporary English Version
Ezekiel 40:37-39
Contemporary English Version
37 and like the other inner gates, its entrance room faced the outer courtyard, and its walls were decorated with carvings of palm trees. Eight steps also led up to this gate.
The Rooms for Sacrificing Animals
38-39 Inside the entrance room of the north gate, I saw four tables, two on each side of the room, where the animals to be sacrificed were killed. Just outside[a] this room was a small building used for washing the animals before they were offered as sacrifices to please the Lord[b] or sacrifices for sin[c] or sacrifices to make things right.[d]
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- 40.38,39 Just outside: Or “Inside.”
- 40.38,39 sacrifices to please the Lord: These sacrifices have traditionally been called “whole burnt offerings” because the whole animal was burned on the altar. A main purpose of such sacrifices was to please the Lord with the smell of the sacrifice, and so in the CEV they are often called “sacrifices to please the Lord.”
- 40.38,39 sacrifices for sin: See Leviticus 4.1,2; 6.24-30.
- 40.38,39 sacrifices to make things right: See Leviticus 5.14-19; 7.1-10.
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