Leviticus 1:17
Good News Translation
He shall take hold of its wings and tear its body open, without tearing the wings off, and then burn it whole on the altar. The odor of this food offering is pleasing to the LORD.

New Revised Standard Version
He shall tear it open by its wings without severing it. Then the priest shall turn it into smoke on the altar, on the wood that is on the fire; it is a burnt offering, an offering by fire of pleasing odor to the LORD.

Contemporary English Version
Finally, he will take the bird by its wings, tear it partially open, and send it up in smoke with a smell that pleases me.

New American Bible
Then, having torn the bird open by its wings without separating the halves, the priest shall burn it on the altar, on the wood and the embers. It is a burnt offering, a sweet-smelling oblation to the LORD.

Douay-Rheims Bible
And he shall break the pinions thereof, and shall not cut, nor divide it with a knife: and shall burn it upon the altar, putting fire under the wood. It is a holocaust and oblation of most sweet savour to the Lord.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

And he shall break the pinions thereof, and shall not cut, nor divide it with a knife: and shall burn it upon the altar, putting fire under the wood. It is a holocaust and oblation of most sweet savour to the Lord.

shall not

Genesis 15:10 And he took all these, and divided them in the midst, and laid the two pieces of each one against the other: but the birds he divided not.

Psalm 16:10 Because thou wilt not leave my soul in hell; nor wilt thou give thy holy one to see corruption.

Matthew 27:50 And Jesus again crying with a loud voice, yielded up the ghost.

John 19:30 Jesus therefore, when he had taken the vinegar, said: It is consummated. And bowing his head, he gave up the ghost.

Romans 4:25 Who was delivered up for our sins and rose again for our justification.

1 Peter 1:19-21 But with the precious blood of Christ, as of a lamb unspotted and undefiled . . .

1 Peter 3:18 Because Christ also died once for our sins, the just for the unjust: that he might offer us to God, being put to death indeed in the flesh, but enlivened in the spirit,

it is

Leviticus 1:9,10,13 The entrails and feet being washed with water. And the priest shall burn them upon the altar for a holocaust, and a sweet savour to the Lord. . . .

Genesis 8:21 And the Lord smelled a sweet savour, and said: I will no more curse the earth for the sake of man: for the imagination and thought of man's heart are prone to evil from his youth: therefore I will no more destroy every living soul as I have done.

Hebrews 10:6-12 Holocausts for sin did not please thee. . . .

Hebrews 13:15,16 By him therefore let us offer the sacrifice of praise always to God, that is to say, the fruit of lips confessing to his name. . . .

Context
Laws for Burnt Offerings
16But the crop of the throat, and the feathers he shall cast beside the altar at the east side, in the place where the ashes are wont to be poured out. 17And he shall break the pinions thereof, and shall not cut, nor divide it with a knife: and shall burn it upon the altar, putting fire under the wood. It is a holocaust and oblation of most sweet savour to the Lord.
Cross References
Genesis 15:10
And he took all these, and divided them in the midst, and laid the two pieces of each one against the other: but the birds he divided not.

Leviticus 5:8
And he shall give them to the priest: who shall offer the first for sin, and twist back the head of it to the little pinions, so that it stick to the neck, and be not altogether broken off.

Leviticus 9:13
And the victim being cut into pieces, they brought to him the head and all the members: all which he burnt with fire upon the altar.

Leviticus 1:16
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