to smoke · conjunction + verb, hiphil sequential perfect, 2nd person masculine singular
ram
הָאַ֙יִל֙ha.'A.yil
H352
properly · definite article + noun, common masculine singular absolute
altar
הַמִּזְבֵּ֔חָהha.miz.Be.chah
H4196
an altar · definite article + noun, common masculine singular absolute + directional suffix
offering
עֹלָ֥ה'o.Lah
H5930
a step or (collectively · noun, common feminine singular absolute
LORD
לַֽיהוָ֑הla.Yah.weh
H3068
Jehovah · preposition + proper noun, a title
sweet
נִיח֔וֹחַni.Cho.ach
H5207
properly · noun, common masculine singular absolute
savour
רֵ֣יחַRei.ach
H7381
odor (as if blown) · noun, common masculine singular construct
fire
אִשֶּׁ֥ה'i.Sheh
H801
properly · noun, common masculine singular absolute
LORD
לַיהוָ֖הla.Yah.weh
H3068
Jehovah · preposition + proper noun, a title
Strong's Exhaustive Concordance (James Strong, 1890/1894), public domain; digitized by Open Scriptures (CC BY-SA). KJV word tagging: eBible.org (public domain). Original-language text, parsing and brief lexicon: STEPBible.org data from Tyndale House, Cambridge (CC BY 4.0).
Cross-references
Genesis 8:21 And the LORD smelled a sweet savour; and the LORD said in his heart, I will not again curse the ground any more for man’s sake; for the imag…
Genesis 22:2 And he said, Take now thy son, thine only son Isaac, whom thou lovest, and get thee into the land of Moriah; and offer him there for a burnt…
Genesis 22:7 And Isaac spake unto Abraham his father, and said, My father: and he said, Here am I, my son. And he said, Behold the fire and the wood: but…
Genesis 22:13 And Abraham lifted up his eyes, and looked, and behold behind him a ram caught in a thicket by his horns: and Abraham went and took the ram,…
Exodus 29:25 And thou shalt receive them of their hands, and burn them upon the altar for a burnt offering, for a sweet savour before the LORD: it is an…
Leviticus 1:17 And he shall cleave it with the wings thereof, but shall not divide it asunder: and the priest shall burn it upon the altar, upon the wood t…
Leviticus 9:24 And there came a fire out from before the LORD, and consumed upon the altar the burnt offering and the fat: which when all the people saw, t…
1 Samuel 7:9 And Samuel took a sucking lamb, and offered it for a burnt offering wholly unto the LORD: and Samuel cried unto the LORD for Israel; and the…
Cross-references from OpenBible.info (CC BY), in the lineage of the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge (public domain).
Commentary
Matthew Henry on Exodus 29:1-37
Here is, I. The law concerning the consecration of Aaron and his sons to the priest's office, which was to be done with a great deal of ceremony and solemnity, that they themselves might be duly affected with the greatness of the work to which they were called, and that the people also might learn to magnify the office and none might dare to invade it.
1. The ceremonies wherewith it was to be done were very fully and particularly appointed, because nothing of this kind had been done before, and because it was to be a statute for ever that the high priest should be thus inaugurated. Now,
(1.) The work to be done was the consecrating of the persons whom God had chosen to be priests, by which t…
And thou shalt cause a bullock to be brought before the tabernacle--This part of the ceremonial consisted of three sacrifices: (1) The sacrifice of a bullock, as a sin offering; and in rendering it, the priest was directed to put his hand upon the head of his sacrifice, expressing by that act a consciousness of personal guilt, and a wish that it might be accepted as a vicarious satisfaction. (2) The sacrifice of a ram as a burnt offering (Exo 29:15-18). The ram was to be wholly burnt, in token of the priest's dedication of himself to God and His service. The sin offering was first to be presented, and then the burnt offering; for until guilt be removed, no acceptable service can be performed…
It is a burnt-offering - See Clarke's note on Lev 7:1, etc.
John Gill on Exodus 29:18
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 hi…
The Church Fathers
The Holy Scriptures say many times that the sacrifice of the victims of the sheep is a sweet smell for the Lord, Naturally God does not delight in the smell of that smoke. It only pleases God what these things spiritually mean when they are done spiritually. Because even the smell of God must be understood in a spiritual sense. God does not smell with bodily noses like us. Therefore, these things mean as God smells. 128 (Ex 29.26). And you shall take the breast of the ram of the consecration of Aaron, that is, of this one, Aaron. God wanted it to belong to the high priest. 129 (Ex 29.28). And it will be for Aaron and his children as a legitimate eternal possession on behalf of the children of Israel. These words refer to the victims' chest and leg. As usual, eternal call what we have mentioned many times before. And the garment of the saint, of Aaron, will be for his children after him, to anoint them with them and consecrate their hands. For seven days the one of his sons who will succeed him as a priest will clothe them, who will enter the tabernacle of the testimony to serve in the holy things (Ex 29, 29.30). These words pose many problems. In the first place, it is necessary to notice that here it is spoken of the vesture of the saint. And then it is said in the plural: To anoint them with them, as if they were the garments. It had also been said before that there were many such garments, of which there was only one. Although it is doubtful whether the expression in ipsis (with them) is in place of ipsa, in neutral gender, encompassing all that constitutes the vesture, the priestly dress. And that, in fact, it is more about this seems to be deduced from what is said below: For seven days the (ea: neutral) will wear whoever succeeds him as a priest, that is, he will wear all those things that were mentioned to the describe the priestly dress. Repeat then what he had said before: To consecrate his hands. I already explained before what I thought this meant. The following sentence: For seven days the priest will wear them, does that mean that during the other days he will not wear them? The author wanted to say that those seven days were followed, during which his priesthood was consecrated in a certain way and its beginning was celebrated for a week. Mark as Aaron's successor who enters the tabernacle of testimony to serve in holy things. This means that…
The Church Fathers: public-domain translations (Ante-Nicene and Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers), verse-indexed by SermonIndex (CC BY 4.0).
Dictionary and topics
Burnt offering — Hebrew olah; i.e., “ascending,” the whole being consumed by fire, and regarded as ascending to God while being consumed. Part of every offering was burnt in the sacred fire, but this was wholly…
Fat — (Heb. heleb) denotes the richest part of the animal, or the fattest of the flock, in the account of Abel’s sacrifice (Gen. 4:4). It sometimes denotes the best of any production (Gen. 45:18; Num.…
Fire — (1.) For sacred purposes. The sacrifices were consumed by fire (Gen. 8:20). The ever-burning fire on the altar was first kindled from heaven (Lev. 6:9, 13; 9:24), and afterwards rekindled at the…
Food — Originally the Creator granted the use of the vegetable world for food to man (Gen. 1:29), with the exception mentioned (2:17). The use of animal food was probably not unknown to the antediluvians.…
Law of Moses — Is the whole body of the Mosaic legislation (1 Kings 2:3; 2 Kings 23:25; Ezra 3:2). It is called by way of eminence simply “the Law” (Heb. Torah, Deut. 1:5; 4:8, 44; 17:18, 19; 27:3, 8). As a written…
Priests · Ceremonies at consecration of: Offering sacrifices — Ceremonies at consecration of: Offering sacrifices
Dictionary: Easton's (1897) and Smith's (1863), public domain. Topics: Nave's Topical Bible (1896) and Torrey's Topical Textbook (1897), public domain. Both as parsed by NEUU (CC BY 4.0).
Exodus 29:1-35
1. And this is the thing that thou shalt do unto them to hallow them, to minister unto me in the priest's office: Take one young bullock, and two rams without blemish,
1. Hoc quoque facies eis ad sanctificandum eos, ut sacerdotio fungantur mihi: Tolle juvencum unum filium bovis, et arietes duos immaculatos.
2. And unleavened bread, and cakes unleavened tempered with oil, and wafers unleavened anointed with oil: of wheaten flour shalt thou make them.
2. Panes praeterea infermentatas, et placentas infermentatas mixtas oleo, et lagan infermentata uncta oleo: ex simila triticea facies ea.
3. And thou shalt put them into one basket, and bring them in the basket, with the bull…
pleasing aroma: Such language is anthropomorphism, describing God with human terms and experiences. God’s delight in an appropriately offered sacrifice is like a human’s enjoyment of a pleasing smell.
Rashi on Exodus 29:18
ריח נחוח AS A PLEASING ODOUR — as a gratification of spirit before Me — that I commanded and My will was carried out (Zevachim 46b).
אשה AN OFFERING MADE BY FIRE a term connected with the word אש, fire: it denotes the burning of the parts which had been placed on the fire (cf. Rashi on Leviticus 1:9).
