◄ Leviticus 6:13 ►
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Good News Translation
The fire must always be kept burning on the altar and never allowed to go out.

New Revised Standard Version
A perpetual fire shall be kept burning on the altar; it shall not go out.

Contemporary English Version
The altar fire must always be kept burning--it must never go out.

New American Bible
The fire is to be kept burning continuously on the altar; it must not go out.

Douay-Rheims Bible
This is the perpetual fire which shall never go out on the altar.

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This is the perpetual fire which shall never go out on the altar.

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Context
The Burnt Offering
…12And the fire on the altar shall always burn, and the priest shall feed it, putting wood on it every day in the morning: and laying on the holocaust, shall burn thereupon the fat of the peace offerings. 13This is the perpetual fire which shall never go out on the altar.
Cross References
Leviticus 6:9
Command Aaron and his sons: This is the law of a holocaust. It shall be burnt upon the altar, all night until morning: the fire shall be of the same altar.

Leviticus 6:12
And the fire on the altar shall always burn, and the priest shall feed it, putting wood on it every day in the morning: and laying on the holocaust, shall burn thereupon the fat of the peace offerings.

Leviticus 6:14
This is the law of the sacrifice and libations, which the children of Aaron shall offer before the Lord, and before the altar.

Ezekiel 40:46
But the chamber that looketh towards the north shall be for the priests that watch over the ministry of the altar. These are the sons of Sadoc, who among the sons of Levi, come near to the Lord, to minister to him.

Leviticus 6:12
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