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Two priests in plain white linen arrange wood and attend the burning offering on the broad bronze outer altar. A water basin beside the altar indicates washing. Smoke rises naturally. Anatomical details obscured by altar rim; reverent documentary composition.
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Leviticus 1:7-9

Wood, fire, and rising smoke

The Burnt Offering · Leviticus 1

Story guide: The priests arrange the offering on the fire, with its washed portions, as a burnt offering to Yahweh.

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7And the sons of Aaron the priest shall put fire on the altar and arrange wood on the fire.

8And Aaron’s sons, the priests, shall arrange the pieces, the head, and the fat on the wood that is on the fire that is on the altar.

9But he shall wash its entrails and its legs with water, and the priest shall turn all of it into smoke on the altar, a burnt offering, a food offering, a pleasing aroma to Yahweh.

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