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Every morning the priest shall put firewood on it, arrange the burnt offering on it, and burn the fat of the fellowship offering. </title><link rel="canonical" href="https://biblehub.com/catholic/leviticus/6-12.htm" /><link rel="stylesheet" href="/15002new8.css" type="text/css" media="Screen" /></head><body><div id="fx"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" id="fx2"><tr><td><iframe width="100%" height="30" scrolling="no" src="../vmenus/leviticus/6-12.htm" align="left" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div><div id="blnk"></div><div align="center"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" class="maintable"><tr><td><div id="fx5"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" id="fx6"><tr><td><iframe width="100%" height="245" scrolling="no" src="/bmcc/leviticus/6-12.htm" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div></td></tr></table></div><div align="center"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" class="maintable3"><tr><td><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center" id="announce"><tr><td><div id="l1"><div id="breadcrumbs"><a href="/catholic/">Bible</a> > <a href="/gntd/leviticus/1.htm">Leviticus</a> > <a href="/gntd/leviticus/6.htm">Chapter 6</a> > Verse 12</div><div id="anc"><iframe src="/anc.htm" width="100%" height="27" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></div><div id="anc2"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><iframe src="/anc2.htm" width="100%" height="27" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div></div><div id="ad1"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><iframe src="/ad1.htm" width="100%" height="48" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div></td></tr></table><div id="movebox2"><table border="0" align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"><tr><td><div id="topheading"><a href="../leviticus/6-11.htm" title="Leviticus 6:11">◄</a> Leviticus 6:12 <a href="../leviticus/6-13.htm" title="Leviticus 6:13">►</a></div></tr></table></div><div align="center" class="maintable2"><table border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><div id="leftbox"><div class="padleft"><div class="vheadingv"><b>Verse</b><a href="/nabre/leviticus/6.htm" class="clickchap" style="color:#552200" title="Click any translation name for full chapter">  (Click for Chapter)</a></div><div id="par"><span class="versiontext"><a href="/gntd/leviticus/6.htm">Good News Translation</a></span><br />The fire on the altar must be kept burning and never allowed to go out. Every morning the priest shall put firewood on it, arrange the burnt offering on it, and burn the fat of the fellowship offering. <p><span class="versiontext"><a href="/nrsvce/leviticus/6.htm">New Revised Standard Version</a></span><br />The fire on the altar shall be kept burning; it shall not go out. Every morning the priest shall add wood to it, lay out the burnt offering on it, and turn into smoke the fat pieces of the offerings of well-being.<p><span class="versiontext"><a href="/cevd/leviticus/6.htm">Contemporary English Version</a></span><br />The fire must never go out, so put wood on it each morning. After this, you are to lay an animal on the altar next to the fat that you sacrifice to ask my blessing. Then send it all up in smoke to me. <p><span class="versiontext"><a href="/nabre/leviticus/6.htm">New American Bible</a></span><br />The fire on the altar is to be kept burning; it must not go out. Every morning the priest shall put firewood on it. On this he shall lay out the burnt offering and burn the fat of the communion offering.<p><span class="versiontext"><a href="/drbc/leviticus/6.htm">Douay-Rheims Bible</a></span><br />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.<div class="vheading2">Treasury of Scripture Knowledge</div><p class="tsk2">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.</p><p class="hdg">the fire</p><p class="tskverse"><a href="../leviticus/9-24.htm">Leviticus 9:24</a> And, behold, a fire, coming forth from the Lord, devoured the holocaust, and the fat that was upon the altar: which when the multitude saw, they praised the Lord, falling on their faces.</p><p class="tskverse"><a href="../numbers/4-13.htm">Numbers 4:13,14</a> They shall cleanse the altar also from the ashes, and shall wrap it up in a purple cloth, . . . </p><p class="tskverse"><a href="../mark/9-48.htm">Mark 9:48,49</a> Where their worm dieth not, and the fire is not extinguished. . . . </p><p class="tskverse"><a href="../hebrews/10-27.htm">Hebrews 10:27</a> But a certain dreadful expectation of judgment, and the rage of a fire which shall consume the adversaries.</p><p class="hdg">burn wood</p><p class="tskverse"><a href="../leviticus/1-7.htm">Leviticus 1:7-9</a> And shall put fire on the altar, having before laid in order a pile of wood. . . . </p><p class="tskverse"><a href="../leviticus/3-3.htm">Leviticus 3:3-5,9-11,14-16</a> And they shall offer of the sacrifice of peace offerings, for an oblation to the Lord: the fat that covereth the entrails, and all the fat that is within, . . . </p><p class="tskverse"><a href="../exodus/29-38.htm">Exodus 29:38-42</a> This is what thou shalt sacrifice upon the altar: Two lambs of a year old every day continually, . . . </p><p class="tskverse"><a href="../nehemiah/13-31.htm">Nehemiah 13:31</a> And for the offering of wood at times appointed, and for the firstfruits: remember me, O my God, unto good. Amen.</p></div></div></div><div id="centbox"><div class="padcent"><div class="vheadingv"><b>Context</b></div><span class="hdg"><a href="/drbc/leviticus/6.htm">The Burnt Offering</a></span><br>…<span class="reftext">11</span>Shall put off his former vestments, and being clothed with others, shall carry them forth without the camp, and shall cause them to be consumed to dust in a very clean place. <span class="reftext">12</span><span class="highl">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.</span><span class="reftext">13</span>This is the perpetual fire which shall never go out on the altar.…<div class="vheading2">Cross References</div><div id="crf"><span class="crossverse"><a href="../leviticus/3-5.htm">Leviticus 3:5</a></span><br />And they shall burn them upon the altar, for a holocaust, putting fire under the wood: for an oblation of most sweet savour to the Lord.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="../leviticus/6-9.htm">Leviticus 6:9</a></span><br />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.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="../leviticus/6-11.htm">Leviticus 6:11</a></span><br />Shall put off his former vestments, and being clothed with others, shall carry them forth without the camp, and shall cause them to be consumed to dust in a very clean place.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="../leviticus/6-13.htm">Leviticus 6:13</a></span><br />This is the perpetual fire which shall never go out on the altar.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="../ezekiel/40-46.htm">Ezekiel 40:46</a></span><br />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.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span></div></div></div><div id="mdd"><div align="center"><div class="bot2"><table align="center" width="100%"><tr><td></td></tr></table></div></div></div><div id="combox"><div class="padcom"><div class="vheading2">Jump to Previous</div><a href="/leviticus/6-5.htm">Add</a> <a href="/leviticus/6-10.htm">Altar</a> <a href="/leviticus/1-12.htm">Arrange</a> <a href="/leviticus/5-12.htm">Burn</a> <a href="/leviticus/6-9.htm">Burning</a> <a href="/leviticus/6-10.htm">Burnt</a> <a href="/isaiah/43-17.htm">Extinguished</a> <a href="/leviticus/4-35.htm">Fat</a> <a href="/leviticus/6-10.htm">Fire</a> <a href="/leviticus/6-9.htm">Firewood</a> <a href="/leviticus/6-9.htm">Kept</a> <a href="/exodus/35-3.htm">Kindle</a> <a href="/leviticus/4-33.htm">Lay</a> <a href="/leviticus/6-9.htm">Morning</a> <a href="/leviticus/5-12.htm">Offer</a> <a href="/leviticus/6-10.htm">Offering</a> <a href="/leviticus/5-12.htm">Offerings</a> <a href="/leviticus/4-22.htm">Order</a> <a href="/leviticus/4-35.htm">Peace</a> <a href="/leviticus/4-35.htm">Peace-Offerings</a> <a href="/genesis/43-34.htm">Portions</a> <a href="/leviticus/6-10.htm">Priest</a> <a href="/leviticus/5-12.htm">Smoke</a> <a href="/leviticus/6-7.htm">Thereby</a> <a href="/leviticus/5-11.htm">Thereon</a> <a href="/leviticus/4-12.htm">Wood</a><div class="vheading2">Jump to Next</div><a href="/leviticus/19-25.htm">Add</a> <a href="/leviticus/6-13.htm">Altar</a> <a href="/leviticus/24-3.htm">Arrange</a> <a href="/leviticus/6-15.htm">Burn</a> <a href="/leviticus/6-13.htm">Burning</a> <a href="/leviticus/6-22.htm">Burnt</a> <a href="/1_samuel/3-3.htm">Extinguished</a> <a href="/leviticus/7-3.htm">Fat</a> <a href="/leviticus/6-13.htm">Fire</a> <a href="/isaiah/7-4.htm">Firewood</a> <a href="/leviticus/6-13.htm">Kept</a> <a href="/proverbs/26-21.htm">Kindle</a> <a href="/leviticus/16-21.htm">Lay</a> <a href="/leviticus/6-20.htm">Morning</a> <a href="/leviticus/6-14.htm">Offer</a> <a href="/leviticus/6-14.htm">Offering</a> <a href="/leviticus/6-17.htm">Offerings</a> <a href="/leviticus/6-22.htm">Order</a> <a href="/leviticus/7-11.htm">Peace</a> <a href="/leviticus/7-11.htm">Peace-Offerings</a> <a href="/leviticus/8-26.htm">Portions</a> <a href="/leviticus/6-15.htm">Priest</a> <a href="/leviticus/6-15.htm">Smoke</a> <a href="/leviticus/11-43.htm">Thereby</a> <a href="/leviticus/10-1.htm">Thereon</a> <a href="/leviticus/11-32.htm">Wood</a><div class="vheading2">Links</div><a href="/niv/leviticus/6-12.htm">Leviticus 6:12 NIV</a><br /><a href="/nlt/leviticus/6-12.htm">Leviticus 6:12 NLT</a><br /><a href="/esv/leviticus/6-12.htm">Leviticus 6:12 ESV</a><br /><a href="/nasb/leviticus/6-12.htm">Leviticus 6:12 NASB</a><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><a href="//bibleapps.com/leviticus/6-12.htm">Leviticus 6:12 Bible Apps</a><br /><a href="//bibliaparalela.com/leviticus/6-12.htm">Leviticus 6:12 Biblia Paralela</a><br /><a href="//holybible.com.cn/leviticus/6-12.htm">Leviticus 6:12 Chinese Bible</a><br /><a href="//saintebible.com/leviticus/6-12.htm">Leviticus 6:12 French Bible</a><br /><a href="//bibeltext.com/leviticus/6-12.htm">Leviticus 6:12 German Bible</a><span class="p"><br /><br /></span>Alphabetical: add altar and arrange be burn burning burnt but Every fat fellowship fire firewood go he in is it kept lay morning must not of offer offering offerings on out peace portions priest shall smoke The to up wood<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><a href="https://biblehub.com/leviticus/6-12.htm">OT Law: Leviticus 6:12 The fire on the altar shall be (Le Lv Lev.) 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