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Chapter 8

Genesis 8:20

Verse

RBT Translation:

And Rest is building a slaughtering-place to Yahweh, and is taking from the whole of the clean behemah, and from the whole of the clean flying-one, and is causing to ascend326 ascending-ones327 upon the slaughtering-place.

LITV Translation:
And Noah built an altar to Jehovah, and took of every clean animal, and of every clean bird, and offered burnt offerings on the altar.
ESV Translation:
Then Noah built an altar to the LORD and took some of every clean animal and some of every clean bird and offered burnt offerings on the altar.
Brenton Septuagint Translation:
And Noah built an altar to the Lord, and took of all clean beasts, and of all clean birds, and offered a whole burnt offering upon the altar.

Footnotes

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Burnt-offerings are literally “ascendings”. Strong’s #5930, olah. a step or (collectively, stairs, as ascending); -- ascent, burnt offering (sacrifice), go up to. Where do the offerings ascend to? Heaven. There is a picture evident in the process of flesh being changed into smoke in that one becomes spirit and rises to Heaven. Hence, “present your bodies as a living sacrifice, holy and acceptable to God, which is your spiritual worship” (Romans 12:1).

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Burnt-offering⇒Ascent⇒Stairs

Strong’s #5930, olah. That which goes up, ascending, ascent, a step. Collectively stairs,

“And the food of his table and a seat of his slaves and a station of his ministers, and their clothing, and hi cupbearers, and his stairway [olah] which he is causing to ascend a house of Yahweh, and she has not become in herself again a spirit.” 1 Kings 10:5 literal

“And steps [ma-olah] of seven of his ascensions [olah] and his porch to their faces, and palm-trees to himself, one from here, and one from here, toward his gateposts.” Ezekiel 40:26 literal