Genesis 8:20
וַ יִּבֶן נֹחַ מִזְבֵּחַ לַ יהוָה וַ יִּקַּח מִ כֹּל הַ בְּהֵמָה הַ טְּהֹורָה וּ מִ כֹּל הָ עֹוף הַ טָּהֹר וַ יַּעַל עֹלֹת בַּ מִּזְבֵּחַ
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.
| 326 | 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). |