Exodus 29:18

a burnt offering see Leviticus 1.

a sweet savour a soothing odour (McNeile), lit. an odour of rest giving, i.e. one composing and acceptable to the Deity. It is a technical expression for the fragrant odour emitted by a burning sacrifice, and is doubtless a survival from the time when the deity was supposed to be actually placated by the smell of the sacrificial smoke (see on v.13). It is used, repeatedly by P (Leviticus 1:9; Exodus 1:13; Exodus 1:13 &c.), and once by J (Genesis 8:21). Comp. the erêshê tâbu, or -goodly odour," offered to the Bab. gods (EB.iv. 4119; cf. Del. HWB.121, 140 a). -Sweet savour" is a paraphrase based upon the rend. of LXX. ὀσμὴ εὐωδίας -an odour of a sweet smell" (Philippians 4:18). Note that -savour" in Old English meant not only taste(Matthew 5:13), but smell, as Joel 2:20, and 2 Corinthians 2:14; 2 Corinthians 2:16 for ὀσμή : see DB., s.v.

an offering made by fire in the Heb. one word, as we might say, a firing. Another expression of the priestly terminology, used often by P (Leviticus 1:9; Leviticus 1:13; Leviticus 1:17, &c.), and occurring also twice besides (Deuteronomy 18:1; 1 Samuel 2:28).