Verse Lens · Context pointer
Exodus 29:17 Explained in Context
Use this verse as a doorway into the larger passage—not as an isolated saying.
Verse 17. 17And thou shalt cut the ram in pieces, and wash the inwards of him, and his legs, and put them unto his pieces, and unto his head.
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Role in This Section
Reading 29:17 as “And thou shalt cut the ram in pieces, and wash the inwards of him, and his legs, and put them unto his…” keeps the verse tied to the before-and-after logic of “Ordination Uses Blood, Fire, Food, and Seven Days”.
Read It With
- Exodus 29:10–37
Read Exodus 29:17 with 29:10–37. Reading 29:17 as “And thou shalt cut the ram in pieces, and wash the inwards of him, and his legs, and put them unto his…” keeps the verse tied to the before-and-after logic of “Ordination Uses Blood, Fire, Food, and Seven Days”. The whole unit shows: Sin offering, burnt offering, ram of ordination, blood on body and altar, wave portions, sacred meal, garments, succession, and seven-day purification consecrate priests and altar.
Continue in Context
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Read Exodus 29:10–37 — Ordination Uses Blood, Fire, Food, and Seven DaysSources used for this context pointer
How certain is this explanation? strong
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Biblical text
King James (Authorized) Version — eng-kjv2006
eBible.org and CrossWire Bible Society
USFM archive eng-kjv2006_usfm.zip; source files dated 2026-08-19; downloaded 2026-08-24; archive SHA-256 aec1b3b26c622fd3d963d2bbac963016b9513246ffbfa20da00bb100372ea007; normalized corpus SHA-256 09aef51d90488aa7b9722b3fd9a93f4b25f6bf2064c5fd798fb39673c300ddf2.
Supports: Exact KJV wording, paragraph metadata, supplied-word markup, and complete verse coverage for this thought unit.
Exact location: Exodus 29:10–37, pinned eng-kjv2006 USFM corpus
Open source ↗hebrew text and morphology
Open Scriptures Hebrew Bible: Exodus
Open Scriptures
Open Scriptures, release 2.2
Supports: Masoretic Hebrew wording, morphology, names, speech, law, ritual vocabulary, older-English controls, and translation limits.
Exact location: Open Scriptures MorphHB v.2.2, commit 6a5db284c715c18b239422e57bb89684e6a19f00, wlc/Exod.xml, words and morphology for 29:10–37
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