“Command the children of Israel, and say unto them, My offering, and my bread for my sacrifices made by fire, for a sweet savour unto me, shall ye observe to offer unto me in their due season.”
Command the children of Israel, and say unto them, My offering, and my bread for my sacrifices made by fire, for a sweet savour unto me, shall ye observe to offer unto me in their due season — The foundation of the sacrificial system is the divine ownership: these are 'my offerings' and 'my bread.' The sacrifices feed the divine altar (metaphorically, as YHWH does not literally eat) and produce a 'sweet savour' (nicho'ach, a soothing or pleasing scent). The temporal structure 'in their due season' emphasizes that the sacrifices follow a fixed, unchangeable calendar. The second generation will inhabit a land organized around sacred time.
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