Leviticus 8:28

8:28 Moses then took them from their palms and offered them up in smoke on the altar ¹  on top of the burnt offering – they were an ordination offering for a soothing aroma; it was a gift to the Lord.

Leviticus 26:30

26:30 I will destroy your high places and cut down your incense altars, ²  and I will stack your dead bodies on top of the lifeless bodies of your idols. ³  I will abhor you. ⁴ 

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¹ tn Heb “toward the altar” (see the note on Lev 1:9).

² sn Regarding these cultic installations, see the remarks in B. A. Levine, Leviticus (JPSTC), 188, and R. E. Averbeck, NIDOTTE 2:903. The term rendered “incense altars” might better be rendered “sanctuaries [of foreign deities]” or “stelae.”

³ tn The translation reflects the Hebrew wordplay “your corpses…the corpses of your idols.” Since idols, being lifeless, do not really have “corpses,” the translation uses “dead bodies” for people and “lifeless bodies” for the idols.

⁴ tn Heb “and my soul will abhor you.”