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Exod 29:41

How this passage has been read — the sources, oldest to newest.

From the early Church Fathers to now.

Exod 29:41 · Douay-Rheims
“And the other lamb thou shalt offer in the evening, according to the rite of the morning oblation, and according to what we have said, for a savour of sweetness:”
Patristic before A.D. 750
254
A.D.
Origen Patristic
c. A.D. 184–253
“For do not think that the omnipotent God commanded this and consecrated this in the law that incense be brought to him from Arabia. But this is the incense that God seeks to be offered by human beings to him, from which he receives "a pleasing odor," prayers from a pure heart and good conscience in which God truly receives a pleasing warmth.”
Source
Modern · 1953 →

The in-app commentary runs from the Fathers to the early-modern record, then stops — that's where the public-domain sources end, not where the reading does. For the modern reading, follow the sources directly.