¹² The fire on the altar is to be kept burning; it must not go out. Every morning the priest will burn wood on the fire. He is to arrange the burnt offering on the fire and burn the fat portions from the fellowship offerings^(A) on it. ¹³ Fire must be kept burning on the altar continually; it must not go out.

¹¹ For the life of a creature is in the blood, and I have appointed it to you to make atonement on the altar for^[a] your lives, since it is the lifeblood that makes atonement.^(A)