Левит 6:2

Look at what's actually happening here: God stops talking to Moses about "if anyone brings an offering" and starts talking directly to the priests — "command Aaron and his sons." The whole tone shifts from "here's what the worshiper does" to "here's what YOU, the priest, are responsible for." This little verse opens a section of instructions written for the guys who actually run the altar, not the average Israelite bringing a lamb once in a while Keil-Delitzsch Old Testament.

The specific rule: the burnt offering — an animal completely burned up, nothing eaten, nothing kept back — stays on the fire "all night until morning." That's not incidental detail. It means someone has to be there. Wood has to be fed. The fire cannot be allowed to die down and go out, because (as the next few verses spell out) this fire is never supposed to be extinguished, ever. This is the start of what Matthew Henry rightly notices is a whole new block of material — chapters 6 and 7 go back over the sacrifices already described in chapters 1–5, but now from the priest's side of the counter: what do you do with the ashes, the fat, the leftover grain Matthew Henry?

Easy to miss: this is a torah — a "teaching" or "instruction" — specifically "of the burnt offering." Israel's whole worship life ran on this continual, unglamorous, overnight maintenance. There's no room here for a priest who wants to light the fire fresh each morning and call it good. The