The placement creates a longer delay between the time the left and right nostrils receive an odor than in sharks with pointed noses.

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In particular, the daily burnt offerings sacrificed by the priests twice each day, and emitting this pleasing odor: these were an effort to attract the deity.

尤其是每天两次的烧祭品,散发出美妙的气味：,这些都是为了吸引神灵的注意。

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We have first of all, the whole offering or "burnt offering," it's sometimes called. This is when an animal is entirely burned to create, as the text says, a pleasant smelling odor or pleasant smelling smoke that ascends to God.

第一个，整祭品或者有时候被叫做“烧祭品“,动物被整个燃烧，散发一种，正如文章中所说的，一种令人愉悦的气味,或者一种令人愉快的烟雾，上升到上帝面前。

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