'Boiling' in the Bible
and the custom of the priests with the people. When any man was offering a sacrifice, the priest’s servant would come while the meat was boiling, with a three-pronged fork in his hand.
“Out of his nostrils smoke goes forthAs from a boiling pot and burning rushes.
The word of the Lord came to me a second time saying, “What do you see?” And I said, “I see a boiling pot, facing away from the north.”
There was a row of masonry round about in them, around the four of them, and boiling places were made under the rows round about.
Then he said to me, “These are the boiling places where the ministers of the house shall boil the sacrifices of the people.”