Leviticus 22:20

Bishop's Bible

But whatsoeuer hath a blemishe, that shall ye not offer: for it shal not be acceptable for you.

Parallel Translations

Hebrew Names Version
But whatever has a blemish, that shall you not offer: for it shall not be acceptable for you.

King James Version
But whatsoever hath a blemish, that shall ye not offer: for it shall not be acceptable for you.

Lexham English Bible
You shall not present any animal in which is a physical defect, because it shall not be acceptable for you.

New Century Version
He must not bring an animal that has something wrong with it, or it will not be accepted for him.

New English Translation
You must not present anything that has a flaw, because it will not be acceptable for your benefit.

Amplified Bible
'You shall not offer anything which has a blemish, because it will not be accepted for you.

New American Standard Bible
'Whatever has a defect, you shall not offer, for it will not be accepted for you.

Geneva Bible (1587)
Ye shall not offer any thing that hath a blemish: for that shal not be acceptable for you.

Legacy Standard Bible
Whatever has a defect, you shall not bring it near, for it will not be accepted for you.

Complete Jewish Bible
You are not to bring anything with a defect, because it will not be accepted from you.

Darby Translation
Nothing that hath a defect shall ye present; for it shall not be acceptable for you.

English Standard Version
You shall not offer anything that has a blemish, for it will not be acceptable for you.

George Lamsa Translation
But whatsoever has a blemish, that you shall not offer; for it shall not be acceptable for you.

Good News Translation
If you offer any animal that has any defects, the Lord will not accept it.

Christian Standard Bible®
You are not to present anything that has a defect, because it will not be accepted on your behalf.

Literal Translation
You shall not offer that which has a blemish; for it shall not be acceptable for you.

Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
What so euer hath eny blemish, shal they not offre, for they shal fynde no fauoure therwith.

American Standard Version
But whatsoever hath a blemish, that shall ye not offer: for it shall not be acceptable for you.

Bible in Basic English
But anything which has a mark you may not give; it will not make you pleasing to the Lord.

JPS Old Testament (1917)
But whatsoever hath a blemish, that shall ye not bring; for it shall not be acceptable for you.

King James Version (1611)
But whatsoeuer hath a blemish, that shall ye not offer: for it shall not be acceptable for you.

Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
They shall not bring to the Lord anything that has a blemish in it, for it shall not be acceptable for you.

English Revised Version
But whatsoever hath a blemish, that shall ye not offer: for it shall not be acceptable for you.

Berean Standard Bible
You must not present anything with a defect, because it will not be accepted on your behalf.

Wycliffe Bible (1395)
ye schulen not offre, nether it schal be acceptable.

Young's Literal Translation
nothing in which [is] blemish do ye bring near, for it is not for a pleasing thing for you.

Update Bible Version
But whatever has a blemish, that you shall not offer: for it shall not be acceptable for you.

Webster's Bible Translation
[But] whatever hath a blemish, [that] shall ye not offer: for it shall not be acceptable for you.

World English Bible
But whatever has a blemish, that shall you not offer: for it shall not be acceptable for you.

New King James Version
Whatever has a defect, you shall not offer, for it shall not be acceptable on your behalf.

New Living Translation
Do not present an animal with defects, because the Lord will not accept it on your behalf.

New Life Bible
Do not give anything that is not perfect, for you will not please the Lord.

New Revised Standard
You shall not offer anything that has a blemish, for it will not be acceptable in your behalf.

J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
whatsoever hath in it a blemish, shall ye not bring near, - for it shall not he accepted for you.

Douay-Rheims Bible
If it have a blemish you shall not offer it: neither shall it be acceptable.

Revised Standard Version
You shall not offer anything that has a blemish, for it will not be acceptable for you.

New American Standard Bible (1995)
'Whatever has a defect, you shall not offer, for it will not be accepted for you.

Contextual Overview

¹⁷ And the Lorde spake vnto Moyses, saying: ¹⁸ Speake vnto Aaron and his sonnes, and vnto all the children of Israel, and say vnto them: Whatsoeuer he be of the house of Israel, or straunger in Israel, that wyll offer his sacrifice for all his vowes, and for all his freewyll offeringes whiche they wyll offer vnto the Lorde for a burnt offering: ¹⁹ Ye shall offer at your pleasure, a male without blemishe, of the beefes, of the sheepe, or of the goates. ²⁰ But whatsoeuer hath a blemishe, that shall ye not offer: for it shal not be acceptable for you. ²¹ And whosoeuer bryngeth a peace offering vnto the Lorde, to accomplyshe his vowe, or a freewyll offering in beefes or sheepe, it shalbe perfite to be accepted, there shalbe also no blemishe therein. ²² Blynde, or broken, or lame, or hauyng a wen, or skuruie, or scabbed, ye shall not offer suche vnto the Lorde, nor put a burnt offering of any suche vpon the aulter vnto the Lorde. ²³ A bullocke or a sheepe that hath any member superfluous or lackyng, mayest thou offer for a freewyll offering: but for a vowe it shall not be accepted. ²⁴ Ye shall not offer vnto the Lord that which is brused, or crusshed, or broken, or cut away, neither shal you make any offeryng therof in your lande. ²⁵ Neither of a straungers hande shall ye offer the bread of your God of any such, because their corruption is in the, and they haue deformitie in the selues: and therfore shall they not be accepted for you. ²⁶ And the Lorde spake vnto Moyses, saying:

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

Leviticus 22:25, Deuteronomy 15:21, Deuteronomy 17:1, Malachi 1:8, Malachi 1:13, Malachi 1:14

Reciprocal: Exodus 29:1 - without Leviticus 21:17 - blemish Leviticus 22:22 - Blind Leviticus 22:24 - broken Numbers 19:2 - no blemish Numbers 28:19 - they shall Ezekiel 45:18 - without blemish Hebrews 9:14 - without

Cross-References

Genesis 11:26
Tarah liued seuentie yeres, and begat Abram, Nachor, and Haran.

Genesis 11:29
Abram & Nachor toke them wiues: the name of Abrams wife [was] Sarai, and the name of Nachors wyfe, [was] Milcha, the daughter of Haran, the father of Milcha, & the father of Iischa.

Genesis 24:10
And the seruaunt toke ten Camelles of the Camelles of his maister, & departed (& had of al maner of goods of his maister with him) and so he arose & went to Mesopotamia, vnto ye citie of Nachor.

Genesis 24:15
And it came to passe yer he had lefte speakyng, beholde, Rebecca came out, the daughter of Bethuel, sonne to Milcha, the wyfe of Nachor Abrahams brother, and her pytcher vpon her shoulder:

Genesis 24:24
She aunswered hym: I am the daughter of Bethuel the sonne of Milcha whiche she bare vnto Nachor.

Genesis 31:53
The God of Abraham, and the God of Nachor, and the God of theyr father, be iudge betwixt vs. And Iacob sware by the feare of his father Isahac.

Proverbs 25:25
Good newes from a straunge countrey, are as colde water to a thirstie soule.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

For whatsoever hath a blemish, that shall ye not offer,.... Which is the general rule, the particulars of which are after given, and which has been imitated by the Heathens. The Egyptians, as they only sacrificed the males of beeves, so they were very curious in examining them, that they might be entirely pure and perfect s; and it was a custom among the Romans, that such sheep should be chosen for sacrifice, in which there was nothing wanting t; and so, among the Grecians, Homer u speaks of perfect goats offered in sacrifice to appease the gods:

for it shall not be acceptable for you; be grateful to God, and accepted by him on their account, if blemished; see Malachi 1:13.

s Heredot. Euterpe, sive, l. 2. c. 38. t Servius in Virgil. Aeneid. l. 4. u Iliad. 1. ver. 66.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Leviticus 22:20. Whatsoever hath a blemish — The same perfection is required in the sacrifice that was required in the priest; see on Leviticus 22:2, and the notes on the preceding chapter.