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Brenton's Septuagint

Leviticus 22:20

They shall not bring to the Lord anything that has a blemish in it, for it shall not be acceptable for you.

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Blemish;   Dedication;   Offerings;   Vows;   Torrey's Topical Textbook - Offerings;  

Dictionaries:

- American Tract Society Bible Dictionary - Blemishes;   Baker Evangelical Dictionary of Biblical Theology - Clean, Unclean;   Offerings and Sacrifices;   Easton Bible Dictionary - Blemish;   Fausset Bible Dictionary - Pentateuch;   Holman Bible Dictionary - Blemish;   Bull;   Leviticus;   Pentateuch;   Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - Canon of the Old Testament;   Congregation, Assembly;   Crimes and Punishments;   Deuteronomy;   Hexateuch;   Holiness;   Law;   Leviticus;   Priests and Levites;   Sacrifice and Offering;   Sanctification, Sanctify;   Hastings' Dictionary of the New Testament - Acceptance;   Watson's Biblical & Theological Dictionary - Blemish;  

Encyclopedias:

- Condensed Biblical Cyclopedia - Worship, the;   International Standard Bible Encyclopedia - Leviticus;   The Jewish Encyclopedia - Blemish;   Free-Will Offering;   Sacrifice;  

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.
Bishop's Bible (1568)
But whatsoeuer hath a blemishe, that shall ye not offer: for it shal not be acceptable for you.
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.
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 Lord spoke to Moses, saying, 18 Speak to Aaron and his sons, and to all the congregation of Israel, and thou shalt say to them, Any man of the children of Israel, or of the strangers that abide among them in Israel, who shall offer his gifts according to all their confession and according to all their choice, whatsoever they may bring to the Lord for whole-burnt-offerings— 19 your free-will-offerings shall be males without blemish of the herds, or of the sheep, or of the goats. 20 They shall not bring to the Lord anything that has a blemish in it, for it shall not be acceptable for you. 21 And whatsoever man shall offer a peace-offering to the Lord, discharging a vow, or in the way of free-will-offering, or an offering in your feasts, of the herds or of the sheep, it shall be without blemish for acceptance: there shall be no blemish in it. 22 One that is blind, or broken, or has its tongue cut out, or is troubled with warts, or has a malignant ulcer, or tetters, they shall not offer these to the Lord; neither shall ye offer any of them for a burnt-offering on the altar of the Lord. 23 And a calf or a sheep with the ears cut off, or that has lost its tail, thou shalt slay them for thyself; but they shall not be accepted for thy vow. 24 That which has broken testicles, or is crushed or gelt or mutilated, —thou shalt not offer them to the Lord, neither shall ye sacrifice them upon your land. 25 Neither shall ye offer the gifts of your God of all these things by the hand of a stranger, because there is corruption in them, a blemish in them: these shall not be accepted for you. 26 And the Lord spoke to Moses, 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
And Tharrha lived seventy years, and begot Abram, and Nachor, and Arrhan.
Genesis 11:29
And Abram and Nachor took to themselves wives, the name of the wife of Abram was Sara, and the name of the wife of Nachor, Malcha, daughter of Arrhan, and he was the father of Malcha, the father of Jescha.
Genesis 24:10
And the servant took ten camels of his master’s camels, and he took of all the goods of his master with him, and he arose and went into Mesopotamia to the city of Nachor.
Genesis 24:15
And it came to pass before he had done speaking in his mind, that behold, Rebecca the daughter of Bathuel, the son of Melcha, the wife of Nachor, and the same the brother of Abraam, came forth, having a water-pot on her shoulders.
Genesis 24:24
And she said to him, I am the daughter of Bathuel the son of Melcha, whom she bore to Nachor.
Genesis 31:53
The God of Abraam and the God of Nachor judge between us; and Jacob swore by the Fear of his father Isaac.
Proverbs 25:25
the ants which are weak, and yet prepare their food in summer;

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.


 
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