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Contemporary English Version

Leviticus 19:5

When you offer a sacrifice to ask my blessing, be sure to follow my instructions.

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Church;   Liberality;   Peace Offerings;   Sanitation;   Thompson Chain Reference - Dedication;   Offerings;   Peace-Offerings;  

Dictionaries:

- Bridgeway Bible Dictionary - Weights;   Fausset Bible Dictionary - Gaal;   Thank Offering;   Holman Bible Dictionary - 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;   Smith Bible Dictionary - Thank Offering,;  

Encyclopedias:

- Condensed Biblical Cyclopedia - Peculiarities of the Law of Moses;   International Standard Bible Encyclopedia - Leviticus;   Will;   The Jewish Encyclopedia - Bat Ḳol;   Free-Will Offering;   Peace-Offering;   Sidra;  

Parallel Translations

Hebrew Names Version
When you offer a sacrifice of peace-offerings to the LORD, you shall offer it that you may be accepted.
King James Version
And if ye offer a sacrifice of peace offerings unto the Lord , ye shall offer it at your own will.
Lexham English Bible
"‘And when you sacrifice a sacrifice of fellowship offerings to Yahweh, you must sacrifice it for your acceptance.
New Century Version
"‘When you sacrifice a fellowship offering to the Lord , offer it in such a way that will be accepted.
New English Translation
"‘When you sacrifice a peace offering sacrifice to the Lord , you must sacrifice it so that it is accepted for you.
Amplified Bible
'Now when you offer a sacrifice of peace offerings to the LORD, you shall offer it so that you may be accepted.
New American Standard Bible
'Now when you offer a sacrifice of peace offerings to the LORD, you shall offer it so that you may be accepted.
Geneva Bible (1587)
And when yee shall offer a peace offering vnto the Lord, ye shall offer it freely.
Legacy Standard Bible
‘Now when you offer a sacrifice of peace offerings to Yahweh, you shall offer it so that you may be accepted.
Complete Jewish Bible
"‘When you offer a sacrifice of peace offerings to Adonai , offer it in a way that will make you accepted.
Darby Translation
And if ye sacrifice a sacrifice of peace-offering to Jehovah, ye shall sacrifice it for your acceptance.
Easy-to-Read Version
"When you offer a sacrifice of fellowship offerings to the Lord , you must offer it in the right way so that you will be accepted.
English Standard Version
"When you offer a sacrifice of peace offerings to the Lord , you shall offer it so that you may be accepted.
George Lamsa Translation
And if you offer a sacrifice of peace offering to the LORD, you shall offer the ones which are acceptable.
Good News Translation
"When you kill an animal for a fellowship offering, keep the regulations that I have given you, and I will accept the offering.
Christian Standard Bible®
“When you offer a fellowship sacrifice to the Lord, sacrifice it so that you may be accepted.
Literal Translation
And if you sacrifice a sacrifice of peace offerings to Jehovah, you shall sacrifice it of your free will;
Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
And whan ye wyll offre health offerynges vnto the LORDE, then shal ye offre the, that he maye be mercifull vnto you,
American Standard Version
And when ye offer a sacrifice of peace-offerings unto Jehovah, ye shall offer it that ye may be accepted.
Bible in Basic English
And when you give a peace offering to the Lord, do it in the way which is pleasing to the Lord.
Bishop's Bible (1568)
If ye offer a peace offering vnto the Lorde, ye shall offer it at your pleasure.
JPS Old Testament (1917)
And when ye offer a sacrifice of peace-offerings unto the LORD, ye shall offer it that ye may be accepted.
King James Version (1611)
And if ye offer a sacrifice of peace offerings vnto the Lord, ye shall offer it, at your owne will.
Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
And if ye will sacrifice a peace-offering to the Lord, ye shall offer it acceptable from yourselves.
English Revised Version
And when ye offer a sacrifice of peace offerings unto the LORD, ye shall offer it that ye may be accepted.
Berean Standard Bible
When you sacrifice a peace offering to the LORD, you shall offer it for your acceptance.
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
If ye offren a sacrifice of pesible thingis to the Lord, that it be quemeful,
Young's Literal Translation
`And when ye sacrifice a sacrifice of peace-offerings to Jehovah, at your pleasure ye do sacrifice it;
Update Bible Version
And when you offer a sacrifice of peace-offerings to Yahweh, you shall offer it that you may be accepted.
Webster's Bible Translation
And if ye offer a sacrifice of peace-offerings to the LORD, ye shall offer it at your own will.
World English Bible
When you offer a sacrifice of peace-offerings to Yahweh, you shall offer it that you may be accepted.
New King James Version
"And if you offer a sacrifice of a peace offering to the LORD, you shall offer it of your own free will.
New Living Translation
"When you sacrifice a peace offering to the Lord , offer it properly so you will be accepted by God.
New Life Bible
‘When you give the Lord a peace gift, give it so you will be pleasing Him.
New Revised Standard
When you offer a sacrifice of well-being to the Lord , offer it in such a way that it is acceptable in your behalf.
J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
And when ye would offer a peach-offering unto Yahweh, ye shall offer it that ye may be accepted.
Douay-Rheims Bible
If ye offer in sacrifice a peace offering to the Lord, that he may be favourable:
Revised Standard Version
"When you offer a sacrifice of peace offerings to the LORD, you shall offer it so that you may be accepted.
THE MESSAGE
"When you sacrifice a Peace-Offering to God , do it as you've been taught so it is acceptable. Eat it on the day you sacrifice it and the day following. Whatever is left until the third day is to be burned up. If it is eaten on the third day it is polluted meat and not acceptable. Whoever eats it will be held responsible because he has violated what is holy to God . That person will be cut off from his people.
New American Standard Bible (1995)
'Now when you offer a sacrifice of peace offerings to the LORD, you shall offer it so that you may be accepted.

Contextual Overview

1 The Lord told Moses 2 to say to the community of Israel: I am the Lord your God. I am holy, and you must be holy too! 3Respect your father and your mother, honor the Sabbath, and don't make idols or images. I am the Lord your God. 5 When you offer a sacrifice to ask my blessing, be sure to follow my instructions. 6 You may eat the meat either on the day of the sacrifice or on the next day, but you must burn anything left until the third day. 7 If you eat any of it on the third day, the sacrifice will be disgusting to me, and I will reject it. 8 In fact, you will be punished for not respecting what I say is holy, and you will no longer belong to the community of Israel. 9 When you harvest your grain, always leave some of it standing along the edges of your fields and don't pick up what falls on the ground. 10 Don't strip your grapevines clean or gather the grapes that fall off the vines. Leave them for the poor and for those foreigners who live among you. I am the Lord your God.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

a sacrifice: Leviticus 3:1-17, Leviticus 7:16, Leviticus 22:21, Exodus 24:5, 2 Chronicles 31:2, Ezekiel 45:15-17, Ezekiel 46:2, Ezekiel 46:12, Ephesians 2:13, Ephesians 2:14

ye shall: Leviticus 1:3, Leviticus 22:19, Leviticus 22:23, Leviticus 22:29

your own will: The Hebrews had several kinds of offerings, which they called corban. Some were free-will offerings, and others were of obligation. The first fruits, the tenths, the sin-offerings, were of obligation; the peace-offerings, vows, offerings of oil, wine, bread, and other things which were made to the temple, or to the ministers of the Lord, were offerings of devotion; these constituted the greater part. They indeed were a shadow of good things to come, which we enjoy in full fruition through THE ONE great SACRIFICE, even Jesus Christ. Aaron must lay his robes away

His mitre and his vest,

When God himself comes down to be

The offering and the priest. "

Cross-References

Genesis 19:23
The sun was coming up as Lot reached the town of Zoar,
Genesis 19:24
and the Lord sent burning sulfur down like rain on Sodom and Gomorrah.
Genesis 19:26
On the way, Lot's wife looked back and was turned into a block of salt.
Genesis 19:27
That same morning Abraham got up and went to the place where he had stood and spoken with the Lord .
Leviticus 18:22
It is disgusting for a man to have sex with another man.
Leviticus 20:13
It's disgusting for men to have sex with one another, and those who do will be put to death, just as they deserve.
Judges 19:22
They were having a good time, when some worthless men of that town surrounded the house and started banging on the door and shouting, "A man came to your house tonight. Send him out, so we can have sex with him!"
Isaiah 1:9
Zion would have disappeared like Sodom and Gomorrah, if the Lord All-Powerful had not let a few of its people survive.
Isaiah 3:9
The look on your faces shows that you are sinful as Sodom, and you don't try to hide it. You are in for trouble, and you have brought it all on yourselves.
Jeremiah 3:3
So I, the Lord , refused to let the spring rains fall. But just like a prostitute, you still have no shame for what you have done.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

And if ye offer a sacrifice of peace offerings unto the Lord,.... Which were of three sorts, a thanksgiving, a vow, and a voluntary offering, Leviticus 7:11; the latter seems to be here meant, as appears by what follows:

ye shall offer it at your own will; a voluntary freewill offering, of their own accord, and not by force, as Aben Ezra; and in such offerings they were left to their liberty to offer what they pleased, it might be of the flock, or of the herd, a male or a female, Leviticus 3:1. The Targum of Jonathan is

"for your acceptation;''

that is, that should be offered, and in such a manner as to be accepted of you with God; which sense is countenanced by Leviticus 19:7; and becomes acceptable, when what follows about eating them is attended to.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Rather, ye shall offer it that you may be accepted.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Leviticus 19:5. Peace-offerings — See at the conclusion of Clarke's note "Leviticus 7:38".


 
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