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Complete Jewish Bible

Leviticus 22:19

in order for you to be accepted, you must bring a male without defect from the cattle, the sheep or the goats.

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Blemish;   Dedication;   Offerings;   Strangers;   Vows;   Torrey's Topical Textbook - Burnt Offering, the;   Goat, the;   Offerings;   Sacrifices;  

Dictionaries:

- American Tract Society Bible Dictionary - Beeves;   Baker Evangelical Dictionary of Biblical Theology - Offerings and Sacrifices;   Easton Bible Dictionary - Beeves;   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;   Morrish Bible Dictionary - Beeves,;   Smith Bible Dictionary - Beeves;   Watson's Biblical & Theological Dictionary - Animal;  

Encyclopedias:

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

Parallel Translations

Hebrew Names Version
that you may be accepted, [you shall offer] a male without blemish, of the bulls, of the sheep, or of the goats.
King James Version
Ye shall offer at your own will a male without blemish, of the beeves, of the sheep, or of the goats.
Lexham English Bible
it must be without defect to be acceptable for you: a male among the cattle, among the sheep, or among the goats.
New Century Version
If he does, he must bring a male animal that has nothing wrong with it—a bull, a sheep, or a goat—so it might be accepted for him.
New English Translation
if it is to be acceptable for your benefit it must be a flawless male from the cattle, sheep, or goats.
Amplified Bible
so that you may be accepted—it must be a male without blemish from the cattle, the sheep, or the goats.
New American Standard Bible
for you to be accepted—it must be a male without defect from the cattle, the sheep, or the goats.
Geneva Bible (1587)
Yee shall offer of your free minde a male without blemish of the beeues, of the sheepe, or of the goates.
Legacy Standard Bible
for you to be accepted—it must be a male without blemish from the cattle, the sheep, or the goats.
Contemporary English Version
must have nothing wrong with them, or else I won't accept them. Bulls or rams or goats are the animals to be used for these sacrifices.
Darby Translation
it shall be for your acceptance, without blemish, a male of the oxen, of the sheep, and of the goats.
Easy-to-Read Version
These are gifts that the people bring because they really want to give a gift to God. If the gift is a bull, or a sheep, or a goat, the animal must be a male. And it must not have anything wrong with it. You must not accept any offering that has anything wrong with it. I will not accept that gift.
English Standard Version
if it is to be accepted for you it shall be a male without blemish, of the bulls or the sheep or the goats.
George Lamsa Translation
You shall offer acceptable ones, a male without blemish, of the herds or of the lambs or of the goats.
Good News Translation
To be accepted, it must be a male without any defects.
Christian Standard Bible®
must offer an unblemished male from the cattle, sheep, or goats in order for you to be accepted.
Literal Translation
at your own will a male, without blemish, of the oxen, of the sheep, or of the goats may be offered .
Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
to reconcyle them selues, it shal be a male, and without blemysh, of the oxen, or lambes or goates.
American Standard Version
that ye may be accepted, ye shall offer a male without blemish, of the bullocks, of the sheep, or of the goats.
Bible in Basic English
So that it may be pleasing to the Lord, let him give a male, without any mark, from among the oxen or the sheep or the goats.
Bishop's Bible (1568)
Ye shall offer at your pleasure, a male without blemishe, of the beefes, of the sheepe, or of the goates.
JPS Old Testament (1917)
that ye may be accepted, ye shall offer a male without blemish, of the beeves, of the sheep, or of the goats.
King James Version (1611)
Ye shal offer at your owne wil a male without blemish, of the beeues, of the sheepe, or of the goats.
Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
your free-will-offerings shall be males without blemish of the herds, or of the sheep, or of the goats.
English Revised Version
that ye may be accepted, ye shall offer a male without blemish, of the beeves, of the sheep, or of the goats.
Berean Standard Bible
must offer an unblemished male from the cattle, sheep, or goats in order for it to be accepted on your behalf.
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
it schal be a male without wem, of oxen, and of scheep, and of geet; if it hath a wem,
Young's Literal Translation
at your pleasure a perfect one, a male of the herd, of the sheep or of the goats;
Update Bible Version
that you may be accepted, [you shall offer] a male without blemish, of the bullocks, of the sheep, or of the goats.
Webster's Bible Translation
[Ye shall offer] at your own will a male without blemish of the beeves, of the sheep, or of the goats.
World English Bible
that you may be accepted, [you shall offer] a male without blemish, of the bulls, of the sheep, or of the goats.
New King James Version
you shall offer of your own free will a male without blemish from the cattle, from the sheep, or from the goats.
New Living Translation
you will be accepted only if your offering is a male animal with no defects. It may be a bull, a ram, or a male goat.
New Life Bible
to please the Lord, it must be a male that is perfect from the cattle, sheep or goats.
New Revised Standard
to be acceptable in your behalf it shall be a male without blemish, of the cattle or the sheep or the goats.
J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
that ye may be accepted, it must be a male without defect, of the beeves, or of the sheep, or of the goats:
Douay-Rheims Bible
To be offered by you: it shall be a male without blemish of the beeves, or of the sheep, or of the goats.
Revised Standard Version
to be accepted you shall offer a male without blemish, of the bulls or the sheep or the goats.
New American Standard Bible (1995)
for you to be accepted—it must be a male without defect from the cattle, the sheep, or the goats.

Contextual Overview

17 (iii) Adonai said to Moshe, 18 "Speak to Aharon and his sons and to the entire people of Isra'el; tell them: ‘When anyone, whether a member of the house of Isra'el or a foreigner living in Isra'el, brings his offering, either in connection with a vow or as a voluntary offering, and brings it to Adonai as a burnt offering, 19 in order for you to be accepted, you must bring a male without defect from the cattle, the sheep or the goats. 20 You are not to bring anything with a defect, because it will not be accepted from you. 21 Whoever brings a sacrifice of peace offerings to Adonai in fulfillment of a vow or as a voluntary offering, whether it come from the herd or from the flock, it must be unblemished and without defect in order to be accepted. 22 If it is blind, injured, mutilated, has an abnormal growth or has festering or running sores, you are not to offer it to Adonai or make such an offering by fire on the altar to Adonai . 23 If a bull or lamb has a limb which is too long or short, you may offer it as a voluntary offering; but for a vow it will not be accepted. 24 An animal with bruised, crushed, torn or cut genitals you are not to offer to Adonai . You are not to do these things in your land, 25 and you are not to receive any of these from a foreigner for you to offer as bread for your God, because their deformity is a defect in them — they will not be accepted from you.'" 26 Adonai said to Moshe,

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

Leviticus 1:3, Leviticus 1:10, Leviticus 4:32, Exodus 12:5, Matthew 27:4, Matthew 27:19, Matthew 27:24, Matthew 27:54, Luke 23:14, Luke 23:41, Luke 23:47, John 19:4, 2 Corinthians 5:21, Ephesians 5:27, Hebrews 9:14, 1 Peter 1:19, 1 Peter 2:22-24, 1 Peter 3:18

Reciprocal: Leviticus 1:2 - If any Leviticus 3:1 - a sacrifice Leviticus 3:12 - a goat Leviticus 19:5 - ye shall Malachi 1:8 - if ye offer the blind Malachi 1:13 - torn

Cross-References

Genesis 21:31
This is why that place was called Be'er-Sheva [well of seven, well of an oath] — because they both swore an oath there.
Joshua 15:28
Hatzar-Shu‘al, Be'er-Sheva, Bizyot-Yah,
Judges 20:1
All the people of Isra'el came out, from Dan to Be'er-sheva, including Gil‘ad; the community assembled with one accord before Adonai at Mitzpah.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

Ye shall offer at your own will,.... For vows and freewill offerings were at their own option, and depended on their own will and pleasure, and when offered should be with a willing mind, and from their whole heart: or "for good will to you"; as the Targums of Onkelos and Jonathan; or for gracious, acceptation, that is, that they might be well pleasing to God, and acceptable in his sight, so Jarchi; in order to which the following direction was strictly to be observed:

a male without blemish, of the beeves, of the sheep, and of the goats; bullocks, sheep, and goats, were the only sorts of beasts, out of which sacrifices were taken, and those that were for burnt offerings were always to be males, and unblemished, see Leviticus 1:3; but for other offerings, as peace offerings and sin offerings, females might be used, see Leviticus 3:1. Fowls are not mentioned, though burnt offerings were of them, because it was not required in them, only of beasts, that they should be males, and without blemish; for, as Jarchi observes, these were not rejected on account of a blemish, only for want of a member.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Ye shall offer at your own will a male - Rather, That it may be accepted (so Leviticus 22:29) for you it shall be a male. See Leviticus 1:3. It is the same phrase as in Leviticus 22:20-21, Leviticus 22:27.


 
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