Exodus 23:18

Easy-to-Read Version

"When you kill an animal and offer its blood as a sacrifice, you must not include anything that has yeast in it. And when you burn the fat from my sacrifice, don't let any of it remain until morning.

Parallel Translations

Hebrew Names Version
"You shall not offer the blood of my sacrifice with leavened bread, neither shall the fat of my feast remain all night until the morning.

King James Version
Thou shalt not offer the blood of my sacrifice with leavened bread; neither shall the fat of my sacrifice remain until the morning.

Lexham English Bible
"‘You will not sacrifice the blood of my sacrifice together with food with yeast, and you will not leave the fat of my feast overnight until morning.

New Century Version
"You must not offer animal blood along with anything that has yeast in it. "You must not save any of the fat from the sacrifice for the next day.

New English Translation
"You must not offer the blood of my sacrifice with bread containing yeast; the fat of my festal sacrifice must not remain until morning.

Amplified Bible
"You shall not offer the blood of My sacrifice with leavened bread; and the fat of My feast is not to be left overnight until morning.

New American Standard Bible
"You shall not offer the blood of My sacrifice with leavened bread; nor is the fat of My feast to remain overnight until morning.

Geneva Bible (1587)
Thou shalt not offer the blood of my sacrifice with leauened bread: neyther shall the fatte of my sacrifice remayne vntill the morning.

Legacy Standard Bible
"You shall not offer the blood of My sacrifice with leavened bread; nor is the fat of My feast to remain overnight until morning.

Contemporary English Version
Do not offer bread made with yeast when you sacrifice an animal to me. And make sure that the fat of the animal is burned that same day.

Complete Jewish Bible
"You are not to offer the blood of my sacrifice with leavened bread, nor is the fat of my festival to remain all night until morning.

Darby Translation
Thou shalt not offer the blood of my sacrifice with leavened bread; neither shall the fat of my feast remain all night until the morning.

English Standard Version
"You shall not offer the blood of my sacrifice with anything leavened, or let the fat of my feast remain until the morning.

George Lamsa Translation
You shall not offer the blood of a sacrifice with leavened bread; neither shall the fat of the festival sacrifices remain until morning.

Good News Translation
"Do not offer bread made with yeast when you sacrifice an animal to me. The fat of animals sacrificed to me during these festivals is not to be left until the following morning.

Christian Standard Bible®
“You must not offer the blood of my sacrifices with anything leavened. The fat of my festival offering must not remain until morning.

Literal Translation
You shall not offer the blood of My sacrifice with leaven. And the fat of My feast shall not pass the night until morning.

Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
Thou shalt not offre the bloude of my sacrifice with sowre dowe, and the fat of my feast shal not remayne till the mornynge.

American Standard Version
Thou shalt not offer the blood of my sacrifice with leavened bread; neither shall the fat of my feast remain all night until the morning.

Bible in Basic English
Do not give the blood of my offering with leavened bread; and do not let the fat of my feast be kept all night till the morning.

Bishop's Bible (1568)
Thou shalt not offer the blood of my sacrifice vpon leauened bread, neither shall the fat of my feast remayne vntyll the mornyng.

JPS Old Testament (1917)
Thou shalt not offer the blood of My sacrifice with leavened bread; neither shall the fat of My feast remain all night until the morning.

King James Version (1611)
Thou shalt not offer the blood of my sacrifice with leauened bread, neither shall the fat of my sacrifice remaine vntill the morning.

Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
For when I shall have cast out the nations from before thee, and shall have widened thy borders, thou shalt not offer the blood of my sacrifice with leaven, neither must the fat of my feast abide till the morning.

English Revised Version
Thou shalt not offer the blood of my sacrifice with leavened bread; neither shall the fat of my feast remain all night until the morning.

Berean Standard Bible
You must not offer the blood of My sacrifices with anything leavened, nor may the fat of My feast remain until morning.

Wycliffe Bible (1395)
Thou schalt not offre the blood of thi slayn sacrifice on sour douy; nether the fatnesse of my solempnete schal dwelle til to the morewtid.

Young's Literal Translation
`Thou dost not sacrifice on a fermented thing the blood of My sacrifice, and the fat of My festival doth not remain till morning;

Update Bible Version
You shall not offer the blood of my sacrifice with leavened bread; neither shall the fat of my feast remain all night until the morning.

Webster's Bible Translation
Thou shalt not offer the blood of my sacrifice with leavened bread; neither shall the fat of my sacrifice remain until the morning.

World English Bible
"You shall not offer the blood of my sacrifice with leavened bread, neither shall the fat of my feast remain all night until the morning.

New King James Version
"You shall not offer the blood of My sacrifice with leavened bread; nor shall the fat of My sacrifice remain until morning.

New Living Translation
"You must not offer the blood of my sacrificial offerings together with any baked goods containing yeast. And do not leave the fat from the festival offerings until the next morning.

New Life Bible
"Do not give the blood of My gift of worship with bread made with yeast. And the fat of My special supper is not to be kept all night until morning.

New Revised Standard
You shall not offer the blood of my sacrifice with anything leavened, or let the fat of my festival remain until the morning.

J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
Thou shalt not offer with anything leavened, the blood of my sacrifice, - neither shall the fat of my festival-sacrifice remain until morning.

Douay-Rheims Bible
Thou shalt not sacrifice the blood of my victim upon leaven, neither shall the fat of my solemnity remain until the morning.

Revised Standard Version
"You shall not offer the blood of my sacrifice with leavened bread, or let the fat of my feast remain until the morning.

THE MESSAGE
"Don't offer the blood of a sacrifice to me with anything that has yeast in it. "Don't leave the fat from my festival offering out overnight.

New American Standard Bible (1995)
"You shall not offer the blood of My sacrifice with leavened bread; nor is the fat of My feast to remain overnight until morning.

Contextual Overview

¹⁰ "Plant seeds, harvest your crops, and work the ground for six years. ¹¹ But the seventh year must be a special time of rest for the land. Don't plant anything in your fields. If any crops grow there, allow the poor to have it. And allow the wild animals to eat the food that is left. You should do the same with your vineyards and with your fields of olive trees. ¹² "Work for six days, but on the seventh day, rest! This will allow your slaves and other workers a time to rest and relax. And your bulls and donkeys will also have a time of rest. ¹³ "Be sure that you obey all these laws. Don't worship false gods. You should not even speak their names! ¹⁴ "You will have three special festivals each year. You must come to my special place to worship me during these festivals. ¹⁵ The first festival is the Festival of Unleavened Bread. This is as I commanded you. During this time you will eat bread that is made without yeast. This will continue for seven days. You will do this during the month of Abib, because this is the time when you came out of Egypt. Everyone must bring a sacrifice to me at that time. ¹⁶ "The second festival will be the Festival of Harvest. This festival will be during the early summer when you begin harvesting the first crops that you planted in your fields. "The third festival will be the Festival of Shelters. This will be in the fall, when you finish gathering the rest of the crops from your fields. ¹⁷ "So three times each year all the men will come to the special place to be with the Lord God . ¹⁸ "When you kill an animal and offer its blood as a sacrifice, you must not include anything that has yeast in it. And when you burn the fat from my sacrifice, don't let any of it remain until morning. ¹⁹ "When you gather your crops at harvest time, you should bring the first of everything you harvest to the house of the Lord your God. "You must not eat the meat from a young goat that is boiled in its mother's milk."

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

blood: Exodus 12:8, Exodus 12:15, Exodus 34:25, Leviticus 2:11, Leviticus 7:12, Deuteronomy 16:4

sacrifice: or, feast

remain: Exodus 12:10, Leviticus 7:15

Reciprocal: Exodus 16:19 - General

Cross-References

Genesis 34:20
Hamor and Shechem went to the meeting place of their city. They spoke to the men of the city and said,

Ruth 4:1
Boaz went to the place where people gather near the city gates. He sat there until the close relative he had told Ruth about passed by. Boaz called to him, "Come and sit here, friend."

Jeremiah 32:12
I gave the deed to Baruch son of Neriah, the son of Mahseiah. I did this while my cousin Hanamel and the other witnesses were there. They also signed the deed. There were also many people of Judah sitting in the courtyard who saw me give the deed to Baruch.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

Thou shall not offer the blood of my sacrifice with leavened bread,.... This belongs to the feast of the passover; for, as all the Jewish writers agree, this sacrifice is the sacrifice of the passover, as it is sometimes called, see Exodus 12:27 now when the paschal lamb was killed, and its blood shed, and its flesh eaten, there was to be no leaven along with it; it was to be eaten with unleavened bread, and there was to be no leaven in their houses at this time; nay, it was not to be slain until all was removed: this was the first thing the Jews did, as soon as the fourteenth day was come, to search for leaven, remove and burn it; and this sense of the law is confirmed by the Targum of Jonathan, which is,

"not a man shall slay, while there is leaven in your houses, the sacrifice of my passover;''

and to the same purpose is the note of Jarchi:

neither shall the fat of my sacrifice remain until the morning; and indeed no part of the passover lamb was to remain until the morning, what did was to be burnt with fire, Exodus 12:10 the Targum of Jonathan is,

"neither shall there remain without the altar the fat of the sacrifice of my passover until the morning, nor of the flesh which ye ate in the evening;''

and so Jarchi interprets it of its not remaining without the altar.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

The blood of my sacrifice - It is generally considered that this must refer to the Paschal Lamb. See Exodus 12:7, Exodus 12:11, Exodus 12:13, Exodus 12:22-23, Exodus 12:27.

The fat of my sacrifice - Strictly, the fat of my feast; the “best part” of the feast, that is, the Paschal lamb itself. Compare Exodus 34:25.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Exodus 23:18. The blood of my sacrifice with leavened bread — The sacrifice here mentioned is undoubtedly the Passover; (see Exodus 34:25); this is called by way of eminence MY sacrifice, because God had instituted it for that especial purpose, the redemption of Israel from the Egyptian bondage, and because it typified THE LAMB of GOD, who taketh away the sin of the world. We have already seen how strict the prohibition against leaven was during this festival, and what was signified by it. See on chap. xii. Exodus 12:19.