Leviticus 6:23

Easy-to-Read Version

Every grain offering that a priest gives must be completely burned. It must not be eaten."

Parallel Translations

Hebrew Names Version
Every meal offering of a Kohen shall be wholly burned. It shall not be eaten."

King James Version
For every meat offering for the priest shall be wholly burnt: it shall not be eaten.

Lexham English Bible
And every grain offering of a priest must be a whole burnt offering; it must not be eaten."

New Century Version
Every grain offering made by a priest must be completely burned; it must not be eaten."

New English Translation
Every grain offering of a priest must be a whole offering; it must not be eaten."

Amplified Bible
"So every grain offering of the priest shall be burned entirely. It shall not be eaten."

New American Standard Bible
"So every grain offering of the priest shall be burned entirely. It shall not be eaten."

Geneva Bible (1587)
For euery meate offring of the Priest shall be burnt altogether, it shall not be eaten.

Legacy Standard Bible
So every grain offering of the priest shall be burned entirely. It shall not be eaten."

Complete Jewish Bible
But no sin offering which has had any of its blood brought into the tent of meeting to make atonement in the Holy Place is to be eaten; it is to be burned up completely.

Darby Translation
And every oblation of the priest shall be wholly burned; it shall not be eaten.

English Standard Version
Every grain offering of a priest shall be wholly burned. It shall not be eaten."

George Lamsa Translation
For every meal offering for the priest shall be wholly burned; it shall not he eaten.

Good News Translation
No part of a grain offering that a priest makes may be eaten; all of it must be burned.

Christian Standard Bible®
Every grain offering for a priest will be a whole burnt offering; it is not to be eaten.”

Literal Translation
and every food offering of a priest is a whole burnt offering. It shall not be eaten.

Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
for all the meatofferynges of the prest shalbe consumed with the fyre, and not be eaten.

American Standard Version
And every meal-offering of the priest shall be wholly burnt: it shall not be eaten.

Bible in Basic English
Every meal offering offered for the priest is to be completely burned: nothing of it is to be taken for food.

Bishop's Bible (1568)
For euery meate offering that is made for the priest, shalbe burnt altogether, and shall not be eaten.

JPS Old Testament (1917)
And no sin-offering, whereof any of the blood is brought into the tent of meeting to make atonement in the holy place, shall be eaten; it shall be burnt with fire.

King James Version (1611)
For euery meat offering for the Priest shal be wholly burnt: it shall not be eaten.

Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
And every sacrifice of a priest shall be thoroughly burnt, and shall not be eaten.

English Revised Version
And every meal offering of the priest shall be wholly burnt: it shall not be eaten.

Berean Standard Bible
Every grain offering for a priest shall be burned completely; it is not to be eaten."

Wycliffe Bible (1395)
For al the sacrifice of preestis schal be wastid with fier, nether ony man schal ete therof.

Young's Literal Translation
and every present of a priest is a whole burnt-offering; it is not eaten.'

Update Bible Version
And every meal-offering of the priest shall be wholly burnt: it shall not be eaten.

Webster's Bible Translation
For every meat-offering for the priest shall be wholly burnt: it shall not be eaten.

World English Bible
Every meal offering of a priest shall be wholly burned. It shall not be eaten."

New King James Version
For every grain offering for the priest shall be wholly burned. It shall not be eaten."

New Living Translation
All such grain offerings of a priest must be burned up entirely. None of it may be eaten."

New Life Bible
Every grain gift of the religious leader will be all burned. It will not be eaten."

New Revised Standard
Every grain offering of a priest shall be wholly burned; it shall not be eaten.

J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
yea, every meal-offering of a priest, shall be, entire - it shall not be eaten.

Douay-Rheims Bible
For every sacrifice of the priest shall be consumed with fire: neither shall any man eat thereof.

Revised Standard Version
Every cereal offering of a priest shall be wholly burned; it shall not be eaten."

New American Standard Bible (1995)
"So every grain offering of the priest shall be burned entirely. It shall not be eaten."

Contextual Overview

¹⁴ "This is the law for the grain offering: The sons of Aaron will bring it to the front of the altar as an offering to the Lord . ¹⁵ There must be some oil and frankincense on the grain offering. The priest will take a handful of fine flour from the grain offering and burn it on the altar as a sweet-smelling memorial offering to the Lord . ¹⁶ "Aaron and his sons will use the rest of that grain to make bread without yeast. This must be eaten in a holy place—in the courtyard around the Meeting Tent. ¹⁷ I have given this part of the grain offering as the priests' share of the gifts offered to me. Like the sin offering and the guilt offering, it is most holy. It must not be baked with yeast. ¹⁸ Any male descendant of Aaron may eat from these gifts to the Lord . This is their share forever throughout your generations. Whatever touches these offerings will be made holy." ¹⁹ The Lord said to Moses, ²⁰ "This is the offering that Aaron and his sons must bring to the Lord when Aaron is anointed to be the high priest. They must bring 8 cups of fine flour for a grain offering. This will be offered at the times of the daily offering—half of it in the morning and half of it in the evening. ²¹ The fine flour must be mixed with oil and baked on a pan. After it is cooked, you must bring it in, break it into pieces, and offer it as a sweet-smelling gift to Lord . ²² "In the future, when Aaron's descendants take their place as the anointed priests, they will continue to make this grain offering to the Lord. This rule will continue forever. The grain offering must be completely burned for the Lord . ²³ Every grain offering that a priest gives must be completely burned. It must not be eaten."

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

shall be: The meat offering of the people was eaten by the priests, who typically bore and expiated their sins; but as no priest, being a sinner, could make atonement for himself, his meat offering must not be eaten, but wholly burnt on the altar, which was a typical transfer of his guilt to the great antitype who actually bore and expiated it.

it shall not be: Leviticus 6:16, Leviticus 6:17, Leviticus 2:10

Reciprocal: Leviticus 7:17 - burnt

Gill's Notes on the Bible

For every meat offering for the priest shall be wholly burnt,.... Wherefore the priest that offered this for the high priest got nothing by it: he served him gratis:

it shall not be eaten; neither by himself, nor any other priest. The priests by eating the offerings of the people bore their iniquities, and made atonement for them, Leviticus 10:17 but the priests might not eat their own sacrifices, to show that they could not bear their own sins, and make atonement for them; and this proves the insufficiency of the legal sacrifices, and the need there was for one to arise of another order to take away sin; and it is thought by some to be typical of the active obedience of Christ w, every day yielded to the law and will of God, and is perfect, as the word here signifies, and to be distinguished from עולה, "a burnt offering".

w Vid. Michaelis Observ. Sacr. Exercitat. 6. p. 57. & Mede in ib. p. 58.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Not be eaten - Compare Leviticus 6:30; Leviticus 4:12 note.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Leviticus 6:23. For every meat-offering for the priest shall be wholly burnt — Whatever the priest offered was wholly the Lord's, and therefore must be entirely consumed: the sacrifices of the common people were offered to the Lord, but the priests partook of them; and thus they who ministered at the altar were fed by the altar. Had the priests been permitted to live on their own offerings as they did on those of the people, it would have been as if they had offered nothing, as they would have taken again to themselves what they appeared to give unto the Lord. Theodoret says that this marked "the high perfection which God required in the ministers of his sanctuary," as his not eating of his own sin-offering supposes him to stand free from all sin; but a better reason is given by Mr. Ainsworth: "The people's meat-offering was eaten by the priests that made atonement for them, Leviticus 6:15-16, Leviticus 7:7; but because no priest, being a sinner, could make atonement for himself, therefore his meat-offering might not be eaten, but all burnt on the altar, to teach him to expect salvation, not by his legal service or works, but by Christ; for the eating of the sin-offering figured the bearing of the sinner's iniquity;" Leviticus 10:17.