Leviticus 22:20

Good News Translation

If you offer any animal that has any defects, the Lord will not accept it.

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.

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.

Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
They shall not bring to the Lord anything that has a blemish in it, 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 The Lord commanded Moses ¹⁸ to give Aaron and his sons and all the people of Israel the following regulations. When any Israelite or any foreigner living in Israel presents a burnt offering, whether as fulfillment of a vow or as a freewill offering, the animal must not have any defects. ¹⁹ To be accepted, it must be a male without any defects. ²⁰ If you offer any animal that has any defects, the Lord will not accept it. ²¹ When anyone presents a fellowship offering to the Lord , whether as fulfillment of a vow or as a freewill offering, the animal must be without any defects if it is to be accepted. ²² Do not offer to the Lord any animal that is blind or crippled or mutilated, or that has a running sore or a skin eruption or scabs. Do not offer any such animals on the altar as a food offering. ²³ As a freewill offering you may offer an animal that is stunted or not perfectly formed, but it is not acceptable in fulfillment of a vow. ²⁴ Do not offer to the Lord any animal whose testicles have been crushed, cut, bruised, or torn off. This is not permitted in your land. ²⁵ Do not offer as a food offering any animal obtained from a foreigner. Such animals are considered defective and are not acceptable. ²⁶When a calf or a lamb or a kid is born, it must not be taken from its mother for seven days, but after that it is acceptable as a food offering.

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
After Terah was 70 years old, he became the father of Abram, Nahor, and Haran.

Genesis 11:29
Abram married Sarai, and Nahor married Milcah, the daughter of Haran, who was also the father of Iscah.

Genesis 24:10
The servant, who was in charge of Abraham's property, took ten of his master's camels and went to the city where Nahor had lived in northern Mesopotamia.

Genesis 24:15
Before he had finished praying, Rebecca arrived with a water jar on her shoulder. She was the daughter of Bethuel, who was the son of Abraham's brother Nahor and his wife Milcah.

Genesis 24:24
"My father is Bethuel son of Nahor and Milcah," she answered.

Genesis 31:53
The God of Abraham and the God of Nahor will judge between us." Then, in the name of the God whom his father Isaac worshiped, Jacob solemnly vowed to keep this promise.

Proverbs 25:25
Finally hearing good news from a distant land is like a drink of cold water when you are dry and thirsty.

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.