Leviticus 6:23

Good News Translation

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

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.

Easy-to-Read Version
Every grain offering that a priest gives must be completely burned. It must 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.

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 The following are the regulations for grain offerings. An Aaronite priest shall present the grain offering to the Lord in front of the altar. ¹⁵ Then he shall take a handful of the flour and oil, and the incense on it, and burn it on the altar as a token that all of it has been offered to the Lord . The odor of this offering is pleasing to the Lord . ¹⁶The priests shall eat the rest of it. It shall be made into bread baked without yeast and eaten in a holy place, the courtyard of the Tent of the Lord 's presence. The Lord has given it to the priests as their part of the food offerings. It is very holy, like the sin offerings and the repayment offerings. ¹⁸ For all time to come any of the male descendants of Aaron may eat it as their continuing share of the food offered to the Lord . Anyone else who touches a food offering will be harmed by the power of its holiness. ¹⁹ The Lord gave Moses the following regulations ²⁰ for the ordination of an Aaronite priest. On the day he is ordained, he shall present as an offering to the Lord two pounds of flour (the same amount as the daily grain offering), half in the morning and half in the evening. ²¹ It is to be mixed with oil and cooked on a griddle and then crumbled and presented as a grain offering, an odor pleasing to the Lord . ²² For all time to come this offering is to be made by every descendant of Aaron who is serving as High Priest. It shall be completely burned as a sacrifice to the Lord . ²³ No part of a grain offering that a priest makes may be eaten; all of it must be burned.

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.