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JPS Old Testament

Leviticus 1:1

The LORD called unto Moses, and spoke unto him out of the tent of meeting, saying:

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Prophets;   Tabernacle;   Scofield Reference Index - Law of Moses;   Leviticus;   Sacrifice;   Thompson Chain Reference - Divine;   Fellowship, Divine;   Fellowship-Estrangement;   God;   Spiritual;   Torrey's Topical Textbook - Priests;   Sacrifices;  

Dictionaries:

- American Tract Society Bible Dictionary - Sacrifice;   Baker Evangelical Dictionary of Biblical Theology - Leviticus, Theology of;   Holman Bible Dictionary - Leviticus;   Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - Priests and Levites;   Propitiation;   Sacrifice and Offering;   Smith Bible Dictionary - Law of Moses;  

Encyclopedias:

- Condensed Biblical Cyclopedia - Tabernacle, the;   Priesthood, the;   Worship, the;   International Standard Bible Encyclopedia - Leviticus;   Text of the Old Testament;   The Jewish Encyclopedia - Angelology;   Bibliomancy;   Daniel ben Moses Al-ḳumisi;   Hillel;   Sidra;   Simeon B. Pazzi;   Small and Large Letters;  

Parallel Translations

Hebrew Names Version
The LORD called to Moshe, and spoke to him out of the Tent of Meeting, saying,
King James Version
And the Lord called unto Moses, and spake unto him out of the tabernacle of the congregation, saying,
Lexham English Bible
Then Yahweh called to Moses and spoke to him from the tent of assembly, saying,
New Century Version
The Lord called to Moses and spoke to him from the Meeting Tent, saying,
New English Translation
Then the Lord called to Moses and spoke to him from the Meeting Tent:
Amplified Bible
The LORD called to Moses and spoke to him from the Tent of Meeting, saying,
New American Standard Bible
Now the LORD called to Moses and spoke to him from the tent of meeting, saying,
Geneva Bible (1587)
Nowe the Lorde called Moses, and spake vnto him out of the Tabernacle of the Congregation, saying,
Legacy Standard Bible
Then Yahweh called to Moses and spoke to him from the tent of meeting, saying,
Contemporary English Version
The Lord spoke to Moses from the sacred tent and gave him instructions for the community of Israel to follow when they offered sacrifices. The Lord said: Sacrifices to please me must be completely burned on the bronze altar. Bulls or rams or goats are the animals to be used for these sacrifices. If the animal is a bull, it must not have anything wrong with it. Lead it to the entrance of the sacred tent, and I will let you know if it is acceptable to me.
Complete Jewish Bible
Adonai called to Moshe and spoke to him from the tent of meeting. He said,
Darby Translation
And Jehovah called to Moses and spoke to him out of the tent of meeting, saying,
Easy-to-Read Version
So the Lord called out to Moses from inside the Meeting Tent and said,
English Standard Version
The Lord called Moses and spoke to him from the tent of meeting, saying,
George Lamsa Translation
AND the LORD called to Moses and spoke to him from the tabernacle of the congregation, saying,
Good News Translation
The Lord called to Moses from the Tent of the Lord 's presence and gave him the following rules
Christian Standard Bible®
Then the Lord summoned Moses and spoke to him from the tent of meeting:
Literal Translation
And Jehovah called to Moses and spoke to him out of the tabernacle of the congregation, saying,
Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
And the LORDE called Moses, and spake vnto him out of ye Tabernacle of wytnesse, and sayde:
American Standard Version
And Jehovah called unto Moses, and spake unto him out of the tent of meeting, saying,
Bible in Basic English
And the voice of the Lord came to Moses out of the Tent of meeting, saying,
Bishop's Bible (1568)
And the Lord called vnto Moyses, and spake vnto him out of the tabernacle of the congregation, saying:
King James Version (1611)
And the Lord called vnto Moses, and spake vnto him out of the Tabernacle of the Congregation, saying,
Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
And the Lord called Moses again and spoke to him out of the tabernacle of witness, saying, Speak to the children of Israel, and thou shalt say to them,
English Revised Version
And the LORD called unto Moses, and spake unto him out of the tent of meeting, saying,
Berean Standard Bible
Then the LORD called to Moses and spoke to him from the Tent of Meeting, saying,
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
FORSOTHE the Lord clepide Moyses, and spak to him fro the tabernacle of witnessyng, `and seide,
Young's Literal Translation
And Jehovah calleth unto Moses, and speaketh unto him out of the tent of meeting, saying,
Update Bible Version
And Yahweh called to Moses, and spoke to him out of the tent of meeting, saying,
Webster's Bible Translation
And the LORD called to Moses, and spoke to him out of the tabernacle of the congregation, saying,
World English Bible
Yahweh called to Moses, and spoke to him out of the Tent of Meeting, saying,
New King James Version
Now the LORD called to Moses, and spoke to him from the tabernacle of meeting, saying,
New Living Translation
The Lord called to Moses from the Tabernacle and said to him,
New Life Bible
The Lord called to Moses and spoke to him from the meeting tent, saying,
New Revised Standard
The Lord summoned Moses and spoke to him from the tent of meeting, saying:
J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
Then called he unto Moses, - and Yahweh spake unto him, out of the tent of meeting, saying:
Douay-Rheims Bible
And the Lord called Moses, and spoke to him from the tabernacle of the testimony, saying:
Revised Standard Version
The LORD called Moses, and spoke to him from the tent of meeting, saying,
THE MESSAGE
God called Moses and spoke to him from the Tent of Meeting: "Speak to the People of Israel. Tell them, When anyone presents an offering to God , present an animal from either the herd or the flock.
New American Standard Bible (1995)
Then the LORD called to Moses and spoke to him from the tent of meeting, saying,

Contextual Overview

1 The LORD called unto Moses, and spoke unto him out of the tent of meeting, saying: 2 Speak unto the children of Israel, and say unto them: When any man of you bringeth an offering unto the LORD, ye shall bring your offering of the cattle, even of the herd or of the flock.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

called: Exodus 19:3, Exodus 24:1, Exodus 24:2, Exodus 24:12, Exodus 29:42, John 1:17

out of: Exodus 25:22, Exodus 33:7, Exodus 39:32, Exodus 40:34, Exodus 40:35

Reciprocal: Genesis 8:20 - burnt Exodus 3:12 - ye shall Exodus 20:24 - burnt Exodus 24:5 - burnt offerings Leviticus 4:35 - according Leviticus 6:9 - of the burnt Leviticus 7:37 - the law Leviticus 7:38 - commanded Leviticus 9:12 - General Numbers 1:1 - tabernacle Numbers 7:15 - General Numbers 7:89 - he heard Numbers 15:3 - a burnt Numbers 23:3 - burnt Deuteronomy 27:6 - burnt offerings 2 Kings 16:13 - he burnt 2 Chronicles 1:3 - the tabernacle 2 Chronicles 29:31 - sacrifices Ezra 8:35 - offered burnt Jeremiah 17:26 - bringing burnt Ezekiel 43:6 - I heard Malachi 4:4 - with Hebrews 10:6 - burnt

Cross-References

Genesis 1:4
And God saw the light, that it was good; and God divided the light from the darkness.
Genesis 1:5
And God called the light Day, and the darkness He called Night. And there was evening and there was morning, one day.
Genesis 1:11
And God said: 'Let the earth put forth grass, herb yielding seed, and fruit-tree bearing fruit after its kind, wherein is the seed thereof, upon the earth.' And it was so.
Genesis 1:12
And the earth brought forth grass, herb yielding seed after its kind, and tree bearing fruit, wherein is the seed thereof, after its kind; and God saw that it was good.
Genesis 1:16
And God made the two great lights: the greater light to rule the day, and the lesser light to rule the night; and the stars.
Genesis 1:17
And God set them in the firmament of the heaven to give light upon the earth,
Genesis 1:19
And there was evening and there was morning, a fourth day.
Genesis 1:20
And God said: 'Let the waters swarm with swarms of living creatures, and let fowl fly above the earth in the open firmament of heaven.'
Genesis 1:22
And God blessed them, saying: 'Be fruitful, and multiply, and fill the waters in the seas, and let fowl multiply in the earth.'
Genesis 1:30
and to every beast of the earth, and to every fowl of the air, and to every thing that creepeth upon the earth, wherein there is a living soul, [I have given] every green herb for food.' And it was so.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

And the Lord called unto Moses,.... Or "met him", as the phrase is rendered in Numbers 23:4. The word ויקרא, translated "called", the last letter of it is written in a very small character, to show, as the Jews b say, that he met him accidentally, and unawares to Moses: other mysteries they observe in it, as that it respects the modesty of Moses, who lessened himself, and got out of the way, that he might not have the government laid upon him, and therefore the Lord called him; or to denote the wonderful condescension of the Lord, whose throne is in heaven, and yet vouchsafed to dwell in the tabernacle, out of which he called to Moses, and from Mount Sinai, and out of the cloud c. The word "Lord" is not in this clause, but the following, from whence it is supplied by our translators, as it is in the Syriac version, and as the word "God" is in the Arabic version; the two Targums of Jonathan and Jerusalem paraphrase it,

"the Word of the Lord called to Moses,''

by an articulate voice, though it may be it was a still small one; and which some think is the reason of the smallness of the letter before mentioned; and Aben Ezra says that Moses heard it, but all Israel did not hear:

and spoke unto him out of the tabernacle of the congregation; from off the mercy seat, between the cherubim over the ark, where the glory of the Lord, or the divine Shechinah and Majesty took up its residence, and from whence the Lord promised to commune with Moses, Exodus 25:22:

saying; what follows concerning sacrifices; which shows, that these were not human inventions, but of divine institution, and by the appointment of God.

b Vid. Buxtorf. Tiberias, c. 15. p. 39. c R. Abraham Seba, Tzeror Hammor, fol. 92. 1. 2.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

The Lord - In the Hebrew text of Leviticus, Jehovah יהוה yehovâh is the name by which God is usually called. Where אלהים 'ĕlohı̂ym occurs, it is generally with a possessive pronoun, so as to designate Him as the God of the chosen people (Leviticus 2:13; Leviticus 11:45; Leviticus 18:21; Leviticus 19:12, Leviticus 19:14, Leviticus 19:32, etc.).

The tabernacle of the congregation - Rather, the tent of meeting. See Exodus 22:21 note. When Jehovah (Yahweh) was about to give His people the Law of the Ten Commandments Exodus 19:3 He called to Moses from the top of Mount Sinai in thunders and lightnings and a thick cloud. When He was now about to give them the laws by which their formal acts of worship were to be regulated, He called to Moses out of the tabernacle which had just been constructed at the foot of the mountain. Exodus 25:22.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

THE THIRD BOOK OF MOSES CALLED LEVITICUS

-Year before the common Year of Christ, 1490.

-Julian Period, 3224.

-Cycle of the Sun, 27.

-Dominical Letter, D.

-Cycle of the Moon, 9.

-Indiction, 6.

-Creation from Tisri or September, 2514.

CHAPTER I

The Lord calls to Moses out of the tabernacle, and gives him

directions concerning burnt-offerings of the beeve kind,

1,2.

The burnt-offering to be a male without blemish, 3.

The person bringing it to lay his hands upon its head, that it

might be accepted for him, 4.

He is to kill, flay, and cut it in pieces, and bring the blood

to the priests, that they might sprinkle it round about the

altar, 5, 6.

All the pieces to be laid upon the altar and burnt, 7-9.

Directions concerning offerings of the SMALLER CATTLE, such as

sheep and goats, 10-13.

Directions concerning offerings of FOWLS, such as doves and

pigeons, 14-17.

NOTES ON CHAP. I

Verse Leviticus 1:1. And the Lord called unto Moses — From the manner in which this book commences, it appears plainly to be a continuation or the preceding; and indeed the whole is but one law, though divided into five portions, and why thus divided is not easy to be conjectured.

Previously to the erection of the tabernacle God had given no particular directions concerning the manner of offering the different kinds of sacrifices; but as soon as this Divine structure was established and consecrated, Jehovah took it as his dwelling place; described the rites and ceremonies which he would have observed in his worship, that his people might know what was best pleasing in his sight; and that, when thus worshipping him, they might have confidence that they pleased him, every thing being done according to his own directions. A consciousness of acting according to the revealed will of God gives strong confidence to an upright mind.


 
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