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JPS Old Testament

Leviticus 3:6

And if his offering for a sacrifice of peace-offerings unto the LORD be of the flock, male or female, he shall offer it without blemish.

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Peace Offerings;   Thompson Chain Reference - Dedication;   Offerings;   Peace-Offerings;   Torrey's Topical Textbook - Offerings;   Peace-Offerings;   Sacrifices;  

Dictionaries:

- American Tract Society Bible Dictionary - Sacrifice;   Baker Evangelical Dictionary of Biblical Theology - Blameless;   Easton Bible Dictionary - Clean;   Food;   Holman Bible Dictionary - Expiation, Propitiation;   Laying on of Hands;   Leviticus;   Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - Priests and Levites;   Propitiation;   Sacrifice and Offering;   Morrish Bible Dictionary - Kidneys;   People's Dictionary of the Bible - Offering;   Watson's Biblical & Theological Dictionary - Offerings;  

Encyclopedias:

- Condensed Biblical Cyclopedia - Tabernacle, the;   Worship, the;   International Standard Bible Encyclopedia - Male;   Sacrifice;   Sheep;   The Jewish Encyclopedia - Benjamin B. Japhet;   Caul;   Peace-Offering;  

Parallel Translations

Hebrew Names Version
"'If his offering for a sacrifice of shalom offerings to the LORD is from the flock; male or female, he shall offer it without blemish.
King James Version
And if his offering for a sacrifice of peace offering unto the Lord be of the flock; male or female, he shall offer it without blemish.
Lexham English Bible
"‘But if his offering for a sacrifice of fellowship offering for Yahweh is from the flock, he must bring a male or a female without defect.
New Century Version
"‘If a person's fellowship offering to the Lord is a lamb or a goat, it may be a male or female, but it must have nothing wrong with it.
New English Translation
"‘If his offering for a peace offering sacrifice to the Lord is from the flock, he must present a flawless male or female.
Amplified Bible
'If his peace offering to the LORD is an animal from the flock, male or female, he shall offer the animal without blemish.
New American Standard Bible
'But if his offering for a sacrifice of peace offerings to the LORD is from the flock, he shall offer it, male or female, without defect.
Geneva Bible (1587)
Also if his oblation be a peace offring vnto the Lorde out of ye flocke, whether it be male or female, he shall offer it without blemish.
Legacy Standard Bible
But if his offering for a sacrifice of peace offerings to Yahweh is from the flock, he shall bring it near, male or female, without blemish.
Contemporary English Version
Instead of a bull or a cow, you may offer any sheep or goat that has nothing wrong with it.
Complete Jewish Bible
"‘If his offering for a sacrifice of peace offerings to Adonai is from the flock, then, when he offers it, no matter whether it is male or female, it must be without defect.
Darby Translation
And if his offering for a sacrifice of peace-offering to Jehovah be of small cattle, male or female, he shall present it without blemish.
Easy-to-Read Version
"If you offer a sheep or a goat as a fellowship offering to the Lord , whether it is a male or a female, it must have nothing wrong with it.
English Standard Version
"If his offering for a sacrifice of peace offering to the Lord is an animal from the flock, male or female, he shall offer it without blemish.
George Lamsa Translation
And if his offering for a sacrifice of peace offering to the LORD be of the flock, male or female, he shall offer it without blemish.
Good News Translation
If a sheep or goat is used as a fellowship offering, it may be male or female, but it must be without any defects.
Christian Standard Bible®
“If his offering as a fellowship sacrifice to the Lord is from the flock, he is to present a male or female without blemish.
Literal Translation
And if his offering for a sacrifice of peace offerings is from the flock, male or female, without blemish, he shall bring it near.
Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
Yf his deadofferynge be of small catell, whether it be male or female, it shal be without blemish:
American Standard Version
And if his oblation for a sacrifice of peace-offerings unto Jehovah be of the flock; male or female, he shall offer it without blemish.
Bible in Basic English
And if what he gives for a peace-offering to the Lord is of the flock, let him give a male or female, without any mark on it.
Bishop's Bible (1568)
If he bryng a peace offeryng vnto the Lorde from of the flocke, let hym offer male or female, but without blemishe.
King James Version (1611)
And if his offering for a sacrifice of peace offering vnto the Lord, be of the flocke, male or female, he shall offer it without blemish.
Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
And if his gift be of the sheep, a peace-offering to the Lord, male or female, he shall bring it unblemished.
English Revised Version
And if his oblation for a sacrifice of peace offerings unto the LORD be of the flock; male or female, he shall offer it without blemish.
Berean Standard Bible
If, however, one's peace offering to the LORD is from the flock, he must present a male or female without blemish.
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
Sotheli if his offryng is of scheep, and a sacrifice of pesible thingis, whether he offrith a male ether a female, tho schulen be without wem.
Young's Literal Translation
`And if his offering [is] out of the flock for a sacrifice of peace-offerings to Jehovah, male or female, a perfect one he doth bring near;
Update Bible Version
And if his oblation for a sacrifice of peace-offerings to Yahweh is of the flock; male or female, he shall offer it without blemish.
Webster's Bible Translation
And if his offering for a sacrifice of peace-offering to the LORD shall be [of] the flock, male or female; he shall offer it without blemish.
World English Bible
"'If his offering for a sacrifice of peace offerings to Yahweh is from the flock; male or female, he shall offer it without blemish.
New King James Version
"If his offering as a sacrifice of a peace offering to the LORD is of the flock, whether male or female, he shall offer it without blemish.
New Living Translation
"If you present an animal from the flock as a peace offering to the Lord , it may be a male or a female, but it must have no defects.
New Life Bible
If his peace gift to the Lord is from the flock, male or female, he will give one that is perfect.
New Revised Standard
If your offering for a sacrifice of well-being to the Lord is from the flock, male or female, you shall offer one without blemish.
J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
But, if out of the flock, be his oblation for a peace-offering unto Yahweh, whether male or female - without defect, shall he bring it near.
Douay-Rheims Bible
But if his oblation and the sacrifice of peace offering be of the flock, whether he offer male or female, they shall be without blemish.
Revised Standard Version
"If his offering for a sacrifice of peace offering to the LORD is an animal from the flock, male or female, he shall offer it without blemish.
THE MESSAGE
"If your Peace-Offering to God comes from the flock, bring a male or female without defect. If you offer a lamb, offer it to God . Lay your hand on the head of your offering and slaughter it at the Tent of Meeting. The sons of Aaron will throw its blood on all sides of the Altar. As a Fire-Gift to God from the Peace-Offering, present its fat, the entire fat tail cut off close to the backbone, all the fat on and connected to the entrails, the two kidneys and the fat around them on the loins, and the lobe of the liver which is removed along with the kidneys. The priest will burn it on the Altar: a meal, a Fire-Gift to God .
New American Standard Bible (1995)
'But if his offering for a sacrifice of peace offerings to the LORD is from the flock, he shall offer it, male or female, without defect.

Contextual Overview

6 And if his offering for a sacrifice of peace-offerings unto the LORD be of the flock, male or female, he shall offer it without blemish. 7 If he bring a lamb for his offering, then shall he present it before the LORD. 8 And he shall lay his hand upon the head of his offering, and kill it before the tent of meeting; and Aaron's sons shall dash the blood thereof against the altar round about. 9 And he shall present of the sacrifice of peace-offerings an offering made by fire unto the LORD: the fat thereof, the fat tail entire, which he shall take away hard by the rump-bone; and the fat that covereth the inwards, and all the fat that is upon the inwards, 10 and the two kidneys, and the fat that is upon them, which is by the loins, and the lobe above the liver, which he shall take away by the kidneys. 11 And the priest shall make it smoke upon the altar; it is the food of the offering made by fire unto the LORD. 12 And if his offering be a goat, then he shall present it before the LORD. 13 And he shall lay his hand upon the head of it, and kill it before the tent of meeting; and the sons of Aaron shall dash the blood thereof against the altar round about. 14 And he shall present thereof his offering, even an offering made by fire unto the LORD: the fat that covereth the inwards, and all the fat that is upon the inwards, 15 and the two kidneys, and the fat that is upon them, which is by the loins, and the lobe above the liver, which he shall take away by the kidneys.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

a sacrifice: Galatians 4:4, Ephesians 1:10, Ephesians 2:13-22

be of: Leviticus 3:1, Leviticus 1:2, Leviticus 1:10, Isaiah 60:7

male: Galatians 3:28

he shall: Leviticus 3:1-17, Acts 4:27, Romans 12:1, Romans 12:2, Titus 2:11, Titus 2:12

Reciprocal: Genesis 15:9 - General Leviticus 4:32 - a lamb Leviticus 22:21 - peace Numbers 6:14 - one ram 1 Samuel 10:3 - three kids Hebrews 9:19 - the blood

Cross-References

Genesis 3:1
Now the serpent was more subtle than any beast of the field which the LORD God had made. And he said unto the woman: 'Yea, hath God said: Ye shall not eat of any tree of the garden?'
Genesis 3:2
And the woman said unto the serpent: 'Of the fruit of the trees of the garden we may eat;
Genesis 3:12
And the man said: 'The woman whom Thou gavest to be with me, she gave me of the tree, and I did eat.'
Genesis 3:14
And the LORD God said unto the serpent: 'Because thou hast done this, cursed art thou from among all cattle, and from among all beasts of the field; upon thy belly shalt thou go, and dust shalt thou eat all the days of thy life.
Genesis 3:15
And I will put enmity between thee and the woman, and between thy seed and her seed; they shall bruise thy head, and thou shalt bruise their heel.'
Genesis 3:17
And unto Adam He said: 'Because thou hast hearkened unto the voice of thy wife, and hast eaten of the tree, of which I commanded thee, saying: Thou shalt not eat of it; cursed is the ground for thy sake; in toil shalt thou eat of it all the days of thy life.
Genesis 3:19
In the sweat of thy face shalt thou eat bread, till thou return unto the ground; for out of it wast thou taken; for dust thou art, and unto dust shalt thou return.'
Genesis 6:2
that the sons of God saw the daughters of men that they were fair; and they took them wives, whomsoever they chose.
Genesis 39:7
And it came to pass after these things, that his master's wife cast her eyes upon Joseph; and she said: 'Lie with me.'
Joshua 7:21
When I saw among the spoil a goodly Shinar mantle, and two hundred shekels of silver, and a wedge of gold of fifty shekels weight, then I coveted them, and took them; and, behold, they are hid in the earth in the midst of my tent, and the silver under it.'

Gill's Notes on the Bible

And if his offering, for a sacrifice of peace offering unto Lord, be of the flock,.... As it might be: and be either male or female; which he pleased:

he shall offer [it] without blemish; :-.


 
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