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King James Version (1611 Edition)

Leviticus 3:6

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.

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.
JPS Old Testament (1917)
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.
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 offering vnto the Lord, be of the flocke, male or female, he shall offer it without blemish. 7 If hee offer a lambe for his offering, then shall he offer it before the Lord. 8 And he shall lay his hand vpon the head of his offering, and kill it before the Tabernacle of the Congregation: And Aarons sonnes shall sprinkle the blood thereof, round about vpon the Altar. 9 And he shall offer of the sacrifice of the peace offering, an offering made by fire vnto the Lord: the fat thereof and the whole rumpe, it shall he take off hard by the backe bone: and the fat that couereth the inwards, and all the fat that is vpon the inwards. 10 And the two kidneys, and the fat that is vpon them, which is by the flankes, and the caule aboue the liuer, with the kidneys, it shall he take away. 11 And the Priest shall burne it vpon the Altar: it is the food of the offering made by fire vnto the Lord. 12 And if his offering be a goat, then he shall offer it before the Lord. 13 And he shall lay his hand vpon the head of it, and kill it before the Tabernacle of the Congregation: and the sonnes of Aaron shall sprinckle the blood thereof vpon the Altar, round about. 14 And he shall offer thereof his offering, euen an offering made by fire vnto the Lord; the fat that couereth the inwards, and al the fat that is vpon the inwards. 15 And the two kidneys, and the fat that is vpon them, which is by the flancks, and the caule aboue the liuer with the kidneys, it shall he take away.

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 subtill then any beast of the field, which the LORD God had made, and he said vnto the woman, Yea, hath God said, Ye shall not eat of euery tree of the garden?
Genesis 3:2
And the woman said vnto the serpent, Wee may eate of the fruite of the trees of the garden:
Genesis 3:12
And the man said, The woman whom thou gauest to be with mee, shee gaue me of the tree, and I did eate.
Genesis 3:14
And the LORD God said vnto the Serpent, Because thou hast done this, thou art cursed aboue all cattel, and aboue euery beast of the field: vpon thy belly shalt thou goe, and dust shalt thou eate, all the dayes of thy life.
Genesis 3:15
And I will put enmitie betweene thee and the woman, and betweene thy seed and her seed: it shal bruise thy head, and thou shalt bruise his heele.
Genesis 3:17
And vnto Adam he said, Because thou hast hearkened vnto the voyce of thy wife, and hast eaten of the tree, of which I commaunded thee, saying, Thou shalt not eate of it: cursed is the ground for thy sake: in sorow shalt thou eate of it all the dayes of thy life.
Genesis 3:19
In the sweate of thy face shalt thou eate bread, till thou returne vnto the ground: for out of it wast thou taken, for dust thou art, and vnto dust shalt thou returne.
Genesis 6:2
That the sonnes of God saw the daughters of men, that they were faire, and they took them wiues, of all which they chose.
Genesis 39:7
And it came to passe after these things, that his masters wife cast her eyes vpon Ioseph, and shee said, Lie with me.
Joshua 7:21
When I saw among the spoiles a goodly Babylonish garment, and two hundred shekels of siluer, and a wedge of gold of fiftie shekels weight, then I coueted them, and tooke them, and behold, they are hid in the earth in the midst of my tent, and the siluer vnder 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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