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Literal Standard Version

Leviticus 22:14

And when a man eats of a holy thing through ignorance, then he has added its fifth part to it, and has given [it] to the priest, with the holy thing;

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Ignorance;   Priest;   Torrey's Topical Textbook - Priests;  

Dictionaries:

- Baker Evangelical Dictionary of Biblical Theology - Offerings and Sacrifices;   Holman Bible Dictionary - Leviticus;   Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - Canon of the Old Testament;   Congregation, Assembly;   Crimes and Punishments;   Deuteronomy;   Hexateuch;   Holiness;   Law;   Leviticus;   Priests and Levites;   Sacrifice and Offering;   Sanctification, Sanctify;   Smith Bible Dictionary - Number;  

Encyclopedias:

- International Standard Bible Encyclopedia - Leviticus;   The Jewish Encyclopedia - Terumot;  

Parallel Translations

Hebrew Names Version
If a man eat of the holy thing unwittingly, then he shall put the fifth part of it to it, and shall give to the Kohen the holy thing.
King James Version
And if a man eat of the holy thing unwittingly, then he shall put the fifth part thereof unto it, and shall give it unto the priest with the holy thing.
Lexham English Bible
And if a man eats the votive offering unintentionally, then he shall add to it a fifth of it, and he shall give the votive offering to the priest.
New Century Version
"‘If someone eats some of the holy offering by mistake, that person must pay back the priest for that holy food, adding another one-fifth of the price of that food.
New English Translation
"‘If a man eats a holy offering by mistake, he must add one fifth to it and give the holy offering to the priest.
Amplified Bible
'But if a person unknowingly eats a holy gift [which has been offered to God], then he shall add one-fifth of its value to it and give the holy gift to the priest.
New American Standard Bible
'If, however, someone eats a holy food unintentionally, then he shall add to it a fifth of it and shall give the holy food to the priest.
Geneva Bible (1587)
If a man eate of the holie thing vnwittingly, he shall put the fift part thereunto, and giue it vnto the Priest with the halowed thing.
Legacy Standard Bible
But if a man eats a holy gift unintentionally, then he shall add to it a fifth of it and shall give the holy gift to the priest.
Contemporary English Version
and anyone else who accidentally does so, must pay for the food plus a fine of twenty percent.
Complete Jewish Bible
If a person eats holy food by mistake, he must add one-fifth to it and give the holy food to the cohen.
Darby Translation
And if a man eat of a holy thing through inadvertence, then he shall put the fifth part thereof unto it, and shall give it unto the priest with the holy thing.
Easy-to-Read Version
"Whoever eats some of the holy food by mistake must give the priest the price of that food and add another one-fifth of the price as a fine.
English Standard Version
And if anyone eats of a holy thing unintentionally, he shall add the fifth of its value to it and give the holy thing to the priest.
George Lamsa Translation
And if a man eats of the holy thing unwittingly, then he shall add a fifth part thereof to it and shall give it to the priest with the holy thing.
Good News Translation
"If any people who are not members of a priestly family eat any of the sacred offerings without intending to, they must repay the priest its full value plus an additional 20 percent.
Christian Standard Bible®
If anyone eats a holy offering in error, he is to add a fifth to its value and give the holy offering to the priest.
Literal Translation
And if a man shall eat of a holy thing through ignorance, then he shall add the fifth part of it, and shall give it to the priest along with the holy thing.
Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
Who so els eateth of the halowed thynges, vnwyttingly, shal put ye fifth parte there vnto, and geue it vnto the prest with the halowed thinge,
American Standard Version
And if a man eat of the holy thing unwittingly, then he shall put the fifth part thereof unto it, and shall give unto the priest the holy thing.
Bible in Basic English
And if a man takes the holy food in error, he will have to give the holy thing back to the priest, with the addition of a fifth part.
Bishop's Bible (1568)
If a man eate of the holy thyng vnwittingly, he shal put the fifth part thervnto, and geue it vnto the priest with the halowed thyng.
JPS Old Testament (1917)
And if a man eat of the holy thing through error, then he shall put the fifth part thereof unto it, and shall give unto the priest the holy thing.
King James Version (1611)
And if a man eate of the holy thing vnwittingly, then he shall put the fift part thereof vnto it; and shall giue it vnto the Priest, with the holy thing.
Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
And the man who shall ignorantly eat holy things, shall add the fifth part to it, and give the holy thing to the priest.
English Revised Version
And if a man eat of the holy thing unwittingly, then he shall put the fifth part thereof unto it, and shall give unto the priest the holy thing.
Berean Standard Bible
If anyone eats a sacred offering in error, he must add a fifth to its value and give the sacred offering to the priest.
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
He that etith bi ignoraunce of halewid thingis, schal adde the fyuethe part with that that he eet, and `schal yyue to the preest in seyntuarie,
Young's Literal Translation
`And when a man doth eat of a holy thing through ignorance, then he hath added its fifth part to it, and hath given [it] to the priest, with the holy thing;
Update Bible Version
And if a man eats of the holy thing unwittingly, then he shall put the fifth part thereof to it, and shall give to the priest the holy thing.
Webster's Bible Translation
And if a man shall eat [of] the holy thing unknowingly, then he shall put to it the fifth [part], and shall give [it] to the priest, with the holy thing.
World English Bible
If a man eat of the holy thing unwittingly, then he shall put the fifth part of it to it, and shall give to the priest the holy thing.
New King James Version
"And if a man eats the holy offering unintentionally, then he shall restore a holy offering to the priest, and add one-fifth to it.
New Living Translation
"Any such person who eats the sacred offerings without realizing it must pay the priest for the amount eaten, plus an additional 20 percent.
New Life Bible
If a man eats a holy gift by mistake, he must add a fifth of its worth to it and give the holy gift to the religious leader.
New Revised Standard
If a man eats of the sacred donation unintentionally, he shall add one-fifth of its value to it, and give the sacred donation to the priest.
J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
And, when, any man, eateth what is hallowed, by mistake, then shall he add the fifth part of it thereunto, and give unto the priest the hallowed thing:
Douay-Rheims Bible
He that eateth of the sanctified things through ignorance, shall add the fifth part with that which he ate, and shall give it to the priest into the sanctuary.
Revised Standard Version
And if a man eats of a holy thing unwittingly, he shall add the fifth of its value to it, and give the holy thing to the priest.
THE MESSAGE
"If anyone eats from a holy offering accidentally, he must give back the holy offering to the priest and add twenty percent to it.
New American Standard Bible (1995)
'But if a man eats a holy gift unintentionally, then he shall add to it a fifth of it and shall give the holy gift to the priest.

Contextual Overview

10And no stranger eats of the holy thing; a settler [with] a priest and a hired worker does not eat of the holy thing; 11but when a priest buys a person, the purchase of his money, he eats of it, also one born in his house; they eat of his bread. 12And a priest's daughter, when she is a strange man's, she does not eat of the raised-offering of the holy things; 13but a priest's daughter, when she is a widow, or cast out, and has no seed, and has turned back to the house of her father, as [in] her youth, she eats of her father's bread; but no stranger eats of it. 14And when a man eats of a holy thing through ignorance, then he has added its fifth part to it, and has given [it] to the priest, with the holy thing;15and they do not defile the holy things of the sons of Israel—that which they lift up to YHWH, 16or have caused them to bear the iniquity of the guilt-offering in their eating their holy things; for I [am] YHWH, sanctifying them."

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

Leviticus 5:15-19, Leviticus 27:13, Leviticus 27:15

Reciprocal: Leviticus 5:16 - make Ezra 2:63 - should not

Cross-References

Genesis 22:4
On the third day—Abraham lifts up his eyes, and sees the place from afar;
Genesis 22:5
and Abraham says to his young men, "Remain by yourselves here with the donkey, and I and the youth go over there and worship, and return to you."
Genesis 22:8
And Abraham says, "God provides for Himself the lamb for a burnt-offering, my son"; and they go on both of them together.
Genesis 22:10
and Abraham puts forth his hand, and takes the knife—to slaughter his son.
Genesis 22:13
And Abraham lifts up his eyes, and looks, and behold, a ram behind, seized in a thicket by its horns; and Abraham goes, and takes the ram, and causes it to ascend for a burnt-offering instead of his son;
Genesis 22:14
and Abraham calls the name of that place "YHWH-Jireh," because it is said this day in the mountain, "YHWH provides."
Genesis 22:17
that blessing I bless you, and multiplying I multiply your seed as stars of the heavens, and as sand which [is] on the seashore; and your Seed possesses the gate of His enemies;
Genesis 28:19
and he calls the name of that place Bethel, [house of God,] and yet, Luz [is] the name of the city at the first.
Genesis 32:30
And Jacob calls the name of the place Peniel: "For I have seen God face to face, and my life is delivered";
Exodus 17:15
and Moses builds an altar, and calls its name YHWH-Nissi,

Gill's Notes on the Bible

And if a man eat [of] the holy thing unwittingly,.... Either not knowing that it is an holy thing, or the heave offering, or any thing of that kind; or else is ignorant of the punishment of such an action, as Gersom observes; and this is to be understood of any man that was not a priest, or was not of the priest's family, even any common Israelite; so the Targum of Jonathan, a man of Israel, or an Israelite, one of the common people:

then he shall put a fifth part thereof unto it; a fifth part of the value of what he has eaten, to an equivalent for the whole, that is, he shall pay the full value for what he has eaten, and a fifth part besides:

and shall give [it] to the priest with the holy thing; the meaning is, that he shall give the fifth part to the priest, with the equivalent for what he has eaten; for he could not give the holy thing itself, but a compensation for it; according to Gersom, he was to give the principal to the priest, whose the holy thing was he ate of, and the fifth part he might give to what priest he would. The Jewish canon, concerning this matter, runs thus; he that ignorantly eats the heave offering pays the principal, and the fifth part; and the same, either he that eats, or drinks, or anoints; and whether the heave offering be clean or unclean, he pays the fifth, and the fifth of the fifth; and he does not pay the heave offering but of common things, rightly ordered, and they become an heave offering, and the compensation of it; and if the priest would forgive, he may not p.

p Misn. Trumot, c. 6. sect. 1.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Unwittingly - Inadvertently, or “through ignorance.” Compare Leviticus 4:2 note.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Leviticus 22:14. Then he shall put the fifth part thereof unto it — The holy thing of which he has unknowingly eaten shall be fairly valued, and to this value he shall add one fifth more, and give the whole to the priest.


 
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