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Literal Standard Version

Leviticus 22:20

nothing in which [is] blemish do you bring near, for it is not for a pleasing thing for you.

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Blemish;   Dedication;   Offerings;   Vows;   Torrey's Topical Textbook - Offerings;  

Dictionaries:

- American Tract Society Bible Dictionary - Blemishes;   Baker Evangelical Dictionary of Biblical Theology - Clean, Unclean;   Offerings and Sacrifices;   Easton Bible Dictionary - Blemish;   Fausset Bible Dictionary - Pentateuch;   Holman Bible Dictionary - Blemish;   Bull;   Leviticus;   Pentateuch;   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;   Hastings' Dictionary of the New Testament - Acceptance;   Watson's Biblical & Theological Dictionary - Blemish;  

Encyclopedias:

- Condensed Biblical Cyclopedia - Worship, the;   International Standard Bible Encyclopedia - Leviticus;   The Jewish Encyclopedia - Blemish;   Free-Will Offering;   Sacrifice;  

Parallel Translations

Hebrew Names Version
But whatever has a blemish, that shall you not offer: for it shall not be acceptable for you.
King James Version
But whatsoever hath a blemish, that shall ye not offer: for it shall not be acceptable for you.
Lexham English Bible
You shall not present any animal in which is a physical defect, because it shall not be acceptable for you.
New Century Version
He must not bring an animal that has something wrong with it, or it will not be accepted for him.
New English Translation
You must not present anything that has a flaw, because it will not be acceptable for your benefit.
Amplified Bible
'You shall not offer anything which has a blemish, because it will not be accepted for you.
New American Standard Bible
'Whatever has a defect, you shall not offer, for it will not be accepted for you.
Geneva Bible (1587)
Ye shall not offer any thing that hath a blemish: for that shal not be acceptable for you.
Legacy Standard Bible
Whatever has a defect, you shall not bring it near, for it will not be accepted for you.
Complete Jewish Bible
You are not to bring anything with a defect, because it will not be accepted from you.
Darby Translation
Nothing that hath a defect shall ye present; for it shall not be acceptable for you.
English Standard Version
You shall not offer anything that has a blemish, for it will not be acceptable for you.
George Lamsa Translation
But whatsoever has a blemish, that you shall not offer; for it shall not be acceptable for you.
Good News Translation
If you offer any animal that has any defects, the Lord will not accept it.
Christian Standard Bible®
You are not to present anything that has a defect, because it will not be accepted on your behalf.
Literal Translation
You shall not offer that which has a blemish; for it shall not be acceptable for you.
Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
What so euer hath eny blemish, shal they not offre, for they shal fynde no fauoure therwith.
American Standard Version
But whatsoever hath a blemish, that shall ye not offer: for it shall not be acceptable for you.
Bible in Basic English
But anything which has a mark you may not give; it will not make you pleasing to the Lord.
Bishop's Bible (1568)
But whatsoeuer hath a blemishe, that shall ye not offer: for it shal not be acceptable for you.
JPS Old Testament (1917)
But whatsoever hath a blemish, that shall ye not bring; for it shall not be acceptable for you.
King James Version (1611)
But whatsoeuer hath a blemish, that shall ye not offer: for it shall not be acceptable for you.
Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
They shall not bring to the Lord anything that has a blemish in it, for it shall not be acceptable for you.
English Revised Version
But whatsoever hath a blemish, that shall ye not offer: for it shall not be acceptable for you.
Berean Standard Bible
You must not present anything with a defect, because it will not be accepted on your behalf.
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
ye schulen not offre, nether it schal be acceptable.
Young's Literal Translation
nothing in which [is] blemish do ye bring near, for it is not for a pleasing thing for you.
Update Bible Version
But whatever has a blemish, that you shall not offer: for it shall not be acceptable for you.
Webster's Bible Translation
[But] whatever hath a blemish, [that] shall ye not offer: for it shall not be acceptable for you.
World English Bible
But whatever has a blemish, that shall you not offer: for it shall not be acceptable for you.
New King James Version
Whatever has a defect, you shall not offer, for it shall not be acceptable on your behalf.
New Living Translation
Do not present an animal with defects, because the Lord will not accept it on your behalf.
New Life Bible
Do not give anything that is not perfect, for you will not please the Lord.
New Revised Standard
You shall not offer anything that has a blemish, for it will not be acceptable in your behalf.
J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
whatsoever hath in it a blemish, shall ye not bring near, - for it shall not he accepted for you.
Douay-Rheims Bible
If it have a blemish you shall not offer it: neither shall it be acceptable.
Revised Standard Version
You shall not offer anything that has a blemish, for it will not be acceptable for you.
New American Standard Bible (1995)
'Whatever has a defect, you shall not offer, for it will not be accepted for you.

Contextual Overview

17And YHWH speaks to Moses, saying, 18"Speak to Aaron, and to his sons, and to all the sons of Israel, and you have said to them: Any man of the house of Israel, or of the sojourners in Israel, who brings his offering near, of all his vows, or of all his willing offerings which they bring near to YHWH for a burnt-offering— 19[you bring near] at your pleasure a perfect one, a male of the herd, of the sheep or of the goats; 20nothing in which [is] blemish do you bring near, for it is not for a pleasing thing for you.21And when a man brings a sacrifice of peace-offerings near to YHWH, to complete a special vow, or for a willing-offering, of the herd or of the flock, it is perfect for a pleasing thing: no blemish is in it. 22Blind, or broken, or maimed, or [having] an oozing sore [[or a defect of the eye]], or itch, or scab—you do not bring these near to YHWH, and you do not make a fire-offering from them on the altar to YHWH. 23As for an ox or sheep [that] is deformed or stunted—you make it a willing-offering, but it is not pleasing for a vow. 24As for bruised, or beaten, or torn, or cut—you do not bring [it] near to YHWH; and in your land you do not do it. 25And you do not bring the bread of your God near from the hand of a son of a stranger, from any of these, for their corruption [is] in them; blemish [is] in them; they are not pleasing for you." 26And YHWH speaks to Moses, saying,

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

Leviticus 22:25, Deuteronomy 15:21, Deuteronomy 17:1, Malachi 1:8, Malachi 1:13, Malachi 1:14

Reciprocal: Exodus 29:1 - without Leviticus 21:17 - blemish Leviticus 22:22 - Blind Leviticus 22:24 - broken Numbers 19:2 - no blemish Numbers 28:19 - they shall Ezekiel 45:18 - without blemish Hebrews 9:14 - without

Cross-References

Genesis 11:26
And Terah lives seventy years, and begets Abram, Nahor, and Haran.
Genesis 11:29
And Abram and Nahor take to themselves wives; the name of Abram's wife [is] Sarai, and the name of Nahor's wife [is] Milcah, daughter of Haran, father of Milcah, and father of Iscah.
Genesis 24:10
And the servant takes ten camels of the camels of his lord and goes, also of all the goods of his lord in his hand, and he rises, and goes to Aram-Naharaim, to the city of Nahor;
Genesis 24:15
And it comes to pass, before he has finished speaking, that behold, Rebekah (who was born to Bethuel, son of Milcah, wife of Nahor, brother of Abraham) is coming out, and her pitcher on her shoulder,
Genesis 24:24
And she says to him, "I [am] daughter of Bethuel, son of Milcah, whom she has borne to Nahor."
Genesis 31:53
the God of Abraham and the God of Nahor, judges between us—the God of their father," and Jacob swears by the Fear of his father Isaac.
Proverbs 25:25
[As] cold waters for a weary soul, || So [is] a good report from a far country.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

For whatsoever hath a blemish, that shall ye not offer,.... Which is the general rule, the particulars of which are after given, and which has been imitated by the Heathens. The Egyptians, as they only sacrificed the males of beeves, so they were very curious in examining them, that they might be entirely pure and perfect s; and it was a custom among the Romans, that such sheep should be chosen for sacrifice, in which there was nothing wanting t; and so, among the Grecians, Homer u speaks of perfect goats offered in sacrifice to appease the gods:

for it shall not be acceptable for you; be grateful to God, and accepted by him on their account, if blemished; see Malachi 1:13.

s Heredot. Euterpe, sive, l. 2. c. 38. t Servius in Virgil. Aeneid. l. 4. u Iliad. 1. ver. 66.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Leviticus 22:20. Whatsoever hath a blemish — The same perfection is required in the sacrifice that was required in the priest; see on Leviticus 22:2, and the notes on the preceding chapter.


 
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