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New Century Version

Leviticus 7:6

Any male in a priest's family may eat it. It is most holy, so it must be eaten in a holy place.

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Offerings;   Priest;   Thompson Chain Reference - Food;   Leaders;   Levites;   Priests;   Religious;   Torrey's Topical Textbook - Priests;   Sacrifices;  

Dictionaries:

- American Tract Society Bible Dictionary - Priest;   Sacrifice;   Baker Evangelical Dictionary of Biblical Theology - Guilt;   Fausset Bible Dictionary - Priest;   Holman Bible Dictionary - Leviticus;   Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - Propitiation;   Sacrifice and Offering;   Smith Bible Dictionary - Priest;  

Encyclopedias:

- Condensed Biblical Cyclopedia - Priesthood, the;   Worship, the;   The Jewish Encyclopedia - Holy of Holies;  

Parallel Translations

Hebrew Names Version
Every male among the Kohanim may eat of it. It shall be eaten in a holy place. It is most holy.
King James Version
Every male among the priests shall eat thereof: it shall be eaten in the holy place: it is most holy.
Lexham English Bible
Every male among the priests may eat it; it must be eaten in a holy place; it is a most holy thing.
New English Translation
Any male among the priests may eat it. It must be eaten in a holy place. It is most holy.
Amplified Bible
'Every male among the priests may eat it; it shall be eaten in a holy place; it is most holy.
New American Standard Bible
'Every male among the priests may eat it. It shall be eaten in a holy place; it is most holy.
Geneva Bible (1587)
All the males among the Priestes shall eate thereof, it shalbe eaten in the holy place, for it is most holy.
Legacy Standard Bible
Every male among the priests may eat of it. It shall be eaten in a holy place; it is most holy.
Contemporary English Version
This sacrifice for making things right is very holy. Only the priests may eat it, and they must eat it in a holy place.
Complete Jewish Bible
Every male from a family of cohanim may eat it; it is to be eaten in a holy place; it is especially holy.
Darby Translation
Every male among the priests shall eat thereof; in a holy place shall it be eaten: it is most holy.
Easy-to-Read Version
"Any male in a priest's family may eat the guilt offering. It is very holy, so it must be eaten in a holy place.
English Standard Version
Every male among the priests may eat of it. It shall be eaten in a holy place. It is most holy.
George Lamsa Translation
Every male among the children of Aaron shall eat of it; it shall be eaten in the holy place; it is most holy.
Good News Translation
Any male of the priestly families may eat it, but it must be eaten in a holy place, because it is very holy.
Christian Standard Bible®
Any male among the priests may eat it. It is to be eaten in a holy place; it is especially holy.
Literal Translation
Every male among the priests shall eat it; it shall be eaten in the holy place. It is most holy.
Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
All the males amonge the prestes shal eate it in the holy place, for it is most holy:
American Standard Version
Every male among the priests shall eat thereof: it shall be eaten in a holy place: it is most holy.
Bible in Basic English
Every male among the priests may have it as food in a holy place: it is most holy.
Bishop's Bible (1568)
All the males among the priestes shall eate thereof: it shalbe eaten in the holy place, for it is most holy.
JPS Old Testament (1917)
Every male among the priests may eat thereof; it shall be eaten in a holy place; it is most holy.
King James Version (1611)
Euery male among the Priestes shall eate thereof: it shall be eaten in the holy place: it is most holy.
Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
And if it be a vow, or he offer his gift of his own will, on whatsoever day he shall offer his sacrifice, it shall be eaten, and on the morrow.
English Revised Version
Every male among the priests shall eat thereof: it shall be eaten in a holy place: it is most holy.
Berean Standard Bible
Every male among the priests may eat of it. It must be eaten in a holy place; it is most holy.
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
Ech male of the preestis kyn schal ete these fleischis in the hooli place, for it is hooli `of the noumbre of hooli thingis.
Young's Literal Translation
`Every male among the priests doth eat it; in the holy place it is eaten -- it [is] most holy;
Update Bible Version
Every male among the priests shall eat thereof: it shall be eaten in a holy place: it is most holy.
Webster's Bible Translation
Every male among the priests shall eat of it: it shall be eaten in the holy place: it [is] most holy.
World English Bible
Every male among the priests may eat of it. It shall be eaten in a holy place. It is most holy.
New King James Version
Every male among the priests may eat it. It shall be eaten in a holy place. It is most holy.
New Living Translation
Any male from a priest's family may eat the meat. It must be eaten in a sacred place, for it is most holy.
New Life Bible
Every male among the religious leaders may eat of it. It will be eaten in a holy place. It is most holy.
New Revised Standard
Every male among the priests shall eat of it; it shall be eaten in a holy place; it is most holy.
J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
Any male among the priests, may eat thereof, - in a holy place, shall it be eaten, most holy, it is.
Douay-Rheims Bible
Every male of the priestly race, shall eat this flesh in a holy place, because it is most holy.
Revised Standard Version
Every male among the priests may eat of it; it shall be eaten in a holy place; it is most holy.
New American Standard Bible (1995)
'Every male among the priests may eat of it. It shall be eaten in a holy place; it is most holy.

Contextual Overview

1 "‘These are the teachings about the penalty offering, which is most holy: 2 The penalty offering must be killed where the whole burnt offering is killed. Then the priest must sprinkle its blood on all sides of the altar. 3 He must offer all the fat from the penalty offering—the fat tail, the fat that covers the inner organs, 4 both kidneys with the fat that is on them near the lower back muscle, and the best part of the liver, which is to be removed with the kidneys. 5 The priest must burn all these things on the altar as an offering made by fire to the Lord . It is a penalty offering. 6 Any male in a priest's family may eat it. It is most holy, so it must be eaten in a holy place. 7 "‘The penalty offering is like the sin offering in that the teachings are the same for both. The priest who offers the sacrifice to remove sins will get the meat for food. 8 The priest who offers the burnt offering may also have the skin from it. 9 Every grain offering that is baked in an oven, cooked on a griddle, or baked in a dish belongs to the priest who offers it. 10 Every grain offering, either dry or mixed with oil, belongs to the priests, and all priests will share alike.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

male: Leviticus 6:16-18, Leviticus 6:29, Numbers 18:9, Numbers 18:10

it is most holy: Leviticus 2:3

Reciprocal: Leviticus 5:13 - shall be Leviticus 5:15 - in the Leviticus 6:17 - it is most holy Leviticus 10:17 - Wherefore Leviticus 14:13 - it is most holy Numbers 5:9 - offering Numbers 18:8 - the charge Numbers 18:20 - General Ezekiel 42:13 - they be holy Ezekiel 44:29 - eat Hosea 4:8 - eat Haggai 2:12 - General 1 Corinthians 9:13 - they

Cross-References

Genesis 5:32
After Noah was 500 years old, he became the father of Shem, Ham, and Japheth.
Genesis 8:13
When Noah was six hundred and one years old, in the first day of the first month of that year, the water was dried up from the land. Noah removed the covering of the boat and saw that the land was dry.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

Every male among the priests shall eat thereof,.... Of the flesh of it, after the fat was taken off and burnt, the rest belonged to the priests and their sons, and to them only, not to their wives and daughters:

it shall be eaten in the holy place; in the court of the tabernacle, in some apartment in it, for that purpose, as afterwards in the temple; it was not to be carried home to their houses, for all in the family to partake of, only the priests and their sons were to eat of it:

it [is] most holy; and therefore none but such who were devoted to holy services might eat of it; only sanctified persons, true believers, who are made priests unto God, have a right to eat of the altar Christ, or, can eat his flesh in a spiritual sense, and feed upon him by faith, and receive nourishment from him, Hebrews 13:10.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

See Leviticus 5:14 note. In Leviticus 7:2 “sprinkle” should rather be cast Leviticus 1:5. All the details regarding the parts put on the altar are repeated for each kind of sacrifice, because the matter was one of paramount importance.


 
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