Leviticus 22:20

The NET Bible®

You must not present anything that has a flaw, because it will not be acceptable for your benefit.

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.

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

¹⁷ The Lord spoke to Moses: ¹⁸ "Speak to Aaron, his sons, and all the Israelites and tell them, ‘When any man from the house of Israel or from the foreigners in Israel presents his offering for any of the votive or freewill offerings which they present to the Lord as a burnt offering, ¹⁹ if it is to be acceptable for your benefit it must be a flawless male from the cattle, sheep, or goats. ²⁰ You must not present anything that has a flaw, because it will not be acceptable for your benefit. ²¹ If a man presents a peace offering sacrifice to the Lord for a special votive offering or for a freewill offering from the herd or the flock, it must be flawless to be acceptable; it must have no flaw. ²² "‘You must not present to the Lord something blind, or with a broken bone, or mutilated, or with a running sore, or with a festering eruption, or with a feverish rash. You must not give any of these as a gift on the altar to the Lord . ²³ As for an ox or a sheep with a limb too long or stunted, you may present it as a freewill offering, but it will not be acceptable for a votive offering. ²⁴ You must not present to the Lord something with testicles that are bruised, crushed, torn, or cut off; you must not do this in your land. ²⁵ Even from a foreigner you must not present the food of your God from such animals as these, for they are ruined and flawed; they will not be acceptable for your benefit.'" ²⁶ The Lord spoke to Moses:

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
When Terah had lived 70 years, he became the father of Abram, Nahor, and Haran.

Genesis 11:29
And Abram and Nahor took wives for themselves. The name of Abram's wife was Sarai, and the name of Nahor's wife was Milcah; she was the daughter of Haran, the father of both Milcah and Iscah.

Genesis 24:10
Then the servant took ten of his master's camels and departed with all kinds of gifts from his master at his disposal. He journeyed to the region of Aram Naharaim and the city of Nahor.

Genesis 24:15
Before he had finished praying, there came Rebekah with her water jug on her shoulder. She was the daughter of Bethuel son of Milcah (Milcah was the wife of Abraham's brother Nahor).

Genesis 24:24
She said to him, "I am the daughter of Bethuel the son of Milcah, whom Milcah bore to Nahor.

Genesis 31:53
May the God of Abraham and the god of Nahor, the gods of their father, judge between us." Jacob took an oath by the God whom his father Isaac feared.

Proverbs 25:25
Like cold water to a weary person, so is good news from a distant land.

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.