Leviticus 1:4

New King James Version

Then he shall put his hand on the head of the burnt offering, and it will be accepted on his behalf to make atonement for him.

Parallel Translations

Hebrew Names Version
He shall lay his hand on the head of the burnt offering, and it shall be accepted for him to make atonement for him.

King James Version
And he shall put his hand upon the head of the burnt offering; and it shall be accepted for him to make atonement for him.

Lexham English Bible
"‘He must lay his hand on the head of the burnt offering and it will be accepted for him in order to make atonement for him.

New Century Version
He must put his hand on the animal's head, and the Lord will accept it to remove the person's sin so he will belong to God.

New English Translation
He must lay his hand on the head of the burnt offering, and it will be accepted for him to make atonement on his behalf.

Amplified Bible
'He shall lay his hand on the head of the burnt offering [transferring symbolically his guilt to the sacrifice], that it may be accepted for him to make atonement on his behalf.

New American Standard Bible
'And he shall lay his hand on the head of the burnt offering, so that it may be accepted for him to make atonement on his behalf.

Geneva Bible (1587)
And he shall put his hande vpon the head of the burnt offering, and it shalbe accepted to the Lorde, to be his atonement.

Legacy Standard Bible
And he shall lay his hand on the head of the burnt offering, that it may be accepted for him to make atonement on his behalf.

Contemporary English Version
Lay your hand on its head, and I will accept the animal as a sacrifice for taking away your sins.

Complete Jewish Bible
He is to lay his hand upon the head of the burnt offering, and it will be accepted on his behalf to make atonement for him.

Darby Translation
And he shall lay his hand on the head of the burnt-offering; and it shall be accepted for him to make atonement for him.

Easy-to-Read Version
You must put your hand on the animal's head while it is being killed. So the Lord will accept it as your burnt offering to make you pure.

English Standard Version
He shall lay his hand on the head of the burnt offering, and it shall be accepted for him to make atonement for him.

George Lamsa Translation
And he shall put his hand upon the head of his burnt offering; and it shall be accepted for him to make atonement for him.

Good News Translation
You shall put your hand on its head, and it will be accepted as a sacrifice to take away your sins.

Christian Standard Bible®
He is to lay his hand on the head of the burnt offering so it can be accepted on his behalf to make atonement for him.

Literal Translation
And he shall lay his hand on the head of the burnt offering, and it is accepted for him to make atonement for him.

Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
let him laye his hande vpon the heade of the burntofferynge, then shal he be reconcyled, so yt God shalbe mercifull vnto him.

American Standard Version
And he shall lay his hand upon the head of the burnt-offering; and it shall be accepted for him to make atonement for him.

Bible in Basic English
And he is to put his hand on the head of the burned offering and it will be taken for him, to take away his sin.

Bishop's Bible (1568)
And he shall put his hande vpon the head of the burnt sacrifice, and it shalbe accepted for hym to be his attonement.

JPS Old Testament (1917)
And he shall lay his hand upon the head of the burnt-offering; and it shall be accepted for him to make atonement for him.

King James Version (1611)
And he shall put his hand vpon the head of the burnt offering: and it shall be accepted for him to make atonement for him.

Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
And he shall lay his hand on the head of the burnt-offering as a thing acceptable for him, to make atonement for him.

English Revised Version
And he shall lay his hand upon the head of the burnt offering; and it shall be accepted for him to make atonement for him.

Berean Standard Bible
He is to lay his hand on the head of the burnt offering, so it can be accepted on his behalf to make atonement for him.

Wycliffe Bible (1395)
And he schal sette hondis on the heed of the sacrifice, and it schal be acceptable, and profityng in to clensyng of hym.

Young's Literal Translation
and he hath laid his hand on the head of the burnt-offering, and it hath been accepted for him to make atonement for him;

Update Bible Version
And he shall lay his hand on the head of the burnt-offering; and it shall be accepted for him to make atonement for him.

Webster's Bible Translation
And he shall put his hand upon the head of the burnt-offering; and it shall be accepted for him to make atonement for him.

World English Bible
He shall lay his hand on the head of the burnt offering, and it shall be accepted for him to make atonement for him.

New Living Translation
Lay your hand on the animal's head, and the Lord will accept its death in your place to purify you, making you right with him.

New Life Bible
He will lay his hand on the head of the burnt gift and it will be received to take away his sins.

New Revised Standard
You shall lay your hand on the head of the burnt offering, and it shall be acceptable in your behalf as atonement for you.

J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
Then shall he lean his hand, upon the head of the ascending-sacrifice, - and it shall be accepted for him to put a propitiatory covering over him;

Douay-Rheims Bible
And he shall put his hand upon the head of the victim: and it shall be acceptable, and help to its expiation.

Revised Standard Version
he shall lay his hand upon the head of the burnt offering, and it shall be accepted for him to make atonement for him.

New American Standard Bible (1995)
'He shall lay his hand on the head of the burnt offering, that it may be accepted for him to make atonement on his behalf.

Contextual Overview

³ "If his offering is a burnt sacrifice of the herd, let him offer a male without blemish; he shall offer it of his own free will at the door of the tabernacle of meeting before the LORD. ⁴ Then he shall put his hand on the head of the burnt offering, and it will be accepted on his behalf to make atonement for him. ⁵ He shall kill the bull before the LORD; and the priests, Aaron's sons, shall bring the blood and sprinkle the blood all around on the altar that is by the door of the tabernacle of meeting. ⁶ And he shall skin the burnt offering and cut it into its pieces. ⁷ The sons of Aaron the priest shall put fire on the altar, and lay the wood in order on the fire. ⁸ Then the priests, Aaron's sons, shall lay the parts, the head, and the fat in order on the wood that is on the fire upon the altar; ⁹ but he shall wash its entrails and its legs with water. And the priest shall burn all on the altar as a burnt sacrifice, an offering made by fire, a sweet aroma to the LORD.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

put: Leviticus 3:2, Leviticus 3:8, Leviticus 3:13, Leviticus 4:4, Leviticus 4:15, Leviticus 4:24, Leviticus 4:29, Leviticus 8:14, Leviticus 8:22, Leviticus 16:21, Exodus 29:10, Exodus 29:15, Exodus 29:19, Numbers 8:12, Isaiah 53:4-6, 2 Corinthians 5:20, 2 Corinthians 5:21

be accepted: Leviticus 22:21, Leviticus 22:27, Isaiah 56:7, Romans 12:1, Philippians 4:18

atonement: Leviticus 4:20, Leviticus 4:26, Leviticus 4:31, Leviticus 4:35, Leviticus 5:6, Leviticus 6:7, Leviticus 9:7, Leviticus 16:24, Numbers 15:25, Numbers 15:28, Numbers 25:13, 2 Chronicles 29:23, 2 Chronicles 29:24, Daniel 9:24, Romans 3:25, Romans 5:11, Hebrews 10:4, 1 John 2:2

Reciprocal: Exodus 28:38 - accepted Exodus 29:11 - And Leviticus 5:18 - and the priest Leviticus 8:18 - General Leviticus 9:8 - General Leviticus 12:7 - make Numbers 8:10 - General 2 Samuel 21:3 - wherewith Ezekiel 45:15 - to make

Cross-References

Genesis 1:10
And God called the dry land Earth, and the gathering together of the waters He called Seas. And God saw that it was good.

Genesis 1:12
And the earth brought forth grass, the herb that yields seed according to its kind, and the tree that yields fruit, whose seed is in itself according to its kind. And God saw that it was good.

Genesis 1:18
and to rule over the day and over the night, and to divide the light from the darkness. And God saw that it was good.

Genesis 1:25
And God made the beast of the earth according to its kind, cattle according to its kind, and everything that creeps on the earth according to its kind. And God saw that it was good.

Genesis 1:31
Then God saw everything that He had made, and indeed it was very good. So the evening and the morning were the sixth day.

Ecclesiastes 2:13
Then I saw that wisdom excels folly As light excels darkness.

Ecclesiastes 11:7
Truly the light is sweet, And it is pleasant for the eyes to behold the sun;

Gill's Notes on the Bible

And he shall put his hand on the head of the burnt offering,.... According to the Targum of Jonathan, it was his right hand; but it is generally thought by the Jewish writers that both hands were laid on; so Ben Gersom and Aben Ezra, with whom Maimonides e agrees, who says, he that lays on hands ought to lay on with all his strength, with both his hands upon the head of the beast, as it is said, "upon the head of the burnt offering": not upon the neck, nor upon the sides; and there should be nothing between his hands and the beast: and as the same writer says f, it must be his own hand, and not the hand of his wife, nor the hand of his servant, nor his messenger; and who also observes g, that at the same time he made confession over the burnt offering both of his sins committed against affirmative and negative precepts: and indeed by this action he owned that he had sinned, and deserved to die as that creature he brought was about to do, and that he expected pardon of his sin through the death of the great sacrifice that was a type of. Moreover, this action signified the transferring of his sins from himself to this sacrifice, which was to be offered up to make atonement for them; so Gersom observes; see Leviticus 16:21. This denotes the translation of our sins from us, and the imputation of them to Christ, who was offered up in our room and stead, to make atonement for them, as follows:

and it shall be accepted for him to make atonement for him: that is, the burnt offering should be accepted in his room and stead, and hereby an atonement of his sins should be made for him, typical of that true, real, and full atonement made by the sacrifice of Christ, which this led his faith unto.

e Hilchot Maaseh Hakorbanot, c. 3. sect. 13. f Hilchot Maaseh Hakorbanot, c. 3. sect. 8. Vid. T. Bab. Menachot, fol. 93. 2. g Ib. sect. 14.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

And he shall put his hand upon the head of the burnt offering - The usual ceremony. By it the sacrificer identified himself with his victim Leviticus 3:2, Leviticus 3:8; Leviticus 4:15; Leviticus 8:14; Romans 12:1.

To make atonement for him - This phrase belongs more especially to the sin-offerings and the trespass-offerings (compare Leviticus 4:20, Leviticus 4:26, Leviticus 4:31, Leviticus 4:35; Leviticus 5:16, Leviticus 5:18; Leviticus 6:7, etc.) It is not used in reference to the peace-offerings, and but rarely in reference to the burnt-offerings. It should be noticed that it is here introduced in close connection with the imposition of hands by the worshipper, not, as it is when it refers to the sin-offering, with the special functions of the priest, Leviticus 4:26, Lev 4:35; 2 Chronicles 29:23.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Leviticus 1:4. He shall put his hand upon the head of the burnt-offering — By the imposition of hands the person bringing the victim acknowledged,

1. The sacrifice as his own.

2. That he offered it as an atonement for his sins.

3. That he was worthy of death because he had sinned, having forfeited his life by breaking the law.

4. That he entreated God to accept the life of the innocent animal in place of his own.

5. And all this, to be done profitably, must have respect to HIM whose life, in the fulness of time, should be made a sacrifice for sin.

6. The blood was to be sprinkled round about upon the altar, Leviticus 1:5, as by the sprinkling of blood the atonement was made; for the blood was the life of the beast, and it was always supposed that life went to redeem life. Exodus 29:10.

On the required perfection of the sacrifice Exodus 12:5.

It has been sufficiently remarked by learned men that almost all the people of the earth had their burnt-offerings, on which also they placed the greatest dependence. It was a general maxim through the heathen world, that there was no other way to appease the incensed gods; and they sometimes even offered human sacrifices, from the supposition, as Caesar expresses it, that life was necessary to redeem life, and that the gods would be satisfied with nothing less. "Quod pro vita hominis nisi vita hominis redditur, non posse aliter deorum immortalium numen placari arbitrantur." - Com. de Bell. Gal., lib. vi. But this was not the case only with the Gauls, for we see, by Ovid, Fast., lib. vi., that it was a commonly received maxim among more polished people: -

"--------Pro parvo victima parva cadit.

Cor pro corde, precor, pro fibris sumite fibras.

Hanc animam vobis pro meliore damus."

See the whole of this passage in the above work, from ver. 135 to 163.