Leviticus 22:20

Webster's Bible Translation

[But] whatever hath a blemish, [that] shall ye not offer: for it shall not be acceptable for you.

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.

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 And the LORD spoke to Moses, saying, ¹⁸ Speak to Aaron, and to his sons, and to all the children of Israel, and say to them, Whoever [he may be] of the house of Israel, or of the strangers in Israel, that will offer his oblation for all his vows, and for all his free-will-offerings, which they will offer to the LORD for a burnt-offering: ¹⁹ [Ye shall offer] at your own will a male without blemish of the beeves, of the sheep, or of the goats. ²⁰ [But] whatever hath a blemish, [that] shall ye not offer: for it shall not be acceptable for you. ²¹ And whoever offereth a sacrifice of peace-offerings to the LORD to accomplish [his] vow, or a free-will-offering in beeves, or sheep, it shall be perfect to be accepted: there shall be in it no blemish. ²² Blind, or broken, or maimed, or having a wen, or scurvy, or scabbed, ye shall not offer these to the LORD, nor make an offering by fire of them upon the altar to the LORD. ²³ Either a bullock, or a lamb that hath any thing superfluous or lacking in his parts, that mayest thou offer [for] a free-will-offering; but for a vow it shall not be accepted. ²⁴ Ye shall not offer to the LORD that which is bruised, or crushed, or broken, or cut; neither shall ye make [any offering thereof] in your land. ²⁵ Neither from a stranger's hand shall ye offer the bread of your God of any of these; because their corruption [is] in them, [and] blemishes [are] in them: they shall not be accepted for you. ²⁶ And the LORD spoke 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 lived seventy years, and begat Abram, Nahor, and Haran.

Genesis 11:29
And Abram and Nahor took them wives: the name of Abram's wife [was] Sarai; and the name of Nahor's wife Milcah, the daughter of Haran, the father of Milcah, and the father of Iscah.

Genesis 24:10
And the servant took ten camels, of the camels of his master, and departed; (for all the goods of his master [were] in his hands:) and he arose, and went to Mesopotamia, to the city of Nahor.

Genesis 24:15
And it came to pass before he had done speaking, that behold, Rebekah came out, who was born to Bethuel son of Milcah, the wife of Nahor, Abraham's brother, with her pitcher upon her shoulder.

Genesis 24:24
And she said to him, I [am] the daughter of Bethuel the son of Milcah, whom she bore to Nahor.

Genesis 31:53
The God of Abraham, and the God of Nahor, the God of their father, judge betwixt us. And Jacob swore by the fear of his father Isaac.

Proverbs 25:25
[As] cold waters to a thirsty soul, so [is] good news 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.