Leviticus 3:1

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Contextual Overview

¹If one's offering is a peace offering and he offers an animal from the herd, whether male or female, he must present it without blemish before the LORD.²He is to lay his hand on the head of the offering and slaughter it at the entrance to the Tent of Meeting. Then Aaron's sons the priests shall sprinkle the blood on all sides of the altar. ³From the peace offering he is to bring an offering made by fire to the LORD: the fat surrounding the entrails, all the fat that is on the entrails, ⁴both kidneys with the fat on them near the loins, and the lobe of the liver, which he shall also remove with the kidneys. ⁵Then Aaron's sons are to burn it on the altar atop the burnt offering that is on the burning wood, as an offering made by fire, a pleasing aroma to the LORD.

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a sacrifice: Leviticus 7:11-21, Leviticus 7:29-34, Leviticus 22:19-21, Exodus 20:24, Exodus 24:5, Exodus 29:28, Numbers 6:14, Numbers 7:17, Judges 20:26, Judges 21:4, 1 Chronicles 21:26, Proverbs 7:14, Ezekiel 45:15, Amos 5:22, Romans 5:1, Romans 5:2, Colossians 1:20, 1 John 1:3

without: Leviticus 1:3, Numbers 6:14, Malachi 1:8, Malachi 1:14, Hebrews 10:22

Reciprocal: Genesis 15:9 - General Leviticus 3:6 - be of Leviticus 3:7 - offer it Leviticus 3:12 - a goat Leviticus 3:13 - lay his hand Leviticus 7:37 - sacrifice Leviticus 9:4 - a bullock Leviticus 9:18 - a sacrifice Leviticus 17:5 - and offer them Leviticus 19:5 - a sacrifice Leviticus 22:21 - peace Leviticus 23:19 - two lambs Numbers 15:8 - peace Deuteronomy 27:7 - peace offerings 1 Kings 3:15 - peace offerings 1 Kings 8:63 - a sacrifice 2 Chronicles 33:16 - peace

Cross-References

Genesis 3:13
Then the LORD God said to the woman, "What is this you have done?" "The serpent deceived me," she replied, "and I ate."

Genesis 3:15
And I will put enmity between you and the woman, and between your seed and her seed. He will crush your head, and you will strike his heel."

Ecclesiastes 4:10
For if one falls down, his companion can lift him up; but pity the one who falls without another to help him up!

Isaiah 27:1
In that day the LORD will take His sharp, great, and mighty sword, and bring judgment on Leviathan, the fleeing serpent-Leviathan, the coiling serpent-and He will slay the dragon of the sea.

Matthew 4:3
The tempter came to Him and said, "If You are the Son of God, tell these stones to become bread."

Matthew 4:6
"If You are the Son of God," he said, "throw Yourself down. For it is written: 'He will command His angels concerning You, and they will lift You up in their hands, so that You will not strike Your foot against a stone.'"

Matthew 4:9
"All this I will give You," he said, "if You will fall down and worship me."

Matthew 10:16
Behold, I am sending you out like sheep among wolves; therefore be as shrewd as snakes and as innocent as doves.

2 Corinthians 11:14
And no wonder, for Satan himself masquerades as an angel of light.

1 Peter 3:7
Husbands, in the same way, treat your wives with consideration as a delicate vessel, and with honor as fellow heirs of the gracious gift of life, so that your prayers will not be hindered.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

And if his oblation [be] a sacrifice of peace offering,.... The Targums of Onkelos and Jonathan render it, the "sacrifice of holinesses", or "sanctifications"; so called, not because they were more holy than other sacrifices; for they were what the Jews c call the lighter holy things, in distinction from the most holy things, such as the meat offerings were, Leviticus 2:10 but as Ainsworth suggests, either because none but holy persons might eat of them, Leviticus 7:19 though this also was enjoined in other sacrifices, or because hereby the name of God was sanctified. These offerings were either by way of thanksgiving for favours received, or for free devotion, or as a vow, and in order to obtain for himself that offered and family health and safety, peace and prosperity, see Leviticus 7:11 all which the word used signifies; and these sacrifices are by the Septuagint called "sacrifices of salvation" or "health", because offered either in gratitude for it, or to enjoy it; or else they were offered to make peace and reconciliation, and therefore are called peace offerings, and that they were for this purpose is certain from Ezekiel 45:15 and Gersom says they had their name from hence, because they bring peace between God and men; they were a kind of a pacific festival between God, the priests, and the owner, and were typical of Christ, who has made peace for us by his blood and sacrifice. There is something very offensive to God in sin, it being a breach of his law, and contrary to his nature and will, provoking to the eyes of his glory, deserving of wrath, and death itself, and so not only sets man at a distance from him, but creates an enmity between them; hence a peace offering became necessary; such an one man could not bring acceptable to God; for neither his repentance nor good works would do; but Christ has offered up himself a sacrifice, and thereby has made reconciliation for sin and sinners, and procured peace with God for them; the consequence of which is spiritual peace here, and eternal peace hereafter; and so is a "sacrifice of peaces", as the Hebrew phrase here may be literally rendered, and is the proper antitype and full completion of this sort of sacrifice:

if he offer [it] of the herd; that is, a bullock:

whether [it be] a male or female; as it might be either; showing, as some think, that in Christ Jesus, and in the Gospel churches, and under the Gospel dispensation, there is no distinction of male and female, with respect to blessings and privileges, Galatians 3:28 or rather as others, denoting both strength and weakness in Christ; strength in his obedience, and weakness in his sufferings; strong he was as the man of God's right hand made so by him, and yet was crucified through weakness:

he shall offer it without blemish before the Lord: signifying the perfection and purity of Christ's sacrifice of peace offering in the sight of God: "before the Lord"; this, according to Gersom, was on the west side of the court.

c Misn. Zebachim, c. 5. sect. 7.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

The peace-offering (like the burnt-offering, Leviticus 1:3, and the Minchah, Leviticus 2:1) is here spoken of as if it was familiarly known before the giving of the Law. “Peace-offering” seems preferable to “thank-offering,” which occurs in several places in the margin of our Bible. “thank-offering” appears to be the right name for a subordinate class of peace-offering.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

CHAPTER III

The law of the peace-offering in general, 1-5.

That of the peace-offering taken from the flock, 6-11;

and the same when the offering is a goat, 12-17.

NOTES ON CHAP. III

Verse Leviticus 3:1. Peace-offering — שלמים shelamim, an offering to make peace between God and man; Leviticus 7:38, and Genesis 14:18.