Leviticus 3:2

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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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lay: Leviticus 1:4, Leviticus 1:5, Leviticus 8:22, Leviticus 16:21, Leviticus 16:22, Exodus 29:10, Isaiah 53:6, 2 Corinthians 5:21, 1 John 1:9, 1 John 1:10

kill it: Leviticus 1:11, Zechariah 12:10, Acts 2:36-38, Acts 3:15, Acts 3:26, Acts 4:10-12, Acts 4:26-28

Reciprocal: Exodus 24:6 - on the altar Leviticus 3:8 - he shall Leviticus 3:13 - sprinkle Leviticus 4:24 - in the place Leviticus 7:2 - and the Leviticus 8:15 - he slew it Leviticus 17:6 - sprinkle Numbers 18:17 - thou shalt

Cross-References

Psalms 58:4
Their venom is like the poison of a serpent, like a cobra that shuts its ears,

Gill's Notes on the Bible

And he shall lay his hand upon the head of his offering,.... "His right hand with strength", the Targum of Jonathan says; perhaps both his hands were imposed; the Septuagint and Arabic versions read it in the plural number, "hands"; this same rite was used in the sacrifice of burnt offering, :-; which might be done in any place in the court where it was slain, only with this difference: according to Maimonides d, there was no confession of sin made at laying on of hands upon the peace offerings, but words of praise were spoken:

and kill it at the door of the congregation; it seems as if it was not the priest, but the owner that brought it, and laid his hands on it, that killed it; and so the last mentioned writer says, that slaying the peace offering by a stranger was right; and as he and others e say, it might be slain in any part of the court; it was not obliged to be slain in the north part of it, as the burnt offering was, Leviticus 1:11

and Aaron's sons the priests shall sprinkle the blood upon the altar round about; in like manner as the blood of the burnt offering was, and it was done with two sprinklings, which were as four f; Leviticus 1:11- : this was typical of the blood of Christ, called "the blood of sprinkling".

d Maaseh Hakorbanot, c. 3. sect. 15. e Misn. Zebachim, c. 5. sect. 7. f Misn. ib.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Kill it at the door ... - See Leviticus 1:3. Tradition says that the peace-offerings might be killed in any part of the court.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Leviticus 3:2. Lay his hand upon the head of his offering — See this rite explained, Exodus 29:10; Exodus 29:10, and "Leviticus 1:4". "As the burnt-offering, (chap. i.,)" says Mr. Ainsworth, "figured our reconciliation to God by the death of Christ, and the meat-offering, (chap. ii.,) our sanctification in him before God, so this peace-offering signified both Christ's oblation of himself whereby he became our peace and salvation, (Ephesians 2:14-16; Acts 13:47; Hebrews 5:9; Hebrews 9:28,) and our oblation of praise, thanksgiving, and prayer unto God."