Leviticus 23:18
in Leviticus 23Along with the bread you are to present seven unblemished male lambs a year old, one young bull, and two rams. They will be a burnt offering to the LORD, together with their grain offerings and drink offerings—an offering made by fire, a pleasing aroma to the LORD.
BSB
The same verse in ASV and KJV ▾
ASV
And ye shall present with the bread seven lambs without blemish a year old, and one young bullock, and two rams: they shall be a burnt-offering unto Jehovah, with their meal-offering, and their drink-offerings, even an offering made by fire, of a sweet savor unto Jehovah.
KJV
And ye shall offer with the bread seven lambs without blemish of the first year, and one young bullock, and two rams: they shall be for a burnt offering unto the Lord, with their meat offering, and their drink offerings, even an offering made by fire, of sweet savour unto the Lord.
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This verse in Leviticus 23
Commentary
3 notes on this verseThis site's exposition
Along with the bread you are to present seven unblemished male lambs
on Leviticus 23:18-20
The fiftieth day carries the fullest set of offerings named for any single day in the chapter: burnt, meat, drink, sin and peace offerings all on one date. The two loaves are waved with two live lambs, and loaves and lambs alike end as holy to the LORD for the priest. The bread of the wheat harvest travels from a farmer's house to a priest's table, which is where the offering of verse 17 actually finishes.
The record, by era
The Puritans and the Awakening2 voices
And the one may be mentioned there, and the other here, to teach us, that the addition of a new sacrifice did not destroy the former, but both were to be offered, as the extraordinary sacrifices of every feast did not hinder the oblation of the daily sacrifice.
And ye shall offer with the bread seven lambs without blemish, of the first year,....
How the passage was read
On Leviticus 23:1-44On Leviticus 23:1-44
The year Israel keeps
This chapter is the calendar of the whole Jewish year, and every feast in it is still on the calendar today. In order: the weekly Sabbath; Passover and Unleavened Bread in spring (now kept as the seder meal and a week without leavened bread); Firstfruits (the first sheaf of barley waved before God); Weeks, in Hebrew Shavuot, fifty days later (Christians know the Greek name: Pentecost); then in autumn the Day of Trumpets (now Rosh Hashanah, the Jewish new year, announced by the ram's-horn trumpet called a shofar), the Day of Atonement (Yom Kippur, the great fast), and Tabernacles, in Hebrew Sukkot, when families still build and eat in leafy backyard booths for a week, remembering the wilderness.
So when the New Testament says Jesus or Paul went up for “the feast,” it means one of these appointments: the same calendar, kept for over three thousand years.
This section is reception history: how the passage was read and kept in the Jewish tradition. Where a reading parts from an essential of the Christian faith, the section says so at that point.
Sources: The Feasts of the LORD (this site's study of all seven) · Mishnah Rosh Hashanah 1:1 (the four new years)
The words behind it
23 Hebrew wordsEvery Hebrew word of this verse in the order it stands, with what it means and the door to its own study. The last column counts the times a word stands in the whole Bible: the rarer the word, the more the places it appears belong together.
| Hebrew | Sound | Meaning | Word study | In the Bible |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| וְהִקְרַבְתֶּ֣ם | vehikravtem | and you will present | H7126 → | 280 times |
| עַל־ | ʾal- | with | H5921 → | 5755 times |
| הַלֶּ֗חֶם | halechem | the bread | H3899 → | 298 times |
| שִׁבְעַ֨ת | shivat | seven | H7651 → | 394 times |
| כְּבָשִׂ֤ים | kevasim | male lambs | H3532 → | 107 times |
| תְּמִימִם֙ | temimim | unblemished | H8549 → | 91 times |
| בְּנֵ֣י | benei | sons of | H1121 → | 4930 times |
| שָׁנָ֔ה | shanah | a year | H8141 → | 877 times |
| וּפַ֧ר | ufar | and a bull | H6499 → | 132 times |
| בֶּן־ | ben- | a young one of | H1121 → | 4930 times |
| בָּקָ֛ר | bakar | [the] herd | H1241 → | 183 times |
| אֶחָ֖ד | ʾechad | one | H259 → | 971 times |
| וְאֵילִ֣ם | veeilim | and rams | H352 → | 187 times |
| שְׁנָ֑יִם | shenayim | two | H8147 → | 768 times |
| יִהְי֤וּ | yihyu | they will be | H1961 → | 3559 times |
| עֹלָה֙ | ʾolah | a burnt offering | H5930 → | 287 times |
| לַֽיהוָ֔ה | layahweh | to Yahweh | H3068 → | 6520 times |
| וּמִנְחָתָם֙ | uminchatam | and grain offering their | H4503 → | 211 times |
| וְנִסְכֵּיהֶ֔ם | veniskeihem | and drink offerings their | H5262 → | 64 times |
| אִשֵּׁ֥ה | ʾisheh | a fire offering of | H801 → | 65 times |
| רֵֽיחַ־ | reiach- | an odor of | H7381 → | 58 times |
| נִיחֹ֖חַ | nichoach | soothing | H5207 → | 43 times |
| לַיהוָֽה׃ | layahweh | to Yahweh | H3068 → | 6520 times |
וְהִקְרַבְתֶּ֣םand you will present
vehikravtemH7126 →280 times
עַל־with
ʾal-H5921 →5755 times
הַלֶּ֗חֶםthe bread
halechemH3899 →298 times
שִׁבְעַ֨תseven
shivatH7651 →394 times
כְּבָשִׂ֤יםmale lambs
kevasimH3532 →107 times
תְּמִימִם֙unblemished
temimimH8549 →91 times
בְּנֵ֣יsons of
beneiH1121 →4930 times
שָׁנָ֔הa year
shanahH8141 →877 times
וּפַ֧רand a bull
ufarH6499 →132 times
בֶּן־a young one of
ben-H1121 →4930 times
בָּקָ֛ר[the] herd
bakarH1241 →183 times
אֶחָ֖דone
ʾechadH259 →971 times
וְאֵילִ֣םand rams
veeilimH352 →187 times
שְׁנָ֑יִםtwo
shenayimH8147 →768 times
יִהְי֤וּthey will be
yihyuH1961 →3559 times
עֹלָה֙a burnt offering
ʾolahH5930 →287 times
לַֽיהוָ֔הto Yahweh
layahwehH3068 →6520 times
וּמִנְחָתָם֙and grain offering their
uminchatamH4503 →211 times
וְנִסְכֵּיהֶ֔םand drink offerings their
veniskeihemH5262 →64 times
אִשֵּׁ֥הa fire offering of
ʾishehH801 →65 times
רֵֽיחַ־an odor of
reiach-H7381 →58 times
נִיחֹ֖חַsoothing
nichoachH5207 →43 times
לַיהוָֽה׃to Yahweh
layahwehH3068 →6520 times
A shaded row is a word that stands 400 times or fewer in the Bible.
Where this verse is studied
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About Leviticus
This page draws on John Gill, Exposition of the Old Testament; John Gill, Exposition of the Old Testament (1748-1763); John Wesley, Explanatory Notes upon the Old Testament and Keil and Delitzsch, Biblical Commentary on the Old Testament: The Pentateuch.