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Leviticus 3:6

in Leviticus 3

If, however, one’s peace offering to the LORD is from the flock, he must present a male or female without blemish.

BSB

The same verse in ASV and KJV

ASV

And if his oblation for a sacrifice of peace-offerings unto Jehovah be of the flock; male or female, he shall offer it without blemish.

KJV

And if his offering for a sacrifice of peace offering unto the Lord be of the flock; male or female, he shall offer it without blemish.

This verse in Leviticus 3

Commentary

3 notes on this verse

This site's exposition

if his offering for a sacrifice

on Leviticus 3:6-8

The same rite runs again for a sheep, and the text writes it out in full rather than saying as before. Nothing changes in the hand on the head, the place of killing or the blood on the altar. A man who can bring a bullock and a man who can bring one lamb are given identical words, and the animal is the only thing that differs between them.

The record, by era

The Puritans and the Awakening1 voice

And if his offering, for a sacrifice of peace offering unto Lord, be of the flock,.... As it might be: and be either male or female; which he pleased: he shall offer it without blemish; See Gill on Lev 3:1.

The Nineteenth Century1 voice

A commentator

Jamieson, Fausset & Brown

1802–1910

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible (1871)

proposed

To command by an express law the tail of a certain sheep to be offered in sacrifice to God, might well surprise us; but the wonder ceases, when we are told of those broad-tailed Eastern sheep, and of the extreme delicacy of that part which was so particularly specified in the statute [PAXTON].

The words behind it

12 Hebrew words

Every 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.

  • וְאִם־and if

    veim-H5181069 times

  • מִן־[is] one of

    min-H44801188 times

  • הַצֹּ֧אןthe flock

    hatzonH6629274 times

  • קָרְבָּנ֛וֹpresent his

    karebanoH713382 times

  • לְזֶ֥בַחto a sacrifice of

    lezevachH2077162 times

  • שְׁלָמִ֖יםpeace offering<s>

    shelamimH800287 times

  • לַיהוָ֑הto Yahweh

    layahwehH30686520 times

  • זָכָר֙a male

    zakharH214582 times

  • א֣וֹor

    ʾoH176321 times

  • נְקֵבָ֔הa female

    nekevahH534722 times

  • תָּמִ֖יםunblemished

    tamimH854991 times

  • יַקְרִיבֶֽנּוּ׃he will present it

    yakrivenuH7126280 times

A shaded row is a word that stands 400 times or fewer in the Bible.

The walk

8 stops

Each card is a verse this one points to, and under it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it.

  • Through

    Galatians 3:28

    There is neither Jew nor Greek, slave nor free, male nor female, for you are all one in Christ Jesus.

    it leads to

    • 1 Corinthians 12:12–13

      The body is a unit, though it is composed of many parts. And although its parts are many, they all form one body. So it is with Christ.

    • Colossians 3:11

      Here there is no Greek or Jew, circumcised or uncircumcised, barbarian, Scythian, slave, or free, but Christ is all and is in all.

    • Romans 3:29–30

      Is God the God of Jews only? Is He not the God of Gentiles too? Yes, of Gentiles too,

    • Galatians 5:6

      For in Christ Jesus neither circumcision nor uncircumcision has any value. All that matters is faith, expressed through love.

    • Romans 10:12–15

      For there is no difference between Jew and Greek: The same Lord is Lord of all, and gives richly to all who call on Him,

  • Through

    Galatians 4:4

    But when the time had fully come, God sent His Son, born of a woman, born under the law,

    it leads to

    • Isaiah 7:14

      Therefore the Lord Himself will give you a sign: Behold, the virgin will be with child and will give birth to a son, and will call Him Immanuel.

    • Mark 1:15

      “The time is fulfilled,” He said, “and the kingdom of God is near. Repent and believe in the gospel!”

    • John 1:14

      The Word became flesh and made His dwelling among us. We have seen His glory, the glory of the one and only Son from the Father, full of grace and truth.

About Leviticus

Moses and Aaron Appear before Pharaoh, Gustave Doré, 1866. Public domain.
Moses and Aaron Appear before Pharaoh, Gustave Doré, 1866. Public domain.

This page draws on Jamieson, Fausset & Brown, Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible; John Gill, Exposition of the Old Testament; John Gill, Exposition of the Old Testament (1748-1763) and Matthew Henry, Commentary on the Whole Bible.