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Leviticus 5:12

in Leviticus 5

He is to bring it to the priest, who shall take a handful from it as a memorial portion and burn it on the altar atop the offerings made by fire to the LORD; it is a sin offering.

BSB

The same verse in ASV and KJV ▾

ASV

And he shall bring it to the priest, and the priest shall take his handful of it as the memorial thereof, and burn it on the altar, upon the offerings of Jehovah made by fire: it is a sin-offering.

KJV

Then shall he bring it to the priest, and the priest shall take his handful of it, even a memorial thereof, and burn it on the altar, according to the offerings made by fire unto the Lord: it is a sin offering.

This verse in Leviticus 5

Commentary

4 notes on this verse

This site's exposition

a tenth of an ephah of fine flour

on Leviticus 5:11-13

Below the birds the text goes down to flour. The offering keeps the name sin offering with no blood, no olive oil and no frankincense.

This site's exposition

who shall take a handful from it as a memorial portion

The poor man's flour is handled like a grain offering in its first step. The priest takes a handful as a memorial portion and burns it on the altar.

The record, by era

The Puritans and the Awakening1 voice

Then shall he bring it to the priest,....

The Nineteenth Century1 voice

A commentator

Jamieson, Fausset & Brown

1802–1910

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible (1871)

proposed

he shall bring his trespass offering unto the Lord for his sins which he hath sinned--A trespass offering differed from a sin offering in the following respects: that it was appointed for persons who had either done evil unwittingly, or were in doubt as to their own criminality; or felt themselves in such a special situation as required sacrifices of that kind [BROWN].

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The words behind it

17 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.

  • וֶהֱבִיאָהּ֮and he will bring it

    veheviahH935 →2568 times

  • אֶל־to

    ʾel-H413 →5510 times

  • הַכֹּהֵן֒the priest

    hakohenH3548 →750 times

  • וְקָמַ֣ץand he will take a handful

    vekamatzH7061 →

  • הַכֹּהֵ֣ן׀the priest

    hakohenH3548 →750 times

  • מִ֠מֶּנָּהfrom it

    mimenahH4480 →1188 times

  • מְל֨וֹא[the] fullness of

    melo'H4393 →38 times

  • קֻמְצ֜וֹhandful his

    kumtzoH7062 →4 times

  • אֶת־<obj.>

    ʾet-H853 →10935 times

  • אַזְכָּרָתָה֙memorial offering its

    ʾazkaratahH234 →7 times

  • וְהִקְטִ֣ירand he will make [it] smoke

    vehiktirH6999 →116 times

  • הַמִּזְבֵּ֔חָהthe altar towards

    hamizbechahH4196 →401 times

  • עַ֖לon

    ʾalH5921 →5755 times

  • אִשֵּׁ֣י[the] fire offerings of

    ʾisheiH801 →65 times

  • יְהוָ֑הYahweh

    yahwehH3068 →6520 times

  • חַטָּ֖את[is] a sin offering

    chatatH2403 →295 times

  • הִֽוא׃it

    hi'H1931 →1879 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

    Leviticus 2:9

    The priest is to remove the memorial portion from the grain offering and burn it on the altar as an offering made by fire, a pleasing aroma to the LORD.

    it leads to

    • Leviticus 2:2

      and bring it to Aaron’s sons the priests. The priest shall take a handful of the flour and oil, together with all the frankincense, and burn this as a memorial portion on the altar,…

  • Through

    Leviticus 4:35

    And he shall remove all the fat, just as the fat of the lamb is removed from the peace offerings, and he shall burn it on the altar along with the offerings made by…

    it leads to

    • Leviticus 4:26

      He must burn all its fat on the altar, like the fat of the peace offerings; thus the priest will make atonement for that man’s sin, and he will be forgiven.

    • Leviticus 4:20

      He shall offer this bull just as he did the bull for the sin offering; in this way the priest will make atonement on their behalf, and they will be forgiven.

  • Through

    Leviticus 2:2

    and bring it to Aaron’s sons the priests. The priest shall take a handful of the flour and oil, together with all the frankincense, and burn this as a memorial portion on the altar,…

    it leads to

    • Leviticus 6:15

      The priest is to remove a handful of fine flour and olive oil, together with all the frankincense from the grain offering, and burn the memorial portion on the altar as a pleasing aroma…

    • Acts 10:4

      Cornelius stared at him in fear and asked, “What is it, Lord?” The angel answered, “Your prayers and gifts to the poor have ascended as a memorial offering before God.

    • Leviticus 2:9

      The priest is to remove the memorial portion from the grain offering and burn it on the altar as an offering made by fire, a pleasing aroma to the LORD.

    • Leviticus 24:7

      And you are to place pure frankincense near each row, so that it may serve as a memorial portion for the bread, an offering made by fire to the LORD.

  • Through

    Leviticus 1:17

    He shall tear it open by its wings, without dividing the bird completely. And the priest is to burn it on the altar atop the burning wood. It is a burnt offering, an offering…

    it leads to

    • Genesis 15:10

      So Abram brought all these to Him, split each of them down the middle, and laid the halves opposite each other. The birds, however, he did not cut in half.

Where this verse is studied

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About Leviticus

The Scapegoat, William Holman Hunt, 1854. Public domain.
The Scapegoat, William Holman Hunt, 1854. Public domain.

This page draws on Adam Clarke, Commentary on the Bible; Andrew Bonar, A Commentary on Leviticus; Jamieson, Fausset & Brown, Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible; John Gill, Exposition of the Old Testament and John Gill, Exposition of the Old Testament (1748-1763).