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Leviticus 19:5

in Leviticus 19

When you sacrifice a peace offering to the LORD, you shall offer it for your acceptance.

BSB

The same verse in ASV and KJV

ASV

And when ye offer a sacrifice of peace-offerings unto Jehovah, ye shall offer it that ye may be accepted.

KJV

And if ye offer a sacrifice of peace offerings unto the Lord, ye shall offer it at your own will.

This verse in Leviticus 19

Commentary

6 notes on this verse

This site's exposition

if ye offer a sacrifice of peace offerings

on Leviticus 19:5-8

A rule about sacrifice sits in the middle of a chapter about neighbours. The peace offering is eaten on the day it is offered and on the morrow, what remains to the third day is burnt, and eating it then makes the whole offering abominable and unaccepted. Matthew Henry reads that as an offering made according to the law and then lost by what the offerer did afterwards. The verses on theft and lying that follow name no penalty at all, and this one names bearing iniquity and being cut off from among his people.

The record, by era

The Puritans and the Awakening2 voices

And if ye offer a sacrifice of peace offerings unto the Lord,.... Which were of three sorts, a thanksgiving, a vow, and a voluntary offering, Lev 7:11; the latter seems to be here meant, as appears by what follows: ye shall offer it at your own will; a voluntary freewill offering, of their own accord, and not by force, as Aben Ezra; and in such offerings they were left to their liberty to offer what they pleased, it might be of the flock, or of the herd, a male or a female, Lev 3:

A commentator

Matthew Henry

1662–1714

Commentary on the Whole Bible (1710)

proposed

Though the sacrifice was offered according to the law, if it was not eaten according to the law, it was not accepted. Though ministers do their part, what the better if people do not theirs? There is work to be done after our spiritual sacrifices, in a due improvement of them; and, if this be neglected, all is in vain.

The Nineteenth Century3 voices

A commentator

Jamieson, Fausset & Brown

1802–1910

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible (1871)

proposed

if ye offer a sacrifice of peace offerings unto the Lord, ye shall offer it at your own will--Those which included thank offerings, or offerings made for vows, were always freewill offerings.

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A commentator

Adam Clarke

1762–1832

Commentary on the Bible · Written before 1832.

proposed

Peace-offerings - See the notes at the conclusion of Leviticus 7 at Lev 7:38 (note).
Rather, ye shall offer it that you may be accepted.

The words behind it

7 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.

  • וְכִ֧יand if

    vekhiH35884482 times

  • תִזְבְּח֛וּyou will sacrifice

    tizbechuH2076134 times

  • זֶ֥בַחa sacrifice of

    zevachH2077162 times

  • שְׁלָמִ֖יםpeace offering<s>

    shelamimH800287 times

  • לַיהוָ֑הto Yahweh

    layahwehH30686520 times

  • לִֽרְצֹנְכֶ֖םfor acceptance your

    lirtzonekhemH752256 times

  • תִּזְבָּחֻֽהוּ׃you will sacrifice it

    tizbachuhuH2076134 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 1:3

    If one’s offering is a burnt offering from the herd, he is to present an unblemished male. He must bring it to the entrance to the Tent of Meeting for its acceptance before the…

    it leads to

    • Exodus 12:5

      Your lamb must be an unblemished year-old male, and you may take it from the sheep or the goats.

      Reached by 2 separate paths from here.

    • Deuteronomy 15:21

      But if an animal has a defect, is lame or blind, or has any serious flaw, you must not sacrifice it to the LORD your God.

    • Ephesians 5:27

      and to present her to Himself as a glorious church, without stain or wrinkle or any such blemish, but holy and blameless.

      Reached by 2 separate paths from here.

    • Hebrews 9:14

      how much more will the blood of Christ, who through the eternal Spirit offered Himself unblemished to God, purify our consciences from works of death, so that we may serve the living God!

    • Leviticus 22:19–24

      must offer an unblemished male from the cattle, sheep, or goats in order for it to be accepted on your behalf.

  • Through

    Leviticus 22:19

    must offer an unblemished male from the cattle, sheep, or goats in order for it to be accepted on your behalf.

    it leads to

    • Leviticus 1:3

      If one’s offering is a burnt offering from the herd, he is to present an unblemished male. He must bring it to the entrance to the Tent of Meeting for its acceptance before the…

  • Through

    Leviticus 7:16

    If, however, the sacrifice he offers is a vow or a freewill offering, it shall be eaten on the day he presents his sacrifice, but the remainder may be eaten on the next day.

    it leads to

    • Deuteronomy 12:6

      To that place you are to bring your burnt offerings and sacrifices, your tithes and heave offerings, your vow offerings and freewill offerings, as well as the firstborn of your herds and flocks.

  • Through

    Leviticus 22:29

    When you sacrifice a thank offering to the LORD, offer it so that it may be acceptable on your behalf.

    it leads to

    • Psalms 107:22

      Let them offer sacrifices of thanksgiving and declare His works with rejoicing.

Where this verse is studied

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 Adam Clarke, Commentary on the Bible; Albert Barnes, Notes, Explanatory and Practical, on the Old and New Testaments (1832-1869); 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.