Leviticus 22:19
in Leviticus 22must offer an unblemished male from the cattle, sheep, or goats in order for it to be accepted on your behalf.
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ASV
that ye may be accepted, ye shall offer a male without blemish, of the bullocks, of the sheep, or of the goats.
KJV
Ye shall offer at your own will a male without blemish, of the beeves, of the sheep, or of the goats.
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This verse in Leviticus 22
Commentary
5 notes on this verseA commentator
Albert Barnes1798–1870
Notes, Explanatory and Practical, on the Old and New Testaments (1832-1869)
Ye shall offer at your own will a male - Rather, That it may be accepted (so Lev 22:29) for you it shall be a male. See Lev 1:3. It is the same phrase as in Lev 22:20-21, Lev 22:27.
This site's exposition
Then the LORD said to Moses
on Leviticus 22:17-20
The second speech widens the address to "all the Israelites" and "any foreign resident", because the one who brings the animal chooses it. The standard is "an unblemished male", and verse 20 states the result of missing it: "it will not be accepted on your behalf".
This site's exposition
an unblemished male from the cattle
Albert Barnes renders the clause as that it may be accepted for you, a phrase that recurs at verses 20, 21 and 27. The burnt offering requires a male, as at 1:3. John Gill notes from Ben Gersom that the peace offering of verse 21 need not be a male.
The record, by era
The Puritans and the Awakening1 voice
Ye shall offer at your own will,....
The Nineteenth Century1 voice
A commentator
Jamieson, Fausset & Brown1802–1910
Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible (1871)
proposed
When a subject wished to do honor to his sovereign, to acknowledge allegiance, to appease his anger, to supplicate forgiveness, or to intercede for another, he brought a present; and all the ideas involved in sacrifices correspond to these sentiments--those of gratitude, of worship, of prayer, of confession and atonement [BIB.
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The words behind it
6 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| לִֽרְצֹנְכֶ֑ם | lirtzonekhem | for acceptance your | H7522 → | 56 times |
| תָּמִ֣ים | tamim | unblemished | H8549 → | 91 times |
| זָכָ֔ר | zakhar | a male | H2145 → | 82 times |
| בַּבָּקָ֕ר | babakar | among the cattle | H1241 → | 183 times |
| בַּכְּשָׂבִ֖ים | bakesavim | among the young rams | H3775 → | 13 times |
| וּבָֽעִזִּֽים׃ | uvaizim | and among the goats | H5795 → | 74 times |
לִֽרְצֹנְכֶ֑םfor acceptance your
lirtzonekhemH7522 →56 times
תָּמִ֣יםunblemished
tamimH8549 →91 times
זָכָ֔רa male
zakharH2145 →82 times
בַּבָּקָ֕רamong the cattle
babakarH1241 →183 times
בַּכְּשָׂבִ֖יםamong the young rams
bakesavimH3775 →13 times
וּבָֽעִזִּֽים׃and among the goats
uvaizimH5795 →74 times
A shaded row is a word that stands 400 times or fewer in the Bible.
The walk
8 stopsEach 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
2 Corinthians 5:21God made Him who knew no sin to be sin on our behalf, so that in Him we might become the righteousness of God.
it leads to
- 1 Peter 2:22–24
“He committed no sin, and no deceit was found in His mouth.”
- 1 Peter 3:18
For Christ also suffered for sins once for all, the righteous for the unrighteous, to bring you to God. He was put to death in the body but made alive in the Spirit,
- Romans 5:19
For just as through the disobedience of the one man the many were made sinners, so also through the obedience of the one man the many will be made righteous.
- Galatians 3:13
Christ redeemed us from the curse of the law by becoming a curse for us. For it is written: “Cursed is everyone who is hung on a tree.”
- 1 Corinthians 1:30
It is because of Him that you are in Christ Jesus, who has become for us wisdom from God: our righteousness, holiness, and redemption.
- 1 Peter 2:22–24
Through
Leviticus 1:3If 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
- 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!
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.
- 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.
- Hebrews 9:14
Where this verse is studied
About Leviticus
This page draws on 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 (1748-1763); Keil and Delitzsch, Biblical Commentary on the Old Testament: The Pentateuch and Matthew Henry, Commentary on the Whole Bible.