Leviticus 22:24 BSB

Leviticus 22:24

You are not to present to the LORD an animal whose testicles are bruised, crushed, torn, or cut; you are not to sacrifice them in your land.

BSB

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ASV

That which hath its stones bruised, or crushed, or broken, or cut, ye shall not offer unto Jehovah; neither shall ye do thus in your land.

KJV

Ye shall not offer unto the Lord that which is bruised, or crushed, or broken, or cut; neither shall ye make any offering thereof in your land.

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Commentary

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John Gill

1697–1771

Exposition of the Old Testament (1748-1763)

Ye shall not offer unto the Lord that which bruised, or crushed, or broken, or cut,.... The Targum of Jonathan is, whose testicles are pressed and bruised, and whose nerves are corrupted and bruised, and so most Jewish writers interpret it: neither shall you make any offering thereof in your land; any offering of any sort, either burnt offering or peace offering, or any other; or ye shall not do, that is, any such thing as here suggested, not bruise, or crush, or break, or cut the testicles of any creature; so the above writers.

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Original language & word study

10 tagged words

Original	Transliteration	Meaning	Word study
וּמָע֤וּךְ	u.ma.'Ukh	and [one which] is squashed	H4600 →
וְכָתוּת֙	ve.kha.Tut	and [one which] is crushed	H3807 →
וְנָת֣וּק	ve.na.Tuk	and [one which] is torn	H5423 →
וְכָר֔וּת	ve.kha.Rut	and [one which] is cut	H3772 →
לֹ֥א	lo'	not	H3808 →
תַקְרִ֖יבוּ	tak.Ri.vu	you will present	H7126 →
לַֽיהוָ֑ה	la.Yah.weh	to Yahweh	H3068 →
וּֽבְאַרְצְכֶ֖ם	u.ve.'ar.tze.Khem	and in land your	H776 →
לֹ֥א	lo'	not	H3808 →
תַעֲשֽׂוּ׃	ta.'a.Su	you will do [it]	H6213 →

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Where the connections lead

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Through
Leviticus 22:20
You must not present anything with a defect, because it will not be accepted on your behalf.
leads to
- Deuteronomy 17:1
  You shall not sacrifice to the LORD your God an ox or a sheep with any defect or serious flaw, for that is detestable to the LORD your God.
- Malachi 1:8
  When you offer blind animals for sacrifice, is it not wrong? And when you present the lame and sick ones, is it not wrong? Try offering them to your governor! Would he be pleased…
- 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.
- 1 Peter 1:19
  but with the precious blood of Christ, a lamb without blemish or spot.
- 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!
Through
Deuteronomy 23:1
No man with crushed or severed genitals may enter the assembly of the LORD.
leads to
- Galatians 3:28
  There is neither Jew nor Greek, slave nor free, male nor female, for you are all one in Christ Jesus.
- Isaiah 56:3–4
  Let no foreigner who has joined himself to the LORD say, “The LORD will utterly exclude me from His people.” And let the eunuch not say, “I am but a dry tree.”
Through
Leviticus 21:20
or who is a hunchback or dwarf, or who has an eye defect, a festering rash, scabs, or a crushed testicle.
leads to
- Deuteronomy 23:1
  No man with crushed or severed genitals may enter the assembly of the LORD.

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Moses and Aaron Appear before Pharaoh — Gustave Doré, Doré's English Bible (1866), public domain

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