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Leviticus 3:7

in Leviticus 3

If he is presenting a lamb for his offering, he must present it before the LORD.

BSB

The same verse in ASV and KJV ▾

ASV

If he offer a lamb for his oblation, then shall he offer it before Jehovah;

KJV

If he offer a lamb for his offering, then shall he offer it before the Lord.

This verse in Leviticus 3

Commentary

5 notes on this verse
If he offer a lamb for his offering,.... Which was of the flock, and must be of the first year; this is a rule laid down by Maimonides (i), that where ever this word is used in the law, it signifies one of the first year: then shall he offer it before the Lord; bring it into the court, and present it to the priest. (i) Maaseh Hakorbanot, c. 1. sect. 14.

This site's exposition

one’s peace offering to the LORD is from the flock

on Leviticus 3:6-8

The same rite runs again for a sheep, written out in full. A man who can bring a bullock and a man who can bring one lamb are given identical words.

This site's exposition

If he is presenting a lamb for his offering

Verse 6 named the flock, and verse 7 takes the lamb as its first case, with the goat following at verse 12. John Gill records the rule of Maimonides that this word for lamb means an animal in its first year.

The record, by era

The Nineteenth Century2 voices

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].
A lamb - A sheep. The word signifies a full-grown sheep, in its prime.

The words behind it

10 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.

  • אִם־if

    ʾim-H518 →1069 times

  • כֶּ֥שֶׂבa young ram

    kesevH3775 →13 times

  • הֽוּא־he

    hu'-H1931 →1879 times

  • מַקְרִ֖יב[is] presenting

    makrivH7126 →280 times

  • אֶת־<obj.>

    ʾet-H853 →10935 times

  • קָרְבָּנ֑וֹpresent his

    karebanoH7133 →82 times

  • וְהִקְרִ֥יבand he will present

    vehikrivH7126 →280 times

  • אֹת֖וֹ<obj.> it

    ʾotoH853 →10935 times

  • לִפְנֵ֥י<to> before

    lifneiH6440 →2123 times

  • יְהוָֽה׃Yahweh

    yahwehH3068 →6520 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

    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!

    it leads to

    • Hebrews 10:22

      let us draw near with a sincere heart in full assurance of faith, having our hearts sprinkled to cleanse us from a guilty conscience and our bodies washed with pure water.

    • 1 Peter 1:19

      but with the precious blood of Christ, a lamb without blemish or spot.

    • 1 John 1:7

      But if we walk in the light as He is in the light, we have fellowship with one another, and the blood of Jesus His Son cleanses us from all sin.

    • Hebrews 9:12

      He did not enter by the blood of goats and calves, but He entered the Most Holy Place once for all by His own blood, thus securing eternal redemption.

    • 1 Peter 2:24

      He Himself bore our sins in His body on the tree, so that we might die to sin and live to righteousness. “By His stripes you are healed.”

  • Through

    Ephesians 5:2

    and walk in love, just as Christ loved us and gave Himself up for us as a fragrant sacrificial offering to God.

    it leads to

    • John 13:34

      A new commandment I give you: Love one another. As I have loved you, so you also must love one another.

    • Galatians 2:20

      I have been crucified with Christ, and I no longer live, but Christ lives in me. The life I live in the body, I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved…

    • Colossians 3:14

      And over all these virtues put on love, which is the bond of perfect unity.

Where this verse is studied

About Leviticus

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

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); John Gill, Exposition of the Old Testament and Matthew Henry, Commentary on the Whole Bible.