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Leviticus 3:12
12“If his offering is a goat, he is to present it before the Lord.
Leviticus 3:12 in other versions
- King James Version (KJV)And if his offering be a goat, then he shall offer it before the Lord.
- New International Version (NIV)“ ‘If your offering is a goat, you are to present it before the Lord,
- English Standard Version (ESV)"If his offering is a goat, then he shall offer it before the Lord
- New King James Version (NKJV)‘And if his offering is a goat, then he shall offer it before the Lord.
Context of Leviticus 3:12
10the two kidneys with the fat on them at the loins, and the fatty lobe of the liver above the kidneys. 11Then the priest will burn the food on the altar, as a food offering to the Lord. “If his offering is a goat, he is to present it before the Lord. 13He must lay his hand on its head and slaughter it before the tent of meeting. Aaron’s sons will splatter its blood on all sides of the altar. 14He will present part of his offering as a food offering to the Lord: the fat surrounding the entrails, all the fat that is on the entrails,
Read all of Leviticus 3Leviticus 3:12 word by word
וְאִ֥ם עֵ֖ז קָרְבָּנ֑וֹ וְהִקְרִיב֖וֹ לִפְנֵ֥י יְהוָֽה׃Read the interlinear
Words taken from the KJV.
Cross-references for Leviticus 3:12
- Leviticus 3:1“If his offering is a fellowship sacrifice, and he is presenting an animal from the herd, whether male or female, he is to present one without blemish before the Lord.
- Leviticus 1:2“Speak to the Israelites and tell them: When any of you brings an offering to the Lord from the livestock, you may bring your offering from the herd or the flock.
- Leviticus 9:3And tell the Israelites: Take a male goat for a sin offering; a calf and a lamb, male yearlings without blemish, for a burnt offering;
- Leviticus 10:16Then Moses inquired carefully about the male goat of the sin offering, but it had already been burned up. He was angry with Eleazar and Ithamar, Aaron’s surviving sons, and asked,
- Leviticus 22:19must offer an unblemished male from the cattle, sheep, or goats in order for you to be accepted.
- Isaiah 53:2He grew up before him like a young plant and like a root out of dry ground. He didn’t have an impressive form or majesty that we should look at him, no appearance that we should desire him.
- Matthew 25:32All the nations will be gathered before him, and he will separate them one from another, just as a shepherd separates the sheep from the goats.
- Romans 8:3For what the law could not do since it was weakened by the flesh, God did. He condemned sin in the flesh by sending his own Son in the likeness of sinful flesh as a sin offering,
- 2 Corinthians 5:21He made the one who did not know sin to be sin for us, so that in him we might become the righteousness of God.
Commentaries on Leviticus 3:12
- Adam Clarke Bible Commentary · v. 12A goat - Implying the whole species, he-goat, she-goat, and kid, as we have already seen.Read the comment
- Barnes’ Notes on the Bible · v. 12See Leviticus 1:10 note. Birds were not accepted as peace-offerings, most probably because they were, by themselves, insufficient to make up a sacrificial meal.Read the comment
- Matthew Henry Concise Commentary · v. 6-17Verses 6-17 Here is a law that they should eat neither fat nor blood. As for the fat, it means the fat of the inwards, the suet. The blood was forbidden for the same reason; because it was God's part of every sacrifice. God would not permit the blood that made atonement to be used as a common thing, He 10:29; nor will he allow us, though we have the comfort of the atonement made, to claim for ourselves any share in the honour of making it. This taught the…Read the comment
- Tyndale Open Study Notes · v. 12-16The offering of goats followed a similar pattern to that of cattle and sheep. People considered both goats and sheep as offerings from the flock (see Leviticus 3:6).Read the comment
- Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary · v. 1212. if his offering be a goat--Whether this or any of the other two animals were chosen, the same general directions were to be followed in the ceremony of offering.Read the comment
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Commentaries on Leviticus 3
- Adam Clarke Bible Commentary
- Barnes’ Notes on the Bible
- Matthew Henry Concise Commentary
- Tyndale Open Study Notes
- Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary
- Rashi on Tanakh
- Calvin’s Commentaries
- Keil & Delitzsch Commentary
- John Wesley’s Notes
- Darby Translation Notes
- Geneva Bible Translation Notes
- Kingcomments
- Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary
- Matthew Henry’s Modern English Commentary
- Scofield Reference Notes, 1917 Edition
- Seventh-day Adventist Bible Commentary
- EGW Writings
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