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Leviticus 19:5
5When a person sacrifices a friendship offering to the Lord, he must obey the rules. If he does, the Lord will accept the gift.
Leviticus 19:5 in other versions
- King James Version (KJV)And if ye offer a sacrifice of peace offerings unto the Lord, ye shall offer it at your own will.
- New International Version (NIV)“ ‘When you sacrifice a fellowship offering to the Lord, sacrifice it in such a way that it will be accepted on your behalf.
- English Standard Version (ESV)"When you offer a sacrifice of peace offerings to the Lord, you shall offer it so that you may be accepted.
- New King James Version (NKJV)‘And if you offer a sacrifice of a peace offering to the Lord, you shall offer it of your own free will.
Context of Leviticus 19:5
3Each person must respect his mother and his father. All the people must keep the Sabbath as a day of rest. I am the Lord your God. 4You must not worship idols. You must not use metal to make gods for yourselves. I am the Lord your God. When a person sacrifices a friendship offering to the Lord, he must obey the rules. If he does, the Lord will accept the gift. 6The people must eat the meat on the day that the person offers it. Or they must eat it on the next day. The person must burn any meat that he has not eaten after the second day. 7On the third day, the meat is not clean.
Read all of Leviticus 19Leviticus 19:5 word by word
וְכִ֧י תִזְבְּח֛וּ זֶ֥בַח שְׁלָמִ֖ים לַיהוָ֑ה לִֽרְצֹנְכֶ֖ם תִּזְבָּחֻֽהוּ׃Read the interlinear
Words taken from the KJV.
Cross-references for Leviticus 19:5
- Leviticus 3:1A person might want to give a friendship offering to the Lord. He must take a perfect animal from his group of animals. The animal can be male or female.
- Leviticus 7:16The gift to God may be for a promise. The gift may be because the person loves God. That person will not have to eat it all on the same day. He can eat some of it on the next day.
- Leviticus 22:21When a person brings an animal to the Lord as a special gift, it must be perfect. If it is, God will accept it.
- Exodus 24:5Moses sent young Israelite men to burn animals there, as offerings to the Lord. They also killed young bulls as friendship offerings to the Lord.
- 2 Chronicles 31:2Hezekiah put the priests and the Levites into several groups. Each group had special work to do. Their different jobs were to offer burnt offerings and friendship offerings, and to serve God in other ways. Some of them would thank the Lord and sing songs to praise him at the gates of his temple.
- Ezekiel 45:15Take one sheep from every 200 sheep that feed on the grass in Israel. These gifts will be for grain offerings, for burnt offerings and for friendship offerings. These offerings will cause me to forgive you for your sins. I, the Almighty Lord, tell you to do this.
- Ezekiel 46:2On those days, the ruler will go through the entrance room for this gate. It is his way in from the outside yard. He must stand beside the posts of the gate. The priests will then offer the ruler's burnt offering and his friendship offerings. The ruler will bend down low to worship me while he stands at the gate. Then he will go out. But they must not shut the gate until the evening.
- Ephesians 2:13You were far away from God. But now, God has brought you near to himself, because you belong to Christ Jesus. That is possible because of Christ's death on the cross as a sacrifice.
- Leviticus 1:3A person may want to give a gift to the Lord. That gift must be a male animal from his group of animals. It must be perfect. He must burn the whole animal as a gift to the Lord. The person must bring it to the door of the Tent of Meeting. If he does, the Lord will accept his gift.
- Leviticus 22:19he must give a bull, a sheep or a goat. The gift may be for a promise, or to thank God for something or for a friendship offering. The animal must be perfect.
Commentaries on Leviticus 19:5
- Adam Clarke Bible Commentary · v. 5Peace-offerings - See the notes at the conclusion of Leviticus 7 at Leviticus 7:38; (note).Read the comment
- Barnes’ Notes on the Bible · v. 5Rather, ye shall offer it that you may be accepted.Read the comment
- Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary · v. 5-85-8. 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. Except the portions which, being waved and heaved, became the property of the priests (see Le 3:1-17), the rest of the victim was eaten by the offerer and his friend, under the following regulations, however, that, if thank offerings, they were to be eaten on…Read the comment
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Commentaries on Leviticus 19
- 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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