Leviticus 3:7

Leviticus 3:7 in other versions

• King James Version (KJV)If he offer a lamb for his offering, then shall he offer it before the Lord.
• New International Version (NIV)If you offer a lamb, you are to present it before the Lord,
• English Standard Version (ESV)If he offers a lamb for his offering, then he shall offer it before the Lord,
• New King James Version (NKJV)If he offers a lamb as his offering, then he shall offer it before the Lord.

Context of Leviticus 3:7

5The priests, Aaron's sons, will take the pieces. They must put them on top of the gift on the altar. The smell of them while they are burning will give the Lord pleasure. 6If a person wants to give a sheep to the Lord as a friendship offering, it must be perfect. The person can give a male animal or a female animal to the Lord. If it is a young sheep he must offer it to the Lord. 8He must put his hand on its head. Then he must kill it at the front of the Tent of Meeting. Aaron's sons will throw the blood onto the sides of the altar. 9The person must cut the tail off the animal. He must give the tail and all the fat from inside the body to the Lord.

Leviticus 3:7 word by word

אִם־כֶּ֥שֶׂב הֽוּא־מַקְרִ֖יב אֶת־קָרְבָּנ֑וֹ וְהִקְרִ֥יב אֹת֖וֹ לִפְנֵ֥י יְהוָֽה׃Read the interlinear

Words taken from the KJV.

• If he offerקָרַבqârab · to present: bringH7126
• a lambכֶּ֫שֶׂבkeώeb · sheepH3775
• for his offeringקׇרְבָּןqorbân qûrbân · offeringH7133
• it beforeפָּנֶהpânîym · face: beforeH6440
• the Lordיְהֹוָהyehôvâh · LORDH3068

Cross-references for Leviticus 3:7

• 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.
• 1 Kings 8:62Then the king and all the Israelite people who were with him offered sacrifices to the Lord.
• Ephesians 5:2Show that you love other people. Remember how much Christ loved us. He gave himself as a sacrifice on our behalf. He offered himself in a way that pleased God, like a sacrifice with a lovely smell.
• Hebrews 9:14But the blood of Christ's sacrifice will do much more than that! Christ offered himself to God, in the power of his Spirit, who lives for ever. That sacrifice was completely good. There was no wrong thing in Christ. He offered his own blood to make us completely clean inside ourselves. We no longer have to do things that lead to death. Instead, we can serve the God who lives for ever.

Commentaries on Leviticus 3:7

• Barnes’ Notes on the Bible · v. 7A lamb - A sheep. The word signifies a full-grown sheep, in its prime.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. 6-11Sheep were smaller, easier to raise, and less expensive than cattle. Besides the exceptions mentioned in these verses, people offered sheep as sacrifices in the same way as cattle.Read the comment
• Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary · v. 4-114-11. the two kidneys ... of the flock ... the whole rump--There is, in Eastern countries, a species of sheep the tails of which are not less than four feet and a half in length. These tails are of a substance between fat and marrow. A sheep of this kind weighs sixty or seventy English pounds weight, of which the tail usually weighs fifteen pounds and upwards. This species is by far the most numerous in Arabia, Syria, and Palestine, and, forming probably…Read the comment

Topics related to Leviticus 3:7

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In the dictionaries

• Clean
• Food
• Peace offerings
• Criticism
• Exodus, the Book of
• Genesis
• Lamb
• Law in the Old Testament
• Leviticus
• Priests and Levites

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