New Living Translation
Leviticus 3:12
12“If you present a goat as your offering, bring it to 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 and the fat around them near the loins, and the long lobe of the liver. These must be removed with the kidneys, 11and the priest will burn them on the altar. It is a special gift of food presented to the Lord. “If you present a goat as your offering, bring it to the Lord, 13lay your hand on its head, and slaughter it in front of the Tabernacle. Aaron’s sons will then splatter the goat’s blood against all sides of the altar. 14The priest must present part of this offering as a special gift to the Lord. This includes all the fat around the internal organs,
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 you present an animal from the herd as a peace offering to the Lord, it may be a male or a female, but it must have no defects.
- Leviticus 1:2“Give the following instructions to the people of Israel. When you present an animal as an offering to the Lord, you may take it from your herd of cattle or your flock of sheep and goats.
- Leviticus 9:3Then tell the Israelites, ‘Take a male goat for a sin offering, and take a calf and a lamb, both a year old and without defects, for a burnt offering.
- Leviticus 10:16Moses then asked them what had happened to the goat of the sin offering. When he discovered it had been burned up, he became very angry with Eleazar and Ithamar, Aaron’s remaining sons.
- Leviticus 22:19you will be accepted only if your offering is a male animal with no defects. It may be a bull, a ram, or a male goat.
- Isaiah 53:2My servant grew up in the Lord’s presence like a tender green shoot, like a root in dry ground. There was nothing beautiful or majestic about his appearance, nothing to attract us to him.
- Matthew 25:32All the nations will be gathered in his presence, and he will separate the people as a shepherd separates the sheep from the goats.
- Romans 8:3The law of Moses was unable to save us because of the weakness of our sinful nature. So God did what the law could not do. He sent his own Son in a body like the bodies we sinners have. And in that body God declared an end to sin’s control over us by giving his Son as a sacrifice for our sins.
- 2 Corinthians 5:21For God made Christ, who never sinned, to be the offering for our sin, so that we could be made right with God through Christ.
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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