Tree of Life Version
Leviticus 3:12
12“If his offering is a goat then he shall present it before Adonai.
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
10as well as the two kidneys and the fat that is over them which is by the loins, plus the cover on the liver that he is to remove with the kidneys. 11The kohen is to burn it up as smoke on the altar—as a food offering made by fire to Adonai. “If his offering is a goat then he shall present it before Adonai. 13He is to lay his hand on its head and slaughter it before the Tent of Meeting. Aaron’s sons are to splash its blood around on the altar. 14From it he is to offer as his sacrifice an offering made by fire to Adonai, the fat that covers the innards, 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“Now if his offering is a sacrifice of fellowship offerings, if from the herd, whether male or female, he is to offer one without blemish before Adonai.
- Leviticus 1:2“Speak to Bnei-Yisrael, and tell them: When anyone of you brings an offering to Adonai, you may present your offering of livestock, from the herd or from the flock.
- Leviticus 9:3You are to speak to Bnei-Yisrael, saying: Take a male goat for a sin offering, along with a calf and a lamb, both yearlings without blemish, for a burnt offering,
- Leviticus 10:16Then Moses searched carefully for the goat of the sin offering and noticed it had been burned up. So he snapped at Eleazar and Itamar, the surviving sons of Aaron, saying:
- Leviticus 22:19for you to be accepted—you are to offer a male without blemish, from the bulls, the sheep or the goats.
- Isaiah 53:2For He grew up before Him like a tender shoot, like a root out of dry ground. He had no form or majesty that we should look at Him, nor beauty that we should desire Him.
- Matthew 25:32All the nations will be gathered before Him, and He will separate them from one another, just as the shepherd separates the sheep from the goats.
- Romans 8:3For what was impossible for the Torah—since it was weakened on account of the flesh—God has done. Sending His own Son in the likeness of sinful flesh and as a sin offering, He condemned sin in the flesh—
- 2 Corinthians 5:21He made the One who knew no sin to become a sin offering on our behalf, 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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