Leviticus 22:16
New International Version
by allowing them to eat the sacred offerings and so bring upon them guilt requiring payment. I am the LORD, who makes them holy.’”

New Living Translation
by allowing unauthorized people to eat them. This would bring guilt upon them and require them to pay compensation. I am the LORD who makes them holy.”

English Standard Version
and so cause them to bear iniquity and guilt, by eating their holy things: for I am the LORD who sanctifies them.”

Berean Standard Bible
by allowing the people to eat the sacred offerings and thus to bear the punishment for guilt. For I am the LORD who sanctifies them.”

King James Bible
Or suffer them to bear the iniquity of trespass, when they eat their holy things: for I the LORD do sanctify them.

New King James Version
or allow them to bear the guilt of trespass when they eat their holy offerings; for I the LORD sanctify them.’ ”

New American Standard Bible
and thereby bring upon them punishment for guilt by eating their holy gifts; for I am the LORD who sanctifies them.’”

NASB 1995
and so cause them to bear punishment for guilt by eating their holy gifts; for I am the LORD who sanctifies them.’”

NASB 1977
and so cause them to bear punishment for guilt by eating their holy gifts; for I am the LORD who sanctifies them.’”

Legacy Standard Bible
and so cause them to bear punishment for guilt by eating their holy gifts; for I am Yahweh who makes them holy.’”

Amplified Bible
and so cause them [by neglect of any essential observance] to bear the punishment of guilt when they eat their holy things; for I am the LORD who sanctifies them.’”

Christian Standard Bible
by letting the people eat their holy offerings and having them bear the penalty of restitution. For I am the LORD who sets them apart.”

Holman Christian Standard Bible
by letting the people eat their holy offerings and having them bear the penalty of restitution. For I am Yahweh who sets them apart.”

American Standard Version
and so cause them to bear the iniquity that bringeth guilt, when they eat their holy things: for I am Jehovah who sanctifieth them.

Aramaic Bible in Plain English
And they shall take upon them evil and sins when they eat of their holy things, because I AM LORD JEHOVAH who hallows them.’”

Brenton Septuagint Translation
So should they bring upon themselves the iniquity of trespass in their eating their holy things: for I am the Lord that sanctifies them.

Contemporary English Version
Don't let them become guilty of eating this sacred food. Remember--I am the LORD, the one who makes these offerings holy.

Douay-Rheims Bible
Lest perhaps they bear the iniquity of their trespass, when they shall have eaten the sanctified things. I am the Lord who sanctify them.

English Revised Version
and so cause them to bear the iniquity that bringeth guilt, when they eat their holy things: for I am the LORD which sanctify them.

GOD'S WORD® Translation
They must make those people pay the penalty for their guilt because they have eaten the priests' holy offerings. I am the LORD, who sets them apart as holy."

Good News Translation
by letting any unauthorized people eat them; this would bring guilt and punishment on such people. I am the LORD and I make the offerings holy."

International Standard Version
thereby causing them to bear the punishment of their iniquity for wrongdoing when they eat their sacred things, because I am the LORD, who sets them apart."

JPS Tanakh 1917
and so cause them to bear the iniquity that bringeth guilt, when they eat their holy things; for I am the LORD who sanctify them.

Literal Standard Version
or have caused them to bear the iniquity of the guilt-offering in their eating their holy things; for I [am] YHWH, sanctifying them.”

Majority Standard Bible
by allowing the people to eat the sacred offerings and thus to bear the punishment for guilt. For I am the LORD who sanctifies them.”

New American Bible
nor make them incur a penalty when they eat their sacred offerings. For I, the LORD, make them holy.

NET Bible
and so cause them to incur a penalty for guilt when they eat their holy offerings, for I am the LORD who sanctifies them.'"

New Revised Standard Version
causing them to bear guilt requiring a guilt offering, by eating their sacred donations: for I am the LORD; I sanctify them.

New Heart English Bible
and so cause them to bear the iniquity that brings guilt, when they eat their holy things: for I am the LORD who sanctifies them.'"

Webster's Bible Translation
Or suffer them to bear the iniquity of trespass, when they eat their holy things: for I the LORD do sanctify them.

World English Bible
and so cause them to bear the iniquity that brings guilt when they eat their holy things; for I am Yahweh who sanctifies them.’”

Young's Literal Translation
nor have caused them to bear the iniquity of the guilt-offering in their eating their holy things; for I am Jehovah, sanctifying them.'

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Context
Restrictions Against the Unclean
15The priests must not profane the sacred offerings that the Israelites present to the LORD 16by allowing the people to eat the sacred offerings and thus to bear the punishment for guilt. For I am the LORD who sanctifies them.”

Cross References
Matthew 23:17
You blind fools! Which is greater: the gold, or the temple that makes it sacred?

Exodus 28:38
And it will be worn on Aaron's forehead, so that he may bear the iniquity of the holy things that the sons of Israel consecrate with regard to all their holy gifts. It shall always be on his forehead, so that they may be acceptable before the LORD.

Leviticus 10:17
"Why didn't you eat the sin offering in the holy place? For it is most holy; it was given to you to take away the guilt of the congregation by making atonement for them before the LORD.

Leviticus 22:9
The priests must keep My charge, lest they bear the guilt and die because they profane it. I am the LORD who sanctifies them.

Leviticus 22:17
Then the LORD said to Moses,

Numbers 18:1
So the LORD said to Aaron, "You and your sons and your father's house must bear the iniquity involving the sanctuary. And you and your sons alone must bear the iniquity involving your priesthood.

Numbers 18:32
Once you have presented the best part of it, you will not incur guilt because of it. But you must not defile the sacred offerings of the Israelites, or else you will die.'"


Treasury of Scripture

Or suffer them to bear the iniquity of trespass, when they eat their holy things: for I the LORD do sanctify them.

bear

Leviticus 7:18
And if any of the flesh of the sacrifice of his peace offerings be eaten at all on the third day, it shall not be accepted, neither shall it be imputed unto him that offereth it: it shall be an abomination, and the soul that eateth of it shall bear his iniquity.

Psalm 38:4
For mine iniquities are gone over mine head: as an heavy burden they are too heavy for me.

Isaiah 53:11,12
He shall see of the travail of his soul, and shall be satisfied: by his knowledge shall my righteous servant justify many; for he shall bear their iniquities…

for I

Leviticus 22:9
They shall therefore keep mine ordinance, lest they bear sin for it, and die therefore, if they profane it: I the LORD do sanctify them.

Leviticus 20:8
And ye shall keep my statutes, and do them: I am the LORD which sanctify you.

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Leviticus 22
1. The priests in their uncleanness must abstain from the holy things
6. How they shall be cleansed
10. Who of the priest's house may eat of the holy things
17. The sacrifices must be without blemish
26. The age of the sacrifice
29. The law of eating the sacrifice of thanksgiving














(16) Or suffer them to bear the iniquity of trespass.--Better, Moreover, they shall not cause them to bear the iniquity. That is, not only are the priests themselves prohibited to treat with profanity the sacred gifts, but they are to realise that it is incumbent upon them to guard these sacrifices so carefully as not to cause the Israelites to contract sin by transgressing the laws by eating holy things which are put in their way through culpable negligence.



Parallel Commentaries ...


Hebrew
by allowing the people to eat
בְּאָכְלָ֖ם (bə·’ā·ḵə·lām)
Preposition-b | Verb - Qal - Infinitive construct | third person masculine plural
Strong's 398: To eat

the sacred offerings
קָדְשֵׁיהֶ֑ם (qā·ḏə·šê·hem)
Noun - masculine plural construct | third person masculine plural
Strong's 6944: A sacred place, thing, sanctity

and thus to bear
וְהִשִּׂ֤יאוּ (wə·hiś·śî·’ū)
Conjunctive waw | Verb - Hifil - Conjunctive perfect - third person common plural
Strong's 5375: To lift, carry, take

the punishment
עֲוֺ֣ן (‘ă·wōn)
Noun - common singular construct
Strong's 5771: Iniquity, guilt, punishment for iniquity

for guilt.
אַשְׁמָ֔ה (’aš·māh)
Noun - feminine singular
Strong's 819: Guiltiness, a fault, the presentation of a, sin-offering

For
כִּ֛י (kî)
Conjunction
Strong's 3588: A relative conjunction

I
אֲנִ֥י (’ă·nî)
Pronoun - first person common singular
Strong's 589: I

am the LORD
יְהוָ֖ה (Yah·weh)
Noun - proper - masculine singular
Strong's 3068: LORD -- the proper name of the God of Israel

who sanctifies
מְקַדְּשָֽׁם׃ (mə·qad·də·šām)
Verb - Piel - Participle - masculine singular construct | third person masculine plural
Strong's 6942: To be set apart or consecrated

them.’”
פ (p̄)
Punctuation
Strong's Hebrew


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