Leviticus 22:19 you must present a male without defect from the cattle, sheep or goats in order that it may be accepted on your behalf.

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Parallel Verses

New International Version
you must present a male without defect from the cattle, sheep or goats in order that it may be accepted on your behalf.

English Standard Version
if it is to be accepted for you it shall be a male without blemish, of the bulls or the sheep or the goats.

New American Standard Bible
for you to be accepted-- it must be a male without defect from the cattle, the sheep, or the goats.

King James Bible
Ye shall offer at your own will a male without blemish, of the beeves, of the sheep, or of the goats.

Holman Christian Standard Bible
must offer an unblemished male from the cattle, sheep, or goats in order for you to be accepted.

International Standard Version
so that he'll be sure to be accepted, he is to offer a male without defect from the bulls, the lambs, and the goats.

American Standard Version
that ye may be accepted, ye shall offer a male without blemish, of the bullocks, of the sheep, or of the goats.

Douay-Rheims Bible
To be offered by you, it shall be a male without blemish of the beeves, or of the sheep, or of the goats.

Darby Bible Translation
it shall be for your acceptance, without blemish, a male of the oxen, of the sheep, and of the goats.

Young's Literal Translation
at your pleasure a perfect one, a male of the herd, of the sheep or of the goats;

Commentaries

Matthew Henry's Commentary

22:1-33 Laws concerning the priests and sacrifices. - In this chapter we have divers laws concerning the priests and sacrifices, all for preserving the honour of the sanctuary. Let us recollect with gratitude that our great High Priest cannot be hindered by any thing from the discharge of his office. Let us also remember, that the Lord requires us to reverence his name, his truths, his ordinances, and commandments. Let us beware of hypocrisy, and examine ourselves concerning our sinful defilements, seeking to be purified from them in the blood of Christ, and by his sanctifying Spirit. Whoever attempts to expiate his own sin, or draws near in the pride of self-righteousness, puts as great an affront on Christ, as he who comes to the Lord's table from the gratification of sinful lusts. Nor can the minister who loves the souls of the people, suffer them to continue in this dangerous delusion. He must call upon them, not only to repent of their sins, and forsake them; but to put their whole trust in the atonement of Christ, by faith in his name, for pardon and acceptance with God; thus only will the Lord make them holy, as his own people.

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown

19. Ye shall offer at your own will—rather, to your being accepted.

a male without blemish—This law (Le 1:3) is founded on a sense of natural propriety, which required the greatest care to be taken in the selection of animals for sacrifice. The reason for this extreme caution is found in the fact that sacrifices are either an expression of praise to God for His goodness, or else they are the designed means of conciliating or retaining His favor. No victim that was not perfect in its kind could be deemed a fitting instrument for such purposes if we assume that the significance of sacrifices is derived entirely from their relation to Jehovah. Sacrifices may be likened to gifts made to a king by his subjects, and hence the reasonableness of God's strong remonstrance with the worldly-minded Jews (Mal 1:8). If the tabernacle, and subsequently the temple, were considered the palace of the great King, then the sacrifices would answer to presents as offered to a monarch on various occasions by his subjects; and in this light they would be the appropriate expressions of their feelings towards their sovereign. When a subject wished to do honor to his sovereign, to acknowledge allegiance, to appease his anger, to supplicate forgiveness, or to intercede for another, he brought a present; and all the ideas involved in sacrifices correspond to these sentiments—those of gratitude, of worship, of prayer, of confession and atonement [Bib. Sac.].