Leviticus 7:8 The priest who offers a burnt offering for anyone may keep its hide for himself.

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Parallel Verses

New International Version
The priest who offers a burnt offering for anyone may keep its hide for himself.

English Standard Version
And the priest who offers any man’s burnt offering shall have for himself the skin of the burnt offering that he has offered.

New American Standard Bible
'Also the priest who presents any man's burnt offering, that priest shall have for himself the skin of the burnt offering which he has presented.

King James Bible
And the priest that offereth any man's burnt offering, even the priest shall have to himself the skin of the burnt offering which he hath offered.

Holman Christian Standard Bible
As for the priest who presents someone's burnt offering, the hide of the burnt offering he has presented belongs to him; it is the priest's.

International Standard Version
The hide from the burnt offering brought by the offeror is to belong to the priest.

American Standard Version
And the priest that offereth any man's burnt-offering, even the priest shall have to himself the skin of the burnt-offering which he hath offered.

Douay-Rheims Bible
The priest that offereth the victim of holocaust, shall have the skin thereof.

Darby Bible Translation
And as to the priest that presenteth any man's burnt-offering, the skin of the burnt-offering which he hath presented shall be the priest's for himself.

Young's Literal Translation
'And the priest who is bringing near any man's burnt-offering, the skin of the burnt-offering which he hath brought near, it is the priest's, his own;

Commentaries

Matthew Henry's Commentary

7:1-10 In the sin-offering and the trespass-offering, the sacrifice was divided between the altar and the priest; the offerer had no share, as he had in the peace-offerings. The former expressed repentance and sorrow for sin, therefore it was more proper to fast than feast; the peace-offerings denoted communion with a reconciled God in Christ, the joy and gratitude of a pardoned sinner, and the privileges of a true believer.

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown

8. the priest shall have to himself the skin of the burnt offering which he hath offered—All the flesh and the fat of the burnt offerings being consumed, nothing remained to the priest but the skin. It has been thought that this was a patriarchal usage, incorporated with the Mosaic law, and that the right of the sacrificer to the skin of the victim was transmitted from the example of Adam (see on [37]Ge 3:21).