Leviticus 1:4
Modern Translations
New International Version
You are to lay your hand on the head of the burnt offering, and it will be accepted on your behalf to make atonement for you.

New Living Translation
Lay your hand on the animal’s head, and the LORD will accept its death in your place to purify you, making you right with him.

English Standard Version
He shall lay his hand on the head of the burnt offering, and it shall be accepted for him to make atonement for him.

Berean Study Bible
He is to lay his hand on the head of the burnt offering, so it can be accepted on his behalf to make atonement for him.

New American Standard Bible
And he shall lay his hand on the head of the burnt offering, so that it may be accepted for him to make atonement on his behalf.

NASB 1995
'He shall lay his hand on the head of the burnt offering, that it may be accepted for him to make atonement on his behalf.

NASB 1977
‘And he shall lay his hand on the head of the burnt offering, that it may be accepted for him to make atonement on his behalf.

Amplified Bible
He shall lay his hand on the head of the burnt offering [transferring symbolically his guilt to the sacrifice], that it may be accepted for him to make atonement on his behalf.

Christian Standard Bible
He is to lay his hand on the head of the burnt offering so it can be accepted on his behalf to make atonement for him.

Holman Christian Standard Bible
He is to lay his hand on the head of the burnt offering so it can be accepted on his behalf to make atonement for him.

Contemporary English Version
Lay your hand on its head, and I will accept the animal as a sacrifice for taking away your sins.

Good News Translation
You shall put your hand on its head, and it will be accepted as a sacrifice to take away your sins.

GOD'S WORD® Translation
Place your hand on the animal's head. The burnt offering will be accepted to make peace with the LORD.

International Standard Version
He is to lay his hand on the head of the burnt offering, and it will be accepted for him as an atonement on his behalf.

NET Bible
He must lay his hand on the head of the burnt offering, and it will be accepted for him to make atonement on his behalf.
Classic Translations
King James Bible
And he shall put his hand upon the head of the burnt offering; and it shall be accepted for him to make atonement for him.

New King James Version
Then he shall put his hand on the head of the burnt offering, and it will be accepted on his behalf to make atonement for him.

King James 2000 Bible
And he shall put his hand upon the head of the burnt offering; and it shall be accepted for him to make atonement for him.

New Heart English Bible
He shall lay his hand on the head of the burnt offering, and it shall be accepted for him to make atonement for him.

World English Bible
He shall lay his hand on the head of the burnt offering, and it shall be accepted for him to make atonement for him.

American King James Version
And he shall put his hand on the head of the burnt offering; and it shall be accepted for him to make atonement for him.

American Standard Version
And he shall lay his hand upon the head of the burnt-offering; and it shall be accepted for him to make atonement for him.

A Faithful Version
And he shall put his hand on the head of the burnt offering. And it shall be accepted for him to make atonement for him.

Darby Bible Translation
And he shall lay his hand on the head of the burnt-offering; and it shall be accepted for him to make atonement for him.

English Revised Version
And he shall lay his hand upon the head of the burnt offering; and it shall be accepted for him to make atonement for him.

Webster's Bible Translation
And he shall put his hand upon the head of the burnt-offering; and it shall be accepted for him to make atonement for him.

Early Modern
Geneva Bible of 1587
And he shall put his hande vpon the head of the burnt offering, and it shalbe accepted to the Lorde, to be his atonement.

Bishops' Bible of 1568
And he shall put his hande vpon the head of the burnt sacrifice, and it shalbe accepted for hym to be his attonement.

Coverdale Bible of 1535
let him laye his hande vpon the heade of the burntofferynge, then shal he be reconcyled, so yt God shalbe mercifull vnto him.

Tyndale Bible of 1526
And let him put his hande apon the heed of the burntsacrifice, and fauoure shalbe geuen him to make an attonemet for hym,
Literal Translations
Literal Standard Version
and he has laid his hand on the head of the burnt-offering, and it has been accepted for him to make atonement for him;

Young's Literal Translation
and he hath laid his hand on the head of the burnt-offering, and it hath been accepted for him to make atonement for him;

Smith's Literal Translation
And he placed his hand upon the head of the burnt-offering, and it was accepted for him to expiate for him.

Catholic Translations
Douay-Rheims Bible
And he shall put his hand upon the head of the victim, and it shall be acceptable, and help to its expiation.

Catholic Public Domain Version
And he shall place his hand on the head of the sacrifice, and so it shall be acceptable and effective, in its expiation.

Translations from Aramaic
Peshitta Holy Bible Translated
And he shall lay his hand upon the head of his offering and he will be reconciled for it to make atonement for himself.

Lamsa Bible
And he shall put his hand upon the head of his burnt offering; and it shall be accepted for him to make atonement for him.

OT Translations
JPS Tanakh 1917
And he shall lay his hand upon the head of the burnt-offering; and it shall be accepted for him to make atonement for him.

Brenton Septuagint Translation
And he shall lay his hand on the head of the burnt-offering as a thing acceptable for him, to make atonement for him.
















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