Leviticus 1:3

Linguistic Bible Translation from Source Texts

If the offering is a burnt offering from the herd, you are to offer a male without defect. You must present it at the entrance to the tent of meeting so that it will be acceptable to the LORD.

📖 Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

אִם־עֹלָ֤ה קָרְבָּנוֹ֙ מִן־הַבָּקָ֔ר זָכָ֥ר תָּמִ֖ים יַקְרִיבֶ֑נּוּ אֶל־פֶּ֜תַח אֹ֤הֶל מוֹעֵד֙ יַקְרִ֣יב אֹת֔וֹ לִרְצֹנ֖וֹ לִפְנֵ֥י יְהוָֽה׃

Transliteration

If-ʿōlâ qorbānô from-the-bāqār, zākār tāmîm yaqrîběnnû, unto-pěṯaḥ ʾōhel mōʿēd yaqrîb ʾōtô lirṣōnô before-YHWH.

Grammar Details

• *ʿōlâ*: noun, feminine singular - burnt offering
• *qorbānô*: noun, masculine singular + 3rd masculine singular suffix - his offering
• *bāqār*: noun, masculine singular collective - herd/cattle
• *zākār*: noun, masculine singular - male
• *tāmîm*: adjective, masculine singular - perfect/unblemished/complete
• *yaqrîběnnû*: Hiphil imperfect, 3rd masculine singular + 3rd masculine singular suffix - he shall offer it
• *pěṯaḥ*: noun, masculine singular construct - entrance/door/opening
• *ʾōhel mōʿēd*: construct phrase - tent of meeting
• *yaqrîb*: Hiphil imperfect, 3rd masculine singular - he shall offer/bring
• *ʾōtô*: direct object marker + 3rd masculine singular suffix - it/him
• *lirṣōnô*: preposition + noun + 3rd masculine singular suffix - for his acceptance/favor

Word Meanings

• *ʿōlâ*: burnt offering/whole burnt sacrifice/holocaust
• *zākār*: male/man
• *tāmîm*: perfect/unblemished/whole/complete/sound
• *lirṣōnô*: for his acceptance/favor/good will/voluntary

Other Translations

• King James Version 1769 (Standard Version)

  If his offering be a burnt sacrifice of the herd, t him offer a ma without bmish: he shall offer it of his own voluntary will at the door of the tabernac of the congregation before the LORD.

• KJV1611 – Modern English

  If his offering is a burnt sacrifice of the herd, let him offer a male without blemish: he shall offer it of his own voluntary will at the door of the tent of meeting before the LORD.

• King James Version 1611 (Original)

  If his offering be a burnt sacrifice of the herd, let him offer a male without blemish: he shall offer it of his own voluntary will at the door of the tabernacle of the congregation before the LORD.

• American Standard Version with Strong's Numbers

  If his oblation be a burnt-offering of the herd, he shall offer it a male without blemish: he shall offer it at the door of the tent of meeting, that he may be accepted before Jehovah.

• King James Version with Strong's Numbers

  If his offering be a burnt sacrifice of the herd, let him offer a male without blemish: he shall offer it of his own voluntary will at the door of the tabernacle of the congregation before the LORD.

• Tyndale Bible (1526/1534)

  Yf he brynge a burntoffrynge of the oxen he shall offre a male without blimesh, and shal brynge him to the dore of the tabernacle of witnesse, that he maye be accepted before the Lorde.

• Coverdale Bible (1535)

  Yf he wyl brynge a burntofferynge of ye oxen (or greate catell) the let him offre a male without blemysh, before ye dore of the Tabernacle of wytnesse, to reconcyle himself before the LORDE,

• Geneva Bible (1560)

  If his sacrifice be a burnt offering of the heard, he shall offer a male without blemish, presenting him of his owne voluntarie will at the doore of the Tabernacle of the Congregation before the Lorde.

• Bishops' Bible (1568)

  If his sacrifice be a burnt offeryng of beefes, let hym offer a male without blemishe, and bryng hym of his owne voluntarie wyll, vnto the doore of the tabernacle of the congregation before the Lorde.

• Authorized King James Version (1611)

  ¶ If his offering [be] a burnt sacrifice of the herd, let him offer a male without blemish: he shall offer it of his own voluntary will at the door of the tabernacle of the congregation before the LORD.

• Webster's Bible (1833)

  "'If his offering is a burnt offering from the herd, he shall offer a male without blemish. He shall offer it at the door of the Tent of Meeting, that he may be accepted before Yahweh.

• Young's Literal Translation (1862/1898)

  `If his offering `is' a burnt-offering out of the herd -- a male, a perfect one, he doth bring near, unto the opening of the tent of meeting he doth bring it near, at his pleasure, before Jehovah;

• American Standard Version (1901)

  If his oblation be a burnt-offering of the herd, he shall offer it a male without blemish: he shall offer it at the door of the tent of meeting, that he may be accepted before Jehovah.

• American Standard Version (1901)

  If his oblation be a burnt-offering of the herd, he shall offer it a male without blemish: he shall offer it at the door of the tent of meeting, that he may be accepted before Jehovah.

• Bible in Basic English (1941)

  If the offering is a burned offering of the herd, let him give a male without a mark: he is to give it at the door of the Tent of meeting so that he may be pleasing to the Lord.

• World English Bible (2000)

  "'If his offering is a burnt offering from the herd, he shall offer a male without blemish. He shall offer it at the door of the Tent of Meeting, that he may be accepted before Yahweh.

• NET Bible® (New English Translation)

  Burnt Offering Regulations: Animal from the Herd“‘If his offering is a burnt offering from the herd he must present it as a flawless male; he must present it at the entrance of the Meeting Tent for its acceptance before the LORD.

Referenced Verses

• Heb 9:14 : 14 how much more will the blood of Christ, who through the eternal Spirit offered Himself unblemished to God, cleanse our consciences from dead works so that we may serve the living God?
• Deut 15:21 : 21 But if there is a defect in it, such as being lame or blind, or having any serious flaw, you must not sacrifice it to the Lord your God.
• Exod 12:5 : 5 Your lamb must be an unblemished male, a year old; you may take it from either the sheep or the goats.
• Lev 22:19-24 : 19 it must be a male without defect to be accepted, from the cattle, the sheep, or the goats. 20 Do not offer anything with a defect, because it will not be accepted on your behalf. 21 If anyone offers a fellowship sacrifice to the LORD for a special vow or as a freewill offering from the herd or the flock, it must be without defect to be accepted; there must be no blemish in it. 22 You must not offer to the LORD anything that is blind, broken, injured, or with warts, scabs, or skin disease; you must not bring them as a fire offering on the altar to the LORD. 23 You may offer a bull or lamb that has an overgrown or stunted limb as a freewill offering, but it will not be accepted as a vow offering. 24 You must not offer to the LORD any animals that are bruised, crushed, torn, or cut, nor are you to do this in your land.
• Num 29:13 : 13 You shall offer a burnt offering, a fire offering, a pleasing aroma to the Lord: thirteen young bulls, two rams, and fourteen lambs a year old, all without defect.
• Deut 12:5-6 : 5 Instead, seek the place that the Lord your God will choose from among all your tribes to put His name and make His presence dwell, and go there. 6 Bring there your burnt offerings, your sacrifices, your tithes, your special gifts, what you have vowed to give, your freewill offerings, and the firstborn of your herds and flocks.
• 2 Cor 9:7 : 7 Each person should give as they have decided in their heart, not reluctantly or under compulsion, for God loves a cheerful giver.
• Heb 10:8-9 : 8 After saying above that sacrifices, offerings, whole burnt offerings, and offerings for sins You did not desire nor were pleased with—which are offered according to the law— 9 then He said, 'Behold, I have come to do Your will.' He takes away the first to establish the second. 10 And by that will, we have been sanctified through the offering of the body of Jesus Christ once for all.
• Lev 6:9-9 : 9 What remains of the grain offering shall be eaten by Aaron and his sons. It must be eaten as unleavened bread in a holy place—in the courtyard of the Tent of Meeting they shall eat it. 10 It must not be baked with yeast. I have given it to them as their portion from my fire offerings; it is most holy, like the sin offering and the guilt offering. 11 Every male among Aaron's descendants may eat it. It is a perpetual statute for your generations from the LORD’s fire offerings. Anything that touches them shall become holy. 12 The LORD spoke to Moses, saying: 13 This is the offering that Aaron and his sons must bring to the LORD on the day of his anointing: a tenth of an ephah of fine flour as a regular grain offering, half in the morning and half in the evening.
• Lev 7:16 : 16 But if the sacrifice he offers is a vow or a freewill offering, it shall be eaten on the day he brings the sacrifice. Whatever is left over may be eaten on the next day.
• Lev 8:18 : 18 Moses presented the ram for the burnt offering, and Aaron and his sons laid their hands on its head.
• Lev 8:21 : 21 He washed the entrails and the legs with water and burned the whole ram on the altar as a burnt offering, a pleasing aroma, a fire offering to the Lord, as the Lord had commanded Moses.
• Lev 16:7 : 7 Then he is to take the two goats and present them before the LORD at the entrance to the tent of meeting.
• Lev 17:4 : 4 and does not bring it to the entrance of the tent of meeting to present it as an offering to the Lord before the sanctuary of the Lord shall be considered guilty of bloodshed; they have shed blood and must be cut off from their people.
• Lev 17:9 : 9 and does not bring it to the entrance of the tent of meeting to offer it to the Lord must be cut off from their people.
• Gen 8:20 : 20 Then Noah built an altar to the LORD and took some of every clean animal and every clean bird and offered burnt offerings on the altar.
• Gen 22:2 : 2 Then God said, 'Take your son, your only son, whom you love—Isaac—and go to the land of Moriah. Offer him there as a burnt offering on one of the mountains I will tell you about.'
• Gen 22:8 : 8 Abraham answered, 'God Himself will provide the lamb for the burnt offering, my son.' And the two of them walked on together.
• Gen 22:13 : 13 Then Abraham looked up and saw a ram caught by its horns in a thicket. So he went and took the ram, and he offered it as a burnt offering instead of his son.
• Exod 24:5 : 5 Then he sent young men of the Israelites, and they offered burnt offerings and sacrificed bulls as fellowship offerings to the LORD.
• Exod 29:4 : 4 Then bring Aaron and his sons to the entrance of the Tent of Meeting, and wash them with water.
• Exod 29:18 : 18 Then burn the entire ram on the altar. It is a burnt offering to the Lord, a pleasing aroma, an offering made by fire to the Lord.
• Exod 29:42 : 42 This will be a regular burnt offering throughout your generations at the entrance to the Tent of Meeting before the Lord, where I will meet you to speak with you.
• Exod 32:6 : 6 The next day the people rose early, offered burnt offerings, and brought peace offerings. They sat down to eat and drink and got up to engage in revelry.
• Exod 35:5 : 5 Take a contribution for the LORD from what you have. Let everyone whose heart is willing bring the LORD's offering: gold, silver, and bronze.
• Exod 35:21 : 21 Everyone whose heart was stirred and whose spirit was willing came and brought their offering to the LORD for the work on the tent of meeting, for all its service, and for the sacred garments.
• Exod 35:29 : 29 All the men and women whose hearts were willing to bring offerings for all the work the LORD had commanded through Moses brought them as a freewill offering to the LORD.
• Exod 36:3 : 3 They received from Moses all the offerings the Israelites had brought for the work of constructing the sanctuary. Still, the people continued to bring freewill offerings every morning.
• Exod 38:1 : 1 He made the altar for burnt offerings from acacia wood, five cubits long and five cubits wide, making it square, and three cubits high.
• Lev 3:1 : 1 If someone presents a peace offering and brings an offering from the herd, whether it is male or female, it must be without defect and be presented before the LORD.
• Lev 4:23 : 23 When he becomes aware of the sin he has committed, he must bring as his offering a male goat without defect.
• Num 23:3 : 3 Balaam said to Balak, 'Stand beside your burnt offering while I go. Perhaps the LORD will meet me, and whatever He shows me I will tell you.' Then he went to a barren height.
• Num 23:10-11 : 10 Who can count the dust of Jacob or number a fourth of Israel? Let me die the death of the righteous, and may my final end be like theirs! 11 Balak said to Balaam, 'What have you done to me? I brought you to curse my enemies, but you have done nothing but bless them!'
• Num 23:19 : 19 'God is not a man, that He should lie, nor a son of man, that He should change His mind. Does He speak and not act? Does He promise and not fulfill?'
• Num 23:23-24 : 23 'There is no divination against Jacob, no sorcery against Israel. It will now be said of Jacob and of Israel: "See what God has done!"' 24 'The people rise like a lioness; they rouse themselves like a lion. They will not lie down until they devour their prey and drink the blood of the slain.'
• Num 23:27 : 27 Then Balak said to Balaam, 'Come, let me take you to another place. Perhaps it will please God to let you curse them for me from there.'
• Num 23:30 : 30 Balak did as Balaam said, and offered a bull and a ram on each altar.
• Num 29:8-9 : 8 You shall offer a burnt offering to the Lord, a pleasing aroma: one young bull, one ram, and seven lambs a year old, all without defect. 9 Their grain offering shall be fine flour mixed with oil: three-tenths of an ephah for the bull, two-tenths for the ram, 10 and one-tenth for each of the seven lambs. 11 Include one male goat as a sin offering, in addition to the sin offering of atonement, the regular burnt offering with its grain offering, and their drink offerings.
• Deut 17:1 : 1 Do not sacrifice to the LORD your God a bull or sheep with a defect or any flaw, for that would be detestable to the LORD your God.
• Ps 40:8 : 8 Then I said, 'Here I am; I have come. In the scroll of the book it is written about me.'
• Ps 110:3 : 3 Your people will offer themselves willingly on the day of your power; in holy splendor, from the womb of the dawn, your youth are like the dew.
• Isa 1:11 : 11 "What is the multitude of your sacrifices to Me?" says the LORD. "I have had enough of burnt offerings of rams and the fat of well-fed animals; I take no pleasure in the blood of bulls, lambs, or goats.
• Ezek 20:40 : 40 For on my holy mountain, the high mountain of Israel, declares the Sovereign LORD, there the entire house of Israel, all of them in the land, will worship me. There I will accept them, and there I will require their contributions, their choice gifts, and all their holy offerings.
• Zech 13:7 : 7 Awake, O sword, against My shepherd and against the man who is My companion, declares the LORD of hosts. Strike the shepherd, and the sheep will be scattered; and I will turn My hand against the little ones.
• Mal 1:14 : 14 Cursed is the deceiver who has a male animal in his flock and vows to give it, but instead sacrifices a blemished animal to the Lord. For I am a great King, says the LORD of Hosts, and my name is to be feared among the nations.
• Luke 1:35 : 35 The angel replied to her, 'The Holy Spirit will come upon you, and the power of the Most High will overshadow you. Therefore, the holy one to be born will be called the Son of God.'
• John 1:36 : 36 When he saw Jesus passing by, he said, 'Look, the Lamb of God!'
• John 10:7 : 7 So Jesus said to them again, 'Truly, truly, I tell you, I am the door for the sheep.'
• John 10:9 : 9 I am the door. If anyone enters through me, they will be saved; they will come in and go out, and find pasture.
• 2 Cor 8:12 : 12 For if the willingness is there, the gift is acceptable according to what one has, not according to what one does not have.
• 1 Pet 1:18-19 : 18 For you know that you were redeemed from your empty way of life, inherited from your ancestors, not with perishable things like silver or gold, 19 but with the precious blood of Christ, like that of a lamb without blemish or defect.
• Eph 2:18 : 18 For through Him we both have access to the Father by one Spirit.
• Eph 5:27 : 27 and to present her to Himself as a glorious church, without stain or wrinkle or any such blemish, but holy and blameless.
• Heb 7:26 : 26 Such a high priest truly meets our need: one who is holy, innocent, undefiled, separate from sinners, and exalted above the heavens.
• Deut 12:13-14 : 13 Be careful not to offer your burnt offerings in just any place you see. 14 But offer them only at the place the Lord chooses in one of your tribal territories. There you are to offer your burnt offerings and perform everything I command you.
• Deut 12:27 : 27 Offer your burnt offerings, both meat and blood, on the altar of the Lord your God. The blood of your sacrifices must be poured out beside the altar of the Lord your God, but you may eat the meat.