Leviticus 22:25

KJV1611 – Modern English

Neither from a stranger's hand shall you offer the bread of your God of any of these; because their corruption is in them, and blemishes are in them: they shall not be accepted for you.

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  • Linguistic Bible Translation from Source Texts

    You must not accept such animals from the hand of a foreigner to offer as the food of your God. They are deformed and have defects; they will not be accepted on your behalf.

  • King James Version 1769 (Standard Version)

    Neither from a stranger's hand shall ye offer the bread of your God of any of these; because their corruption is in them, and bmishes be in them: they shall not be accepted for you.

  • American Standard Version with Strong's Numbers

    Neither from the hand{H3027} of a foreigner{H5236} shall ye offer{H7126} the bread{H3899} of your God{H430} of any of these; because their corruption{H4893} is in them, there is a blemish{H3971} in them: they shall not be accepted{H7521} for you.

  • King James Version with Strong's Numbers

    Neither from a stranger's{H5236} hand{H3027}{H1121} shall ye offer{H7126}{(H8686)} the bread{H3899} of your God{H430} of any of these; because their corruption{H4893} is in them, and blemishes{H3971} be in them: they shall not be accepted{H7521}{(H8735)} for you.

  • Tyndale Bible (1526/1534)

    nether of a straungers hande shall ye offer an offerynge to youre God of any soch. For they marre all in that they haue deformytes in them, and therfore can not be accepted for you.

  • Coverdale Bible (1535)

    Morouer ye shall offre no bred vnto youre God of a straungers hande: for it is marred of him, and he hath a deformite, therfore shal it not be accepted for you.

  • Geneva Bible (1560)

    Neither of ye hand of a strager shal ye offer ye bread of your God of any of these, because their corruption is in them, there is a blemish in them: therefore shall they not be accepted for you.

  • Bishops' Bible (1568)

    Neither of a straungers hande shall ye offer the bread of your God of any such, because their corruption is in the, and they haue deformitie in the selues: and therfore shall they not be accepted for you.

  • Authorized King James Version (1611)

    Neither from a stranger's hand shall ye offer the bread of your God of any of these; because their corruption [is] in them, [and] blemishes [be] in them: they shall not be accepted for you.

  • Webster's Bible (1833)

    Neither from the hand of a foreigner shall you offer the bread of your God of any of these; because their corruption is in them. There is a blemish in them. They shall not be accepted for you.'"

  • Young's Literal Translation (1862/1898)

    And from the hand of a son of a stranger ye do not bring near the bread of your God, of any of these, for their corruption `is' in them; blemish `is' in them; they are not pleasing for you.'

  • American Standard Version (1901)

    Neither from the hand of a foreigner shall ye offer the bread of your God of any of these; because their corruption is in them, there is a blemish in them: they shall not be accepted for you.

  • American Standard Version (1901)

    Neither from the hand of a foreigner shall ye offer the bread of your God of any of these; because their corruption is in them, there is a blemish in them: they shall not be accepted for you.

  • Bible in Basic English (1941)

    And from one who is not an Israelite you may not take any of these for an offering to the Lord; for they are unclean, there is a mark on them, and the Lord will not be pleased with them.

  • World English Bible (2000)

    Neither shall you offer the bread of your God from the hand of a foreigner of any of these; because their corruption is in them. There is a blemish in them. They shall not be accepted for you.'"

  • NET Bible® (New English Translation)

    Even from a foreigner you must not present the food of your God from such animals as these, for they are ruined and flawed; they will not be acceptable for your benefit.’”

Referenced Verses

  • Lev 21:6 : 6 They shall be holy to their God, and not profane the name of their God: for they offer the offerings of the LORD made by fire, and the bread of their God: therefore they shall be holy.
  • Lev 21:8 : 8 You shall sanctify him therefore; for he offers the bread of your God: he shall be holy to you: for I the LORD, who sanctify you, am holy.
  • Lev 21:21-22 : 21 No man who has a blemish of the descendants of Aaron the priest shall come near to offer the offerings of the LORD made by fire: he has a blemish; he shall not come near to offer the bread of his God. 22 He shall eat the bread of his God, both of the most holy, and of the holy.
  • Num 15:14-16 : 14 And if a stranger lives with you, or whoever is among you in your generations, and will offer an offering made by fire, a pleasing aroma to the LORD, as you do, so shall he do. 15 One ordinance shall be for you of the congregation and also for the stranger who lives with you, an ordinance forever in your generations: as you are, so shall the stranger be before the LORD. 16 One law and one custom shall be for you and for the stranger who lives with you.
  • Num 16:40 : 40 To be a memorial to the children of Israel, that no outsider, who is not of the seed of Aaron, come near to offer incense before the LORD; that he not be like Korah, and like his company: as the LORD said to him through Moses.
  • Ezra 6:8-9 : 8 Moreover I make a decree as to what you shall do for the elders of these Jews for the building of this house of God: that from the king's goods, even of the tribute beyond the river, expenses be given to these men, so that they are not hindered. 9 And whatever they need—young bulls, rams, and lambs for the burnt offerings of the God of heaven, wheat, salt, wine, and oil, according to the appointment of the priests who are at Jerusalem, let it be given them day by day without fail: 10 That they may offer sacrifices of sweet aroma to the God of heaven, and pray for the life of the king and of his sons.
  • Mal 1:7-8 : 7 You offer defiled bread upon my altar; and you say, How have we polluted you? In that you say, The table of the LORD is contemptible. 8 And if you offer the blind for sacrifice, is it not evil? and if you offer the lame and sick, is it not evil? Offer it now to your governor; will he be pleased with you, or accept you? says the LORD of hosts.
  • Mal 1:12-14 : 12 But you have profaned it, in that you say, The table of the LORD is defiled; and its produce, even its food, is contemptible. 13 You said also, Behold, what a weariness it is! and you have sneered at it, says the LORD of hosts; and you brought what was torn, and the lame, and the sick; thus you brought an offering: should I accept this from your hand? says the LORD. 14 But cursed be the deceiver, who has in his flock a male, and vows, and sacrifices to the Lord a corrupt thing: for I am a great King, says the LORD of hosts, and my name is feared among the heathen.
  • Eph 2:12 : 12 That at that time you were without Christ, being aliens from the commonwealth of Israel, and strangers from the covenants of promise, having no hope, and without God in the world:
  • 1 John 5:18 : 18 We know that whoever is born of God does not sin, but he who is born of God keeps himself, and the wicked one does not touch him.

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Lev 22:19-24
    6 verses
    83%

    19 You shall offer at your own will a male without blemish, of the cattle, of the sheep, or of the goats.

    20 But whatever has a blemish, you shall not offer: for it shall not be acceptable for you.

    21 And whoever offers a sacrifice of peace offerings unto the LORD to fulfill his vow, or a freewill offering in cattle or sheep, it shall be perfect to be accepted; there shall be no blemish in it.

    22 Blind, or broken, or maimed, or having a growth, or scurvy, or scabbed, you shall not offer these unto the LORD, nor make an offering by fire of them upon the altar unto the LORD.

    23 Either a bullock or a lamb that has anything superfluous or lacking in its parts, you may offer as a freewill offering; but for a vow it shall not be accepted.

    24 You shall not offer unto the LORD what is bruised, or crushed, or broken, or cut; neither shall you make any offering of them in your land.

  • Lev 22:26
    82%

    26 And the LORD spoke unto Moses, saying,

  • Lev 21:20-23
    4 verses
    78%

    20 Or hunchbacked, or a dwarf, or who has a blemish in his eye, or is scabby, or scabbed, or has broken testicles.

    21 No man who has a blemish of the descendants of Aaron the priest shall come near to offer the offerings of the LORD made by fire: he has a blemish; he shall not come near to offer the bread of his God.

    22 He shall eat the bread of his God, both of the most holy, and of the holy.

    23 Only he shall not go beyond the veil, nor come near the altar, because he has a blemish; that he does not profane my sanctuaries: for I the LORD do sanctify them.

  • Lev 22:15-17
    3 verses
    77%

    15 And they shall not profane the holy things of the children of Israel, which they offer unto the LORD;

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

    17 And the LORD spoke unto Moses, saying,

  • Deut 17:1
    77%

    1 You shall not sacrifice to the LORD your God any bull or sheep that has a blemish or any defect, for that is an abomination to the LORD your God.

  • Lev 21:17
    77%

    17 Speak to Aaron, saying, Whoever of your descendants in their generations who has any blemish, let him not approach to offer the bread of his God.

  • Deut 15:21
    76%

    21 And if there is any blemish in it, such as if it is lame, or blind, or has any bad blemish, you shall not sacrifice it to the LORD your God.

  • Lev 23:14
    76%

    14 And you shall eat neither bread, nor parched grain, nor fresh ears until the same day that you have brought an offering to your God; it shall be a statute forever throughout your generations in all your dwellings.

  • Lev 22:10
    75%

    10 No stranger shall eat of the holy thing: a temporary resident of the priest, or a hired servant, shall not eat of the holy thing.

  • Lev 21:6
    75%

    6 They shall be holy to their God, and not profane the name of their God: for they offer the offerings of the LORD made by fire, and the bread of their God: therefore they shall be holy.

  • Lev 21:8
    75%

    8 You shall sanctify him therefore; for he offers the bread of your God: he shall be holy to you: for I the LORD, who sanctify you, am holy.

  • Exod 34:25
    75%

    25 You shall not offer the blood of my sacrifice with leaven, nor shall the sacrifice of the feast of Passover be left until the morning.

  • Exod 23:18
    75%

    18 You shall not offer the blood of my sacrifice with leavened bread, nor shall the fat of my sacrifice remain until morning.

  • Lev 17:8-9
    2 verses
    74%

    8 And you shall say to them, Whatever man there is of the house of Israel, or of the strangers who dwell among you, that offers a burnt offering or sacrifice,

    9 And does not bring it to the door of the tabernacle of meeting, to offer it to the LORD; that man shall be cut off from among his people.

  • Hos 9:4
    74%

    4 They shall not offer wine offerings to the LORD, neither shall they be pleasing unto him; their sacrifices shall be to them as the bread of mourners; all who eat thereof shall be polluted, for their bread for their soul shall not come into the house of the LORD.

  • Ezek 44:7
    74%

    7 When you brought into my sanctuary strangers, uncircumcised in heart, and uncircumcised in flesh, to be in my sanctuary, to defile it, even my house, when you offer my bread, the fat and the blood, and they broke my covenant because of all your abominations.

  • Num 18:32
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    32 And you shall bear no sin by reason of it, when you have heaved from it the best of it: neither shall you pollute the holy things of the children of Israel, lest you die.

  • Lev 2:11
    74%

    11 No grain offering that you bring to the LORD shall be made with leaven; for you shall burn no leaven, nor any honey, in any offering made by fire to the LORD.

  • Num 15:19
    74%

    19 Then it shall be, when you eat of the bread of the land, you shall offer up a heave offering to the LORD.

  • Exod 30:9
    74%

    9 You shall offer no strange incense on it, nor burnt sacrifice, nor grain offering; neither shall you pour a drink offering on it.

  • Lev 6:17
    73%

    17 It shall not be baked with leaven. I have given it to them for their portion of my offerings made by fire; it is most holy, as is the sin offering, and as the trespass offering.

  • Deut 14:21
    73%

    21 You shall not eat of anything that dies of itself: you shall give it to the stranger that is within your gates, that he may eat it; or you may sell it to an alien: for you are a holy people to the LORD your God. You shall not boil a young goat in its mother's milk.

  • Exod 29:33-34
    2 verses
    73%

    33 They shall eat those things with which the atonement was made, to consecrate and sanctify them; but a stranger shall not eat them, because they are holy.

    34 And if any of the flesh of the consecrations or of the bread remains until the morning, then you shall burn the remainder with fire. It shall not be eaten, because it is holy.

  • Exod 34:15
    73%

    15 Lest you make a covenant with the inhabitants of the land, and they go whoring after their gods, and do sacrifice to their gods, and one of them invites you, and you eat his sacrifice.

  • Mal 1:7
    73%

    7 You offer defiled bread upon my altar; and you say, How have we polluted you? In that you say, The table of the LORD is contemptible.

  • Deut 12:17
    73%

    17 You may not eat within your gates the tithe of your grain, or of your new wine, or of your oil, or the firstborn of your herd or flock, nor any of your vows which you vow, nor your voluntary offerings, or heave offering of your hand:

  • Lev 18:24
    73%

    24 Do not defile yourselves in any of these things: for in all these the nations are defiled, which I cast out before you.

  • Ezek 4:13
    73%

    13 And the LORD said, Even thus shall the children of Israel eat their defiled bread among the Gentiles, where I will drive them.

  • Exod 29:23
    72%

    23 And one loaf of bread, one cake made with oil, and one wafer from the basket of the unleavened bread that is before the LORD,

  • Deut 7:26
    72%

    26 Neither shall you bring an abomination into your house, lest you become a cursed thing like it: but you shall utterly detest it, and you shall utterly abhor it; for it is a cursed thing.

  • Exod 22:31
    72%

    31 And you shall be holy men to me; neither shall you eat any meat torn by beasts in the field; you shall throw it to the dogs.

  • Num 28:31
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    31 You shall offer them besides the continual burnt offering, and its grain offering, (they shall be to you without blemish) and their drink offerings.

  • Deut 12:4
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    4 You shall not do so unto the LORD your God.

  • Mal 1:12
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    12 But you have profaned it, in that you say, The table of the LORD is defiled; and its produce, even its food, is contemptible.

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    45 A foreigner and a hired servant shall not eat of it.

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    8 Therefore everyone who eats it shall bear his iniquity, because he has profaned the holy thing of the LORD: and that soul shall be cut off from among his people.

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    26 You shall therefore keep my statutes and my judgments, and shall not commit any of these abominations; neither any of your own nation, nor any stranger who sojourns among you:

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    2 And unleavened bread, and cakes of unleavened bread mixed with oil, and unleavened wafers anointed with oil: of wheat flour you shall make them.