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Leviticus 4:30-35

The priest shall take some of its blood with his finger, and put it on the horns of the altar of burnt offering; and the rest of its blood he shall pour out at the base of the altar. All its fat he shall take away, like the fat is taken away from the sacrifice of peace offerings; and the priest shall burn it on the altar for a pleasant aroma to Yahweh; and the priest shall make atonement for him, and he will be forgiven.

“ ‘If he brings a lamb as his offering for a sin offering, he shall bring a female without defect. He shall lay his hand on the head of the sin offering, and kill it for a sin offering in the place where they kill the burnt offering. The priest shall take some of the blood of the sin offering with his finger, and put it on the horns of the altar of burnt offering; and all the rest of its blood he shall pour out at the base of the altar. He shall remove all its fat, like the fat of the lamb is removed from the sacrifice of peace offerings. The priest shall burn them on the altar, on the offerings of Yahweh made by fire. The priest shall make atonement for him concerning his sin that he has sinned, and he will be forgiven.

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“ ‘If anyone of the common people sins unwittingly, in doing any of the things which Yahweh has commanded not to be done, and is guilty, if his sin which he has sinned is made known to him, then he shall bring for his offering a goat, a female without defect, for his sin which he has sinned. He shall lay his hand on the head of the sin offering, and kill the sin offering in the place of burnt offering. The priest shall take some of its blood with his finger, and put it on the horns of the altar of burnt offering; and the rest of its blood he shall pour out at the base of the altar. All its fat he shall take away, like the fat is taken away from the sacrifice of peace offerings; and the priest shall burn it on the altar for a pleasant aroma to Yahweh; and the priest shall make atonement for him, and he will be forgiven.

“ ‘If he brings a lamb as his offering for a sin offering, he shall bring a female without defect. He shall lay his hand on the head of the sin offering, and kill it for a sin offering in the place where they kill the burnt offering. The priest shall take some of the blood of the sin offering with his finger, and put it on the horns of the altar of burnt offering; and all the rest of its blood he shall pour out at the base of the altar. He shall remove all its fat, like the fat of the lamb is removed from the sacrifice of peace offerings. The priest shall burn them on the altar, on the offerings of Yahweh made by fire. The priest shall make atonement for him concerning his sin that he has sinned, and he will be forgiven.

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  • WEB World English Bible

    The priest shall take some of its blood with his finger, and put it on the horns of the altar of burnt offering; and the rest of its blood he shall pour out at the base of the altar.

    All its fat he shall take away, like the fat is taken away from the sacrifice of peace offerings; and the priest shall burn it on the altar for a pleasant aroma to Yahweh; and the priest shall make atonement for him, and he will be forgiven.

    “ ‘If he brings a lamb as his offering for a sin offering, he shall bring a female without defect.

    He shall lay his hand on the head of the sin offering, and kill it for a sin offering in the place where they kill the burnt offering.

    The priest shall take some of the blood of the sin offering with his finger, and put it on the horns of the altar of burnt offering; and all the rest of its blood he shall pour out at the base of the altar.

    He shall remove all its fat, like the fat of the lamb is removed from the sacrifice of peace offerings. The priest shall burn them on the altar, on the offerings of Yahweh made by fire. The priest shall make atonement for him concerning his sin that he has sinned, and he will be forgiven.

  • KJV King James Version

    And the priest shall take of the blood thereof with his finger, and put it upon the horns of the altar of burnt offering, and shall pour out all the blood thereof at the bottom of the altar.

    And he shall take away all the fat thereof, as the fat is taken away from off the sacrifice of peace offerings; and the priest shall burn it upon the altar for a sweet savour unto the LORD; and the priest shall make an atonement for him, and it shall be forgiven him.

    And if he bring a lamb for a sin offering, he shall bring it a female without blemish.

    And he shall lay his hand upon the head of the sin offering, and slay it for a sin offering in the place where they kill the burnt offering.

    And the priest shall take of the blood of the sin offering with his finger, and put it upon the horns of the altar of burnt offering, and shall pour out all the blood thereof at the bottom of the altar:

    And he shall take away all the fat thereof, as the fat of the lamb is taken away from the sacrifice of the peace offerings; and the priest shall burn them upon the altar, according to the offerings made by fire unto the LORD: and the priest shall make an atonement for his sin that he hath committed, and it shall be forgiven him.

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  • JPS JPS Tanakh (1917)

    And the priest shall take of the blood thereof with his finger, and put it upon the horns of the altar of burnt-offering, and all the remaining blood thereof shall he pour out at the base of the altar.

    And all the fat thereof shall he take away, as the fat is taken away from off the sacrifice of peace-offerings; and the priest shall make it smoke upon the altar for a sweet savour unto the LORD; and the priest shall make atonement for him, and he shall be forgiven.

    And if he bring a lamb as his offering for a sin-offering, he shall bring it a female without blemish.

    And he shall lay his hand upon the head of the sin-offering, and kill it for a sin-offering in the place where they kill the burnt-offering.

    And the priest shall take of the blood of the sin-offering with his finger, and put it upon the horns of the altar of burnt-offering, and all the remaining blood thereof shall he pour out at the base of the altar.

    And all the fat thereof shall he take away, as the fat of the lamb is taken away from the sacrifice of peace-offerings; and the priest shall make them smoke on the altar, upon the offerings of the LORD made by fire; and the priest shall make atonement for him as touching his sin that he hath sinned, and he shall be forgiven.

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Cross-references (109)

  • Leviticus 4:28 (v32) if his sin which he has sinned is made known to him, then he shall bring for his offering a goat, a female without defect, for his sin…
  • Leviticus 4:26 (vv31, 35) All its fat he shall burn on the altar, like the fat of the sacrifice of peace offerings; and the priest shall make atonement for him…
  • Leviticus 4:35 (v31) He shall remove all its fat, like the fat of the lamb is removed from the sacrifice of peace offerings. The priest shall burn them on the…
  • 1 Peter 3:18 (vv32, 34, 35) Because Christ also suffered for sins once, the righteous for the unrighteous, that he might bring you to God, being put to death in the…
  • 1 Peter 2:22 (vv32, 35) who didn’t sin, “neither was deceit found in his mouth.”
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  • Genesis 8:21 (v31) Yahweh smelled the pleasant aroma. Yahweh said in his heart, “I will not again curse the ground any more for man’s sake because the…
  • Leviticus 1:9 (v31) but he shall wash its innards and its legs with water. The priest shall burn all of it on the altar, for a burnt offering, an offering made…
  • Leviticus 4:20 (v35) Thus shall he do with the bull; as he did with the bull of the sin offering, so shall he do with this; and the priest shall make atonement…
  • Leviticus 4:7 (vv30, 34) The priest shall put some of the blood on the horns of the altar of sweet incense before Yahweh, which is in the Tent of Meeting; and he…
  • Leviticus 4:25 (vv30, 34) The priest shall take some of the blood of the sin offering with his finger, and put it on the horns of the altar of burnt offering. He…
  • 1 John 4:9-10 (vv31, 35) By this God’s love was revealed in us, that God has sent his one and only Son into the world that we might live through him. In this is…
  • Exodus 29:18 (v31) You shall burn the whole ram on the altar: it is a burnt offering to Yahweh; it is a pleasant aroma, an offering made by fire to Yahweh.
  • Leviticus 1:13 (v31) but the innards and the legs he shall wash with water. The priest shall offer the whole, and burn it on the altar. It is a burnt offering,…
  • Leviticus 4:30 (v34) The priest shall take some of its blood with his finger, and put it on the horns of the altar of burnt offering; and the rest of its blood…
  • Leviticus 4:34 (v30) The priest shall take some of the blood of the sin offering with his finger, and put it on the horns of the altar of burnt offering; and…
  • Leviticus 6:7 (v35) The priest shall make atonement for him before Yahweh, and he will be forgiven concerning whatever he does to become guilty.”
  • Leviticus 14:18 (v35) The rest of the oil that is in the priest’s hand he shall put on the head of him who is to be cleansed, and the priest shall make atonement…
  • Isaiah 42:21 (vv30, 31, 34) It pleased Yahweh, for his righteousness’ sake, to magnify the law and make it honorable.
  • Romans 10:4 (vv30, 34, 35) For Christ is the fulfillment of the law for righteousness to everyone who believes.
  • 1 Peter 2:24 (vv32, 34, 35) He himself bore our sins in his body on the tree, that we, having died to sins, might live to righteousness. You were healed by his wounds.
  • Leviticus 5:6 (vv32, 35) and he shall bring his trespass offering to Yahweh for his sin which he has sinned: a female from the flock, a lamb or a goat, for a sin…
  • Romans 8:1 (vv34–35) There is therefore now no condemnation to those who are in Christ Jesus, who don’t walk according to the flesh, but according to the Spirit.
  • Romans 8:3-4 (vv30, 35) For what the law couldn’t do, in that it was weak through the flesh, God did, sending his own Son in the likeness of sinful flesh and for…
  • 2 Corinthians 5:21 (vv34–35) For him who knew no sin he made to be sin on our behalf; so that in him we might become the righteousness of God.
  • Ephesians 5:2 (vv31, 35) Walk in love, even as Christ also loved us and gave himself up for us, an offering and a sacrifice to God for a sweet-smelling fragrance.
  • Hebrews 1:3 (vv31, 35) His Son is the radiance of his glory, the very image of his substance, and upholding all things by the word of his power, who, when he had…
  • Hebrews 2:10 (vv30, 34) For it became him, for whom are all things, and through whom are all things, in bringing many children to glory, to make the author of…
  • Hebrews 7:26 (vv32, 35) For such a high priest was fitting for us: holy, guiltless, undefiled, separated from sinners, and made higher than the heavens;
  • Hebrews 9:14 (vv32, 35) how much more will the blood of Christ, who through the eternal Spirit offered himself without defect to God, cleanse your conscience from…
  • 1 Peter 1:18-20 (vv32, 34) knowing that you were redeemed, not with corruptible things, with silver or gold, from the useless way of life handed down from your…
  • 1 John 1:7 (vv31, 35) But if we walk in the light, as he is in the light, we have fellowship with one another, and the blood of Jesus Christ, his Son, cleanses…
  • Exodus 12:3 (v32) Speak to all the congregation of Israel, saying, ‘On the tenth day of this month, they shall take to them every man a lamb, according to…
  • Exodus 12:5 (v32) Your lamb shall be without defect, a male a year old. You shall take it from the sheep, or from the goats.
  • Leviticus 1:1-6 (v35) Yahweh called to Moses, and spoke to him from the Tent of Meeting, saying, “Speak to the children of Israel, and tell them, ‘When anyone of…
  • Leviticus 1:17 (v31) He shall tear it by its wings, but shall not divide it apart. The priest shall burn it on the altar, on the wood that is on the fire. It is…
  • Leviticus 3:3-5 (v31) He shall offer of the sacrifice of peace offerings an offering made by fire to Yahweh. The fat that covers the innards, and all the fat…
  • Leviticus 3:6-7 (v32) “ ‘If his offering for a sacrifice of peace offerings to Yahweh is from the flock, either male or female, he shall offer it without defect.…
  • Leviticus 3:9-11 (v31) He shall offer from the sacrifice of peace offerings an offering made by fire to Yahweh; its fat, the entire tail fat, he shall take away…
  • Leviticus 3:14-16 (v31) He shall offer from it as his offering, an offering made by fire to Yahweh; the fat that covers the innards, and all the fat that is on the…
  • Leviticus 4:4 (v33) He shall bring the bull to the door of the Tent of Meeting before Yahweh; and he shall lay his hand on the head of the bull, and kill the…
  • Leviticus 4:8-10 (v31) He shall take all the fat of the bull of the sin offering from it: the fat that covers the innards, and all the fat that is on the innards,…
  • Leviticus 4:19 (v31) All its fat he shall take from it, and burn it on the altar.
  • Leviticus 4:29-31 (v33) He shall lay his hand on the head of the sin offering, and kill the sin offering in the place of burnt offering. The priest shall take some…
  • Leviticus 4:30-31 (v35) The priest shall take some of its blood with his finger, and put it on the horns of the altar of burnt offering; and the rest of its blood…
  • Leviticus 5:10 (v35) He shall offer the second for a burnt offering, according to the ordinance; and the priest shall make atonement for him concerning his sin…
  • Leviticus 5:13 (v35) The priest shall make atonement for him concerning his sin that he has sinned in any of these things, and he will be forgiven; and the rest…
  • Leviticus 8:21 (v31) He washed the innards and the legs with water; and Moses burned the whole ram on the altar. It was a burnt offering for a pleasant aroma.…
  • Leviticus 9:7 (v35) Moses said to Aaron, “Draw near to the altar, and offer your sin offering, and your burnt offering, and make atonement for yourself, and…
  • Leviticus 12:8 (v35) If she cannot afford a lamb, then she shall take two turtledoves or two young pigeons: the one for a burnt offering, and the other for a…
  • Leviticus 14:53 (v35) but he shall let the living bird go out of the city into the open field. So shall he make atonement for the house; and it shall be clean.”
  • Leviticus 16:1-34 (v35) Yahweh spoke to Moses after the death of the two sons of Aaron, when they came near before Yahweh, and died; and Yahweh said to Moses,…
  • Numbers 15:25 (v35) The priest shall make atonement for all the congregation of the children of Israel, and they shall be forgiven; for it was an error, and…
  • Ezra 6:10 (v31) that they may offer sacrifices of pleasant aroma to the God of heaven, and pray for the life of the king, and of his sons.
  • Job 42:8 (v31) Now therefore, take to yourselves seven bulls and seven rams, and go to my servant Job, and offer up for yourselves a burnt offering; and…
  • Psalms 40:6-7 (v31) Sacrifice and offering you didn’t desire. You have opened my ears. You have not required burnt offering and sin offering. Then I said,…
  • Psalms 51:16-17 (v31) For you don’t delight in sacrifice, or else I would give it. You have no pleasure in burnt offering. The sacrifices of God are a broken…
  • Psalms 69:30-31 (v31) I will praise the name of God with a song, and will magnify him with thanksgiving. It will please Yahweh better than an ox, or a bull that…
  • Isaiah 53:7 (v32) He was oppressed, yet when he was afflicted he didn’t open his mouth. As a lamb that is led to the slaughter, and as a sheep that before…
  • Isaiah 53:10 (v31) Yet it pleased Yahweh to bruise him. He has caused him to suffer. When you make his soul an offering for sin, he will see his offspring. He…
  • Matthew 3:17 (v31) Behold, a voice out of the heavens said, “This is my beloved Son, with whom I am well pleased.”
  • Luke 1:35 (v32) The angel answered her, “The Holy Spirit will come on you, and the power of the Most High will overshadow you. Therefore also the holy one…
  • John 1:29 (v32) The next day, he saw Jesus coming to him, and said, “Behold, the Lamb of God, who takes away the sin of the world!
  • John 1:36 (v32) and he looked at Jesus as he walked, and said, “Behold, the Lamb of God!”
  • John 17:19 (v34) For their sakes I sanctify myself, that they themselves also may be sanctified in truth.
  • Romans 3:24-26 (v35) being justified freely by his grace through the redemption that is in Christ Jesus; whom God sent to be an atoning sacrifice, through faith…
  • Romans 4:25 (v35) who was delivered up for our trespasses, and was raised for our justification.
  • Romans 5:6-11 (v35) For while we were yet weak, at the right time Christ died for the ungodly. For one will hardly die for a righteous man. Yet perhaps for a…
  • Romans 5:15-21 (v35) But the free gift isn’t like the trespass. For if by the trespass of the one the many died, much more did the grace of God, and the gift by…
  • Romans 8:3 (v34) For what the law couldn’t do, in that it was weak through the flesh, God did, sending his own Son in the likeness of sinful flesh and for…
  • Ephesians 1:6-7 (v35) to the praise of the glory of his grace, by which he freely gave us favor in the Beloved, in whom we have our redemption through his blood,…
  • Ephesians 5:27 (v32) that he might present the assembly to himself gloriously, not having spot or wrinkle or any such thing; but that it should be holy and…
  • Colossians 1:14 (v35) in whom we have our redemption, the forgiveness of our sins.
  • Hebrews 4:14 (v35) Having then a great high priest who has passed through the heavens, Jesus, the Son of God, let’s hold tightly to our confession.
  • Hebrews 9:12 (v31) nor yet through the blood of goats and calves, but through his own blood, entered in once for all into the Holy Place, having obtained…
  • Hebrews 9:14-15 (v31) how much more will the blood of Christ, who through the eternal Spirit offered himself without defect to God, cleanse your conscience from…
  • Hebrews 10:12 (v31) but he, when he had offered one sacrifice for sins forever, sat down on the right hand of God,
  • Hebrews 10:14 (v31) For by one offering he has perfected forever those who are being sanctified.
  • Hebrews 10:29 (v34) How much worse punishment do you think he will be judged worthy of who has trodden under foot the Son of God, and has counted the blood of…
  • 1 Peter 1:18-19 (v35) knowing that you were redeemed, not with corruptible things, with silver or gold, from the useless way of life handed down from your…
  • 1 Peter 2:4-5 (v31) coming to him, a living stone, rejected indeed by men, but chosen by God, precious. You also, as living stones, are built up as a spiritual…
  • 1 John 2:2 (v35) And he is the atoning sacrifice for our sins, and not for ours only, but also for the whole world.
  • Revelation 1:5-6 (v35) and from Jesus Christ, the faithful witness, the firstborn of the dead, and the ruler of the kings of the earth. To him who loves us, and…
  • Revelation 5:6 (v32) I saw in the middle of the throne and of the four living creatures, and in the middle of the elders, a Lamb standing, as though it had been…
  • Revelation 5:8-9 (v32) Now when he had taken the book, the four living creatures and the twenty-four elders fell down before the Lamb, each one having a harp, and…
  • Revelation 5:9 (v31) They sang a new song, saying, “You are worthy to take the book and to open its seals: for you were killed, and bought us for God with your…

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Geneva Bible translators 1599 · Public Domain On vv33, 35 Meaning, that the punishment of his sin should be…

Meaning, that the punishment of his sin should be laid upon that beast, or, that he had received all things of God, and offered this willingly.

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John Trapp 1656 · Public Domain On vv30–35 Lev 4:30 And the priest shall take of the…
Matthew Poole 1685 · Public Domain On vv33, 35 He, to wit, the offerer. And slay, not by…
John Gill 1763 · Public Domain On vv30, 32 He shall lay his hand upon the head of…
John Wesley 1765 · Public Domain On vv33, 35 He shall slay it - Not by himself, but…
Joseph Benson 1811 · Public Domain On v33 Lev 4:33-35. He shall slay it — Not by…
Albert Barnes 1834 · Public Domain On v32 A lamb - A sheep. See Lev 3:7 note.…
Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary 1859 · Public Domain On v35 For a. Hebrew may be "according to, like (Haydock)…
Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset & David Brown 1871 · Public Domain On v35 it shall be forgiven him--None of these sacrifices possessed…
The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges 1878 · Public Domain On vv31, 35 31. for a sweet savour unto the Lord] This…
Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers 1878 · Public Domain On vv32, 35 (32) And if he bring a lamb.—Better, a sheep.…
unfoldingWord translationNotes 2017 · CC BY-SA 4.0 On vv31, 32, 34 He will cut away
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