There you are to sacrifice your peace offerings, eating them and rejoicing in the presence of the LORD your God.
Parallel translations
- WEB You shall sacrifice peace offerings, and shall eat there. You shall rejoice before Yahweh your God.
- KJV And thou shalt offer peace offerings, and shalt eat there, and rejoice before the LORD thy God.
- NKJV You shall offer peace offerings, and shall eat there, and rejoice before the Lord your God.
- NASB and you shall sacrifice peace offerings and eat there, and rejoice before the Lord your God.
- NLT Also sacrifice peace offerings on it, and celebrate by feasting there before the Lord your God.
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Quick answer
Peace offerings are to be sacrificed and eaten there with rejoicing before the Lord. Covenant worship issues in joyful fellowship and communion with God.
Overview
Peace offerings included a shared meal eaten in God's presence, symbolizing reconciled fellowship and gladness in His blessing. Worship thus moved from atonement to joyful communion. This anticipates the fellowship believers enjoy with God through Christ, the peace offering who reconciles us to God, and the joyful feast of His coming kingdom (Romans 5:1; Revelation 19:9).
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Cross-references · 22
- Isa 12:3With joy you will draw water from the springs of salvation,
- Hab 3:18yet I will exult in the LORD; I will rejoice in the God of my salvation!
- Lev 3:1–17“If one’s offering is a peace offering and he offers an animal from the herd, whether male or female, he must present it without blemish before the LORD.
- Ps 100:1–2A Psalm of thanksgiving. Make a joyful noise to the LORD, all the earth.
- Heb 13:20–21Now may the God of peace, who through the blood of the eternal covenant brought back from the dead our Lord Jesus, that great Shepherd of the sheep,
- Deut 12:7There, in the presence of the LORD your God, you and your households shall eat and rejoice in all you do, because the LORD your God has blessed you.
- Acts 10:36He has sent this message to the people of Israel, proclaiming the gospel of peace through Jesus Christ, who is Lord of all.
- Deut 16:11and you shall rejoice before the LORD your God in the place He will choose as a dwelling for His Name—you, your sons and daughters, your menservants and maidservants, and the Levite within your gates, as well as the foreigner, the fatherless, and the widows among you.
- Deut 16:14And you shall rejoice in your feast—you, your sons and daughters, your menservants and maidservants, and the Levite, as well as the foreigner, the fatherless, and the widows among you.
- Deut 26:10–11And now, behold, I have brought the firstfruits of the land that You, O LORD, have given me.” Then you are to place the basket before the LORD your God and bow down before Him.
- Rom 5:10For if, when we were enemies of God, we were reconciled to Him through the death of His Son, how much more, having been reconciled, shall we be saved through His life!
- Eph 2:16–17and reconciling both of them to God in one body through the cross, by which He extinguished their hostility.
- Phil 4:4Rejoice in the Lord always. I will say it again: Rejoice!
- Neh 8:10Then Nehemiah told them, “Go and eat what is rich, drink what is sweet, and send out portions to those who have nothing prepared, since today is holy to our Lord. Do not grieve, for the joy of the LORD is your strength.”
- Phil 3:3For it is we who are the circumcision, we who worship by the Spirit of God, who glory in Christ Jesus, and who put no confidence in the flesh—
- Isa 61:10I will rejoice greatly in the LORD, my soul will exult in my God; for He has clothed me with garments of salvation and wrapped me in a robe of righteousness, as a bridegroom wears a priestly headdress, as a bride adorns herself with her jewels.
- Isa 61:3to console the mourners in Zion—to give them a crown of beauty for ashes, the oil of joy for mourning, and a garment of praise for a spirit of despair. So they will be called oaks of righteousness, the planting of the LORD, that He may be glorified.
- Lev 7:11–17Now this is the law of the peace offering that one may present to the LORD:
- 2 Chr 30:23–27The whole assembly agreed to observe seven more days, so they observed seven days with joy.
- Deut 12:12And you shall rejoice before the LORD your God—you, your sons and daughters, your menservants and maidservants, and the Levite within your gates, since he has no portion or inheritance among you.
- Col 1:20and through Him to reconcile to Himself all things, whether things on earth or things in heaven, by making peace through the blood of His cross.
- Rom 5:1Therefore, since we have been justified through faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ,
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