And thou shalt offer peace offerings, and shalt eat there, and rejoice before the LORD thy God.
Parallel translations
- WEB You shall sacrifice peace offerings, and shall eat there. You shall rejoice before Yahweh your God.
- BSB There you are to sacrifice your peace offerings, eating them and rejoicing in the presence of the LORD your 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).
Cross-references & the web
Cross-references · 22
- Isa 12:3Therefore with joy shall ye draw water out of the wells of salvation.
- Hab 3:18Yet I will rejoice in the LORD, I will joy in the God of my salvation.
- Lev 3:1–17And if his oblation be a sacrifice of peace offering, if he offer it of the herd; whether it be a male or female, he shall offer it without blemish before the LORD.
- Ps 100:1–2Make a joyful noise unto the LORD, all ye lands.
- Heb 13:20–21Now the God of peace, that brought again from the dead our Lord Jesus, that great shepherd of the sheep, through the blood of the everlasting covenant,
- Deut 12:7And there ye shall eat before the LORD your God, and ye shall rejoice in all that ye put your hand unto, ye and your households, wherein the LORD thy God hath blessed thee.
- Acts 10:36The word which God sent unto the children of Israel, preaching peace by Jesus Christ: (he is Lord of all:)
- Deut 16:11And thou shalt rejoice before the LORD thy God, thou, and thy son, and thy daughter, and thy manservant, and thy maidservant, and the Levite that is within thy gates, and the stranger, and the fatherless, and the widow, that are among you, in the place which the LORD thy God hath chosen to place his name there.
- Deut 16:14And thou shalt rejoice in thy feast, thou, and thy son, and thy daughter, and thy manservant, and thy maidservant, and the Levite, the stranger, and the fatherless, and the widow, that are within thy gates.
- Deut 26:10–11And now, behold, I have brought the firstfruits of the land, which thou, O LORD, hast given me. And thou shalt set it before the LORD thy God, and worship before the LORD thy God:
- Rom 5:10For if, when we were enemies, we were reconciled to God by the death of his Son, much more, being reconciled, we shall be saved by his life.
- Eph 2:16–17And that he might reconcile both unto God in one body by the cross, having slain the enmity thereby:
- Phil 4:4Rejoice in the Lord alway: and again I say, Rejoice.
- Neh 8:10Then he said unto them, Go your way, eat the fat, and drink the sweet, and send portions unto them for whom nothing is prepared: for this day is holy unto our LORD: neither be ye sorry; for the joy of the LORD is your strength.
- Phil 3:3For we are the circumcision, which worship God in the spirit, and rejoice in Christ Jesus, and have no confidence in the flesh.
- Isa 61:10I will greatly rejoice in the LORD, my soul shall be joyful in my God; for he hath clothed me with the garments of salvation, he hath covered me with the robe of righteousness, as a bridegroom decketh himself with ornaments, and as a bride adorneth herself with her jewels.
- Isa 61:3To appoint unto them that mourn in Zion, to give unto them beauty for ashes, the oil of joy for mourning, the garment of praise for the spirit of heaviness; that they might be called trees of righteousness, the planting of the LORD, that he might be glorified.
- Lev 7:11–17And this is the law of the sacrifice of peace offerings, which he shall offer unto the LORD.
- 2 Chr 30:23–27And the whole assembly took counsel to keep other seven days: and they kept other seven days with gladness.
- Deut 12:12And ye shall rejoice before the LORD your God, ye, and your sons, and your daughters, and your menservants, and your maidservants, and the Levite that is within your gates; forasmuch as he hath no part nor inheritance with you.
- Col 1:20And, having made peace through the blood of his cross, by him to reconcile all things unto himself; by him, I say, whether they be things in earth, or things in heaven.
- Rom 5:1Therefore being justified by faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ:
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