And if ye offer a sacrifice of peace offerings unto the LORD, ye shall offer it at your own will.
Parallel translations
- WEB “‘When you offer a sacrifice of peace offerings to Yahweh, you shall offer it so that you may be accepted.
- BSB When you sacrifice a peace offering to the LORD, you shall offer it for your acceptance.
- NKJV ‘And if you offer a sacrifice of a peace offering to the Lord, you shall offer it of your own free will.
- NASB ‘Now when you offer a sacrifice of peace offerings to the Lord, you shall offer it so that you may be accepted.
- NLT “When you sacrifice a peace offering to the Lord, offer it properly so you will be accepted by God.
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Quick answer
Peace offerings must be offered in the right way so that the worshiper is accepted.
Overview
This returns to sacrificial instruction, stressing that worship offered God's way leads to acceptance. The peace offering expressed fellowship and gratitude toward God. The emphasis on right offering reminds us that approaching God requires his appointed means, ultimately satisfied in Christ, through whom believers are fully accepted.
Cross-references & the web
Cross-references · 13
- Lev 7:16But if the sacrifice of his offering be a vow, or a voluntary offering, it shall be eaten the same day that he offereth his sacrifice: and on the morrow also the remainder of it shall be eaten:
- Lev 22:29And when ye will offer a sacrifice of thanksgiving unto the LORD, offer it at your own will.
- Lev 22:19Ye shall offer at your own will a male without blemish, of the beeves, of the sheep, or of the goats.
- Lev 1:3If 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.
- Ezek 45:15–17And one lamb out of the flock, out of two hundred, out of the fat pastures of Israel; for a meat offering, and for a burnt offering, and for peace offerings, to make reconciliation for them, saith the Lord GOD.
- Eph 2:13–14But now in Christ Jesus ye who sometimes were far off are made nigh by the blood of Christ.
- 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.
- Ezek 46:2And the prince shall enter by the way of the porch of that gate without, and shall stand by the post of the gate, and the priests shall prepare his burnt offering and his peace offerings, and he shall worship at the threshold of the gate: then he shall go forth; but the gate shall not be shut until the evening.
- 2 Chr 31:2And Hezekiah appointed the courses of the priests and the Levites after their courses, every man according to his service, the priests and Levites for burnt offerings and for peace offerings, to minister, and to give thanks, and to praise in the gates of the tents of the LORD.
- Ezek 46:12Now when the prince shall prepare a voluntary burnt offering or peace offerings voluntarily unto the LORD, one shall then open him the gate that looketh toward the east, and he shall prepare his burnt offering and his peace offerings, as he did on the sabbath day: then he shall go forth; and after his going forth one shall shut the gate.
- Lev 22:23Either a bullock or a lamb that hath any thing superfluous or lacking in his parts, that mayest thou offer for a freewill offering; but for a vow it shall not be accepted.
- Exod 24:5And he sent young men of the children of Israel, which offered burnt offerings, and sacrificed peace offerings of oxen unto the LORD.
- Lev 22:21And whosoever offereth a sacrifice of peace offerings unto the LORD to accomplish his vow, or a freewill offering in beeves or sheep, it shall be perfect to be accepted; there shall be no blemish therein.
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