‘Now when you offer a sacrifice of peace offerings to the Lord, you shall offer it so that you may be accepted.
Parallel translations
- WEB “‘When you offer a sacrifice of peace offerings to Yahweh, you shall offer it so that you may be accepted.
- KJV And if ye offer a sacrifice of peace offerings unto the LORD, ye shall offer it at your own will.
- 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.
- 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 7:16“‘But if the sacrifice of his offering is a vow, or a freewill offering, it shall be eaten on the day that he offers his sacrifice; and on the next day what remains of it shall be eaten:
- Lev 22:29“When you sacrifice a sacrifice of thanksgiving to Yahweh, you shall sacrifice it so that you may be accepted.
- Lev 22:19that you may be accepted, you shall offer a male without defect, of the bulls, of the sheep, or of the goats.
- Lev 1:3“‘If his offering is a burnt offering from the herd, he shall offer a male without defect. He shall offer it at the door of the Tent of Meeting, that he may be accepted before Yahweh.
- Ezek 45:15–17and one lamb of the flock, out of two hundred, from the well-watered pastures of Israel — for a meal offering, and for a burnt offering, and for peace offerings, to make atonement for them, says the Lord Yahweh.
- Eph 2:13–14But now in Christ Jesus you who once were far off are made near in the blood of Christ.
- Lev 3:1–17“‘If his offering is a sacrifice of peace offerings; if he offers it from the herd, whether male or female, he shall offer it without defect before Yahweh.
- Ezek 46:2The prince shall enter by the way of the porch of the gate outside, 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 out; but the gate shall not be shut until the evening.
- 2 Chr 31:2Hezekiah appointed the divisions of the priests and the Levites after their divisions, every man according to his service, both the priests and the Levites, for burnt offerings and for peace offerings, to minister, to give thanks, and to praise in the gates of Yahweh’s camp.
- Ezek 46:12When the prince shall prepare a freewill offering, a burnt offering or peace offerings as a freewill offering to Yahweh, one shall open for him the gate that looks toward the east; and he shall prepare his burnt offering and his peace offerings, as he does on the Sabbath day: then he shall go out; and after his going out one shall shut the gate.
- Lev 22:23Either a bull or a lamb that has any deformity or lacking in his parts, that you may offer for a freewill offering; but for a vow it shall not be accepted.
- Exod 24:5He sent young men of the children of Israel, who offered burnt offerings and sacrificed peace offerings of cattle to Yahweh.
- Lev 22:21Whoever offers a sacrifice of peace offerings to Yahweh to accomplish a vow, or for a freewill offering, of the herd or of the flock, it shall be perfect to be accepted. It shall have no defect.
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