When you sacrifice a thank offering to the LORD, offer it so that it may be acceptable on your behalf.
Parallel translations
- WEB “When you sacrifice a sacrifice of thanksgiving to Yahweh, you shall sacrifice it so that you may be accepted.
- KJV And when ye will offer a sacrifice of thanksgiving unto the LORD, offer it at your own will.
- NKJV And when you offer a sacrifice of thanksgiving to the Lord, offer it of your own free will.
- NASB When you sacrifice a sacrifice of thanksgiving to the Lord, you shall sacrifice it so that you may be accepted.
- NLT When you bring a thanksgiving offering to the Lord, sacrifice it properly so you will be accepted.
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Quick answer
A thanksgiving sacrifice must be offered in the proper way so that it is accepted.
Overview
Even offerings of gratitude had to follow God's prescribed manner to be acceptable. Thanksgiving was not optional sentiment but proper worship rendered on God's terms. This anticipates the New Testament call to offer continual thanksgiving through Christ, the sacrifice that makes our praise pleasing to God (Hebrews 13:15).
Cross-references & the web
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- Ps 107:22Let them offer sacrifices of thanksgiving and declare His works with rejoicing.
- Ps 116:17I will offer to You a sacrifice of thanksgiving and call on the name of the LORD.
- Amos 4:5Offer leavened bread as a thank offering, and loudly proclaim your freewill offerings. For that is what you children of Israel love to do,” declares the Lord GOD.
- 1 Pet 2:5you also, like living stones, are being built into a spiritual house to be a holy priesthood, offering spiritual sacrifices acceptable to God through Jesus Christ.
- Heb 13:15Through Jesus, therefore, let us continually offer to God a sacrifice of praise, the fruit of lips that confess His name.
- Hos 14:2Bring your confessions and return to the LORD. Say to Him: “Take away all our iniquity and receive us graciously, that we may present the fruit of our lips.
- Lev 7:12–15If he offers it in thanksgiving, then along with the sacrifice of thanksgiving he shall offer unleavened cakes mixed with olive oil, unleavened wafers coated with oil, and well-kneaded cakes of fine flour mixed with oil.
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