Leviticus 22:22
New International Version
Do not offer to the LORD the blind, the injured or the maimed, or anything with warts or festering or running sores. Do not place any of these on the altar as a food offering presented to the LORD.

New Living Translation
You must not offer an animal that is blind, crippled, or injured, or that has a wart, a skin sore, or scabs. Such animals must never be offered on the altar as special gifts to the LORD.

English Standard Version
Animals blind or disabled or mutilated or having a discharge or an itch or scabs you shall not offer to the LORD or give them to the LORD as a food offering on the altar.

Berean Standard Bible
You are not to present to the LORD any animal that is blind, injured, or maimed, or anything with a running sore, a festering rash, or a scab; you must not put any of these on the altar as a food offering to the LORD.

King James Bible
Blind, or broken, or maimed, or having a wen, or scurvy, or scabbed, ye shall not offer these unto the LORD, nor make an offering by fire of them upon the altar unto the LORD.

New King James Version
Those that are blind or broken or maimed, or have an ulcer or eczema or scabs, you shall not offer to the LORD, nor make an offering by fire of them on the altar to the LORD.

New American Standard Bible
Those that are blind, fractured, maimed, or have a wart, a festering rash, or scabs, you shall not offer to the LORD, nor make of them an offering by fire on the altar to the LORD.

NASB 1995
Those that are blind or fractured or maimed or having a running sore or eczema or scabs, you shall not offer to the LORD, nor make of them an offering by fire on the altar to the LORD.

NASB 1977
‘Those that are blind or fractured or maimed or having a running sore or eczema or scabs, you shall not offer to the LORD, nor make of them an offering by fire on the altar to the LORD.

Legacy Standard Bible
Those that are blind or fractured or maimed or have a running sore or eczema or scabs, you shall not bring near to Yahweh nor make of them an offering by fire on the altar to Yahweh.

Amplified Bible
Animals that are blind or fractured or mutilated, or have a sore or a running wound or an itch or scabs, you shall not offer to the LORD nor make an offering of them by fire on the altar to the LORD.

Christian Standard Bible
You are not to present any animal to the LORD that is blind, injured, maimed, or has a running sore, festering rash, or scabs; you may not put any of them on the altar as a food offering to the LORD.

Holman Christian Standard Bible
You are not to present any animal to the LORD that is blind, injured, maimed, or has a running sore, festering rash, or scabs; you may not put any of them on the altar as a fire offering to the LORD.

American Standard Version
Blind, or broken, or maimed, or having a wen, or scurvy, or scabbed, ye shall not offer these unto Jehovah, nor make an offering by fire of them upon the altar unto Jehovah.

Contemporary English Version
Don't offer an animal that is blind or injured or that has an infection or a skin disease.

English Revised Version
Blind, or broken, or maimed, or having a wen, or scurvy, or scabbed, ye shall not offer these unto the LORD, nor make an offering by fire of them upon the altar unto the LORD.

GOD'S WORD® Translation
Never bring the LORD an animal that is blind, has broken bones, cuts, warts, scabs, or ringworm. Never give the LORD any of these in a sacrifice by fire on the altar.

Good News Translation
Do not offer to the LORD any animal that is blind or crippled or mutilated, or that has a running sore or a skin eruption or scabs. Do not offer any such animals on the altar as a food offering.

International Standard Version
You are not to bring to the LORD an offering that is blind, fractured, mutilated, or infected with ulcers, scurvy, or scales. You are not to present any of them as an offering made by fire on the altar for the LORD.

Majority Standard Bible
You are not to present to the LORD any animal that is blind, injured, or maimed, or anything with a running sore, a festering rash, or a scab; you must not put any of these on the altar as an offering made by fire to the LORD.

NET Bible
"'You must not present to the LORD something blind, or with a broken bone, or mutilated, or with a running sore, or with a festering eruption, or with a feverish rash. You must not give any of these as a gift on the altar to the LORD.

New Heart English Bible
Blind, injured, maimed, having a wart, festering, or having a running sore, you shall not offer these to the LORD, nor make an offering by fire of them on the altar to the LORD.

Webster's Bible Translation
Blind, or broken, or maimed, or having a wen, or scurvy, or scabbed, ye shall not offer these to the LORD, nor make an offering by fire of them upon the altar to the LORD.

World English Bible
You shall not offer what is blind, is injured, is maimed, has a wart, is festering, or has a running sore to Yahweh, nor make an offering by fire of them on the altar to Yahweh.
Literal Translations
Literal Standard Version
Blind, or broken, or maimed, or [having] an oozing sore [[or a defect of the eye]], or itch, or scab—you do not bring these near to YHWH, and you do not make a fire-offering from them on the altar to YHWH.

Young's Literal Translation
blind, or broken, or maimed, or having a wen, or scurvy, or scabbed -- ye do not bring these near to Jehovah, and a fire-offering ye do not make of them on the altar to Jehovah.

Smith's Literal Translation
Blind, or broken, or cut, or flowing, or scurvy, or scabby, they shall not bring these to Jehovah, and a sacrifice ye shall not give from them upon the altar to Jehovah.
Catholic Translations
Douay-Rheims Bible
If it be blind, or broken, or have a scar or blisters, or a scab, or a dry scurf: you shall not offer them to the Lord, nor burn any thing of them upon the Lord's altar.

Catholic Public Domain Version
If it is blind, or if it is broken, or if it has a scar, or if it is has a boil, or a skin disease or infection, you shall not offer these to the Lord, nor shall you burn any of these upon the altar of the Lord.

New American Bible
One that is blind or lame or maimed, or one that has running lesions or sores or scabs, you shall not offer to the LORD; do not put such an animal on the altar as an oblation to the LORD.

New Revised Standard Version
Anything blind, or injured, or maimed, or having a discharge or an itch or scabs—these you shall not offer to the LORD or put any of them on the altar as offerings by fire to the LORD.
Translations from Aramaic
Lamsa Bible
Any blind animal or broken or scabbed or maimed or scurvy, you shall not offer to the LORD nor make an offering by fire of them upon the altar to the LORD.

Peshitta Holy Bible Translated
What is blind or what is broken, or what is mangy, or what is feeble, or what is leprous, or what is hairless, you shall not bring one of these to LORD JEHOVAH, and you shall not place an offering of such things on the altar for LORD JEHOVAH.
OT Translations
JPS Tanakh 1917
Blind, or broken, or maimed, or having a wen, or scabbed, or scurvy, ye shall not offer these unto the LORD, nor make an offering by fire of them upon the altar unto the LORD.

Brenton Septuagint Translation
One that is blind, or broken, or has its tongue cut out, or is troubled with warts, or has a malignant ulcer, or tetters, they shall not offer these to the Lord; neither shall ye offer any of them for a burnt-offering on the altar of the Lord.

Additional Translations ...
Audio Bible



Context
Worthy Offerings
21When a man presents a peace offering to the LORD from the herd or flock to fulfill a vow or as a freewill offering, it must be without blemish or defect to be acceptable. 22You are not to present to the LORD any animal that is blind, injured, or maimed, or anything with a running sore, a festering rash, or a scab; you must not put any of these on the altar as an offering made by fire to the LORD. 23You may present as a freewill offering an ox or sheep that has a deformed or stunted limb, but it is not acceptable in fulfillment of a vow.…

Cross References
Deuteronomy 15:21
But if an animal has a defect, is lame or blind, or has any serious flaw, you must not sacrifice it to the LORD your God.

Malachi 1:8
When you offer blind animals for sacrifice, is it not wrong? And when you present the lame and sick ones, is it not wrong? Try offering them to your governor! Would he be pleased with you or show you favor?” asks the LORD of Hosts.

Malachi 1:14
“But cursed is the deceiver who has an acceptable male in his flock and vows to give it, but sacrifices a defective animal to the Lord. For I am a great King,” says the LORD of Hosts, “and My name is to be feared among the nations.

Deuteronomy 17:1
You shall not sacrifice to the LORD your God an ox or a sheep with any defect or serious flaw, for that is detestable to the LORD your God.

Leviticus 1:3
If his offering is a burnt offering from the herd, he is to present an unblemished male. He must bring it to the entrance to the Tent of Meeting for its acceptance before the LORD.

Leviticus 3:1
“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.

Leviticus 4:3
If the anointed priest sins, bringing guilt on the people, he must bring to the LORD a young bull without blemish as a sin offering for the sin he has committed.

Leviticus 21:18-21
No man who has any defect may approach—no man who is blind, lame, disfigured, or deformed; / no man who has a broken foot or hand, / or who is a hunchback or dwarf, or who has an eye defect, a festering rash, scabs, or a crushed testicle. ...

Exodus 12:5
Your lamb must be an unblemished year-old male, and you may take it from the sheep or the goats.

Numbers 19:2
“This is the statute of the law that the LORD has commanded: Instruct the Israelites to bring you an unblemished red heifer that has no defect and has never been placed under a yoke.

Ezekiel 43:22-23
On the second day you are to present an unblemished male goat as a sin offering, and the altar is to be cleansed as it was with the bull. / When you have finished the purification, you are to present a young, unblemished bull and an unblemished ram from the flock.

Ezekiel 45:18-23
This is what the Lord GOD says: ‘On the first day of the first month you are to take a young bull without blemish and purify the sanctuary. / And the priest is to take some of the blood from the sin offering and put it on the doorposts of the temple, on the four corners of the ledge of the altar, and on the gateposts of the inner court. / You must do the same thing on the seventh day of the month for anyone who strays unintentionally or in ignorance. In this way you will make atonement for the temple. ...

Hebrews 9:14
how much more will the blood of Christ, who through the eternal Spirit offered Himself unblemished to God, purify our consciences from works of death, so that we may serve the living God!

1 Peter 1:19
but with the precious blood of Christ, a lamb without blemish or spot.

Matthew 5:48
Be perfect, therefore, as your heavenly Father is perfect.


Treasury of Scripture

Blind, or broken, or maimed, or having a running sore, or scurvy, or scabbed, you shall not offer these to the LORD, nor make an offering by fire of them on the altar to the LORD.

Blind

Leviticus 22:20
But whatsoever hath a blemish, that shall ye not offer: for it shall not be acceptable for you.

Leviticus 21:18-21
For whatsoever man he be that hath a blemish, he shall not approach: a blind man, or a lame, or he that hath a flat nose, or any thing superfluous, …

Malachi 1:8
And if ye offer the blind for sacrifice, is it not evil? and if ye offer the lame and sick, is it not evil? offer it now unto thy governor; will he be pleased with thee, or accept thy person? saith the LORD of hosts.

an offering

Leviticus 1:9,13
But his inwards and his legs shall he wash in water: and the priest shall burn all on the altar, to be a burnt sacrifice, an offering made by fire, of a sweet savour unto the LORD…

Leviticus 3:3,5
And he shall offer of the sacrifice of the peace offering an offering made by fire unto the LORD; the fat that covereth the inwards, and all the fat that is upon the inwards, …

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Leviticus 22
1. The priests in their uncleanness must abstain from the holy things
6. How they shall be cleansed
10. Who of the priest's house may eat of the holy things
17. The sacrifices must be without blemish
26. The age of the sacrifice
29. The law of eating the sacrifice of thanksgiving














You are not to present to the LORD
This phrase establishes a direct command from God regarding the offerings that are acceptable to Him. The Hebrew root for "present" is "qarab," which means to bring near or to offer. This reflects the intimate act of bringing something before God, emphasizing the sacredness of the offering process. The phrase underscores the importance of approaching God with reverence and purity, aligning with the broader biblical theme of holiness.

any animal that is blind, injured, maimed
The Hebrew words used here, such as "ʿiwwēr" (blind) and "šābar" (injured), highlight physical defects. In the ancient Near Eastern context, offerings were meant to be perfect and without blemish, symbolizing the perfection and holiness of God. This requirement for unblemished offerings points to the future perfect sacrifice of Jesus Christ, who was without sin.

or has a wart, festering rash, or scabs
These terms describe various skin conditions that would render an animal unfit for sacrifice. The Hebrew word "yabbēlet" (wart) and "garab" (scabs) indicate imperfections that were visible and thus unacceptable. This reflects the broader biblical principle that God desires purity and wholeness in what is offered to Him, both in physical offerings and in the spiritual lives of believers.

You must not place any of these on the altar
The altar was a sacred place where offerings were made to God. The Hebrew word "mizbēaḥ" (altar) signifies a place of sacrifice and worship. By prohibiting blemished offerings, God was teaching His people about His holiness and the need for purity in worship. This serves as a reminder for Christians today to offer their best to God, not just in material offerings but in their lives and service.

as a food offering presented to the LORD
The term "food offering" translates the Hebrew "leḥem," which means bread or food, symbolizing sustenance and fellowship with God. Offerings were a way for the Israelites to maintain a covenant relationship with God, acknowledging His provision and sovereignty. This phrase invites believers to consider their own offerings to God, ensuring they are given with a heart of gratitude and reverence.

(22) Blind.--Whether totally blind or only of one eye. This blemish also disqualified the priest for the service at the altar (see Leviticus 21:18).

Or broken.--Better, broken-limbed (see Exodus 22:9), extending to the head, ribs, &c.

Or maimed.--This was regarded in the time of the second Temple to describe a blemish in the eyebrow. Hence the Chaldee version translates it "one whose eye-brows are fallen off." It would thus correspond to the defect which unfitted the priest for ministering at the altar.

Or having a wen.--According to the Jewish canonists this denotes a disease of the eyes. Hence the Chaldee version translates it "one whose eyes are smitten with a mixture of white and black," thus corresponding to the blemish which unfits the priest mentioned in Leviticus 21:19.

Or scurvy or scabbed.--These are exactly the same two defects specified with regard to the priests (see Leviticus 21:20). . . .

Parallel Commentaries ...


Hebrew
You are not
לֹא־ (lō-)
Adverb - Negative particle
Strong's 3808: Not, no

to present
תַקְרִ֥יבוּ (ṯaq·rî·ḇū)
Verb - Hifil - Imperfect - second person masculine plural
Strong's 7126: To come near, approach

any animal to the LORD
לַיהוָ֑ה (Yah·weh)
Preposition-l | Noun - proper - masculine singular
Strong's 3068: LORD -- the proper name of the God of Israel

that is blind,
עַוֶּרֶת֩ (‘aw·we·reṯ)
Noun - feminine singular
Strong's 5788: Blindness

injured,
שָׁב֜וּר (šā·ḇūr)
Noun - masculine singular
Strong's 7665: To break, break in pieces

or
אוֹ־ (’ōw-)
Conjunction
Strong's 176: Desire, if

maimed,
חָר֣וּץ (ḥā·rūṣ)
Noun - masculine singular
Strong's 2782: To point sharply, to wound, to be alert, to decide

or
א֨וֹ (’ōw)
Conjunction
Strong's 176: Desire, if

anything with a running sore,
יַבֶּ֗לֶת (yab·be·leṯ)
Noun - feminine singular
Strong's 2990: A running, suppurating

festering rash,
גָרָב֙ (ḡā·rāḇ)
Noun - masculine singular
Strong's 1618: An itch, a scab

or scab;
יַלֶּ֔פֶת (yal·le·p̄eṯ)
Noun - feminine singular
Strong's 3217: Scab, scurf (an eruptive disease)

you must not
לֹא־ (lō-)
Adverb - Negative particle
Strong's 3808: Not, no

put
תִתְּנ֥וּ (ṯit·tə·nū)
Verb - Qal - Imperfect - second person masculine plural
Strong's 5414: To give, put, set

any of these
מֵהֶ֛ם (mê·hem)
Preposition-m | Pronoun - third person masculine plural
Strong's 1992: They

on
עַל־ (‘al-)
Preposition
Strong's 5921: Above, over, upon, against

the altar
הַמִּזְבֵּ֖חַ (ham·miz·bê·aḥ)
Article | Noun - masculine singular
Strong's 4196: An altar

as an offering made by fire
וְאִשֶּׁ֗ה (wə·’iš·šeh)
Conjunctive waw | Noun - masculine singular
Strong's 801: A burnt-offering, a sacrifice

to the LORD.
לַיהוָֽה׃ (Yah·weh)
Preposition-l | Noun - proper - masculine singular
Strong's 3068: LORD -- the proper name of the God of Israel


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