Leviticus 6:17
New International Version
It must not be baked with yeast; I have given it as their share of the food offerings presented to me. Like the sin offering and the guilt offering, it is most holy.

New Living Translation
Remember, it must never be prepared with yeast. I have given it to the priests as their share of the special gifts presented to me. Like the sin offering and the guilt offering, it is most holy.

English Standard Version
It shall not be baked with leaven. I have given it as their portion of my food offerings. It is a thing most holy, like the sin offering and the guilt offering.

Berean Standard Bible
It must not be baked with leaven; I have assigned it as their portion of My food offerings. It is most holy, like the sin offering and the guilt offering.

King James Bible
It shall not be baken with leaven. I have given it unto them for their portion of my offerings made by fire; it is most holy, as is the sin offering, and as the trespass offering.

New King James Version
It shall not be baked with leaven. I have given it as their portion of My offerings made by fire; it is most holy, like the sin offering and the trespass offering.

New American Standard Bible
It shall not be baked with leaven. I have given it as their share from My offerings by fire; it is most holy, like the sin offering and the guilt offering.

NASB 1995
‘It shall not be baked with leaven. I have given it as their share from My offerings by fire; it is most holy, like the sin offering and the guilt offering.

NASB 1977
‘It shall not be baked with leaven. I have given it as their share from My offerings by fire; it is most holy, like the sin offering and the guilt offering.

Legacy Standard Bible
It shall not be baked with leaven. I have given it as their share from My offerings by fire; it is most holy, like the sin offering and the guilt offering.

Amplified Bible
It shall not be baked with leaven [which represents corruption or sin]. I have given it as their share of My offerings by fire; it is most holy, like the sin offering and the guilt offering.

Christian Standard Bible
It must not be baked with yeast; I have assigned it as their portion from my food offerings. It is especially holy, like the sin offering and the guilt offering.

Holman Christian Standard Bible
It must not be baked with yeast; I have assigned it as their portion from My fire offerings. It is especially holy, like the sin offering and the restitution offering.

American Standard Version
It shall not be baken with leaven. I have given it as their portion of my offerings made by fire; it is most holy, as the sin-offering, and as the trespass-offering.

English Revised Version
It shall not be baken with leaven. I have given it as their portion of my offerings made by fire; it is most holy, as the sin offering, and as the guilt offering.

GOD'S WORD® Translation
Don't use yeast in baking the bread. I have given it to them as their share from the offerings by fire made to me. It is very holy like the offering for sin and the guilt offering.

International Standard Version
It is not to be baked with leaven. I've given it as their portion out of my offerings made by fire. It's a most holy thing, like the sin and guilt offerings.

Majority Standard Bible
It must not be baked with leaven; I have assigned it as their portion of My food offerings. It is most holy, like the sin offering and the guilt offering.

NET Bible
It must not be baked with yeast. I have given it as their portion from my gifts. It is most holy, like the sin offering and the guilt offering.

New Heart English Bible
It shall not be baked with yeast. I have given it as their portion of my offerings made by fire. It is most holy, as the sin offering, and as the trespass offering.

Webster's Bible Translation
It shall not be baked with leaven. I have given it to them for their portion of my offerings made by fire; It is most holy, as is the sin-offering, and as the trespass-offering.

World English Bible
It shall not be baked with yeast. I have given it as their portion of my offerings made by fire. It is most holy, as are the sin offering and the trespass offering.
Literal Translations
Literal Standard Version
It is not baked [with] anything fermented; I have given it [for] their portion out of My fire-offerings; it [is] most holy, like the sin-offering, and like the guilt-offering.

Young's Literal Translation
It is not baken with any thing fermented, their portion I have given it, out of My fire-offerings; it is most holy, like the sin-offering, and like the guilt-offering.

Smith's Literal Translation
The original Julia E. Smith Bible records the following as a verse reference for Lev 6:10It shall not be cooked leavened. I gave it their portion from my sacrifices. It is holy of holies, as the sin and the trespass.
Catholic Translations
Douay-Rheims Bible
And therefore it shall not be leavened, because part thereof is offered for the burnt sacrifice of the Lord. It shall be most holy, as that which is offered for sin and for trespass.

Catholic Public Domain Version
Yet for this reason, it shall not be leavened, because part of it is offered as an incense of the Lord. The Holy of holies shall it be, just as what is offered on behalf of sin and of transgression.

New American Bible
It shall not be baked with leaven. I have given it to them as their portion from the oblations for the LORD; it is most holy, like the purification offering and the reparation offering.

New Revised Standard Version
It shall not be baked with leaven. I have given it as their portion of my offerings by fire; it is most holy, like the sin offering and the guilt offering.
Translations from Aramaic
Lamsa Bible
It shall not be baked with leaven. I have given it to them for their portion of my offerings made by fire; it is most holy, as is the sin offering and as is the trespass offering.

Peshitta Holy Bible Translated
Their portion shall not be baked with leaven; I have given it from my offering; it is a Holy of Holy things, like the sin offering and like a gift offering.
OT Translations
JPS Tanakh 1917
It shall not be baked with leaven. I have given it as their portion of My offerings made by fire; it is most holy, as the sin-offering, and as the guilt-offering.

Brenton Septuagint Translation
It shall not be baked with leaven. I have given it as a portion to them of the burnt-offerings of the Lord: it is most holy, as the offering for sin, and as the offering for trespass.

Additional Translations ...
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Context
The Grain Offering
16Aaron and his sons are to eat the remainder. It must be eaten without leaven in a holy place; they are to eat it in the courtyard of the Tent of Meeting. 17It must not be baked with leaven; I have assigned it as their portion of My offerings made by fire. It is most holy, like the sin offering and the guilt offering. 18Any male among the sons of Aaron may eat it. This is a permanent portion from the offerings made by fire to the LORD for the generations to come. Anything that touches them will become holy.”…

Cross References
Leviticus 2:11
No grain offering that you present to the LORD may be made with leaven, for you are not to burn any leaven or honey as a food offering to the LORD.

Leviticus 10:12-13
And Moses said to Aaron and his remaining sons, Eleazar and Ithamar, “Take the grain offering that remains from the food offerings to the LORD and eat it without leaven beside the altar, because it is most holy. / You shall eat it in a holy place, because it is your share and your sons’ share of the food offerings to the LORD; for this is what I have been commanded.

Numbers 18:9-10
A portion of the most holy offerings reserved from the fire will be yours. From all the offerings they render to Me as most holy offerings, whether grain offerings or sin offerings or guilt offerings, that part belongs to you and your sons. / You are to eat it as a most holy offering, and every male may eat it. You shall regard it as holy.

Exodus 29:34
And if any of the meat of ordination or any bread is left until the morning, you are to burn up the remainder. It must not be eaten, because it is sacred.

Leviticus 7:1-6
“Now this is the law of the guilt offering, which is most holy: / The guilt offering must be slaughtered in the place where the burnt offering is slaughtered, and the priest shall splatter its blood on all sides of the altar. / And all the fat from it shall be offered: the fat tail, the fat that covers the entrails, ...

Leviticus 22:10
No one outside a priest’s family may eat the sacred offering, nor may the guest of a priest or his hired hand eat it.

Deuteronomy 16:3
You must not eat leavened bread with it; for seven days you are to eat with it unleavened bread, the bread of affliction, because you left the land of Egypt in haste—so that you may remember for the rest of your life the day you left the land of Egypt.

Exodus 12:8
They are to eat the meat that night, roasted over the fire, along with unleavened bread and bitter herbs.

Leviticus 23:6
On the fifteenth day of the same month begins the Feast of Unleavened Bread to the LORD. For seven days you must eat unleavened bread.

Numbers 6:15
together with their grain offerings and drink offerings—and a basket of unleavened cakes made from fine flour mixed with oil and unleavened wafers coated with oil.

Matthew 16:12
Then they understood that He was not telling them to beware of the leaven used in bread, but of the teaching of the Pharisees and Sadducees.

1 Corinthians 5:6-8
Your boasting is not good. Do you not know that a little leaven works through the whole batch of dough? / Get rid of the old leaven, that you may be a new unleavened batch, as you really are. For Christ, our Passover lamb, has been sacrificed. / Therefore let us keep the feast, not with the old bread, leavened with malice and wickedness, but with the unleavened bread of sincerity and of truth.

Galatians 5:9
A little leaven works through the whole batch of dough.

Hebrews 9:11-14
But when Christ came as high priest of the good things that have come, He went through the greater and more perfect tabernacle that is not made by hands and is not a part of this creation. / He did not enter by the blood of goats and calves, but He entered the Most Holy Place once for all by His own blood, thus securing eternal redemption. / For if the blood of goats and bulls and the ashes of a heifer sprinkled on those who are ceremonially unclean sanctify them so that their bodies are clean, ...

Hebrews 10:1-10
For the law is only a shadow of the good things to come, not the realities themselves. It can never, by the same sacrifices offered year after year, make perfect those who draw near to worship. / If it could, would not the offerings have ceased? For the worshipers would have been cleansed once for all, and would no longer have felt the guilt of their sins. / Instead, those sacrifices are an annual reminder of sins, ...


Treasury of Scripture

It shall not be baked with leaven. I have given it to them for their portion of my offerings made by fire; it is most holy, as is the sin offering, and as the trespass offering.

baken

Leviticus 2:11
No meat offering, which ye shall bring unto the LORD, shall be made with leaven: for ye shall burn no leaven, nor any honey, in any offering of the LORD made by fire.

1 Peter 2:22
Who did no sin, neither was guile found in his mouth:

I have

Numbers 18:9,10
This shall be thine of the most holy things, reserved from the fire: every oblation of theirs, every meat offering of theirs, and every sin offering of theirs, and every trespass offering of theirs, which they shall render unto me, shall be most holy for thee and for thy sons…

it is most holy

Leviticus 6:25
Speak unto Aaron and to his sons, saying, This is the law of the sin offering: In the place where the burnt offering is killed shall the sin offering be killed before the LORD: it is most holy.

Leviticus 2:3
And the remnant of the meat offering shall be Aaron's and his sons': it is a thing most holy of the offerings of the LORD made by fire.

Leviticus 7:1,6
Likewise this is the law of the trespass offering: it is most holy…

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Leviticus 6
1. The trespass offering for sins done wittingly
8. The law of the burnt offering
14. and of the meat offering
19. The offering at the consecration of a priest
24. The law of the sin offering














It must not be baked with leaven
The prohibition against leaven in offerings is significant in the Hebrew context. The Hebrew word for leaven is "se'or," which symbolizes corruption and sin due to its fermenting nature. In the ancient Near Eastern culture, leaven was often associated with decay and impurity. By excluding leaven, the offering remains pure and untainted, reflecting the holiness required in worship. This command underscores the need for purity in approaching God, reminding believers of the call to live lives free from the corruption of sin.

I have given it as their share
This phrase highlights God's provision for the priests. The Hebrew word "natan" (given) indicates a deliberate act of bestowing or granting. In the context of the Levitical priesthood, God provides for those who serve Him, ensuring their needs are met through the offerings of the people. This reflects a broader biblical principle of God's provision for those who dedicate their lives to His service, emphasizing His faithfulness and care.

of My offerings made by fire
The offerings made by fire, or "ishsheh" in Hebrew, refer to sacrifices that are wholly or partially burned on the altar. These offerings symbolize the complete dedication and surrender to God. The fire represents God's presence and His consuming holiness. By designating these offerings as "My offerings," God asserts His ownership and the sacredness of the sacrifices, reminding the Israelites that their worship is directed to Him alone.

It is most holy
The term "most holy" (Hebrew: "qodesh qodashim") signifies the highest degree of sanctity. This designation is reserved for items or offerings that are set apart for God in a special way. The most holy offerings are to be treated with the utmost reverence and respect, reflecting the holiness of God Himself. This phrase serves as a reminder of the sacredness of worship and the need for reverence in approaching God.

like the sin offering and the guilt offering
The sin offering ("chatat") and the guilt offering ("asham") are both sacrifices that deal with atonement and reconciliation with God. These offerings underscore the seriousness of sin and the necessity of atonement. By comparing the grain offering to these, the text emphasizes the importance of holiness and purity in all aspects of worship. It highlights the comprehensive nature of God's provision for sin and the means by which His people can maintain a right relationship with Him. This comparison serves as a powerful reminder of the gravity of sin and the grace of God in providing a way for atonement.

(17) I have given it unto them for their portion.--It was ordained that those who ministered at the altar should live of the altar; hence the priests had no portion or inheritance in the land.



Parallel Commentaries ...


Hebrew
It must not
לֹ֤א (lō)
Adverb - Negative particle
Strong's 3808: Not, no

be baked
תֵאָפֶה֙ (ṯê·’ā·p̄eh)
Verb - Nifal - Imperfect - third person feminine singular
Strong's 644: To cook, to bake

with yeast;
חָמֵ֔ץ (ḥā·mêṣ)
Noun - masculine singular
Strong's 2557: That which is leavened

I have assigned
נָתַ֥תִּי (nā·ṯat·tî)
Verb - Qal - Perfect - first person common singular
Strong's 5414: To give, put, set

it as their portion
חֶלְקָ֛ם (ḥel·qām)
Noun - masculine singular construct | third person masculine plural
Strong's 2506: Portion, tract, territory

of My offerings made by fire.
מֵאִשָּׁ֑י (mê·’iš·šāy)
Preposition-m | Noun - masculine plural construct | first person common singular
Strong's 801: A burnt-offering, a sacrifice

It [is]
הִ֔וא (hî)
Pronoun - third person feminine singular
Strong's 1931: He, self, the same, this, that, as, are

most
קֹ֤דֶשׁ (qō·ḏeš)
Noun - masculine singular construct
Strong's 6944: A sacred place, thing, sanctity

holy,
קָֽדָשִׁים֙ (qā·ḏā·šîm)
Noun - masculine plural
Strong's 6944: A sacred place, thing, sanctity

like the sin offering
כַּחַטָּ֖את (ka·ḥaṭ·ṭāṯ)
Preposition-k, Article | Noun - feminine singular
Strong's 2403: An offence, its penalty, occasion, sacrifice, expiation, an offender

and the guilt offering.
וְכָאָשָֽׁם׃ (wə·ḵā·’ā·šām)
Conjunctive waw, Preposition-k, Article | Noun - masculine singular
Strong's 817: Guilt, a fault, a sin-offering


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