Leviticus 19:5

Eating the Peace Offering

19:5 “‘When you sacrifice a peace offering sacrifice to the Lord, you must sacrifice it so that it is accepted for you. ¹ 

Leviticus 22:29

22:29 When you sacrifice a thanksgiving offering to the Lord, you must sacrifice it so that it is acceptable for your benefit. ² 

Leviticus 17:5

17:5 This is so that ³  the Israelites will bring their sacrifices that they are sacrificing in the open field ⁴  to the Lord at the entrance of the Meeting Tent to the priest and sacrifice them there as peace offering sacrifices to the Lord.

Leviticus 9:4

9:4 and an ox and a ram for peace offerings to sacrifice before the Lord, and a grain offering mixed with olive oil, for today the Lord is going to appear ⁵  to you.’”

Leviticus 17:7

17:7 So they must no longer offer ⁶  their sacrifices to the goat demons, ⁷  acting like prostitutes by going after them. ⁸  This is to be a perpetual statute for them throughout their generations. ⁹ 

¹ tn Heb “for your acceptance”; cf. NIV, NLT “it will be accepted on your behalf.”

² tn Heb “for your acceptance” (see the notes on Lev 1:3-4 and 22:19 above).

³ tn Heb “So that which.”

⁴ tn Heb “on the faces of the field.”

⁴ tn The verb is either a prophetic perfect (“will appear to you”) as in the MT (cf. IBHS §30.5.1.e; so many English versions), or a futurum instans participle (“is going to appear to you”) as in the LXX and several other versions (see the BHS footnote; cf. IBHS 627 §37.6f). In either case, the point is that Moses was anticipating that the Lord would indeed appear to them on this day (cf. vv. 6, 22-24).

⁵ tn Heb “sacrifice.” This has been translated as “offer” for stylistic reasons to avoid the redundancy of “sacrifice their sacrifices.”

⁶ tn On “goat demons” of the desert regions see the note on Lev 16:8.

⁷ tn Heb “which they are committing harlotry after them.”

⁸ tn Heb “for your generations.”