Leviticus 22:19

22:19 if it is to be acceptable for your benefit ¹  it must be a flawless male from the cattle, sheep, or goats.

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. ² 

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. ³ 

Leviticus 22:20

22:20 You must not present anything that has a flaw, ⁴  because it will not be acceptable for your benefit. ⁵ 

Leviticus 23:11

23:11 and he must wave the sheaf before the Lord to be accepted for your benefit ⁶  – on the day after the Sabbath the priest is to wave it. ⁷ 

Leviticus 1:3

Burnt Offering Regulations: Animal from the Herd

1:3 “‘If his offering is a burnt offering ⁸  from the herd he must present it as a flawless male; he must present it at the entrance ⁹  of the Meeting Tent for its ¹⁰  acceptance before the Lord.

Leviticus 22:21

22:21 If a man presents a peace offering sacrifice to the Lord for a special votive offering ¹¹  or for a freewill offering from the herd or the flock, it must be flawless to be acceptable; ¹²  it must have no flaw. ¹³ 

[22:19]  ¹ tn Heb “for your acceptance.” See Lev 1:3-4 above and the notes there.

[19:5]  ² tn Heb “for your acceptance”; cf. NIV, NLT “it will be accepted on your behalf.”

[22:29]  ³ tn Heb “for your acceptance” (see the notes on Lev 1:3-4 and 22:19 above).

[22:20]  ⁴ tn Heb “all which in it [is] a flaw.” Note that the same term is used for physical flaws of people in Lev 21:17-24. Cf. KJV, ASV, NRSV “blemish”; NASB, NIV, TEV “defect”; NLT “with physical defects.”

[22:20]  ⁵ tn Heb “not for acceptance shall it be for you”; NIV “it will not be accepted on your behalf” (NRSV and NLT both similar).

[23:11]  ⁵ tn Heb “for your acceptance.”

[23:11]  ⁶ sn See Lev 7:30 for a note on the “waving” of a “wave offering.”

[1:3]  ⁶ sn The burnt offering (עֹלָה, ’olah) was basically a “a gift of a soothing aroma to the Lord” (vv. 9, 13, 17). It could serve as a votive or freewill offering (e.g., Lev 22:18-20), an accompaniment of prayer and supplication (e.g., 1 Sam 7:9-10), part of the regular daily, weekly, monthly, and festival cultic pattern (e.g., Num 28-29), or to make atonement either alone (e.g., Lev 1:4; 16:24) or in combination with the grain offering (e.g., Lev 14:20) or sin offering (e.g., Lev 5:7; 9:7). See R. E. Averbeck, NIDOTTE 4:996-1022.

[1:3]  ⁷ tn Heb “door” (so KJV, ASV); NASB “doorway” (likewise throughout the book of Leviticus). The translation “door” or “doorway” may suggest a framed door in a casing to the modern reader, but here the term refers to the entrance to a tent.

[1:3]  ⁸ tn The NIV correctly has “it” in the text, referring to the acceptance of the animal (cf., e.g., RSV, NEB, NLT), but “he” in the margin, referring to the acceptance of the offerer (cf. ASV, NASB, JB). The reference to a “flawless male” in the first half of this verse suggests that the issue here is the acceptability of the animal to make atonement on behalf of the offerer (Lev 1:4; cf. NRSV “for acceptance in your behalf”).

[22:21]  ⁷ tn The meaning of the expression לְפַלֵּא־נֶדֶר (lÿfalle’-neder) rendered here “for a special votive offering” is much debated. Some take it as an expression for fulfilling a vow, “to fulfill a vow” (e.g., HALOT 927-28 s.v. פלא piel and NASB; cf. NAB, NRSV “in fulfillment of a vow”) or, alternatively, “to make a vow” or “for making a vow” (HALOT 928 s.v. פלא piel [II פלא]). Perhaps it refers to the making a special vow, from the verb פָלַא (pala’, “to be wonderful, to be remarkable”); cf. J. Milgrom, Numbers (JPSTC), 44. B. A. Levine, Leviticus (JPSTC), 151 and 193, suggests that this is a special term for “setting aside a votive offering” (related to פָלָה [palah, “to set aside”]). In general, the point of the expression seems to be that this sacrifice arises as a special gift to God out of special circumstances in the life of the worshiper.

[22:21]  ⁸ tn Heb “for acceptance”; NAB “if it is to find acceptance.”

[22:21]  ⁹ tn Heb “all/any flaw shall not be in it.”