Leviticus 9:3
New International Version
Then say to the Israelites: ‘Take a male goat for a sin offering, a calf and a lamb—both a year old and without defect—for a burnt offering,

New Living Translation
Then tell the Israelites, ‘Take a male goat for a sin offering, and take a calf and a lamb, both a year old and without defects, for a burnt offering.

English Standard Version
And say to the people of Israel, ‘Take a male goat for a sin offering, and a calf and a lamb, both a year old without blemish, for a burnt offering,

Berean Standard Bible
Then speak to the Israelites and say, ‘Take a male goat for a sin offering, a calf and a lamb—both a year old and without blemish—for a burnt offering,

King James Bible
And unto the children of Israel thou shalt speak, saying, Take ye a kid of the goats for a sin offering; and a calf and a lamb, both of the first year, without blemish, for a burnt offering;

New King James Version
And to the children of Israel you shall speak, saying, ‘Take a kid of the goats as a sin offering, and a calf and a lamb, both of the first year, without blemish, as a burnt offering,

New American Standard Bible
Then you shall speak to the sons of Israel, saying, ‘Take a male goat as a sin offering, and a calf and a lamb, both one year old, without defect, as a burnt offering,

NASB 1995
“Then to the sons of Israel you shall speak, saying, ‘Take a male goat for a sin offering, and a calf and a lamb, both one year old, without defect, for a burnt offering,

NASB 1977
“Then to the sons of Israel you shall speak, saying, ‘Take a male goat for a sin offering, and a calf and a lamb, both one year old, without defect, for a burnt offering,

Legacy Standard Bible
Then to the sons of Israel you shall speak, saying, ‘Take a male goat for a sin offering, and a calf and a lamb, both one year old, without blemish, for a burnt offering,

Amplified Bible
Then say to the Israelites, ‘Take a male goat as a sin offering, and a calf and a lamb, both one year old, without blemish, as a burnt offering,

Christian Standard Bible
And tell the Israelites: Take a male goat for a sin offering; a calf and a lamb, male yearlings without blemish, for a burnt offering;

Holman Christian Standard Bible
And tell the Israelites: Take a male goat for a sin offering; a calf and a lamb, male yearlings without blemish, for a burnt offering;

American Standard Version
And unto the children of Israel thou shalt speak, saying, Take ye a he-goat for a sin-offering; and a calf and a lamb, both a year old, without blemish, for a burnt-offering;

Contemporary English Version
Tell the people of Israel that they must offer sacrifices as well. They must offer a goat as a sacrifice for sin, and a bull and a ram as a sacrifice to please the LORD. The bull and the ram must be a year old and have nothing wrong with them.

English Revised Version
And unto the children of Israel thou shalt speak, saying, Take ye a he-goat for a sin offering; and a calf and a lamb, both of the first year, without blemish, for a burnt offering;

GOD'S WORD® Translation
Also tell the Israelites: 'Take a male goat as an offering for sin, a calf and a lamb (each one year old and without defects) as a burnt offering,

Good News Translation
Then tell the people of Israel to take a male goat for a sin offering, a one-year-old calf, and a one-year-old lamb without any defects for a burnt offering,

International Standard Version
He also told the Israelis, "Bring a male goat for a sin offering, a calf, a year old lamb without defect for a whole burnt offering,

Majority Standard Bible
Then speak to the Israelites and say, ‘Take a male goat for a sin offering, a calf and a lamb—both a year old and without blemish—for a burnt offering,

NET Bible
Then tell the Israelites: 'Take a male goat for a sin offering and a calf and lamb, both a year old and flawless, for a burnt offering,

New Heart English Bible
You shall speak to the children of Israel, saying, 'Take a male goat for a sin offering; and a calf and a lamb, both a year old, without blemish, for a burnt offering;

Webster's Bible Translation
And to the children of Israel thou shalt speak, saying, Take ye a kid of the goats for a sin-offering; and a calf and a lamb, both of the first year, without blemish, for a burnt-offering;

World English Bible
You shall speak to the children of Israel, saying, ‘Take a male goat for a sin offering; and a calf and a lamb, both a year old, without defect, for a burnt offering;
Literal Translations
Literal Standard Version
And you speak to the sons of Israel, saying, Take a kid of the goats for a sin-offering, and a calf, and a lamb, sons of a year, perfect ones, for a burnt-offering,

Young's Literal Translation
'And unto the sons of Israel thou dost speak, saying, Take ye a kid of the goats for a sin-offering, and a calf, and a lamb, sons of a year, perfect ones, for a burnt-offering,

Smith's Literal Translation
And to the sons of Israel thou shalt speak, saying, Take ye a he goat of the goats for sin; and a calf and a lamb, sons of a year, blameless, for a burnt-offering;
Catholic Translations
Douay-Rheims Bible
And to the children of Israel thou shalt say: Take ye a he goat for sin, and a calf, and a lamb, both of a year old, and without blemish for a holocaust,

Catholic Public Domain Version
And to the sons of Israel, you shall say: ‘Take a he-goat for sin, and a calf as well as a lamb, both one-year-old and without blemish, as a holocaust.

New American Bible
Tell the Israelites, too: Take a he-goat for a purification offering, a calf and a lamb, both unblemished yearlings, for a burnt offering,

New Revised Standard Version
And say to the people of Israel, ‘Take a male goat for a sin offering; a calf and a lamb, yearlings without blemish, for a burnt offering;
Translations from Aramaic
Lamsa Bible
And he said to the children of Israel, Take for yourselves a kid of the goats for a sin offering, and a calf and a lamb, both of the first year, without blemish, for a burnt offering;

Peshitta Holy Bible Translated
And say to the children of Israel, ‘Take to you a kid of goats for a sin offering and a calf and a lamb, year old offspring that have no flaw in them, for a burning burnt offering;
OT Translations
JPS Tanakh 1917
And unto the children of Israel thou shalt speak, saying: Take ye a he-goat for a sin-offering; and a calf and a lamb, both of the first year, without blemish, for a burnt-offering;

Brenton Septuagint Translation
And speak to the elders of Israel, saying, Take one kid of the goats for a sin-offering, and a young calf, and a lamb of a year old for a whole-burnt-offering, spotless,

Additional Translations ...
Audio Bible



Context
The First Offerings of Aaron
2He said to Aaron, “Take for yourself a young bull for a sin offering and a ram for a burnt offering, both without blemish, and present them before the LORD. 3Then speak to the Israelites and say, ‘Take a male goat for a sin offering, a calf and a lamb— both a year old and without blemish— for a burnt offering, 4an ox and a ram for a peace offering to sacrifice before the LORD, and a grain offering mixed with oil. For today the LORD will appear to you.’ ”…

Cross References
Exodus 29:1-3
“Now this is what you are to do to consecrate Aaron and his sons to serve Me as priests: Take a young bull and two rams without blemish, / along with unleavened bread, unleavened cakes mixed with oil, and unleavened wafers anointed with oil. Make them out of fine wheat flour, / put them in a basket, and present them in the basket, along with the bull and the two rams.

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 8:14-15
Moses then brought the bull near for the sin offering, and Aaron and his sons laid their hands on its head. / Moses slaughtered the bull, took some of the blood, and applied it with his finger to all four horns of the altar, purifying the altar. He poured out the rest of the blood at the base of the altar and consecrated it so that atonement could be made on it.

Numbers 7:16-17
one male goat for a sin offering; / and a peace offering of two oxen, five rams, five male goats, and five male lambs a year old. This was the offering of Nahshon son of Amminadab.

Hebrews 7:27
Unlike the other high priests, He does not need to offer daily sacrifices, first for His own sins and then for the sins of the people; He sacrificed for sin once for all when He offered up Himself.

Hebrews 9:12-14
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, / 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!

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

Leviticus 1:10
If, however, one’s offering is a burnt offering from the flock—from the sheep or goats—he is to present an unblemished male.

Numbers 28:19
Present to the LORD a food offering, a burnt offering of two young bulls, one ram, and seven male lambs a year old, all unblemished.

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

Leviticus 16:3
This is how Aaron is to enter the Holy Place: with a young bull for a sin offering and a ram for a burnt offering.

Numbers 6:14
and he is to present an offering to the LORD of an unblemished year-old male lamb as a burnt offering, an unblemished year-old female lamb as a sin offering, and an unblemished ram as a peace offering—

2 Chronicles 29:21
They brought seven bulls, seven rams, seven lambs, and seven male goats as a sin offering for the kingdom, for the sanctuary, and for Judah. And the king commanded the priests, the descendants of Aaron, to offer them on the altar of the LORD.

Hebrews 10:10-12
And by that will, we have been sanctified through the sacrifice of the body of Jesus Christ once for all. / Day after day every priest stands to minister and to offer again and again the same sacrifices, which can never take away sins. / But when this Priest had offered for all time one sacrifice for sins, He sat down at the right hand of God.

Leviticus 23:12
On the day you wave the sheaf, you shall offer a year-old lamb without blemish as a burnt offering to the LORD,


Treasury of Scripture

And to the children of Israel you shall speak, saying, Take you a kid of the goats for a sin offering; and a calf and a lamb, both of the first year, without blemish, for a burnt offering;

Take ye

Leviticus 4:23
Or if his sin, wherein he hath sinned, come to his knowledge; he shall bring his offering, a kid of the goats, a male without blemish:

Leviticus 16:5,15
And he shall take of the congregation of the children of Israel two kids of the goats for a sin offering, and one ram for a burnt offering…

Ezra 6:17
And offered at the dedication of this house of God an hundred bullocks, two hundred rams, four hundred lambs; and for a sin offering for all Israel, twelve he goats, according to the number of the tribes of Israel.

a calf

Leviticus 9:2
And he said unto Aaron, Take thee a young calf for a sin offering, and a ram for a burnt offering, without blemish, and offer them before the LORD.

both

Leviticus 12:6
And when the days of her purifying are fulfilled, for a son, or for a daughter, she shall bring a lamb of the first year for a burnt offering, and a young pigeon, or a turtledove, for a sin offering, unto the door of the tabernacle of the congregation, unto the priest:

Leviticus 14:10
And on the eighth day he shall take two he lambs without blemish, and one ewe lamb of the first year without blemish, and three tenth deals of fine flour for a meat offering, mingled with oil, and one log of oil.

Leviticus 23:12
And ye shall offer that day when ye wave the sheaf an he lamb without blemish of the first year for a burnt offering unto the LORD.

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Leviticus 9
1. The first offerings of Aaron, for himself and the people
8. The sin offering
12. and the burn offering for himself
15. the offerings for the people
23. Moses and Aaron bless the people
24. Fire comes from the Lord, upon the altar














And tell the Israelites
This phrase emphasizes the role of Moses as a mediator between God and His people. The Hebrew root for "tell" is "dabar," which means to speak or declare. This highlights the importance of communication in the covenant relationship. Historically, the Israelites were a chosen people, set apart to receive God's laws and instructions. This command underscores their identity and responsibility as God's covenant community.

Take a male goat for a sin offering
The "male goat" is significant in the sacrificial system as it represents atonement for sin. The Hebrew word for "sin offering" is "chattat," which denotes purification and the removal of sin. In the ancient Near Eastern context, offerings were a common practice, but for Israel, they were divinely instituted to maintain holiness and fellowship with God. The male goat symbolizes the seriousness of sin and the need for a substitute to bear its penalty.

a calf and a lamb
The inclusion of both a calf and a lamb for the burnt offering reflects the diversity and richness of the sacrificial system. The calf, often associated with strength and vitality, and the lamb, symbolizing innocence and purity, together represent the comprehensive nature of the offering. In the Hebrew tradition, these animals were valuable and without defect, signifying the best of what the Israelites could offer to God.

both a year old and without blemish
The requirement for the animals to be "a year old and without blemish" underscores the demand for perfection in offerings to God. The Hebrew term "tamim" means complete or whole, indicating that God deserves the best and most perfect offerings. This reflects the holiness of God and the need for His people to approach Him with reverence and integrity. The age of the animals signifies maturity and readiness, while being without blemish points to the purity required in worship.

for a burnt offering
The "burnt offering," or "olah" in Hebrew, signifies complete surrender and dedication to God. Unlike other offerings, the burnt offering was entirely consumed by fire, symbolizing total devotion and the ascension of the offering to God. This act of worship was a profound expression of faith and commitment, reminding the Israelites of their covenant relationship with the Almighty. Historically, burnt offerings were central to Israel's worship, serving as a continual reminder of God's presence and their dependence on Him.

(3) And unto the children of Israel thou shalt speak.--That is, Aaron, who was now constituted high priest, was to give the orders about the sacrifices It will be seen that the elders of the people whom Moses summoned in Leviticus 9:1 to witness in behalf of the people the first ministrations of the priests, are here called "the children of Israel," thus showing that the representatives acted for the people. Hence the two terms are interchanged (see Leviticus 8:2), which accounts for the fact that the Greek Version (LXX.) renders it here by "elders."

A kid of the goats . . . and a calf.--Better, a shaggy-haired he-goat. (See Leviticus 4:23, &c.)



Parallel Commentaries ...


Hebrew
Then speak
תְּדַבֵּ֣ר (tə·ḏab·bêr)
Verb - Piel - Imperfect - second person masculine singular
Strong's 1696: To arrange, to speak, to subdue

to
וְאֶל־ (wə·’el-)
Conjunctive waw | Preposition
Strong's 413: Near, with, among, to

the Israelites
בְּנֵ֥י (bə·nê)
Noun - masculine plural construct
Strong's 1121: A son

[and] say,
לֵאמֹ֑ר (lê·mōr)
Preposition-l | Verb - Qal - Infinitive construct
Strong's 559: To utter, say

‘Take
קְח֤וּ (qə·ḥū)
Verb - Qal - Imperative - masculine plural
Strong's 3947: To take

a male goat
שְׂעִיר־ (śə·‘îr-)
Noun - masculine singular construct
Strong's 8163: Shaggy, a he-goat, a faun

for a sin offering,
לְחַטָּ֔את (lə·ḥaṭ·ṭāṯ)
Preposition-l | Noun - feminine singular
Strong's 2403: An offence, its penalty, occasion, sacrifice, expiation, an offender

a calf
וְעֵ֨גֶל (wə·‘ê·ḡel)
Conjunctive waw | Noun - masculine singular
Strong's 5695: A, calf, one nearly grown

and a lamb,
וָכֶ֧בֶשׂ (wā·ḵe·ḇeś)
Conjunctive waw | Noun - masculine singular
Strong's 3532: A lamb

both a year old
בְּנֵי־ (bə·nê-)
Noun - masculine plural construct
Strong's 1121: A son

[and] without blemish,
תְּמִימִ֖ם (tə·mî·mim)
Adjective - masculine plural
Strong's 8549: Entire, integrity, truth

for a burnt offering,
לְעֹלָֽה׃ (lə·‘ō·lāh)
Preposition-l | Noun - feminine singular
Strong's 5930: Whole burnt offering


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