Leviticus 3:12

Read in context

Leviticus 3:10–14 · Berean Standard Bible

10 both kidneys with the fat on them near the loins, and the lobe of the liver, which he is to remove with the kidneys.

11 Then the priest is to burn them on the altar as food, an offering made by fire to the LORD.

12 If one’s offering is a goat, he is to present it before the LORD.

13 He must lay his hand on its head and slaughter it in front of the Tent of Meeting. Then Aaron’s sons shall sprinkle its blood on all sides of the altar.

14 And from his offering he shall present an offering made by fire to the LORD: the fat that covers the entrails, all the fat that is on them,

Hebrew words

Data created by STEPBible.org based on work at Tyndale House Cambridge (CC BY 4.0).

Study Leviticus 3:12

Read the commentary on Leviticus 3

Cross-references

The Treasury of Scripture Knowledge lists these related verses. Scripture text comes from the Berean Standard Bible.

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 3:7

If he is presenting a lamb for his offering, he must present it before the LORD.

Leviticus 3:8

He is to lay his hand on the head of his offering and slaughter it in front of the Tent of Meeting. Then Aaron’s sons shall sprinkle its blood on all sides of the altar.

Leviticus 3:9

And from the peace offering he shall bring an offering made by fire to the LORD consisting of its fat: the entire fat tail cut off close to the backbone, the fat that covers the entrails, all the fat that is on them,

Leviticus 3:10

both kidneys with the fat on them near the loins, and the lobe of the liver, which he is to remove with the kidneys.

Leviticus 3:11

Then the priest is to burn them on the altar as food, an offering made by fire to the LORD.

Leviticus 3:12

If one’s offering is a goat, he is to present it before the LORD.

Leviticus 3:13

He must lay his hand on its head and slaughter it in front of the Tent of Meeting. Then Aaron’s sons shall sprinkle its blood on all sides of the altar.

Leviticus 3:14

And from his offering he shall present an offering made by fire to the LORD: the fat that covers the entrails, all the fat that is on them,

Leviticus 3:15

both kidneys with the fat on them near the loins, and the lobe of the liver, which he is to remove with the kidneys.

Leviticus 3:16

Then the priest is to burn the food on the altar as an offering made by fire, a pleasing aroma. All the fat is the LORD’s.

Leviticus 3:17

This is a permanent statute for the generations to come, wherever you live: You must not eat any fat or any blood.”

Leviticus 1:2

“Speak to the Israelites and tell them: When any of you brings an offering to the LORD, you may bring as your offering an animal from the herd or the flock.

Leviticus 1:6

Next, he is to skin the burnt offering and cut it into pieces.

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.

Leviticus 9:3

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,

Leviticus 9:15

Aaron then presented the people’s offering. He took the male goat for the people’s sin offering, slaughtered it, and offered it for sin like the first one.

Leviticus 10:16

Later, Moses searched carefully for the goat of the sin offering, and behold, it had been burned up. He was angry with Eleazar and Ithamar, Aaron’s remaining sons, and asked,

Leviticus 22:19

must offer an unblemished male from the cattle, sheep, or goats in order for it to be accepted on your behalf.

Leviticus 22:20

You must not present anything with a defect, because it will not be accepted on your behalf.

Leviticus 22:21

When 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.

Leviticus 22:22

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.

Leviticus 22:23

You 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.

Leviticus 22:24

You are not to present to the LORD an animal whose testicles are bruised, crushed, torn, or cut; you are not to sacrifice them in your land.

Leviticus 22:25

Neither you nor a foreigner shall present food to your God from any such animal. They will not be accepted on your behalf, because they are deformed and flawed.’”

Leviticus 22:26

Then the LORD said to Moses,

Leviticus 22:27

“When an ox, a sheep, or a goat is born, it must remain with its mother for seven days. From the eighth day on, it will be acceptable as an offering made by fire to the LORD.

Isaiah 53:2

He grew up before Him like a tender shoot, and like a root out of dry ground. He had no stately form or majesty to attract us, no beauty that we should desire Him.

Isaiah 53:6

We all like sheep have gone astray, each one has turned to his own way; and the LORD has laid upon Him the iniquity of us all.

Matthew 25:32

All the nations will be gathered before Him, and He will separate the people one from another, as a shepherd separates the sheep from the goats.

Matthew 25:33

He will place the sheep on His right and the goats on His left.

Romans 8:3

For what the law was powerless to do in that it was weakened by the flesh, God did by sending His own Son in the likeness of sinful man, as an offering for sin. He thus condemned sin in the flesh,

2 Corinthians 5:21

God made Him who knew no sin to be sin on our behalf, so that in Him we might become the righteousness of God.