Leviticus 14 · Verse 26

Leviticus 14:26

And the priest shall pour of the oil into the palm of his own left hand:
Leviticus 14:26, King James Version

Leviticus 14:26 in other translations

BSBThen the priest is to pour some of the oil into his left palm
WEBThe priest shall pour some of the oil into the palm of his own left hand;
ASVAnd the priest shall pour of the oil into the palm of his own left hand;
YLTand the priest doth pour of the oil on the left palm of the priest;
DARBYAnd the priest shall pour of the oil into his, the priest's, left hand,
BBEAnd the priest will put out some of the oil in the hollow of his left hand,
WebsterAnd the priest shall pour of the oil into the palm of his own left hand.

What does Leviticus 14:26 mean?

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown on Leviticus 14:21-32

21-32. if he be poor, and cannot get so much; then he shall take one lamb--a kind and considerate provision for an extension of the privilege to lepers of the poorer class. The blood of their smaller offering was to be applied in the same process of purification and they were as publicly and completely cleansed as those who brought a costlier offering (Ac 10:34).

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Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on Leviticus 14:10-32

The cleansed leper was to be presented to the Lord, with his offerings. When God has restored us to enjoy public worship again, after sickness, distance, or otherwise, we should testify our thanksgiving by our diligent use of the liberty. And both we and our offerings must be presented before the Lord, by the Priest that made us clean, even our Lord Jesus. Beside the usual rites of the trespass-offering, some of the…

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Leviticus 14:26 in the original Hebrew

Word-by-word with transliteration, English gloss and Strong's number. Tap a number for the full definition and every place the word is used.

וּמִן\־u.min-and some ofH4480
הַשֶּׁ֖מֶןha.She.menthe oilH8081
יִצֹ֣קyi.Tzokhe will pourH3332
הַכֹּהֵ֑ןha.ko.Henthe priestH3548
עַל\־'al-onH5921
כַּ֥ףkaf[the] palm ofH3709
הַכֹּהֵ֖ןha.ko.Henthe priestH3548
הַשְּׂמָאלִֽית\׃ha.se.ma.Lit<the> leftH8042

Source: STEPBible TAHOT/TAGNT (Tyndale House, CC BY 4.0).

Context

  • Leviticus 14:25

    And he shall kill the lamb of the trespass offering, and the priest shall take some of the blood of the trespass offering, and put it upon the tip of the right ear of him that is to be cleansed, and upon the thumb of his right hand, and upon the great toe of his right foot:

  • Leviticus 14:26

    And the priest shall pour of the oil into the palm of his own left hand:

  • Leviticus 14:27

    And the priest shall sprinkle with his right finger some of the oil that is in his left hand seven times before the Lord:

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Leviticus 14:26 in other languages

Spanish
Reina-Valera 1909
Y el sacerdote echará del aceite sobre la palma de su mano izquierda;
French
Bible J.N. Darby 1885
Et le sacrificateur versera de l’huile dans la paume de sa main gauche, à lui, le sacrificateur;
German
Elberfelder 1871
Und der Priester gieße von dem Öle in seine linke Hand;
Latin
Clementine Vulgate
olei vero partem mittet in manum suam sinistram,