Leviticus 6 · Verse 23

Leviticus 6:23

For every meat offering for the priest shall be wholly burnt: it shall not be eaten.
Leviticus 6:23, King James Version

Leviticus 6:23 in other translations

BSBEvery grain offering for a priest shall be burned completely; it is not to be eaten.”
WEBEvery meal offering of a priest shall be wholly burned. It shall not be eaten.”
ASVAnd every meal-offering of the priest shall be wholly burnt: it shall not be eaten.
YLTand every present of a priest is a whole burnt-offering; it is not eaten.'
DARBYAnd every oblation of the priest shall be wholly burned; it shall not be eaten.
BBEEvery meal offering offered for the priest is to be completely burned: nothing of it is to be taken for food.
WebsterFor every meat-offering for the priest shall be wholly burnt: it shall not be eaten.

What does Leviticus 6:23 mean?

Adam Clarke's Commentary
Verse 23 For every meat-offering for the priest shall be wholly burnt - Whatever the priest offered was wholly the Lord's, and therefore must be entirely consumed: the sacrifices of the common people were offered to the Lord, but the priests partook of them; and thus they who ministered at the altar were fed by the altar. Had the priests been permitted to live on their own offerings as they did on those of the people, it would have been as if they had offered nothing, as they would have taken again to themselves what they appeared to give unto the Lord. Theodoret says that this marked "the high perfection which God required in the ministers of his sanctuary," as his not eating of his own sin-offering supposes him to stand free from all sin; but a better reason is given by Mr. Ainsworth: "The people's meat-offering was eaten by the priests that made atonement for them, Lev 6:15, Lev 6:16, Lev 7:7; but because no priest, being a sinner, could make atonement for himself, therefore his meat-offering might not be eaten, but all burnt on the altar, to teach him to expect salvation, not by his legal service or works, but by Christ; for the eating of the sin-offering figured the bearing of the sinner's iniquity;" Lev 10:17.

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Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on Leviticus 6:14-23

The law of the burnt-offerings put upon the priests a great deal of care and work; the flesh was wholly burnt, and the priests had nothing but the skin. But most of the meat-offering was their own. It is God's will that his ministers should be provided with what is needful.

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Leviticus 6:23 in the original Hebrew

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וְכָל\־ve.kholand everyH3605
מִנְחַ֥תmin.Chatgrain offering ofH4503
כֹּהֵ֛ןko.Hena priestH3548
כָּלִ֥ילka.Lila whole offeringH3632
תִּהְיֶ֖הtih.Yehit will beH1961
לֹ֥אlo'notH3808
תֵאָכֵֽל\׃\ \פte.'a.Khelit will be eatenH398

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

Cross references for Leviticus 6:23

  • Leviticus 2:10

    And that which is left of the meat offering shall be Aaron’s and his sons’: it is a thing most holy of the offerings of the Lord made by fire.

  • Leviticus 6:16-17

    And the remainder thereof shall Aaron and his sons eat: with unleavened bread shall it be eaten in the holy place; in the court of the tabernacle of the congregation they shall eat it. It shall not be baken with leaven. I have given it unto them for their portion of my offerings made by fire; it is most holy, as is the sin offering, and as the trespass offering.

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Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
shall be.The meat offering of the people was eaten by the priests, who typically bore and expiated their sins; but as no priest, being a sinner, could make atonement for himself, his meat offering must not be eaten, but wholly burnt on the altar, which was a typical transfer of his guilt to the great antitype who actually bore and expiated it.
it shall not be.
16,17; 2:10

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Context

  • Leviticus 6:22

    And the priest of his sons that is anointed in his stead shall offer it: it is a statute for ever unto the Lord; it shall be wholly burnt.

  • Leviticus 6:23

    For every meat offering for the priest shall be wholly burnt: it shall not be eaten.

  • Leviticus 6:24

    And the Lord spake unto Moses, saying,

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Leviticus 6:23 in other languages

Spanish
Reina-Valera 1909		Y todo presente de sacerdote será enteramente quemado; no se comerá.
French
Bible J.N. Darby 1885		Nul sacrifice pour le péché dont le sang sera porté dans la tente d’assignation pour faire propitiation dans le lieu saint, ne sera mangé; il sera brûlé au feu.
German
Elberfelder 1871		Aber alles Sündopfer, von dessen Blut in das Zelt der Zusammenkunft gebracht wird, um im Heiligtum Sühnung zu tun, soll nicht gegessen werden; es soll mit Feuer verbrannt werden.
Latin
Clementine Vulgate		Omne enim sacrificium sacerdotum igne consumetur, nec quisquam comedet ex eo.