Leviticus - 3:12



12 "'If his offering is a goat, then he shall offer it before Yahweh:

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Explanation and meaning of Leviticus 3:12.

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And if his oblation be a goat, then he shall offer it before Jehovah:
And if his offering be a goat, then he shall present it before Jehovah.
And if his offering is a goat, then he hath brought it near before Jehovah,
Si vero capra fuerit oblatio ejus, tum offeret eam in conspectu Jehovae.

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Historical Commentaries

Scholarly Analysis and Interpretation.

See Leviticus 1:10 note. Birds were not accepted as peace-offerings, most probably because they were, by themselves, insufficient to make up a sacrificial meal.

A goat - Implying the whole species, he-goat, she-goat, and kid, as we have already seen.

And if his offering be a goat,.... As it might be, and which also was of the flock:
then he shall offer it before the Lord; in the same place and manner as the bullock and the lamb,

if his offering be a goat--Whether this or any of the other two animals were chosen, the same general directions were to be followed in the ceremony of offering.

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