New International VersionIt must not be baked with yeast; I have given it as their share of the food offerings presented to me. Like the sin offering and the guilt offering, it is most holy.
New Living TranslationRemember, it must never be prepared with yeast. I have given it to the priests as their share of the special gifts presented to me. Like the sin offering and the guilt offering, it is most holy.
English Standard VersionIt shall not be baked with leaven. I have given it as their portion of my food offerings. It is a thing most holy, like the sin offering and the guilt offering.
Berean Standard BibleIt must not be baked with leaven; I have assigned it as their portion of My food offerings. It is most holy, like the sin offering and the guilt offering.
King James BibleIt 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.
New King James VersionIt shall not be baked with leaven. I have given it as their portion of My offerings made by fire; it is most holy, like the sin offering and the trespass offering.
New American Standard BibleIt shall not be baked with leaven. I have given it as their share from My offerings by fire; it is most holy, like the sin offering and the guilt offering.
NASB 1995‘It shall not be baked with leaven. I have given it as their share from My offerings by fire; it is most holy, like the sin offering and the guilt offering.
NASB 1977‘It shall not be baked with leaven. I have given it as their share from My offerings by fire; it is most holy, like the sin offering and the guilt offering.
Legacy Standard BibleIt shall not be baked with leaven. I have given it as their share from My offerings by fire; it is most holy, like the sin offering and the guilt offering.
Amplified BibleIt shall not be baked with leaven [which represents corruption or sin]. I have given it as their share of My offerings by fire; it is most holy, like the sin offering and the guilt offering.
Christian Standard BibleIt must not be baked with yeast; I have assigned it as their portion from my food offerings. It is especially holy, like the sin offering and the guilt offering.
Holman Christian Standard BibleIt must not be baked with yeast; I have assigned it as their portion from My fire offerings. It is especially holy, like the sin offering and the restitution offering.
American Standard VersionIt shall not be baken with leaven. I have given it as their portion of my offerings made by fire; it is most holy, as the sin-offering, and as the trespass-offering.
English Revised VersionIt shall not be baken with leaven. I have given it as their portion of my offerings made by fire; it is most holy, as the sin offering, and as the guilt offering.
GOD'S WORD® TranslationDon't use yeast in baking the bread. I have given it to them as their share from the offerings by fire made to me. It is very holy like the offering for sin and the guilt offering.
International Standard VersionIt is not to be baked with leaven. I've given it as their portion out of my offerings made by fire. It's a most holy thing, like the sin and guilt offerings.
NET BibleIt must not be baked with yeast. I have given it as their portion from my gifts. It is most holy, like the sin offering and the guilt offering.
New Heart English BibleIt shall not be baked with yeast. I have given it as their portion of my offerings made by fire. It is most holy, as the sin offering, and as the trespass offering.
Webster's Bible TranslationIt shall not be baked with leaven. I have given it to them for their portion of my offerings made by fire; It is most holy, as is the sin-offering, and as the trespass-offering. Majority Text Translations Majority Standard BibleIt must not be baked with leaven; I have assigned it as their portion of My food offerings. It is most holy, like the sin offering and the guilt offering.
World English BibleIt shall not be baked with yeast. I have given it as their portion of my offerings made by fire. It is most holy, as are the sin offering and the trespass offering. Literal Translations Literal Standard VersionIt is not baked [with] anything fermented; I have given it [for] their portion out of My fire-offerings; it [is] most holy, like the sin-offering, and like the guilt-offering.
Young's Literal Translation It is not baken with any thing fermented, their portion I have given it, out of My fire-offerings; it is most holy, like the sin-offering, and like the guilt-offering.
Smith's Literal TranslationIt shall not be cooked leavened. I gave it their portion from my sacrifices. It is holy of holies, as the sin and the trespass.Catholic Translations Douay-Rheims Bible
And therefore it shall not be leavened, because part thereof is offered for the burnt sacrifice of the Lord. It shall be most holy, as that which is offered for sin and for trespass.
Catholic Public Domain Version
Yet for this reason, it shall not be leavened, because part of it is offered as an incense of the Lord. The Holy of holies shall it be, just as what is offered on behalf of sin and of transgression.
New American Bible
It shall not be baked with leaven. I have given it to them as their portion from the oblations for the LORD; it is most holy, like the purification offering and the reparation offering.
New Revised Standard Version
It shall not be baked with leaven. I have given it as their portion of my offerings by fire; it is most holy, like the sin offering and the guilt offering.Translations from Aramaic Lamsa Bible
It shall not be baked with leaven. I have given it to them for their portion of my offerings made by fire; it is most holy, as is the sin offering and as is the trespass offering.
Peshitta Holy Bible Translated
Their portion shall not be baked with leaven; I have given it from my offering; it is a Holy of Holy things, like the sin offering and like a gift offering.OT Translations JPS Tanakh 1917
It shall not be baked with leaven. I have given it as their portion of My offerings made by fire; it is most holy, as the sin-offering, and as the guilt-offering.
Brenton Septuagint Translation
It shall not be baked with leaven. I have given it as a portion to them of the burnt-offerings of the Lord: it is most holy, as the offering for sin, and as the offering for trespass.
Additional Translations ... Audio Bible
Context The Grain Offering… 16Aaron and his sons are to eat the remainder. It must be eaten without leaven in a holy place; they are to eat it in the courtyard of the Tent of Meeting. 17It must notbe bakedwith leaven;I have assignedit as their portionof My offerings made by fire.It ismostholy,like the sin offeringand the guilt offering.18Any male among the sons of Aaron may eat it. This is a permanent portion from the offerings made by fire to the LORD for the generations to come. Anything that touches them will become holy.”…
Cross References Leviticus 2:11No grain offering that you present to the LORD may be made with leaven, for you are not to burn any leaven or honey as a food offering to the LORD.
Leviticus 10:12-13And Moses said to Aaron and his remaining sons, Eleazar and Ithamar, “Take the grain offering that remains from the food offerings to the LORD and eat it without leaven beside the altar, because it is most holy. / You shall eat it in a holy place, because it is your share and your sons’ share of the food offerings to the LORD; for this is what I have been commanded.
Numbers 18:9-10A portion of the most holy offerings reserved from the fire will be yours. From all the offerings they render to Me as most holy offerings, whether grain offerings or sin offerings or guilt offerings, that part belongs to you and your sons. / You are to eat it as a most holy offering, and every male may eat it. You shall regard it as holy.
Exodus 29:34And if any of the meat of ordination or any bread is left until the morning, you are to burn up the remainder. It must not be eaten, because it is sacred.
Leviticus 7:1-6“Now this is the law of the guilt offering, which is most holy: / The guilt offering must be slaughtered in the place where the burnt offering is slaughtered, and the priest shall splatter its blood on all sides of the altar. / And all the fat from it shall be offered: the fat tail, the fat that covers the entrails, ...
Leviticus 22:10No one outside a priest’s family may eat the sacred offering, nor may the guest of a priest or his hired hand eat it.
Deuteronomy 16:3You must not eat leavened bread with it; for seven days you are to eat with it unleavened bread, the bread of affliction, because you left the land of Egypt in haste—so that you may remember for the rest of your life the day you left the land of Egypt.
Exodus 12:8They are to eat the meat that night, roasted over the fire, along with unleavened bread and bitter herbs.
Leviticus 23:6On the fifteenth day of the same month begins the Feast of Unleavened Bread to the LORD. For seven days you must eat unleavened bread.
Numbers 6:15together with their grain offerings and drink offerings—and a basket of unleavened cakes made from fine flour mixed with oil and unleavened wafers coated with oil.
Matthew 16:12Then they understood that He was not telling them to beware of the leaven used in bread, but of the teaching of the Pharisees and Sadducees.
1 Corinthians 5:6-8Your boasting is not good. Do you not know that a little leaven works through the whole batch of dough? / Get rid of the old leaven, that you may be a new unleavened batch, as you really are. For Christ, our Passover lamb, has been sacrificed. / Therefore let us keep the feast, not with the old bread, leavened with malice and wickedness, but with the unleavened bread of sincerity and of truth.
Galatians 5:9A little leaven works through the whole batch of dough.
Hebrews 9:11-14But when Christ came as high priest of the good things that have come, He went through the greater and more perfect tabernacle that is not made by hands and is not a part of this creation. / 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, ...
Hebrews 10:1-10For the law is only a shadow of the good things to come, not the realities themselves. It can never, by the same sacrifices offered year after year, make perfect those who draw near to worship. / If it could, would not the offerings have ceased? For the worshipers would have been cleansed once for all, and would no longer have felt the guilt of their sins. / Instead, those sacrifices are an annual reminder of sins, ...
Treasury of Scripture It shall not be baked with leaven. I have given it to them for their portion of my offerings made by fire; it is most holy, as is the sin offering, and as the trespass offering. baken Leviticus 2:11 No meat offering, which ye shall bring unto the LORD, shall be made with leaven: for ye shall burn no leaven, nor any honey, in any offering of the LORD made by fire. 1 Peter 2:22 Who did no sin, neither was guile found in his mouth: I have Numbers 18:9,10 This shall be thine of the most holy things,reserved from the fire: every oblation of theirs, every meat offering of theirs, and every sin offering of theirs, and every trespass offering of theirs, which they shall render unto me,shall be most holy for thee and for thy sons… it is most holy Leviticus 6:25 Speak unto Aaron and to his sons, saying, Thisis the law of the sin offering: In the place where the burnt offering is killed shall the sin offering be killed before the LORD: itis most holy. Leviticus 2:3 And the remnant of the meat offeringshall be Aaron's and his sons':it is a thing most holy of the offerings of the LORD made by fire. Leviticus 7:1,6 Likewise thisis the law of the trespass offering: itis most holy… Jump to Previous BakedCookedErrorFermentedFireGuiltGuilt-OfferingHolyLeavenOfferingOfferingsPartPortionShareSinSin-OfferingSin-OfferingsTrespassTrespass-OfferingYeastJump to Next BakedCookedErrorFermentedFireGuiltGuilt-OfferingHolyLeavenOfferingOfferingsPartPortionShareSinSin-OfferingSin-OfferingsTrespassTrespass-OfferingYeastLeviticus 6 1.The trespass offering for sins done wittingly8.The law of the burnt offering14.and of the meat offering19.The offering at the consecration of a priest24.The law of the sin offeringIt must not be baked with leaven;Leaven, or yeast, is often symbolic of sin and corruption in the Bible. In the context of offerings, leaven is prohibited to signify purity and holiness. This requirement underscores the need for offerings to be free from impurity, reflecting the holiness of God. In the New Testament, Jesus warns against the "leaven of the Pharisees," which represents hypocrisy and false teaching ( Matthew 16:6). The absence of leaven in offerings can also be seen as a type of Christ, who was without sin. I have assigned it as their portion of My food offerings.
This phrase indicates that a portion of the offerings is designated for the priests. The priests, who serve in the temple, rely on these portions for their sustenance, as they do not have land inheritance like the other tribes of Israel (Numbers 18:20-21). This provision highlights God's care for those who serve Him and the community's responsibility to support their spiritual leaders. It also reflects the communal aspect of worship, where offerings benefit both God and His servants. It is most holy,
The designation "most holy" signifies the highest level of sanctity. Items or offerings deemed "most holy" are set apart for God and must be handled with the utmost reverence and care. This status is reserved for offerings that are directly related to atonement and reconciliation with God. The holiness of these offerings points to the seriousness of sin and the need for a pure and acceptable sacrifice, foreshadowing the ultimate sacrifice of Jesus Christ, who is the "Lamb of God" (John 1:29). like the sin offering and the guilt offering.
The sin offering and the guilt offering are both sacrifices made for atonement, addressing different aspects of sin and guilt. The sin offering deals with unintentional sins and purification, while the guilt offering addresses specific transgressions and restitution. Both offerings emphasize the need for repentance and reconciliation with God. They prefigure the atoning work of Christ, who fulfills the requirements of both offerings through His death and resurrection, providing complete forgiveness and restoration for believers (Hebrews 10:10-12). Persons / Places / Events 1. MosesThe prophet and leader of the Israelites, through whom God delivered the laws and commandments, including those in Leviticus. 2. Aaron and His SonsThe priests who were given specific instructions on how to conduct offerings and sacrifices, including the grain offering mentioned in this verse. 3. The TabernacleThe sacred place where the Israelites worshiped and where offerings were made to God. 4. The IsraelitesThe chosen people of God, who were given the Law to follow as part of their covenant relationship with Him. 5. Offerings Made by FireSacrificial offerings that were burned on the altar as a pleasing aroma to the Lord, symbolizing atonement and dedication. Teaching Points Holiness of OfferingsThe grain offering, like the sin and guilt offerings, is described as "most holy." This underscores the importance of approaching God with reverence and purity. Symbolism of LeavenLeaven often symbolizes sin and corruption in Scripture. The prohibition of leaven in offerings serves as a reminder to remove sin from our lives and approach God with sincerity. God's Provision for PriestsThe grain offering was given as a share to the priests, highlighting God's provision for those who serve Him. This can remind us of the importance of supporting those in ministry. Continuity and FulfillmentThe sacrificial system points forward to Christ, who fulfills the law and offers Himself as the perfect sacrifice. This encourages us to see the Old Testament laws as part of God's redemptive plan. Living SacrificesAs believers, we are called to offer ourselves as living sacrifices, holy and pleasing to God. This involves daily surrender and commitment to living according to His will. Bible Study Questions and Answers 1.What is the meaning of Leviticus 6:17?
2.How does Leviticus 6:17 emphasize the importance of holiness in offerings?
3.Why is it significant that offerings are described as "most holy" in Leviticus 6:17?
4.How can we apply the principle of holiness in our daily worship today?
5.What connections exist between Leviticus 6:17 and New Testament teachings on holiness?
6.How does understanding Leviticus 6:17 deepen our reverence for God's commands?
7.What does Leviticus 6:17 reveal about the nature of sin offerings in ancient Israelite worship?
8.How does Leviticus 6:17 emphasize the holiness required in offerings to God?
9.Why is the prohibition of leaven in Leviticus 6:17 significant for understanding purity laws?
10.What are the top 10 Lessons from Leviticus 6?
11.What does 'cut off from his people' mean?
12.(Leviticus 6:24-30) How can a 'most holy' offering simultaneously require burning outside the camp, and does this present a logical or theological contradiction?
13.If God initially commanded blood sacrifices (Leviticus 17:5-6), why do later prophets (e.g., Hosea 6:6) stress that God desires mercy over sacrifice, suggesting a changing divine preference?
14.How does the emphasis on burnt offerings in Leviticus 1 align with later scripture stressing mercy over sacrifice (Hosea 6:6)?What Does Leviticus 6:17 Mean It must not be baked with leavenLeaven consistently pictures corruption and sin (Exodus 12:15–20;Matthew 16:6, 12;1 Corinthians 5:6–8). By forbidding yeast in this grain offering, God highlights His demand for purity in worship. The priests, who represent the people before the LORD, must handle an offering untouched by fermentation—an acted-out sermon that sin cannot mingle with devotion.Leviticus 2:11 reinforces, “Every grain offering you bring to the LORD must be made without yeast.” The lesson is simple: approach God on His terms, not with a mixture of holy intention and hidden compromise.
I have assigned it as their portion of My food offeringsGod provides for His priests through certain sacrifices (Leviticus 6:16; 7:31–34). This “portion” isn’t a bonus; it’s His deliberate provision.Deuteronomy 18:1–3 reminds us that the Levites “have no inheritance among their brothers; the LORD is their inheritance.” Their sustenance flows directly from the altar, underscoring that ministry depends on God’s faithfulness, not human schemes. The New Testament echoes the pattern: “Those who serve at the altar share in what is offered on the altar” (1 Corinthians 9:13).
It is most holy“Most holy” (Leviticus 2:3) signals the highest degree of sanctity. Anything designated as such must be approached with respect and eaten only in a clean place (Leviticus 6:26). Think of Moses at the burning bush—“Take off your sandals, for the place where you are standing is holy ground” (Exodus 3:5). The LORD’s holiness is not casual; His presence sanctifies people, places, and food.Hebrews 12:14 calls believers to “pursue…holiness, without which no one will see the Lord,” tying the Old Covenant picture to our New Covenant call.
like the sin offering and the guilt offeringGod ranks this grain offering on par with sacrifices that dealt directly with sin (Leviticus 4–5). The same reverence required for the sin and guilt offerings applies here, pointing to Christ, “the Lamb of God, who takes away the sin of the world” (John 1:29).Hebrews 10:1 teaches that these offerings were “a shadow of the good things to come,” directing worshipers to anticipate the perfect sacrifice. The linkage reminds us that cleansing and consecration are inseparable: forgiveness (sin and guilt offerings) leads to devoted service (grain offering).
summaryLeviticus 6:17 weaves together purity (no leaven), divine provision (priestly portion), sacredness (most holy), and atonement (linked to sin and guilt offerings). God calls His people to worship Him without corruption, depend on His provision, revere His holiness, and see every sacrifice pointing forward to Christ, our flawless offering and eternal High Priest. (17) I have given it unto them for their portion.--It was ordained that those who ministered at the altar should live of the altar; hence the priests had no portion or inheritance in the land.
Parallel Commentaries ...
Hebrew It must notלֹ֤א(lō)Adverb - Negative particle
Strong's 3808:Not, nobe bakedתֵאָפֶה֙(ṯê·’ā·p̄eh)Verb - Nifal - Imperfect - third person feminine singular
Strong's 644:To cook, to bakewith yeast;חָמֵ֔ץ(ḥā·mêṣ)Noun - masculine singular
Strong's 2557:That which is leavenedI have assignedנָתַ֥תִּי(nā·ṯat·tî)Verb - Qal - Perfect - first person common singular
Strong's 5414:To give, put, setit as their portionחֶלְקָ֛ם(ḥel·qām)Noun - masculine singular construct | third person masculine plural
Strong's 2506:Portion, tract, territoryof My offerings made by fire.מֵאִשָּׁ֑י(mê·’iš·šāy)Preposition-m | Noun - masculine plural construct | first person common singular
Strong's 801:A burnt-offering, a sacrificeIt [is]הִ֔וא(hî)Pronoun - third person feminine singular
Strong's 1931:He, self, the same, this, that, as, aremostקֹ֤דֶשׁ(qō·ḏeš)Noun - masculine singular construct
Strong's 6944:A sacred place, thing, sanctityholy,קָֽדָשִׁים֙(qā·ḏā·šîm)Noun - masculine plural
Strong's 6944:A sacred place, thing, sanctitylike the sin offeringכַּחַטָּ֖את(ka·ḥaṭ·ṭāṯ)Preposition-k, Article | Noun - feminine singular
Strong's 2403:An offence, its penalty, occasion, sacrifice, expiation, an offenderand the guilt offering.וְכָאָשָֽׁם׃(wə·ḵā·’ā·šām)Conjunctive waw, Preposition-k, Article | Noun - masculine singular
Strong's 817:Guilt, a fault, a sin-offering
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