Verse Lens · Concise explanation
Leviticus 22:25 Explained in Context
Use this verse as a doorway into the larger passage—not as an isolated saying.
Verse 25. 25Neither from a stranger’s hand shall ye offer the bread of your God of any of these; because their corruption is in them, and blemishes be in them: they shall not be accepted for you.
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Quick Meaning
This verse refuses such animals even when supplied through an outsider.
Read It With
- Leviticus 22:17-25
Use 22:17-25 as the reading frame for Leviticus 22:25. The verse refuses such animals even when supplied through an outsider, while the complete unit shows that Voluntary and vow offerings require unblemished cattle, sheep, or goats, with specified injuries or conditions rejected, including animals received from foreigners.
Why This Verse Appears Here
Placed here, the verse refuses such animals even when supplied through an outsider; Leviticus 22:17-25 supplies the actors, category, and outcome needed to interpret it.
What Remains True
Refuses such animals even when supplied through an outsider. Within Leviticus 22:17-25, this contributes to the larger claim that voluntary and vow offerings require unblemished cattle, sheep, or goats, with specified injuries or conditions rejected, including animals received from foreigners.
How It Can Shape Life
- When teaching Leviticus 22:25, keep the verse inside Leviticus 22:17-25. Hold this boundary: Animal offering criteria must not be transferred to human bodies, disabled people, marriage, immigration, leadership, or employment. Apply only the noncoercive truth the complete unit supports.
Continue in Context
The full thought-unit study remains the final contextual authority for this Verse Lens.
Read Leviticus 22:17-25 — Offered animals must meet the sanctuary's wholeness standardSources used for this Verse Lens
How certain is this explanation? strong
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Biblical text
King James (Authorized) Version — eng-kjv2006
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USFM archive eng-kjv2006_usfm.zip; source files dated 2026-08-19; downloaded 2026-08-24; archive SHA-256 aec1b3b26c622fd3d963d2bbac963016b9513246ffbfa20da00bb100372ea007; normalized corpus SHA-256 09aef51d90488aa7b9722b3fd9a93f4b25f6bf2064c5fd798fb39673c300ddf2.
Supports: Exact reader-facing KJV wording, paragraph metadata, supplied-word markup, and complete verse coverage for this thought unit.
Exact location: Leviticus 22:17-25, pinned eng-kjv2006 USFM corpus
Open source ↗hebrew text and morphology
Open Scriptures Hebrew Bible: Leviticus
Open Scriptures
Open Scriptures, release 2.2
Supports: Hebrew wording, morphology, ritual and legal vocabulary, names, clause relationships, KJV language controls, and translation limits.
Exact location: Open Scriptures MorphHB v.2.2, commit 6a5db284c715c18b239422e57bb89684e6a19f00, wlc/Lev.xml, Masoretic words and morphology for 22:17-25
Open source ↗translation and translator notes
NET Bible: Leviticus with translators' notes
Biblical Studies Press
eBible.org distribution of the NET Bible, PDF generated 2025-12-31
Supports: Unit-bounded translator notes on Hebrew, syntax, ritual vocabulary, measures, textual questions, and older-English wording; silence is not treated as evidence.
Exact location: NET Bible Leviticus PDF, complete PDF pp. 1-99, translation and translator notes for 22:17-25
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