Verse Lens · Concise explanation
Leviticus 3:13 Explained in Context
Use this verse as a doorway into the larger passage—not as an isolated saying.
Verse 13. 13And he shall lay his hand upon the head of it, and kill it before the tabernacle of the congregation: and the sons of Aaron shall sprinkle the blood thereof upon the altar round about.
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Quick Meaning
This verse repeats the offerer's hand placement and killing with priestly blood presentation.
Read It With
- Leviticus 3:12-17
Read through 3:12-17 and watch how each actor, material, status, or command relates. Leviticus 3:13 repeats the offerer's hand placement and killing with priestly blood presentation; the whole unit establishes this: A goat follows the well-being procedure, and the section ends by reserving all specified fat and blood from Israelite eating.
Why This Verse Appears Here
This unit follows at this point to define a goat offering closes with the fat-and-blood statute before the book turns to the next offering, priestly act, status distinction, social command, calendar movement, land case, covenant warning, or vow rule. Within that movement, this verse repeats the offerer's hand placement and killing with priestly blood presentation.
What Remains True
Repeats the offerer's hand placement and killing with priestly blood presentation. Within Leviticus 3:12-17, this contributes to the larger claim that a goat follows the well-being procedure, and the section ends by reserving all specified fat and blood from Israelite eating.
How It Can Shape Life
- When teaching Leviticus 3:13, keep the verse inside Leviticus 3:12-17. Hold this boundary: The blood prohibition belongs to a theology of life and altar, not disgust toward bodies or food cultures. 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 3:12-17 — A goat offering closes with the fat-and-blood statuteSources 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 3:12-17, 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 3:12-17
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 3:12-17
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