Leviticus 10:12

And Moses spake unto Aaron, and unto Eleazar and unto Ithamar, his sons that were left, Take the meat offering that remaineth of the offerings of the LORD made by fire, and eat it without leaven beside the altar: for it is most holy:

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Word by word — the Hebrew

Word	Hebrew	Strong’s	Meaning
Moses	מֹשֶׁ֜ה mo.Sheh	H4872	Mosheh · proper noun, a man's name
spake	וַיְדַבֵּ֨ר vay.da.Ber	H1696	perhaps properly · conjunction + verb, piel sequential imperfect, 3rd person masculine singular
Aaron	אַהֲרֹ֗ן 'a.ha.Ron	H175	Aharon · proper noun, a man's name
Eleazar	אֶ֠לְעָזָר 'El.'a.zor	H499	Elazar · proper noun, a man's name
Ithamar	אִ֨יתָמָ֥ר 'i.ta.Mar	H385	Ithamar · proper noun, a man's name
sons	בָּנָיו֮ ba.Nav	H1121	a son (as a builder of the family name) · noun, common masculine plural construct + pronominal suffix, 3rd person masculine singular
left	הַנּֽוֹתָרִים֒ ha.no.ta.Rim	H3498	to jut over or exceed · definite article + verb, niphal active participle, masculine plural absolute
Take	קְח֣וּ ke.Chu	H3947	to take (in the widest variety of applications) · verb, qal imperative, 2nd person masculine plural
offering	הַמִּנְחָ֗ה ha.min.Chah	H4503	a donation · definite article + noun, common feminine singular absolute
remaineth	הַנּוֹתֶ֙רֶת֙ ha.no.Te.ret	H3498	to jut over or exceed · definite article + verb, niphal active participle, feminine singular absolute
offerings	מֵאִשֵּׁ֣י me.'i.Shei	H801	properly · preposition + noun, common masculine plural construct
LORD	יְהוָ֔ה Yah.weh	H3068	Jehovah · proper noun, a title
fire	אִשָּׁה ʼishshâh	H801	properly
eat	וְאִכְל֥וּהָ ve.'ikh.Lu.ha	H398	to eat (literally or figuratively) · conjunction + verb, qal imperative, 2nd person masculine plural + pronominal suffix, 3rd person feminine singular
leaven	מַצּ֖וֹת ma.Tzot	H4682	properly · noun, common feminine plural absolute
beside	אֵ֣צֶל 'E.tzel	H681	a side · noun, common both genders singular construct
altar	הַמִּזְבֵּ֑חַ ha.miz.Be.ach	H4196	an altar · definite article + noun, common masculine singular absolute
most	קֹ֥דֶשׁ Ko.desh	H6944	a sacred place or thing · noun, common masculine singular construct
holy	קָֽדָשִׁ֖ים ka.da.Shim	H6944	a sacred place or thing · noun, common masculine plural absolute

Strong's Exhaustive Concordance (James Strong, 1890/1894), public domain; digitized by Open Scriptures (CC BY-SA). KJV word tagging: eBible.org (public domain). Original-language text, parsing and brief lexicon: STEPBible.org data from Tyndale House, Cambridge (CC BY 4.0).

Cross-references

Leviticus 21:22 He shall eat the bread of his God, both of the most holy, and of the holy.
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…
Exodus 29:2 And unleavened bread, and cakes unleavened tempered with oil, and wafers unleavened anointed with oil: of wheaten flour shalt thou make them…
Leviticus 2:1-16 And when any will offer a meat offering unto the LORD, his offering shall be of fine flour; and he shall pour oil upon it, and put frankince…
Leviticus 6:14-18 And this is the law of the meat offering: the sons of Aaron shall offer it before the LORD, before the altar.
Leviticus 7:9 And all the meat offering that is baken in the oven, and all that is dressed in the fryingpan, and in the pan, shall be the priest’s that of…
Ezekiel 44:29 They shall eat the meat offering, and the sin offering, and the trespass offering; and every dedicated thing in Israel shall be theirs.

Cross-references from OpenBible.info (CC BY), in the lineage of the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge (public domain).

Commentary

Matthew Henry on Leviticus 10:12–end

Moses is here directing Aaron to go on with his service after this interruption. Afflictions should rather quicken us to our duty than take us off from it. Observe (Lev 10:12), He spoke unto Aaron and to his sons that were left. The notice taken of their survivorship intimates, 1. That Aaron should take comfort under the loss of two of his sons, from this consideration, that God had graciously spared him the other two, and that he had reason to be thankful for the remnant that was left, and all his sons were not dead, and, in token of his thankfulness to God, to go on cheerfully in his work. 2. That God's sparing them should be an engagement upon them to proceed in his service, and not to fl…

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Jamieson-Fausset-Brown on Leviticus 10:12

Moses spake unto Aaron, &c.--This was a timely and considerate rehearsal of the laws that regulated the conduct of the priests. Amid the distractions of their family bereavement, Aaron and his surviving sons might have forgotten or overlooked some of their duties.

Adam Clarke on Leviticus 10:10

That we may put difference between holy and unholy - This is a strong reason why they should drink no inebriating liquor, that their understanding being clear, and their judgment correct, they might be always able to discern between the clean and the unclean, and ever pronounce righteous judgment. Injunctions similar to this were found among the Egyptians, Carthaginians, and Greeks. Indeed, common sense itself shows that neither a drunkard nor a sot should ever be suffered to minister in holy things.

John Gill on Leviticus 10:12

And Moses spake unto Aaron, and unto Eleazar, and unto Ithamar, his sons that were left,.... Of the burning, as the Targum of Jonathan; who survived his other two sons that were burnt, who remained alive, not being concerned with them in their sin, and so shared not in their punishment: take the meat offering that remaineth of the offerings of the Lord made by fire; for all but the handful that was burnt of that kind of offerings belonged to the priests, see Leviticus 6:14 this meat offering, according to Jarchi, was the meat offering of the eighth day, that is, of the consecration, or the day after it was finished, on which the above awful case happened, Leviticus 9:17 and also the meat of…

Dictionary and topics

Eleazar — God has helped. (1.) The third son of Aaron (Ex. 6:23). His wife, a daughter of Putiel, bore him Phinehas (Ex. 6:25). After the death of Nadab and Abihu (Lev. 10:12; Num. 3:4) he was appointed to the…
Eli — Ascent, the high priest when the ark was at Shiloh (1 Sam. 1:3, 9). He was the first of the line of Ithamar, Aaron’s fourth son (1 Chr. 24:3; comp. 2 Sam. 8:17), who held that office. The office…
Ithamar — Palm isle, the fourth and youngest son of Aaron (1 Chr. 6:3). He was consecrated to the priesthood along with his brothers (Ex. 6:23); and after the death of Nadab and Abihu, he and Eleazar alone…
Priest — The Heb. kohen, Gr. hierus, Lat. sacerdos, always denote one who offers sacrifices. At first every man was his own priest, and presented his own sacrifices before God. Afterwards that office devolved…
Heave-Offering · To be eaten in a clean place — To be eaten in a clean place
Leaven · Forbidden: To be offered, &c with meat offerings which were burned — Forbidden: To be offered, &c with meat offerings which were burned
Leaven (Yeast) · .With meat offerings — .With meat offerings

Dictionary: Easton's (1897) and Smith's (1863), public domain. Topics: Nave's Topical Bible (1896) and Torrey's Topical Textbook (1897), public domain. Both as parsed by NEUU (CC BY 4.0).

Leviticus 10:12

Word by word — the Hebrew

Cross-references

Commentary

Matthew Henry on Leviticus 10:12–end

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown on Leviticus 10:12

Adam Clarke on Leviticus 10:10

John Gill on Leviticus 10:12

Dictionary and topics

Leviticus 10:12

Word by word — the Hebrew

Cross-references

Commentary

Matthew Henry on Leviticus 10:12–end

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown on Leviticus 10:12

Adam Clarke on Leviticus 10:10

John Gill on Leviticus 10:12

Dictionary and topics

John Calvin on Leviticus 10:8–end

Keil & Delitzsch on Leviticus 10:12-18

Tyndale Open Study Notes on Leviticus 10:12

Rashi on Leviticus 10:12