Leviticus 1:4 - Revised Standard Version (RSV-CI)

⁴ he shall lay his hand upon the head of the burnt offering, and it shall be accepted for him to make atonement for him.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

⁴ And he shall put his hand upon the head of the burnt offering; and it shall be accepted for him to make atonement for him.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

⁴ And he shall lay [both] his hands upon the head of the burnt offering [transferring symbolically his guilt to the victim], and it shall be an acceptable atonement for him. [Heb. 13:15, 16; I Pet. 1:2.]

American Standard Version (1901)

⁴ And he shall lay his hand upon the head of the burnt-offering; and it shall be accepted for him to make atonement for him.

Common English Bible

⁴ You must press your hand on the head of the entirely burned offering so that it will be accepted for you, to make reconciliation for you.

Catholic Public Domain Version

⁴ And he shall place his hand on the head of the sacrifice, and so it shall be acceptable and effective, in its expiation.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

⁴ And he shall put his hand upon the head of the victim: and it shall be acceptable, and help to its expiation.

Leviticus 1:4 Cross References

Exodus 28:38

It shall be upon Aaron's forehead, and Aaron shall take upon himself any guilt incurred in the holy offering which the people of Israel hallow as their holy gifts; it shall always be upon his forehead, that they may be accepted before the Lord.

Exodus 29:10

“Then you shall bring the bull before the tent of meeting. Aaron and his sons shall lay their hands upon the head of the bull,

Exodus 29:15

“Then you shall take one of the rams, and Aaron and his sons shall lay their hands upon the head of the ram,

Exodus 29:19

“You shall take the other ram; and Aaron and his sons shall lay their hands upon the head of the ram,

Exodus 29:33

They shall eat those things with which atonement was made, to ordain and consecrate them, but an outsider shall not eat of them, because they are holy.

Isaiah 56:7

these I will bring to my holy mountain, and make them joyful in my house of prayer; their burnt offerings and their sacrifices will be accepted on my altar; for my house shall be called a house of prayer for all peoples.

Ezekiel 45:15

and one sheep from every flock of two hundred, from the families of Israel. This is the offering for cereal offerings, burnt offerings, and peace offerings, to make atonement for them, says the Lord God.

Daniel 9:24

“Seventy weeks of years are decreed concerning your people and your holy city, to finish the transgression, to put an end to sin, and to atone for iniquity, to bring in everlasting righteousness, to seal both vision and prophet, and to anoint a most holy place.

Leviticus 16:21

and Aaron shall lay both his hands upon the head of the live goat, and confess over him all the iniquities of the people of Israel, and all their transgressions, all their sins; and he shall put them upon the head of the goat, and send him away into the wilderness by the hand of a man who is in readiness.

Leviticus 16:24

and he shall bathe his body in water in a holy place, and put on his garments, and come forth, and offer his burnt offering and the burnt offering of the people, and make atonement for himself and for the people.

Leviticus 22:21

And when any one offers a sacrifice of peace offerings to the Lord, to fulfil a vow or as a freewill offering, from the herd or from the flock, to be accepted it must be perfect; there shall be no blemish in it.

Leviticus 22:27

“When a bull or sheep or goat is born, it shall remain seven days with its mother; and from the eighth day on it shall be acceptable as an offering by fire to the Lord.

Leviticus 3:13

and lay his hand upon its head, and kill it before the tent of meeting; and the sons of Aaron shall throw its blood against the altar round about.

Leviticus 3:2

And he shall lay his hand upon the head of his offering and kill it at the door of the tent of meeting; and Aaron's sons the priests shall throw the blood against the altar round about.

Leviticus 3:8

laying his hand upon the head of his offering and killing it before the tent of meeting; and Aaron's sons shall throw its blood against the altar round about.

Leviticus 4:15

and the elders of the congregation shall lay their hands upon the head of the bull before the Lord, and the bull shall be killed before the Lord.

Leviticus 4:20

Thus shall he do with the bull; as he did with the bull of the sin offering, so shall he do with this; and the priest shall make atonement for them, and they shall be forgiven.

Leviticus 4:24

and shall lay his hand upon the head of the goat, and kill it in the place where they kill the burnt offering before the Lord; it is a sin offering.

Leviticus 4:26

And all its fat he shall burn on the altar, like the fat of the sacrifice of peace offerings; so the priest shall make atonement for him for his sin, and he shall be forgiven.

Leviticus 4:29

And he shall lay his hand on the head of the sin offering, and kill the sin offering in the place of burnt offering.

Leviticus 4:31

And all its fat he shall remove, as the fat is removed from the peace offerings, and the priest shall burn it upon the altar for a pleasing odor to the Lord; and the priest shall make atonement for him, and he shall be forgiven.

Leviticus 4:33

and lay his hand upon the head of the sin offering, and kill it for a sin offering in the place where they kill the burnt offering.

Leviticus 4:35

And all its fat he shall remove as the fat of the lamb is removed from the sacrifice of peace offerings, and the priest shall burn it on the altar, upon the offerings by fire to the Lord; and the priest shall make atonement for him for the sin which he has committed, and he shall be forgiven.

Leviticus 4:4

He shall bring the bull to the door of the tent of meeting before the Lord, and lay his hand on the head of the bull, and kill the bull before the Lord.

Leviticus 5:6

and he shall bring his guilt offering to the Lord for the sin which he has committed, a female from the flock, a lamb or a goat, for a sin offering; and the priest shall make atonement for him for his sin.

Leviticus 6:7

and the priest shall make atonement for him before the Lord, and he shall be forgiven for any of the things which one may do and thereby become guilty.”

Leviticus 8:14

Then he brought the bull of the sin offering; and Aaron and his sons laid their hands upon the head of the bull of the sin offering.

Leviticus 8:18

Then he presented the ram of the burnt offering; and Aaron and his sons laid their hands on the head of the ram.

Leviticus 8:22

Then he presented the other ram, the ram of ordination; and Aaron and his sons laid their hands on the head of the ram.

Leviticus 9:7

Then Moses said to Aaron, “Draw near to the altar, and offer your sin offering and your burnt offering, and make atonement for yourself and for the people; and bring the offering of the people, and make atonement for them; as the Lord has commanded.”

Numbers 15:25

And the priest shall make atonement for all the congregation of the people of Israel, and they shall be forgiven; because it was an error, and they have brought their offering, an offering by fire to the Lord, and their sin offering before the Lord, for their error.

Numbers 15:28

And the priest shall make atonement before the Lord for the person who commits an error, when he sins unwittingly, to make atonement for him; and he shall be forgiven.

Numbers 25:13

and it shall be to him, and to his descendants after him, the covenant of a perpetual priesthood, because he was jealous for his God, and made atonement for the people of Israel.’ ”

Numbers 8:10

When you present the Levites before the Lord, the people of Israel shall lay their hands upon the Levites,

Numbers 8:12

Then the Levites shall lay their hands upon the heads of the bulls; and you shall offer the one for a sin offering and the other for a burnt offering to the Lord, to make atonement for the Levites.

Romans 12:1

I appeal to you therefore, brethren, by the mercies of God, to present your bodies as a living sacrifice, holy and acceptable to God, which is your spiritual worship.

Romans 3:25

whom God put forward as an expiation by his blood, to be received by faith. This was to show God's righteousness, because in his divine forbearance he had passed over former sins;

Romans 5:11

Not only so, but we also rejoice in God through our Lord Jesus Christ, through whom we have now received our reconciliation.

Philippians 4:18

I have received full payment, and more; I am filled, having received from Epaphroditus the gifts you sent, a fragrant offering, a sacrifice acceptable and pleasing to God.

Hebrews 10:4

For it is impossible that the blood of bulls and goats should take away sins.

1 John 2:2

and he is the expiation for our sins, and not for ours only but also for the sins of the whole world.