Exegetical and Hermeneutical Commentary of Leviticus 22:19
[Ye shall offer] at your own will a male without blemish, of the beefs, of the sheep, or of the goats.
Ye shall offer at your own will a male – Rather, That it may be accepted (so Lev 22:29) for you it shall be a male. See Lev 1:3. It is the same phrase as in Lev 22:20-21, Lev 22:27.
Fuente: Albert Barnes’ Notes on the Bible
A male for a burnt-offering, which was always of that kind; but the females were accepted in peace-offerings, Lev 3:1, and sin-offerings, Lev 4:32; 5:6.
Fuente: English Annotations on the Holy Bible by Matthew Poole
19. Ye shall offer at your ownwillrather, to your being accepted.
a male without blemishThislaw (Le 1:3) is founded on asense of natural propriety, which required the greatest care to betaken in the selection of animals for sacrifice. The reason for thisextreme caution is found in the fact that sacrifices are either anexpression of praise to God for His goodness, or else they are thedesigned means of conciliating or retaining His favor. No victim thatwas not perfect in its kind could be deemed a fitting instrument forsuch purposes if we assume that the significance of sacrifices isderived entirely from their relation to Jehovah. Sacrifices may belikened to gifts made to a king by his subjects, and hence thereasonableness of God’s strong remonstrance with the worldly-mindedJews (Mal 1:8). If thetabernacle, and subsequently the temple, were considered the palaceof the great King, then the sacrifices would answer to presents asoffered to a monarch on various occasions by his subjects; and inthis light they would be the appropriate expressions of theirfeelings towards their sovereign. When a subject wished to do honorto his sovereign, to acknowledge allegiance, to appease his anger, tosupplicate forgiveness, or to intercede for another, he brought apresent; and all the ideas involved in sacrifices correspond to thesesentimentsthose of gratitude, of worship, of prayer, of confessionand atonement [BIB. SAC.].
Fuente: Jamieson, Fausset and Brown’s Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible
Ye shall offer at your own will,…. For vows and freewill offerings were at their own option, and depended on their own will and pleasure, and when offered should be with a willing mind, and from their whole heart: or “for good will to you”; as the Targums of Onkelos and Jonathan; or for gracious, acceptation, that is, that they might be well pleasing to God, and acceptable in his sight, so Jarchi; in order to which the following direction was strictly to be observed:
a male without blemish, of the beeves, of the sheep, and of the goats; bullocks, sheep, and goats, were the only sorts of beasts, out of which sacrifices were taken, and those that were for burnt offerings were always to be males, and unblemished, see Le 1:3; but for other offerings, as peace offerings and sin offerings, females might be used, see Le 3:1. Fowls are not mentioned, though burnt offerings were of them, because it was not required in them, only of beasts, that they should be males, and without blemish; for, as Jarchi observes, these were not rejected on account of a blemish, only for want of a member.
Fuente: John Gill’s Exposition of the Entire Bible
19. “Unto your acceptance.” (294) Some indeed translate this “at your own will,” but the context forbids it; for Moses sometimes uses the word רצה, ratseh, which means “accepted,” in the same sense, and sometimes רצון, ratson, which can only be referred to God’s favor, which is commonly called His “good pleasure.” Again, as he here uses the compound word לרצנכם; leretsoncem, so he soon afterwards adds לרצון לכם, leretson lecem, where he declares that a blemished sacrifice would not be “unto their acceptance,” because it would be rejected by God. The sum therefore is, that if they desire their oblations to be approved by God, they must beware that there be no defect in them. Still, if any one chooses to think that God’s gratuitous favor is expressed by the word “good pleasure,” I willingly admit it, since our services only please God in so far as in His paternal indulgence He deigns to award to them the value of which they are by no means worthy. Nevertheless let us learn meanwhile that we must not play with God, but that He must be so worshipped in integrity and sincerity of heart as that our sacrifices may correspond with His good pleasure. For hence arises the careless profanation of His worship, because we do not sufficiently consider what is due to His perfection. It is indeed certain that nothing can proceed from us which is pure in every respect; but let us at least aspire at what befits us, and let us mourn that our desires fall so far short of their aim, in order that Christ may by His grace supply what is wanting in US; for it is unquestionable that, provided our sacrifices are the fruits of true regeneration, He washes out their blemishes with His own blood.
(294) A.V. “At your own will,” vide supra, p. 370.
Fuente: Calvin’s Complete Commentary
(19) Ye shall offer at your own will a male.Better, that it may be accepted for you it shall be a male; or, ye shall offer for your acceptance a male. repeating the word offer; or, for your acceptance it must be a male, as the Authorised version renders the same phrase in Lev. 22:20-21; Lev. 22:27 (see Lev. 1:3).
Fuente: Ellicott’s Commentary for English Readers (Old and New Testaments)
19. At your own will The better translation is, for your acceptance, or, as the R.V., “that ye may be accepted.” See Lev 1:3, note, and Lev 23:11, in the original.
Without blemish See Lev 1:3, note, also Lev 22:22-24; Lev 22:27.
Fuente: Whedon’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments
Lev 22:19. Ye shall offer at your own will a male without blemish Laws are next given to provide for the perfection of the sacrifices, as well as of the sacrificers. Upon this head, we refer to the last note of the foregoing chapter, The strangers in Israel, Lev 22:18 signify the proselytes of the gate, such as had embraced the Mosaic law. At your own will might be rendered more consistently with the former verse, for your acceptance, or to be accepted; as it is rendered in the 21st verse, and by several of the ancient versions. The same attention to the perfection of victims was found among the heathens: they thought that unworthy to be offered to their gods, which was not excellent and complete in its kind. “No lame animal is to be sacrificed,” says the Greek scholiast on Aristophanes; “and, in general, nothing must be offered to the gods, but what is sound and perfect:” .
Fuente: Commentary on the Holy Bible by Thomas Coke
Lev 22:19 [Ye shall offer] at your own will a male without blemish, of the beeves, of the sheep, or of the goats.
Ver. 19. At your own will. ] Yet observing strictly the law in that case provided, with all the rites appointed. Such will worship is very acceptable.
Fuente: John Trapp’s Complete Commentary (Old and New Testaments)
at your own will = for your acceptance. So rendered in verses: Lev 22:20, Lev 22:21, Lev 22:25, Lev 22:27. See note on Lev 1:3. For this kind of offering, see note on Lev 7:15, Lev 7:16.
Fuente: Companion Bible Notes, Appendices and Graphics
Lev 1:3, Lev 1:10, Lev 4:32, Exo 12:5, Mat 27:4, Mat 27:19, Mat 27:24, Mat 27:54, Luk 23:14, Luk 23:41, Luk 23:47, Joh 19:4, 2Co 5:21, Eph 5:27, Heb 9:14, 1Pe 1:19, 1Pe 2:22-24, 1Pe 3:18
Reciprocal: Lev 1:2 – If any Lev 3:1 – a sacrifice Lev 3:12 – a goat Lev 19:5 – ye shall Mal 1:8 – if ye offer the blind Mal 1:13 – torn
Fuente: The Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Lev 22:19. Ye shall offer it at your own will This is better rendered by the Seventy, the Arabic, and other versions, In order to its being accepted ye shall offer a male. And so we render the same word , leratson, in the next verse. Males were required in burnt-offerings: but females were accepted in peace-offerings and sin-offerings.