Leviticus 22:16
Modern Translations
New International Version
by allowing them to eat the sacred offerings and so bring upon them guilt requiring payment. I am the LORD, who makes them holy.'"

New Living Translation
by allowing unauthorized people to eat them. This would bring guilt upon them and require them to pay compensation. I am the LORD who makes them holy.”

English Standard Version
and so cause them to bear iniquity and guilt, by eating their holy things: for I am the LORD who sanctifies them.”

Berean Study Bible
by allowing the people to eat the sacred offerings and thus to bear the punishment for guilt. For I am the LORD who sanctifies them.”

New American Standard Bible
and thereby bring upon them punishment for guilt by eating their holy gifts; for I am the LORD who sanctifies them.’”

NASB 1995
and so cause them to bear punishment for guilt by eating their holy gifts; for I am the LORD who sanctifies them.'"

NASB 1977
and so cause them to bear punishment for guilt by eating their holy gifts; for I am the LORD who sanctifies them.’”

Amplified Bible
and so cause them [by neglect of any essential observance] to bear the punishment of guilt when they eat their holy things; for I am the LORD who sanctifies them.’”

Christian Standard Bible
by letting the people eat their holy offerings and having them bear the penalty of restitution. For I am the LORD who sets them apart.”

Holman Christian Standard Bible
by letting the people eat their holy offerings and having them bear the penalty of restitution. For I am Yahweh who sets them apart."

Contemporary English Version
Don't let them become guilty of eating this sacred food. Remember--I am the LORD, the one who makes these offerings holy.

Good News Translation
by letting any unauthorized people eat them; this would bring guilt and punishment on such people. I am the LORD and I make the offerings holy."

GOD'S WORD® Translation
They must make those people pay the penalty for their guilt because they have eaten the priests' holy offerings. I am the LORD, who sets them apart as holy."

International Standard Version
thereby causing them to bear the punishment of their iniquity for wrongdoing when they eat their sacred things, because I am the LORD, who sets them apart."

NET Bible
and so cause them to incur a penalty for guilt when they eat their holy offerings, for I am the LORD who sanctifies them.'"
Classic Translations
King James Bible
Or suffer them to bear the iniquity of trespass, when they eat their holy things: for I the LORD do sanctify them.

New King James Version
or allow them to bear the guilt of trespass when they eat their holy offerings; for I the LORD sanctify them.’ ”

King James 2000 Bible
Or allow them to bear the iniquity of trespass, when they eat their holy offerings: for I the LORD do sanctify them.

New Heart English Bible
and so cause them to bear the iniquity that brings guilt, when they eat their holy things: for I am the LORD who sanctifies them.'"

World English Bible
and so cause them to bear the iniquity that brings guilt, when they eat their holy things: for I am Yahweh who sanctifies them.'"

American King James Version
Or suffer them to bear the iniquity of trespass, when they eat their holy things: for I the LORD do sanctify them.

American Standard Version
and'so cause them to bear the iniquity that bringeth guilt, when they eat their holy things: for I am Jehovah who sanctifieth them.

A Faithful Version
And cause them to bear the iniquity of the guilt offering in their eating of their holy things; for I am the LORD Who sanctifies them."

Darby Bible Translation
and cause them to bear the iniquity of trespass when they eat their holy things; for I am Jehovah who do hallow them.

English Revised Version
and so cause them to bear the iniquity that bringeth guilt, when they eat their holy things: for I am the LORD which sanctify them.

Webster's Bible Translation
Or suffer them to bear the iniquity of trespass, when they eat their holy things: for I the LORD do sanctify them.

Early Modern
Geneva Bible of 1587
Neither cause the people to beare the iniquitie of their trespas, while they eate their holy thing: for I the Lorde do halowe them.

Bishops' Bible of 1568
To lade them selues with misdoyng and trespasse while they eate their holy thinges: for I the Lorde do halowe them.

Coverdale Bible of 1535
lest they lade them selues with mysdoinge and trespace, wha they eate their halowed thynges, for I am ye LORDE which halowe the.

Tyndale Bible of 1526
lest they lade them selues with mysdoynge and trespace in eatynge their halowed thinges: for I am the Lorde which halowe them.
Literal Translations
Literal Standard Version
or have caused them to bear the iniquity of the guilt-offering in their eating their holy things; for I [am] YHWH, sanctifying them.”

Young's Literal Translation
nor have caused them to bear the iniquity of the guilt-offering in their eating their holy things; for I am Jehovah, sanctifying them.'

Smith's Literal Translation
And for them to take up the sin of trespass in their eating the holies: for I Jehovah consecrating them.

Catholic Translations
Douay-Rheims Bible
Lest perhaps they bear the iniquity of their trespass, when they shall have eaten the sanctified things. I am the Lord who sanctify them.

Catholic Public Domain Version
lest perhaps they may suffer the iniquity of their offense, when they will have eaten what has been sanctified. I am the Lord, who sanctifies them.

Translations from Aramaic
Peshitta Holy Bible Translated
And they shall take upon them evil and sins when they eat of their holy things, because I AM LORD JEHOVAH who hallows them.’”

Lamsa Bible
And thus shall suffer for the iniquity and sins, when they eat of their holy things; for I am the LORD who sanctifies them.

OT Translations
JPS Tanakh 1917
and so cause them to bear the iniquity that bringeth guilt, when they eat their holy things; for I am the LORD who sanctify them.

Brenton Septuagint Translation
So should they bring upon themselves the iniquity of trespass in their eating their holy things: for I am the Lord that sanctifies them.
















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