Deuteronomy 27:7

Hebrew (Westminster Leningrad Codex)

English Translation

and you shall sacrifice peace-offerings, and shall eat there; and you shall rejoice before Yahweh your God.

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שְׁלָמִ֖ים

shelem

H8002

“peace offerings”

Noun, Common, Masculine, Plural, Absolute

Appears 87× in the Hebrew Bible
First appears at Exodus 20:24

Full BDB Definition

Origin: from H7999

TWOT: 2401b

peace offering, requital, sacrifice for alliance or friendship - voluntary sacrifice of thanks

About this verse

These counts appear in no published source. They are computed here, from the morphology-tagged text and Lemma’s own curated glosses. What Lemma adds →

8: words
8: distinct lemmas
Pentateuch: section

Grammatical profile

3 verbs
4 nouns
1 adverb

Verb forms

וְזָבַחְתָּ֥ Qal · Sequential Perfect
וְאָכַ֣לְתָּ Qal · Sequential Perfect
וְשָׂ֣מַחְתָּ֔ Qal · Sequential Perfect

Hebrew & Septuagint length

In English translation the verse runs 17 words from the Hebrew and 21 from the Septuagint (LXX English) — closely comparable.

A rough comparison of the two English renderings, which tokenize alike — not a word-level alignment.

Word counts can differ between the Hebrew and the Greek without any difference in meaning — e.g. the Hebrew direct-object marker אֵת has no separate Greek word, and Greek often adds the article ὁ.

Cross-references

Topical passages linked to Deuteronomy 27:7 in the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge — connected by theme and wording, ordered by reader-vote popularity; previews shown in the World English Bible.

Leviticus 3:1–17 "'If his offering is a sacrifice of peace offerings; if he offers it from the herd, whether male or female, he shall offer it without blemish before Yahweh.
Deuteronomy 12:7 and there you shall eat before Yahweh your God, and you shall rejoice in all that you put your hand to, you and your households, in which Yahweh your God has blessed you.
Psalms 100:1–2 Shout for joy to Yahweh, all you lands!
Isaiah 12:3 Therefore with joy you shall draw water out of the wells of salvation.
Habakkuk 3:18 Yet I will rejoice in Yahweh. I will be joyful in the God of my salvation!
Acts 10:36 The word which he sent to the children of Israel, preaching good news of peace by Jesus Christ--he is Lord of all--
Hebrews 13:20–21 Now may the God of peace, who brought again from the dead the great shepherd of the sheep with the blood of an eternal covenant, our Lord Jesus,
Leviticus 7:11–17 "'This is the law of the sacrifice of peace offerings, which one shall offer to Yahweh.

Deuteronomy 12:12 You shall rejoice before Yahweh your God, you, and your sons, and your daughters, and your men-servants, and your maid-servants, and the Levite who is within your gates, because he has no portion nor inheritance with you.
Deuteronomy 16:11 and you shall rejoice before Yahweh your God, you, and your son, and your daughter, and your man-servant, and your maid-servant, and the Levite who is within your gates, and the foreigner, and the fatherless, and the widow, who are in the midst of you, in the place which Yahweh your God shall choose, to cause his name to dwell there.
Deuteronomy 16:14 and you shall rejoice in your feast, you, and your son, and your daughter, and your man-servant, and your maid-servant, and the Levite, and the foreigner, and the fatherless, and the widow, who are within your gates.
Deuteronomy 26:10–11 Now, behold, I have brought the first of the fruit of the ground, which you, Yahweh, have given me. You shall set it down before Yahweh your God, and worship before Yahweh your God:
2 Chronicles 30:23–27 The whole assembly took counsel to keep other seven days; and they kept [other] seven days with gladness.
Nehemiah 8:10 Then he said to them, Go your way, eat the fat, and drink the sweet, and send portions to him for whom nothing is prepared; for this day is holy to our Lord: neither be you grieved; for the joy of Yahweh is your strength.
Isaiah 61:3 to appoint to those who mourn in Zion, to give to them a garland for ashes, the oil of joy for mourning, the garment of praise for the spirit of heaviness; that they may be called trees of righteousness, the planting of Yahweh, that he may be glorified.
Isaiah 61:10 I will greatly rejoice in Yahweh, my soul shall be joyful in my God; for he has clothed me with the garments of salvation, he has covered me with the robe of righteousness, as a bridegroom decks himself with a garland, and as a bride adorns herself with her jewels.

Romans 5:1 Being therefore justified by faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ;
Romans 5:10 For if, while we were enemies, we were reconciled to God through the death of his Son, much more, being reconciled, we will be saved by his life.
Ephesians 2:16–17 and might reconcile them both in one body to God through the cross, having killed the hostility thereby.
Philippians 3:3 For we are the circumcision, who worship God in the Spirit, and rejoice in Christ Jesus, and have no confidence in the flesh;
Philippians 4:4 Rejoice in the Lord always! Again I will say, Rejoice!
Colossians 1:20 and through him to reconcile all things to himself, by him, whether things on the earth, or things in the heavens, having made peace through the blood of his cross.

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Hebrew and Greek witnesses Masoretic Hebrew ↔ Greek Septuagint

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Hebrew Deuteronomy 27:7 Masoretic · Westminster Leningrad Codex

וְזָבַחְתָּ֥ שְׁלָמִ֖ים וְאָכַ֣לְתָּ שָּׁ֑ם וְשָׂ֣מַחְתָּ֔ לִפְנֵ֖י יְהוָ֥ה אֱלֹהֶֽיךָ

and you shall sacrifice peace-offerings, and shall eat there; and you shall rejoice before Yahweh your God.

World English Bible · Public Domain

Greek LXX Deuteronomy 27:7 Septuagint · lemma form

καί θύω ἐκεῖ θυσία σωτήριον κύριος ὁ θεός σύ καί ἐσθίω καί ἐνπίμπλημι καί εὐφραίνω ἐναντίον κύριος ὁ θεός σύ

And you shall there offer a peace-offering; and you shall eat and be filled, and rejoice before the Lord your God.

LXX2012 (modern English Septuagint) · Public Domain

Hebrew: Westminster Leningrad Codex (CC BY 4.0). Greek: Septuagint (public domain); English from LXX2012 (modern English Septuagint) (Public Domain). How the Septuagint differs from the Hebrew →

Targum (Aramaic paraphrase)

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Targum Onkelos Torah (Genesis–Deuteronomy)

וְתִכּוֹס נִכְסַת קוּדְשִׁין וְתֵיכוּל תַּמָן וְתֶחֱדֵי קֳדָם יְיָ אֱלָהָךְ

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Targum Onkelos — Aramaic: “Onkelos Genesis” (public domain); “Onkelos Exodus” (public domain); “Onkelos Leviticus” (public domain); “Onkelos Numbers” (public domain); “Onkelos Deuteronomy” (public domain). English: “Sefaria Community Translation” (CC0 1.0 (public-domain dedication)); “J.W. Etheridge. The Targums of Onkelos and Jonathan Ben Uzziel on the Pentateuch. London: Longmans, Green, 1862” (public domain). Text via Sefaria.
Targum Pseudo-Jonathan Torah (Genesis–Deuteronomy)

וְתִיכְסוּן נִכְסַת קוּדְשִׁין וְתֵיכְלוּן תַּמָן וְתֵיחֲדוּן קֳדָם יְיָ אֱלָהָכוֹן

and offer sacrifices upon it before the Lord your God. And you shall immolate the consecrated victims, and eat there, and rejoice before the Lord your God.

Targum Pseudo-Jonathan — Aramaic: “Targum Jonathan on Genesis” (public domain); “Targum Jonathan on Exodus” (public domain); “Targum Jonathan on Leviticus” (public domain); “Targum Jonathan on Numbers” (public domain); “Targum Jonathan on Deuteronomy” (public domain). English: “The Targum of Jonathan ben Uzziel, trans. J. W. Etheridge, London, 1862” (public domain). Text via Sefaria.

Commentary

Notes on Deuteronomy 27:7 from classic Christian and Jewish commentators (each source and its license shown beneath its notes). The classic Christian expositions comment on the surrounding passage and are grouped to its opening verse, so a note may address several verses; the Jewish commentaries on the Tanakh (Rashi and others) are per-verse, so they appear only where the commentator wrote on this verse.

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Tyndale Open Study Notes

Tyndale Open Resources

27:7 Some offerings atoned for sins and trespasses; others affirmed that all was well between the Lord and the donor. For example, peace offerings (sometimes called fellowship offerings) testified to wholeness in the divine–human relationship (see Lev 3:1-16).

Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers

(7) Peace offerings—i.e., offerings for health, salvation, or deliverance already granted. On this occasion, the passage of Jordan, and the arrival of Israel in the heart of the country, would be good ground for thanksgiving before God.

And shalt eat there, and rejoice.-The peace offerings were the only kind of which the worshipper and his family might partake. They were, therefore, the natural accompaniment of rejoicing and thanksgiving.

A Bible Commentary for English Readers, edited by Charles John Ellicott (1878–1897) — public domain. Text from a community e-Sword module.

The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

gen. ed. J. J. S. Perowne

7. peace offerings] Heb. shelamîm, rather offerings in fulfilment of laws and vows; not elsewhere in Deut. and here representing the zebaḥîm, EVV. sacrifices, of Deu_12:6, etc.; as the vb. here conjoined with it shows.

eat … reioice, etc.] Phrases of D; see on Deu_12:7.

The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges (gen. ed. J. J. S. Perowne; Cambridge University Press, 1878–1918) — public domain. Text from a community e-Sword module.

John Gill's Exposition

And thou shall offer peace offerings,.... Part of which belonged to God, which was burnt on the altar, and another part to the priest that offered them; and the rest to the owner that brought them, which he eat of with his friends; so it follows:

and shall eat there, and rejoice before the Lord thy God: now this altar, where these sacrifices were offered, was on the very spot where the stones were on which the law was written; and may point at the gracious provision God has made for the redemption of his people from the curse of it by Christ, who became a substitute for them in their legal place and stead. The altar being of rough unhewn stones was a type of him in his human nature, who is the stone in the vision cut out of the mountain without hands; and being unpolished may denote the meanness of his outward appearance, on account of which he was rejected by the Jewish builders; and no iron tool being to be lifted up on them, may signify that nothing of man's is to be added to the sacrifice and satisfaction of Christ, and salvation by him; and this being in Ebal, where the curses were pronounced, shows that Christ, by the offering up of himself for the sins of his people, has made atonement for them, and thereby has delivered them from the curse of the law, being made a curse for them; all which is matter of joy and gladness to them.

John Gill's Exposition of the Whole Bible (1746–1763) — public domain (CC PDM 1.0). Text via the HelloAO Bible API.

Lesson kit

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Deuteronomy, in the Pentateuch, opens this verse with 8 words (8 distinct Hebrew lemmas). Its most distinctive word is shelem (“peace offering”). A historical commentator’s framing appears above. Read the whole chapter for the surrounding context.

Discussion questions

What does “peace offering” (shelem) contribute to the verse as a whole?
How does Leviticus 3:1–17, which shares this passage’s theme, read alongside this verse?
These translations render this verse differently; the difference is in the English rendering, not the original. What questions does that raise?
«וְזָבַחְתָּ֥» is a Qal Sequential Perfect verb. How does that grammatical form shape the action described?
Compare how Tyndale Open Study Notes and Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers read this verse. Where do they agree or differ?

Things to notice

These translations choose different wording for 11 words in this verse.
8 distinct Hebrew lemmas span 8 words in this verse.