Amos 4:5 “Offer leavened bread as a thank offering, and loudly proclaim your fre…”

Amos 4:5

Offer leavened bread as a thank offering, and loudly proclaim your freewill offerings. For that is what you children of Israel love to do,” declares the Lord GOD.

Berean Standard Bible

Other translations

King James Version

And offer a sacrifice of thanksgiving with leaven, and proclaim and publish the free offerings: for this liketh you, O ye children of Israel, saith the Lord GOD.

World English Bible

offer a sacrifice of thanksgiving of that which is leavened, and proclaim free will offerings and brag about them; for this pleases you, you children of Israel,” says the Lord GOD.

American Standard Version

and offer a sacrifice of thanksgiving of that which is leavened, and proclaim freewill-offerings and publish them: for this pleaseth you, O ye children of Israel, saith the Lord Jehovah.

Geneva Bible 1599

And offer a thankesgiuing of leauen, publish and proclaime the free offrings: for this liketh you, O ye children of Israel, saith the Lord God.

Darby Translation

and burn a thank-offering with leaven, and proclaim, publish, voluntary offerings: for this pleaseth you, children of Israel, saith the Lord Jehovah.

Young's Literal Translation

And perfume with leaven a thank-offering, And proclaim willing gifts, sound ye! For so ye have loved, O sons of Israel, An affirmation of the Lord Jehovah.

Bible in Basic English

Let that which is leavened be burned as a praise-offering, let the news of your free offerings be given out publicly; for this is pleasing to you, O children of Israel, says the Lord.

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Cross references

“offer a sacrifice”

Leviticus 23:17 Leviticus 7:12 Leviticus 7:13

Leviticus 23:17 · BSB

Bring two loaves of bread from your dwellings as a wave offering, each made from two-tenths of an ephah of fine flour, baked with leaven, as the firstfruits to the LORD.

Leviticus 7:12 · BSB

If he offers it in thanksgiving, then along with the sacrifice of thanksgiving he shall offer unleavened cakes mixed with olive oil, unleavened wafers coated with oil, and well-kneaded cakes of fine flour mixed with oil.

Leviticus 7:13 · BSB

Along with his peace offering of thanksgiving he is to present an offering with cakes of leavened bread.

“proclaim”

Leviticus 22:18–21 Matthew 6:2 Deuteronomy 12:6 Deuteronomy 12:7

Leviticus 22:18–21 · BSB

“Speak to Aaron and his sons and all the Israelites and tell them, ‘Any man of the house of Israel or any foreign resident who presents a gift for a burnt offering to the LORD, whether to fulfill a vow or as a freewill o…

Matthew 6:2 · BSB

So when you give to the needy, do not sound a trumpet before you, as the hypocrites do in the synagogues and on the streets, to be honored by men. Truly I tell you, they already have their full reward.

Deuteronomy 12:6 · BSB

To that place you are to bring your burnt offerings and sacrifices, your tithes and heave offerings, your vow offerings and freewill offerings, as well as the firstborn of your herds and flocks.

Deuteronomy 12:7 · BSB

There, in the presence of the LORD your God, you and your households shall eat and rejoice in all you do, because the LORD your God has blessed you.

“for”

Psalm 81:12 Matthew 23:23 Matthew 15:9 Romans 1:28 2 Thessalonians 2:10–12 Matthew 15:13

Psalm 81:12 · BSB

So I gave them up to their stubborn hearts to follow their own devices.

Matthew 23:23 · BSB

Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, you hypocrites! You pay tithes of mint, dill, and cumin. But you have disregarded the weightier matters of the law: justice, mercy, and faithfulness. You should have practiced the latte…

Matthew 15:9 · BSB

They worship Me in vain; they teach as doctrine the precepts of men.’ ”

Romans 1:28 · BSB

Furthermore, since they did not see fit to acknowledge God, He gave them up to a depraved mind, to do what ought not to be done.

2 Thessalonians 2:10–12 · BSB

and with every wicked deception directed against those who are perishing, because they refused the love of the truth that would have saved them.

Matthew 15:13 · BSB

But Jesus replied, “Every plant that My heavenly Father has not planted will be pulled up by its roots.

“this liketh you”

Hosea 9:10 Hosea 9:1

Hosea 9:10 · BSB

I found Israel like grapes in the wilderness. I saw your fathers as the firstfruits of the fig tree in its first season. But they went to Baal-peor, and consecrated themselves to Shame; so they became as detestable as th…

Hosea 9:1 · BSB

Do not rejoice, O Israel, with exultation like the nations, for you have played the harlot against your God; you have made love for hire on every threshing floor.

Cross references adapted from OpenBible.info (CC BY 4.0) and the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

In context

4“Go to Bethel and transgress; rebel even more at Gilgal! Bring your sacrifices every morning, your tithes every three days.

6“I afflicted all your cities with cleanness of teeth and all your towns with lack of bread, yet you did not return to Me,” declares the LORD.

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