Hebrews Chapter 5 verse 3 Holy Bible

ASV Hebrews 5:3

and by reason thereof is bound, as for the people, so also for himself, to offer for sins.
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BBE Hebrews 5:3

And being feeble, he has to make sin-offerings for himself as well as for the people.
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DARBY Hebrews 5:3

and, on account of this [infirmity], he ought, even as for the people, so also for himself, to offer for sins.
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KJV Hebrews 5:3

And by reason hereof he ought, as for the people, so also for himself, to offer for sins.
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WBT Hebrews 5:3


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WEB Hebrews 5:3

Because of this, he must offer sacrifices for sins for the people, as well as for himself.
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YLT Hebrews 5:3

and because of this infirmity he ought, as for the people, so also for himself to offer for sins;
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Pulpit Commentary

Pulpit CommentaryVerse 3. - And by reason hereof he ought (or, is bound, ὀφείλει), as for the people, so also for himself, to offer for sins. This obligation is evident in the case of the high priests of the Law. Consequently, their sin offering for themselves, in the first place, was a prominent part of the ceremonial of the Day of Atonement, which the writer may be supposed to have especially in view (Leviticus 16.). But can we suppose any corresponding necessity in the case of Christ? The argument does not absolutely require that we should, since the obligation of the Levitical high priest may be adduced only in proof of his own experience of ἀσθενεία. Christ, though under no such obligation, might still fulfill the requisites of a high priest, expressed in the case of sinful high priests by the obligation to offer for themselves; and we may (as Ebrard says) leave it to the writer to show hew he does fulfill them. Whether, however, there was in Christ's own experience anything corresponding to the high priest's offering for himself will be considered under vers. 7, 8.

Ellicott's Commentary

Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers(3) To be closely joined with Hebrews 5:2 : "Is compassed with infirmity, and by reason thereof is bound . . ." The law of the Day of Atonement required a sin-offering of a bullock and a burnt-offering of a ram for the high priest himself, and for the congregation a sin-offering of two he-goats and a burnt-offering of a ram. Over his own sin-offering the high priest made confession of sins, first for himself and his household, then for the priests; over the goat sent into the wilderness the sins of the people were confessed.