Evilfavouredness?

This word “evilfavourdness” only appears once in the AV1611 while most other bibles have either removed/replaced the word altogether or separated it into two separate words, which the Strong’s Concordance also does.

Evilfavourdness means “deformity” and the word deformity simply means “crooked” or anything that is not in uniform thus lacking its natural shape or beauty.

God was not willing to take just any sacrifice here. He wanted something whole and without blemish. Anything less was said to be an “abomination unto the LORD.” A similar thing is said about the Levitical priests in Leviticus 22:16-24. He couldn’t have any blemishes, blindness, or flat nose. He couldn’t be brokenfooted, brokenhanded, crookbackt, or a dwarf. He could have no “evilfavourdness” just as the sacrifice itself. God was far less “lenient” with who could approach him and what could approach him in the days of the tabernacle.

Another word(s) used in the Bible to describe a person or cattle, is “well favoured.” This phrase appears six times in the AV1611, and it means just the opposite of “evilfavourdness.”

Those who are said to be “well favoured” are Rachel (Genesis 29:17), Joseph (Genesis 39:6), Daniel and the 3 Hebrew “children” (Daniel 1:4) and those 4 men are said not to have any blemish either.

Daniel a type of the Holy Spirit, Joseph a type of Jesus Christ, and Rachel a type of the church are all said to be “well favoured.”

Our old man is deformed and crooked and not well favoured with God, but through the person and blood of Christ, who was without spot or blemish, he has made us new, so that the new man, which is the inner man, is without blemish and acceptable in his sight. The person of the Holy Spirit who dwells within our tabernacles, makes the sacrifices of our unclean lips and feeble hands acceptable in the sight of God.

We should be so thankful for the New Testament that rent the veil in two and opened a way into the Holy of Holies for all to come in by Christ Jesus.