Leviticus 3:1 - On the gender of worshipers

וְאִם־זֶ֥בַח שְׁלָמִ֖ים קׇרְבָּנ֑וֹ אִ֤ם מִן־הַבָּקָר֙ ה֣וּא מַקְרִ֔יב אִם־זָכָר֙ אִם־נְקֵבָ֔ה תָּמִ֥ים יַקְרִיבֶ֖נּוּ לִפְנֵ֥י יְהֹוָֽה׃

If your* offering is a sacrifice of well-being—
If you offer of the herd, whether a male or a female, you shall bring before GOD one without blemish.

*your In this chapter, Heb. 3rd-person references to the offerer are rendered in the 2nd person, in accord with v. 17.

(The above rendering and its footnote come from the RJPS translation, an adaptation of the NJPS translation.)


The instructions in this chapter are rendered in the second person so as to be gender-inclusive. (The Hebrew mostly employs the third-person singular, but the second-person plural in verse 17.)

Women are in view throughout this passage as worshipers, by virtue of both the non-specific language employed and the nature of the activities involved. See further my comment at 1:3.