Leviticus 1:12

1:12 Next, the one presenting the offering ¹  must cut it into parts, with its head and its suet, and the priest must arrange them on the wood which is in the fire, on the altar.

Leviticus 19:8

19:8 and the one who eats it will bear his punishment for iniquity ²  because he has profaned ³  what is holy to the Lord. ⁴  That person will be cut off from his people. ⁵ 

Leviticus 20:3

20:3 I myself will set my face ⁶  against that man and cut him off from the midst of his people, ⁷  because he has given some of his children to Molech and thereby defiled my sanctuary and profaned my holy name. ⁸ 

Leviticus 20:5-6

20:5 I myself will set my face against that man and his clan. I will cut off from the midst of their people both him and all who follow after him in spiritual prostitution, ⁹  to commit prostitution by worshiping Molech. ¹⁰ 

Prohibition against Spiritists and Mediums ¹¹ 

20:6 “‘The person who turns to the spirits of the dead and familiar spirits ¹²  to commit prostitution by going after them, I will set my face ¹³  against that person and cut him off from the midst of his people.

Leviticus 21:5

21:5 Priests ¹⁴  must not have a bald spot shaved on their head, they must not shave the corner of their beard, and they must not cut slashes in their body. ¹⁵ 

Leviticus 26:30

26:30 I will destroy your high places and cut down your incense altars, ¹⁶  and I will stack your dead bodies on top of the lifeless bodies of your idols. ¹⁷  I will abhor you. ¹⁸ 

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¹ tn Heb “Then he”; the referent (the offerer) has been specified in the translation for clarity (so also in v. 13).

² tn See the note on Lev 17:16 above.

³ sn Regarding “profaned,” see the note on Lev 10:10 above.

⁴ tn Heb “the holiness of the Lord.”

⁵ sn On the “cut off” penalty see the note on Lev 7:20.

⁶ tn Heb “And I, I shall give my faces.”

⁷ sn On the “cut off” penalty see the notes on Lev 7:20 and 17:4.

⁸ tn Heb “for the sake of defiling my sanctuary and to profane my holy name.”

⁹ tn The adjective “spiritual” has been supplied in the translation to clarify that this is not a reference to literal prostitution, but figuratively compares idolatry to prostitution.

¹⁰ tn Heb “to commit harlotry after Molech.” The translation employs “worshiping” here for clarity (cf. NAB, NCV, TEV, CEV, NLT). On the “cut off” penalty see the note on Lev 7:20.

¹¹ sn For structure and coherence in Lev 20:6-27 see the note on v. 27 below.

¹² tn See the note on the phrase “familiar spirits” in Lev 19:31 above.

¹³ tn Heb “I will give my faces.”

¹⁴ tn Heb “they”; the referent (priests, see the beginning of v. 1) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

¹⁵ tn Heb “and in their body they shall not [cut] slash[es]” (cf. Lev 19:28). The context connects these sorts of mutilations with mourning rites (cf. Lev 19:27-28 above).

¹⁶ sn Regarding these cultic installations, see the remarks in B. A. Levine, Leviticus (JPSTC), 188, and R. E. Averbeck, NIDOTTE 2:903. The term rendered “incense altars” might better be rendered “sanctuaries [of foreign deities]” or “stelae.”

¹⁷ tn The translation reflects the Hebrew wordplay “your corpses…the corpses of your idols.” Since idols, being lifeless, do not really have “corpses,” the translation uses “dead bodies” for people and “lifeless bodies” for the idols.

¹⁸ tn Heb “and my soul will abhor you.”