Leviticus 1:16

1:16 Then the priest ¹  must remove its entrails by cutting off its tail feathers, ²  and throw them ³  to the east side of the altar into the place of fatty ashes,

Leviticus 4:12

4:12 all the rest of the bull ⁴  – he must bring outside the camp ⁵  to a ceremonially clean place, ⁶  to the fatty ash pile, ⁷  and he must burn ⁸  it on a wood fire; it must be burned on the fatty ash pile.

Leviticus 4:24

4:24 He must lay his hand on the head of the male goat and slaughter ⁹  it in the place where the burnt offering is slaughtered before the Lord – it is a sin offering.

Leviticus 6:16

6:16 Aaron and his sons are to eat what is left over from it. It must be eaten unleavened in a holy place; they are to eat it in the courtyard of the Meeting Tent.

Leviticus 6:25

6:25 “Tell Aaron and his sons, ‘This is the law of the sin offering. In the place where the burnt offering is slaughtered the sin offering must be slaughtered before the Lord. It is most holy. ¹⁰ 

Leviticus 6:27

6:27 Anyone who touches its meat must be holy, and whoever spatters some of its blood on a garment, ¹¹  you must wash ¹²  whatever he spatters it on in a holy place.

Leviticus 7:2

7:2 In the place where they slaughter the burnt offering they must slaughter the guilt offering, and the officiating priest ¹³  must splash ¹⁴  the blood against the altar’s sides.

Leviticus 10:4

10:4 Moses then called to Mishael and Elzaphan, the sons of Uzziel, Aaron’s uncle, and said to them, “Come near, carry your brothers away from the front of the sanctuary to a place outside the camp.”

Leviticus 10:13

10:13 You must eat it in a holy place because it is your allotted portion ¹⁵  and the allotted portion of your sons from the gifts ¹⁶  of the Lord, for this is what I have been commanded. ¹⁷ 

Leviticus 14:13

14:13 He must then slaughter ¹⁸  the male lamb in the place where ¹⁹  the sin offering ²⁰  and the burnt offering ²¹  are slaughtered, ²²  in the sanctuary, because, like the sin offering, the guilt offering belongs to the priest; ²³  it is most holy.

Leviticus 14:41

14:41 Then he is to have the house scraped ²⁴  all around on the inside, ²⁵  and the plaster ²⁶  which is scraped off ²⁷  must be dumped outside the city ²⁸  into an unclean place.

Leviticus 14:45

14:45 He must tear down the house, ²⁹  its stones, its wood, and all the plaster of the house, and bring all of it ³⁰  outside the city to an unclean place.

Leviticus 16:32-33

16:32 “The priest who is anointed and ordained to act as high priest in place of his father ³¹  is to make atonement. He is to put on the linen garments, the holy garments, 16:33 and he is to purify ³²  the Most Holy Place, ³³  he is to purify the Meeting Tent and the altar, ³⁴  and he is to make atonement for ³⁵  the priests and for all the people of the assembly.

Leviticus 24:9

24:9 It will belong to Aaron and his sons, and they must eat it in a holy place because it is most holy to him, a perpetual allotted portion ³⁶  from the gifts of the Lord.”

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¹ tn Heb “Then he”; the referent (apparently still the priest) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

² tn This translation (“remove its entrails by [cutting off] its tail feathers”) is based on the discussion in J. Milgrom, Leviticus (AB), 1:169-71, although he translates, “remove its crissum by its feathers.” Others possibilities include “its crop with its contents” (Tg. Onq., cf. NIV, NRSV; J. E. Hartley, Leviticus [WBC], 23) or “its crop with its feathers” (LXX, NASB, RSV; “crop” refers to the enlarged part of a bird’s gullet that serves a pouch for the preliminary maceration of food).

³ tn The pronoun “them” here is feminine singular in Hebrew and refers collectively to the entrails and tail wing which have been removed.

⁴ tn All of v. 11 is a so-called casus pendens (also known as an extraposition or a nominative absolute), which means that it anticipates the next verse, being the full description of “all (the rest of) the bull” (lit. “all the bull”) at the beginning of v. 12 (actually after the first verb of the verse; see the next note below).

⁵ tn Heb “And he (the offerer) shall bring out all the bull to from outside to the camp to a clean place.”

⁶ tn Heb “a clean place,” but referring to a place that is ceremonially clean. This has been specified in the translation for clarity.

⁷ tn Heb “the pouring out [place] of fatty ash.”

⁸ tn Heb “burn with fire.” This expression is somewhat redundant in English, so the translation collocates “fire” with “wood,” thus “a wood fire.”

⁹ tn The LXX has a plural form here and also for the same verb later in the verse. See the note on Lev 1:5a.

¹⁰ tn Heb “holiness of holinesses [or holy of holies] it is.” Cf. NAB “most sacred”; CEV “very sacred”; TEV “very holy.”

¹¹ tn Heb “on the garment”; NCV “on any clothes”; CEV “on the clothes of the priest.”

¹² tc The translation “you must wash” is based on the MT as it stands (cf. NASB, NIV). Smr, LXX, Syriac, Tg. Ps.-J., and the Vulgate have a third person masculine singular passive form (Pual), “[the garment] must be washed” (cf. NAB, NRSV, NLT). This could also be supported from the verbs in the following verse, and it requires only a repointing of the Hebrew text with no change in consonants. See the remarks in J. E. Hartley, Leviticus (WBC), 90 and J. Milgrom, Leviticus (AB), 1:404.

¹³ tn Heb “he”; the referent (the officiating priest) has been specified in the translation for clarity. This priest was responsible for any actions involving direct contact with the altar (e.g., the splashing of the blood).

¹⁴ tn See the note on Lev 1:5.

¹⁵ tn Heb “statute” (cf. 10:9, 11); cf. KJV, NAB, NASB, NRSV “due”; NIV “share”; NLT “regular share.”

¹⁶ tn For the rendering of the Hebrew אִשֶׁה (’isheh) as “gift” rather than “offering [made] by fire,” see the note on Lev 1:9.

¹⁷ sn Cf. Lev 2:3 and 6:14-18 [6:7-11 HT] for these regulations.

¹⁸ tn Heb “And he shall slaughter.”

¹⁹ tn Heb “in the place which.”

²⁰ sn See the note on Lev 4:3 regarding the term “sin offering.”

²¹ sn See the note on Lev 1:3 regarding the “burnt offering.”

²² tn Since the priest himself presents this offering as a wave offering (v. 12), it would seem that the offering is already in his hands and he would, therefore, be the one who slaughtered the male lamb in this instance rather than the offerer. Smr and LXX make the second verb “to slaughter” plural rather than singular, which suggests that it is to be taken as an impersonal passive (see J. Milgrom, Leviticus [AB], 1:852).

²³ tn Heb “the guilt offering, it [is] to the Lord.” Regarding the “guilt offering,” see the note on Lev 5:15.

²⁴ tn Or, according to the plurality of the verb in Smr, LXX, Syriac, and Targums, “Then the house shall be scraped” (cf. NAB, NLT, and the note on v. 40).

²⁵ tn Heb “from house all around.”

²⁶ tn Heb “dust” (so KJV) or “rubble”; NIV “the material”; NLT “the scrapings.”

²⁷ tn Heb “which they have scraped off.” The MT term קִיר (qir, “wall” from קָצָה, qatsah, “to cut off”; BDB 892), the original Greek does not have this clause, Smr has הקיצו (with uncertain meaning), and the BHS editors and HALOT 1123-24 s.v. I קצע hif.a suggest emending the verb to הִקְצִעוּ (hiqtsi’u, see the same verb at the beginning of this verse; cf. some Greek mss, Syriac, and the Targums). The emendation seems reasonable and is accepted by many commentators, but the root קָצָה (qatsah, “to cut off”) does occur in the Bible (2 Kgs 10:32; Hab 2:10) and in postbiblical Hebrew (J. E. Hartley, Leviticus [WBC], 179, notes 41c and 43d; J. Milgrom, Leviticus [AB], 1:873; cf. also קָצַץ, qatsats, “to cut off”).

²⁸ tn Heb “into from outside to the city.”

²⁹ tn Smr, LXX, Syriac, and Tg. Ps.-J. have the plural verb, perhaps suggesting a passive translation, “The house…shall be torn down” (cf. NAB, NIV, TEV, NLT, and see the note on v. 4b above).

³⁰ tn Once again, Smr, LXX, and Syriac have the plural verb, perhaps to be rendered passive, “shall be brought.”

³¹ tn Heb “And the priest whom he shall anointed him and whom he shall fill his hand to act as priest under his father.” Imperfect active verbs are often used as passives (see, e.g., v. 27 above and the note on Lev 14:4).

³² tn Heb “to atone” (also later in this verse); see the note on “purifying the holy place” in 16:20.

³³ tn Heb “the sanctuary of the holy place.” Although this is the only place this expression occurs in the OT, it clearly refers to the innermost shrine behind the veil-canopy, where the ark of the covenant was located.

³⁴ tn Heb “and the tent of meeting and the alter he shall atone.” The repetition of the verb כִּפֶּר (kipper, “to atone”) at the beginning and end of the sequence appears to be strange, but the MT accents suggest that only “the Most Holy Place” goes with the verb at the beginning of the verse. Of course, the purging of “the Most Holy Place” has been the main emphasis of this chapter from the start (see vv. 2-3 and 11-17).

³⁵ tn At this point in the verse the verb כִּפֶּר (kipper, “to make atonement”) takes its object with the preposition עַל (’al, “for”; literally, “upon”; contrast the first part of the verse and cf. the notes on Lev 1:4 and 16:20 above).

³⁶ tn Or “a perpetual regulation”; NRSV “a perpetual due.”