Leviticus 1:7

1:7 and the sons of Aaron, the priest, ¹  must put fire on the altar and arrange wood on the fire.

Leviticus 2:15

2:15 And you must put olive oil on it and set frankincense on it – it is a grain offering.

Leviticus 3:11

3:11 Then the priest must offer it up in smoke on the altar as a food gift to the Lord. ² 

Leviticus 4:5

4:5 Then that high priest must take some of the blood ³  of the bull and bring it to the Meeting Tent.

Leviticus 4:16

4:16 Then the high priest ⁴  must bring some of the blood of the bull to the Meeting Tent,

Leviticus 4:19

4:19 “‘Then the priest ⁵  must take all its fat ⁶  and offer the fat ⁷  up in smoke on the altar.

Leviticus 4:32

4:32 “‘But if he brings a sheep as his offering, for a sin offering, he must bring a flawless female.

Leviticus 5:5

5:5 when an individual becomes guilty with regard to one of these things ⁸  he must confess how he has sinned, ⁹ 

Leviticus 7:3

7:3 Then the one making the offering ¹⁰  must present all its fat: the fatty tail, the fat covering the entrails,

Leviticus 7:6

7:6 Any male among the priests may eat it. It must be eaten in a holy place. It is most holy. ¹¹ 

Leviticus 7:17

7:17 but the leftovers from the meat of the sacrifice must be burned up in the fire ¹²  on the third day.

Leviticus 7:32

7:32 The right thigh you must give as a contribution offering ¹³  to the priest from your peace offering sacrifices.

Leviticus 11:25

11:25 and anyone who carries their carcass must wash his clothes and will be unclean until the evening.

Leviticus 11:33

11:33 As for any clay vessel they fall into, ¹⁴  everything in it ¹⁵  will become unclean and you must break it.

Leviticus 15:5

15:5 Anyone who touches his bed ¹⁶  must wash his clothes, bathe in water, and be unclean until evening. ¹⁷ 

Leviticus 15:16

15:16 “‘When a man has a seminal emission, ¹⁸  he must bathe his whole body in water ¹⁹  and be unclean until evening,

Leviticus 15:21-22

15:21 Anyone who touches her bed must wash his clothes, bathe in water, and be unclean until evening. 15:22 Anyone who touches any furniture she sits on must wash his clothes, bathe in water, and be unclean until evening.

Leviticus 16:7

16:7 He must then take the two goats ²⁰  and stand them before the Lord at the entrance of the Meeting Tent,

Leviticus 18:8

18:8 You must not have sexual intercourse with your father’s wife; she is your father’s nakedness. ²¹ 

Leviticus 18:12-13

18:12 You must not have sexual intercourse with your father’s sister; she is your father’s flesh. ²²  18:13 You must not have sexual intercourse with your mother’s sister, because she is your mother’s flesh.

Leviticus 18:16

18:16 You must not have sexual intercourse with your brother’s wife; she is your brother’s nakedness. ²³ 

Leviticus 18:20

18:20 You must not have sexual intercourse ²⁴  with the wife of your fellow citizen to become unclean with her.

Leviticus 19:21

19:21 He must bring his guilt offering to the Lord at the entrance of the Meeting Tent, a guilt offering ram, ²⁵ 

Leviticus 19:27-28

19:27 You must not round off the corners of the hair on your head or ruin the corners of your beard. ²⁶  19:28 You must not slash your body for a dead person ²⁷  or incise a tattoo on yourself. ²⁸  I am the Lord.

Leviticus 21:15

21:15 He must not profane his children among his people, ²⁹  for I am the Lord who sanctifies him.’”

Leviticus 22:20

22:20 You must not present anything that has a flaw, ³⁰  because it will not be acceptable for your benefit. ³¹ 

Leviticus 23:4

The Festival of Passover and Unleavened Bread

23:4 “‘These are the Lord’s appointed times, holy assemblies, which you must proclaim at their appointed time.

Leviticus 23:7

23:7 On the first day there will be a holy assembly for you; you must not do any regular work. ³² 

Leviticus 23:19

23:19 You must also offer ³³  one male goat ³⁴  for a sin offering and two yearling lambs for a peace offering sacrifice,

Leviticus 24:6

24:6 and you must set them in two rows, six in a row, ³⁵  on the ceremonially pure table before the Lord.

Leviticus 25:34

25:34 Moreover, ³⁶  the open field areas of their cities ³⁷  must not be sold, because that is their perpetual possession.

Leviticus 27:13

27:13 If, however, the person who made the vow redeems the animal, ³⁸  he must add one fifth to ³⁹  its conversion value.

Leviticus 27:25

27:25 Every conversion value must be calculated by the standard of the sanctuary shekel; ⁴⁰  twenty gerahs to the shekel.

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¹ tc A few medieval Hebrew mss, Smr, LXX, Syriac, and Tg. Onq. have plural “priests” here (cf. 1:5, 8) rather than the MT singular “priest” (cf. NAB). The singular “priest” would mean (1) Aaron, the (high) priest, or (2) the officiating priest, as in Lev 1:9 (cf. 6:10 [3 HT], etc.). “The sons of Aaron” is probably a textual corruption caused by conflation with Lev 1:5, 8 (cf. the remarks in J. E. Hartley, Leviticus [WBC], 13).

² tn Heb “food, a gift to the Lord.”

³ tn Heb “from the blood of the bull” (and similarly throughout this chapter).

⁴ tn Heb “the anointed priest” (so ASV, NAB, NASB, NIV, NRSV). This refers to the high priest (cf. TEV).

⁵ tn Heb “Then he”; the referent has been specified in the translation for clarity. Based on the parallel statement in 4:10 and 4:31, it is the priest who performs this action rather than the person who brought the offering.

⁶ tn Heb “take up all its fat from it”; NASB “shall remove all its fat from it.”

sn See the full discussion of the fat regulations in Lev 4:8-9 above.

⁷ tn Heb “it”; the referent (the fat) has been specified in the translation for clarity. Only the fat is meant here, since the “rest” of the bull is mentioned in v. 21.

⁸ tn Heb “and it shall happen when he becomes guilty to one from these,” referring to any of “these” possible transgressions in Lev 5:1-4. Tg. Onq., the original Greek translation, and the Latin Vulgate omit this clause, possibly due to homoioteleuton because of the repetition of “to one from these” from the end of v. 4 in v. 5a (cf. the note on v. 4b).

sn What all the transgressions in Lev 5:1-4 have in common is that the time is past for handling the original situation properly (i.e., testifying in court, following purity regulations, or fulfilling an oath), so now the person has become guilty and needs to follow corrective sacrificial procedures.

⁹ tn Heb “which he sinned on it”; cf. ASV “confess that wherein he hath sinned”; NCV “must tell how he sinned.”

¹⁰ tn Heb “then he.” This pronoun refers to the offerer, who was responsible for slaughtering the animal. Contrast v. 2 above and v. 5 below.

¹¹ tn Heb “holiness of holinesses [or holy of holies] it is”; NAB “most sacred”; TEV “very holy.”

¹² tn Heb “burned with fire,” an expression which is sometimes redundant in English, but here means “burned up,” “burned up entirely” (likewise in v. 19).

¹³ tn Older English versions (e.g., KJV, ASV) translate this Hebrew term (תְּרוּמָה, tÿrumah) “heave offering,” derived from the idea of “to raise, to lift” found in the verbal root (cf. NAB “a raised offering”). “Contribution offering” is a better English rendering because it refers to something “taken out from” (i.e., “lifted up from”; cf. the Hebrew term הֵרִים (herim) in, e.g., Lev 2:9; 4:8, etc.) the offering as a special contribution to the specific priest who presided over the offering procedures in any particular instance (see the next verse and R. E. Averbeck, NIDOTTE 4:335-37). Cf. TEV “as a special contribution”; NCV, NLT “as a gift.”

¹⁴ tn Heb “And any earthenware vessel which shall fall from them into its midst.”

¹⁵ tn Heb “all which is in its midst.”

¹⁶ tn Heb “And a man who touches in his bed”; NLT “touch the man’s bedding.”

¹⁷ tn Heb “he shall wash his clothes and bathe in water and be unclean until the evening” (cf. also vv. 6-8, 10-11, etc.).

¹⁸ tn Heb “And a man when a lying of seed goes out from him”; KJV, ASV “any man’s seed of copulation”; NIV, NRSV, TEV, NLT “an emission of semen.”

¹⁹ tn Heb “and he shall bathe all his flesh in water.”

²⁰ tn Heb “the two he-goats,” referred to as “two he-goats of goats” in v. 5.

²¹ tn Heb “the nakedness of your father she is.” See the note on v. 7 above. This law refers to another wife of the man’s father, who is not that man’s mother. The laws in the Pentateuch sometimes assume the possibility that a man may have more than one wife (cf., e.g., Deut 21:15-17).

²² tc A few medieval Hebrew mss, the LXX, Syriac, and Vulgate all read “because she is the flesh of your father,” like the MT of v. 13.

²³ sn Regarding the last clause, see the notes on vv. 7 and 10 above.

²⁴ tn Heb “And to the wife of your fellow citizen you shall not give your layer for seed.” The meaning of “your layer” (שְׁכָבְתְּךָ, shÿkhavtÿkha) is uncertain (see B. A. Levine, Leviticus [JPSTC], 122, “you shall not place your layer of semen”; but cf. also J. E. Hartley, Leviticus [WBC], 283, and the literature cited there for the rendering, “you shall not give your penis for seed”).

²⁵ sn On the guilt offering see the note on Lev 5:15 above.

²⁶ tc Heb “and you [singular] shall not ruin the corner of your [singular] beard.” Smr, LXX, Syriac, and Tg. Ps.-J. have the plural pronouns (i.e., “you” and “your” plural) rather than the singular of the MT.

²⁷ tn Heb “And slash for the soul you shall not give.” The Hebrew term נֶפֶשׁ (nefesh, “soul, person, life”) can sometimes refer to a “dead person” (cf. Lev 21:1, 5; 22:5). See J. E. Hartley, Leviticus (WBC), 306, 320-21.

²⁸ tn Heb “and a writing of incision you shall not give in you.”

²⁹ tc The MT has literally, “in his peoples,” but Smr, LXX, Syriac, Targum, and Tg. Ps.-J. have “in his people,” referring to the Israelites as a whole.

³⁰ tn Heb “all which in it [is] a flaw.” Note that the same term is used for physical flaws of people in Lev 21:17-24. Cf. KJV, ASV, NRSV “blemish”; NASB, NIV, TEV “defect”; NLT “with physical defects.”

³¹ tn Heb “not for acceptance shall it be for you”; NIV “it will not be accepted on your behalf” (NRSV and NLT both similar).

³² tn Heb “work of service”; KJV “servile work”; NASB “laborious work”; TEV “daily work.”

³³ tn Heb “And you shall make.”

³⁴ tn Heb “a he-goat of goats.”

³⁵ tn Heb “six of the row.”

³⁶ tn Heb “And.”

³⁷ sn This refers to the region of fields just outside and surrounding the city where cattle were kept and garden crops were grown (B. A. Levine, Leviticus [JPSTC], 177).

³⁸ tn Heb “And if redeeming [infinitive absolute] he redeems it [finite verb].” For the infinitive absolute used to highlight contrast rather than emphasis see GKC 343 §113.p. The referent of “he” (the person who made the vow) and “it” (the animal) have both been specified in the translation for clarity.

³⁹ tn Heb “on,” meaning “on top of, in addition to” (likewise in v. 15).

⁴⁰ tn See the note on Lev 5:15.