Leviticus 10:14

10:14 Also, the breast of the wave offering and the thigh of the contribution offering you must eat in a ceremonially ¹  clean place, you and your sons and daughters with you, for they have been given as your allotted portion and the allotted portion of your sons from the peace offering sacrifices of the Israelites. ² 

Leviticus 11:32

11:32 Also, anything they fall on ³  when they die will become unclean – any wood vessel or garment or article of leather or sackcloth. Any such vessel with which work is done must be immersed in water ⁴  and will be unclean until the evening. Then it will become clean.

Leviticus 12:7-8

12:7 The priest ⁵  is to present it before the Lord and make atonement ⁶  on her behalf, and she will be clean ⁷  from her flow of blood. ⁸  This is the law of the one who bears a child, for the male or the female child. 12:8 If she cannot afford a sheep, ⁹  then she must take two turtledoves or two young pigeons, ¹⁰  one for a burnt offering and one for a sin offering, and the priest is to make atonement on her behalf, and she will be clean.’” ¹¹ 

Leviticus 13:28

13:28 But if the bright spot stays in its place, has not spread on the skin, ¹²  and it has faded, then it is the swelling of the burn, so the priest is to pronounce him clean, ¹³  because it is the scar of the burn.

Leviticus 17:15

Regulations for Eating Carcasses

17:15 “‘Any person ¹⁴  who eats an animal that has died of natural causes ¹⁵  or an animal torn by beasts, whether a native citizen or a foreigner, ¹⁶  must wash his clothes, bathe in water, and be unclean until evening; then he becomes clean.

Leviticus 22:4

22:4 No man ¹⁷  from the descendants of Aaron who is diseased or has a discharge ¹⁸  may eat the holy offerings until he becomes clean. The one ¹⁹  who touches anything made unclean by contact with a dead person, ²⁰  or a man who has a seminal emission, ²¹ 

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¹ tn The word “ceremonially” has been supplied in the translation to clarify that the cleanness of the place specified is ritual or ceremonial in nature.

² sn Cf. Lev 7:14, 28-34 for these regulations.

³ tn Heb “And all which it shall fall on it from them.”

⁴ tn Heb “in water it shall be brought.”

⁵ tn Heb “and he” (i.e., the priest mentioned at the end of v. 6). The referent has been specified in the translation for clarity.

⁶ sn See the note on Lev 1:4 “make atonement.” The purpose of sin offering “atonement,” in particular, was to purge impurities from the tabernacle (see Lev 15:31 and 16:5-19, 29-34), whether they were caused by physical uncleannesses or by sins and iniquities. In this case, the woman has not “sinned” morally by having a child. Even Mary brought such offerings for giving birth to Jesus (Luke 2:22-24), though she certainly did not “sin” in giving birth to him. Note that the result of bringing this “sin offering” was “she will be clean,” not “she will be forgiven” (cf. Lev 4:20, 26, 31, 35; 5:10, 13). The impurity of the blood flow has caused the need for this “sin offering,” not some moral or relational infringement of the law (contrast Lev 4:2, “When a person sins by straying unintentionally from any of the commandments of the Lord”).

⁷ tn Or “she will be[come] pure.”

⁸ tn Heb “from her source [i.e., spring] of blood,” possibly referring to the female genital area, not just the “flow of blood” itself (as suggested by J. Milgrom, Leviticus [AB], 1:761). Cf. ASV “from the fountain of her blood.”

⁹ tn Heb “If her hand cannot find the sufficiency of a sheep.” Many English versions render this as “lamb.”

¹⁰ tn Heb “from the sons of the pigeon,” referring either to “young pigeons” or “various species of pigeon” (contrast J. Milgrom, Leviticus [AB], 1:168, with J. E. Hartley, Leviticus [WBC], 14; cf. Lev 1:14 and esp. 5:7-10).

¹¹ tn Or “she will be[come] pure.”

¹² tn Heb “and if under it the bright spot stands, it has not spread in the skin.”

¹³ tn This is the declarative Piel of the verb טָהֵר (taher; cf. the note on v. 6 above).

¹⁴ tn Heb “And any soul” (נֶפֶשׁ, nefesh).

¹⁵ tn Heb “carcass,” referring to the carcass of an animal that has died on its own, not the carcass of an animal slaughtered for sacrifice or killed by wild beasts. This has been clarified in the translation by supplying the phrase “of natural causes”; cf. NAB “that died of itself”; TEV “that has died a natural death.”

¹⁶ tn Heb “in the native or in the sojourner.”

¹⁷ tn Heb “Man man.” The reduplication is a way of saying “any man” (cf. Lev 15:2; 17:3, etc.), but with a negative command it means “No man” (see B. A. Levine, Leviticus [JPSTC], 147).

¹⁸ sn The diseases and discharges mentioned here are those described in Lev 13-15.

¹⁹ tn Heb “And the one.”

²⁰ tn Heb “in all unclean of a person/soul”; for the Hebrew term נֶפֶשׁ (nefesh) meaning “a [dead] person,” see the note on Lev 19:28.

²¹ tn Heb “or a man who goes out from him a lying of seed.”