Leviticus 10:17

10:17 “Why did you not eat the sin offering in the sanctuary? For it is most holy and he gave it to you to bear the iniquity of the congregation, ¹  to make atonement on their behalf before the Lord.

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 20:19

20:19 You must not expose the nakedness of your mother’s sister and your father’s sister, for such a person has laid bare his own close relative. ⁶  They must bear their punishment for iniquity. ⁷ 

Leviticus 26:39

Restoration through Confession and Repentance

26:39 “‘As for the ones who remain among you, they will rot away because of ⁸  their iniquity in the lands of your enemies, and they will also rot away because of their ancestors’ ⁹  iniquities which are with them.

Leviticus 26:41

26:41 (and I myself will walk in hostility against them and bring them into the land of their enemies), and ¹⁰  then their uncircumcised hearts become humbled and they make up for ¹¹  their iniquity,

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¹ sn This translation is quite literal. On the surface it appears to mean that the priests would “bear the iniquity” of the congregation by the act of eating the sin offering (so J. Milgrom, Leviticus [AB], 1:622-25, 635-40). Such a notion is, however, found nowhere else in the Levitical regulations and seems unlikely (so J. E. Hartley, Leviticus [WBC], 136). A more likely interpretation is reflected in this interpretive rendering: “he gave it to you [as payment] for [your work of] bearing the iniquity of the congregation.” The previous section of the chapter deals with the prebends that the priests received for performing the ministry of the tabernacle (Lev 10:12-15). Lev 10:16-18, therefore, seems to continue the very same topic in the light of the most immediate situation (see R. E. Averbeck, NIDOTTE 2:702-4).

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 “his flesh.”

⁷ tn See the note on Lev 17:16 above.

⁸ tn Heb “in” (so KJV, ASV; also later in this verse).

⁹ tn Heb “fathers’” (also in the following verse).

¹⁰ tn Heb “or then,” although the LXX has “then” and the Syriac “and then.”

¹¹ tn Heb “and then they make up for.” On the verb “make up for” see the note on v. 34 above.