16:15 “He must then slaughter the sin offering goat which is for the people. He is to bring its blood inside the veil-canopy, 1 and he is to do with its blood just as he did to the blood of the bull: He is to sprinkle it on the atonement plate and in front of the atonement plate. 16:16 So 2 he is to make atonement for the holy place from the impurities of the Israelites and from their transgressions with regard to all their sins, 3 and thus he is to do for the Meeting Tent which resides with them in the midst of their impurities.
16:29 “This is to be a perpetual statute for you. 4 In the seventh month, on the tenth day of the month, you must humble yourselves 5 and do no work of any kind, 6 both the native citizen and the foreigner who resides 7 in your midst,
23:3 “‘Six days work may be done, but on the seventh day there must be a Sabbath of complete rest, 8 a holy assembly. You must not do any work; it is a Sabbath to the Lord in all the places where you live.
1 tn Heb “and he shall bring its blood into from house to the veil-canopy.”
2 tn Heb “And.” The Hebrew conjunction ו (vav, “and”) can be considered to have resultative or even inferential force here.
3 tn Heb “to all their sins.”
4 tn Heb “And it [feminine] shall be for you a perpetual statute.” Verse 34 begins with the same clause except for the missing demonstrative pronoun “this” here in v. 29. The LXX has “this” in both places and it suits the sense of the passage, although both the verb and the pronoun are sometimes missing in this clause elsewhere in the book (see, e.g., Lev 3:17).
5 tn Heb “you shall humble your souls.” The verb “to humble” here refers to various forms of self-denial, including but not limited to fasting (cf. Ps 35:13 and Isa 58:3, 10). The Mishnah (m. Yoma 8:1) lists abstentions from food and drink, bathing, using oil as an unguent to moisten the skin, wearing leather sandals, and sexual intercourse (cf. 2 Sam 12:16-17, 20; see the remarks in J. Milgrom, Leviticus [AB], 1:1054; B. A. Levine, Leviticus [JPSTC], 109; and J. E. Hartley, Leviticus [WBC], 242).
6 tn Heb “and all work you shall not do.”
7 tn Heb “the native and the sojourner who sojourns.”
8 tn This is a superlative expression, emphasizing the full and all inclusive rest of the Sabbath and certain festival times throughout the chapter (see B. A. Levine, Leviticus [JPSTC], 155). Cf. ASV “a sabbath of solemn rest.”
9 tn The Hebrew term עֲצֶרֶת (’atseret) “solemn assembly [day]” derives from a root associated with restraint or closure. It could refer either to the last day as “closing assembly” day of the festival (e.g., NIV) or a special day of restraint expressed in a “solemn assembly” (e.g., NRSV); cf. NLT “a solemn closing assembly.”
10 tn Or “I also” (see HALOT 76 s.v. אַף 6.b).
11 tn Heb “soul.” These expressions may refer either to the physical effects of consumption and fever as the rendering in the text suggests (e.g., J. E. Hartley, Leviticus [WBC], 452, 454, “diminishing eyesight and loss of appetite”), or perhaps the more psychological effects, “which exhausts the eyes” because of anxious hope “and causes depression” (Heb “causes soul [נֶפֶשׁ, nefesh] to pine away”), e.g., B. A. Levine, Leviticus (JPSTC), 185.
12 tn Heb “and.” The Hebrew conjunction ו (vav, “and”) can be considered to have causal force here.
13 tn That is, “your enemies will eat” the produce that grows from the sown seed.