Leviticus 11:16

11:16 the eagle owl, ¹  the short-eared owl, the long-eared owl, the hawk of any kind,

Leviticus 22:3

22:3 Say to them, ‘Throughout your generations, ²  if any man from all your descendants approaches the holy offerings which the Israelites consecrate ³  to the Lord while he is impure, ⁴  that person must be cut off from before me. ⁵  I am the Lord.

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¹ tn Literally, “the daughter of the wasteland.” Various proposals for the species of bird referred to here include “owl” (KJV), “horned owl” (NIV, NCV), and “ostrich” (ASV, NAB, NASB, NRSV, NLT).

² tn Heb “To your generations.”

³ tn The Piel (v. 2) and Hiphil (v. 3) forms of the verb קָדַשׁ (qadash) appear to be interchangeable in this context. Both mean “to consecrate” (Heb “make holy [or “sacred”]”).

⁴ tn Heb “and his impurity [is] on him”; NIV “is ceremonially unclean”; NAB, NRSV “while he is in a state of uncleanness.”

⁵ sn Regarding the “cut off” penalty, see the note on Lev 7:20. Cf. the interpretive translation of TEV “he can never again serve at the altar.”