13:4 “If 1 it is a white bright spot on the skin of his body, but it does not appear to be deeper than the skin, 2 and the hair has not turned white, then the priest is to quarantine the person with the infection for seven days. 3 13:5 The priest must then examine it on the seventh day, and if, 4 as far as he can see, the infection has stayed the same 5 and has not spread on the skin, 6 then the priest is to quarantine the person for another seven days. 7
23:39 “‘On 19 the fifteenth day of the seventh month, when you gather in the produce of the land, you must celebrate a pilgrim festival of the Lord for seven days. On the first day is a complete rest and on the eighth day is complete rest.
1 tn Heb “and if.”
2 tn Heb “and deep is not its appearance from the skin”; cf. NAB “does not seem to have penetrated below the skin.”
3 tn Heb “and the priest will shut up the infection seven days.”
4 tn Heb “and behold” (so KJV, ASV).
5 tn Heb “the infection has stood in his eyes”; ASV “if in his eyes the plague be at a stay.”
6 tn Although there is no expressed “and” at the beginning of this clause, there is in the corresponding clause of v. 6, so it should be assumed here as well.
7 tn Heb “a second seven days.”
8 tn Heb “and behold there is not its appearance deep ‘from’ (comparative מִן, min, meaning “deeper than”) the skin.”
9 tn Heb “and the priest will shut up the infection of the scall seven days.”
10 tn Heb “on the faces of the atonement plate toward the east.” Some have taken this to mean that the ark was stationed just behind the veil-canopy on the eastern side of the most holy place. Thus, the high priest would need to enter and walk toward the west end of the most holy place and then turn eastward in order to face the ark and sprinkle the blood in an eastward direction. The rendering here, however, requires that the ark was stationed on the western end, or perhaps in the middle of the area, so that as the priest entered he was already facing the ark and would sprinkle the blood on the eastern face of the atonement plate, in a westward direction (see, e.g., J. E. Hartley, Leviticus [WBC], 239 versus J. Milgrom, Leviticus [AB], 1:1032).
11 sn Presumably in this case the blood was sprinkled seven times on the ground in front of the ark on which the atonement plate was mounted.
12 tn Heb “And you shall present on the bread.”
13 tn Heb “seven flawless lambs, sons of a year.”
14 tn Heb “and one bull, a son of a herd.”
15 tc Smr and LXX add “flawless.”
16 tn Heb “and their grain offering.”
17 sn See the note on Lev 1:9.
18 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.”
19 tn Heb “Surely on the fifteenth day.” The Hebrew adverbial particle אַךְ (’akh) is left untranslated by most recent English versions; however, cf. NASB “On exactly the fifteenth day.”