14:19 “The priest must then perform the sin offering 1 and make atonement for the one being cleansed from his impurity. After that he 2 is to slaughter the burnt offering, 14:20 and the priest is to offer 3 the burnt offering and the grain offering on the altar. So the priest is to make atonement for him and he will be clean.
1 tn Heb “do [or “make”] the sin offering.”
2 tn Heb “And after[ward] he [i.e., the offerer] shall slaughter.” The LXX adds “the priest” as the subject of the verb (as do several English versions, e.g., NAB, NIV, NCV, NLT), but the offerer is normally the one who does the actually slaughtering of the sacrificial animal (cf. the notes on Lev 1:5a, 6a, and 9a).
3 tn Heb “cause to go up.”
4 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).
5 tn Heb “which his hand reaches”; NRSV “such as (which NIV) he can afford.”
6 tn Heb “and one shall be a sin offering and the one a burnt offering.” The versions struggle with whether or not “one” should or should not have the definite article in its two occurrences in this verse (KJV, ASV, NAB, NASB all have the English definite article with both). The MT has the first without and the second with the article.