Leviticus 14:21

The Eighth Day Atonement Rituals for the Poor Person

14:21 “If the person is poor and does not have sufficient means, he must take one male lamb as a guilt offering for a wave offering to make atonement for himself, one-tenth of an ephah of choice wheat flour mixed with olive oil for a grain offering, a log of olive oil,

Leviticus 23:22

23:22 When you gather in the harvest of your land, you must not completely harvest the corner of your field, and you must not gather up the gleanings of your harvest. You must leave them for the poor and the foreigner. I am the Lord your God.’”

Leviticus 27:8

27:8 If he is too poor to pay the conversion value, he must stand the person before the priest and the priest will establish his conversion value; according to what the man who made the vow can afford, the priest will establish his conversion value.


tn Heb “and his hand does not reach”; NAB, NRSV “and cannot afford so much (afford these NIV).”

tn See the notes on v. 10 above.

tn Heb “And when you harvest the harvest.”

tn Heb “you shall not complete the corner of your field in your harvest.”

sn Compare Lev 19:9-10.

tn Heb “and the priest shall cause him to be valued.”

tn Heb “on the mouth which the hand of the one who vowed reaches.”