Leviticus 16:31

16:31 It is to be a Sabbath of complete rest for you, and you must humble yourselves.¹ It is a perpetual statute.²

Leviticus 18:24

Warning against the Abominations of the Nations

18:24 “‘Do not defile yourselves with any of these things, for the nations which I am about to drive out before you³ have been defiled with all these things.

Leviticus 18:26

18:26 You yourselves must obey⁴ my statutes and my regulations and must not do any of these abominations, both the native citizen and the resident foreigner in your midst,⁵

Leviticus 19:4

19:4 Do not turn to idols,⁶ and you must not make for yourselves gods of cast metal. I am the Lord your God.

Leviticus 23:15

The Festival of Weeks

23:15 “‘You must count for yourselves seven weeks from the day after the Sabbath, from the day you bring the wave offering sheaf; they must be complete weeks.⁷

Leviticus 23:28

23:28 You must not do any work on this particular day,⁸ because it is a day of atonement to make atonement for yourselves⁹ before the Lord your God.

Leviticus 26:23

26:23 “‘If in spite of these things¹⁰ you do not allow yourselves to be disciplined and you walk in hostility against me,¹¹

¹tn See the note on v. 29 above.

²tn Compare v. 29a above.

³tn Heb “which I am sending away (Piel participle of שָׁלַח [shalakh, “to send”]) from your faces.” The rendering here takes the participle as anticipatory of the coming conquest events.

⁴tn Heb “And you shall keep, you.” The latter emphatic personal pronoun “you” is left out of a few medieval Hebrew mss, Smr, the LXX, Syriac, and Vulgate.

⁵tn Heb “the native and the sojourner”; NIV “The native-born and the aliens”; NAB “whether natives or resident aliens.”

⁶sn Regarding the difficult etymology and meaning of the term for “idols” (אֱלִילִים, ’elilim), see B. A. Levine, Leviticus (JPSTC), 126; J. E. Hartley, Leviticus (WBC), 304; N. H. Snaith, Leviticus and Numbers (NBC), 89; and Judith M. Hadley, NIDOTTE 1:411. It appears to be a diminutive play on words with אֵל (’el, “god; God”) and, perhaps at the same time, recalls a common Semitic word for “worthless; weak; powerless; nothingness.” Snaith suggests a rendering of “worthless godlings.”

⁷tn Heb “seven Sabbaths, they shall be complete.” The disjunctive accent under “Sabbaths” precludes the translation “seven complete Sabbaths” (as NASB, NIV; cf. NAB, NRSV, NLT). The text is somewhat awkward, which may explain why the LXX tradition is confused here, either adding “you shall count” again at the end of the verse, or leaving out “they shall be,” or keeping “they shall be” and adding “to you.”

⁸tn Heb “in the bone of this day.”

⁹tn Heb “on you [plural]”; cf. NASB, NRSV “on your behalf.”

¹⁰tn Heb “And if in these.”

¹¹tn Heb “with me,” but see the added preposition בְּ (bet) on the phrase “in hostility” in vv. 24 and 27.