27:16 “‘If a man consecrates to the Lord some of his own landed property, the conversion value must be calculated in accordance with the amount of seed needed to sow it, 8 a homer of barley seed being priced at fifty shekels of silver. 9
1 tn Heb “Your animals, you shall not cross-breed two different kinds.”
2 tn Heb “you shall not cause to go up on you.”
3 sn Cf. Deut 22:11 where the Hebrew term translated “two different kinds” (כִּלְאַיִם, kil’ayim) refers to a mixture of linen and wool woven together in a garment.
4 tn Or “I also” (see HALOT 76 s.v. אַף 6.b).
5 tn Heb “soul.” These expressions may refer either to the physical effects of consumption and fever as the rendering in the text suggests (e.g., J. E. Hartley, Leviticus [WBC], 452, 454, “diminishing eyesight and loss of appetite”), or perhaps the more psychological effects, “which exhausts the eyes” because of anxious hope “and causes depression” (Heb “causes soul [נֶפֶשׁ, nefesh] to pine away”), e.g., B. A. Levine, Leviticus (JPSTC), 185.
6 tn Heb “and.” The Hebrew conjunction ו (vav, “and”) can be considered to have causal force here.
7 tn That is, “your enemies will eat” the produce that grows from the sown seed.
8 tn Heb “a conversion value shall be to the mouth of its seed.”
9 tn Heb “seed of a homer of barley in fifty shekels of silver.”