Leviticus 2:9

2:9 Then the priest must take up ¹  from the grain offering its memorial portion and offer it up in smoke on the altar – it is ²  a gift of a soothing aroma to the Lord.

Leviticus 2:11

Additional Grain Offering Regulations

2:11 “‘No grain offering which you present to the Lord can be made with yeast, ³  for you must not offer up in smoke any yeast or honey as a gift to the Lord. ⁴ 

Leviticus 2:16

2:16 Then the priest must offer its memorial portion up in smoke – some of its crushed bits, some of its olive oil, in addition to all of its frankincense – it is ⁵  a gift to the Lord.

Leviticus 3:3

3:3 Then the one presenting the offering ⁶  must present a gift to the Lord from the peace offering sacrifice: He must remove the fat that covers the entrails and all the fat that surrounds the entrails, ⁷ 

Leviticus 3:5

3:5 Then the sons of Aaron must offer it up in smoke on the altar atop the burnt offering that is on the wood in the fire as a gift of a soothing aroma to the Lord. ⁸ 

Leviticus 3:9

3:9 Then he must present a gift to the Lord from the peace offering sacrifice: He must remove all the fatty tail up to the end of the spine, the fat covering the entrails, and all the fat on the entrails, ⁹ 

Leviticus 8:28

8:28 Moses then took them from their palms and offered them up in smoke on the altar ¹⁰  on top of the burnt offering – they were an ordination offering for a soothing aroma; it was a gift to the Lord.

Leviticus 22:27

22:27 “When an ox, lamb, or goat is born, it must be under the care of ¹¹  its mother seven days, but from the eighth day onward it will be acceptable as an offering gift ¹²  to the Lord.

Leviticus 23:13

23:13 along with its grain offering, two tenths of an ephah of ¹³  choice wheat flour ¹⁴  mixed with olive oil, as a gift to the Lord, a soothing aroma, ¹⁵  and its drink offering, one fourth of a hin of wine. ¹⁶ 

Leviticus 23:27

23:27 “The ¹⁷  tenth day of this seventh month is the Day of Atonement. ¹⁸  It is to be a holy assembly for you, and you must humble yourselves ¹⁹  and present a gift to the Lord.

Leviticus 23:37

23:37 “‘These are the appointed times of the Lord that you must proclaim as holy assemblies to present a gift to the Lord – burnt offering, grain offering, sacrifice, and drink offerings, ²⁰  each day according to its regulation, ²¹ 

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¹ tn The Hebrew verb הֵרִים (herim, “to take up”; cf. NAB “lift”) is commonly used for setting aside portions of an offering (see, e.g., Lev 4:8-10 and R. E. Averbeck, NIDOTTE 4:335-36). A number of English versions employ the more normal English idiom “take out” here (e.g., NIV, NCV); cf. NRSV “remove.”

² tn The words “it is” (הוּא, hu’) both here and in vv. 10 and 16 are not in the MT, but are assumed. (cf. vv. 2b and 3b and the notes there).

³ tn Heb “Every grain offering which you offer to the Lord must not be made leavened.” The noun “leaven” is traditional in English versions (cf. KJV, ASV, NASB, NRSV), but “yeast” is more commonly used today.

⁴ tc A few Hebrew mss, Smr, LXX, and Tg. Ps.-J. have the verb “present” rather than “offer up in smoke,” but the MT is clearly correct. One could indeed present leavened and honey sweetened offerings as first fruit offerings, which were not burned on the altar (see v. 12 and the note there), but they could not be offered up in fire on the altar. Cf. the TEV’s ambiguous “you must never use yeast or honey in food offered to the Lord.”

tn Heb “for all leaven and all honey you must not offer up in smoke from it a gift to the Lord.”

⁵ tn See the note on “it is” in 2:9b.

⁶ tn Heb “Then he”; the referent (the person presenting the offering) has been specified in the translation for clarity (cf. the note on Lev 1:5).

⁷ tn Heb “and all the fat on the entrails.” The fat layer that covers the entrails as a whole (i.e., “that covers the entrails”) is different from the fat that surrounds and adheres to the various organs (“on the entrails,” i.e., surrounding them; J. Milgrom, Leviticus [AB], 1:205-7).

⁸ tn Or “on the fire – [it is] a gift of a soothing aroma to the Lord” (see Lev 1:13b, 17b, and the note on 1:9b).

⁹ sn See the note on this phrase in 3:3.

¹⁰ tn Heb “toward the altar” (see the note on Lev 1:9).

¹¹ tn The words “the care of” are not in the Hebrew text, but are implied. Although many modern English versions render “with its mother” (e.g., NAB, NASB, NIV, NRSV, NLT), the literal phrase “under its mother” refers to the young animal nursing from its mother. Cf. KJV, ASV “it shall be seven days under the dam,” which would probably be misunderstood.

¹² tn Heb “for an offering of a gift.”

¹³ sn See the note on Lev 5:11.

¹⁴ sn See the note on Lev 2:1.

¹⁵ sn See the note on Lev 1:9.

¹⁶ tn Heb “wine, one fourth of the hin.” A pre-exilic hin is about 3.6 liters (= ca. 1 quart), so one fourth of a hin would be about one cup.

¹⁷ tn Heb “Surely the tenth day” or perhaps “Precisely the tenth day.” The Hebrew adverbial particle אַךְ (’akh) is left untranslated by most recent English versions; cf. however NASB “On exactly the tenth day.”

¹⁸ sn See the description of this day and its regulations in Lev 16 and the notes there.

¹⁹ tn Heb “you shall humble your souls.” See the note on Lev 16:29 above.

²⁰ tn The LXX has “[their] burnt offerings, and their sacrifices, and their drink offerings.”

²¹ tn Heb “a matter of a day in its day”; NAB “as prescribed for each day”; NRSV, NLT “each on its proper day.”