Leviticus 21:23

21:23 but he must not go into the veil-canopy ¹  or step forward to the altar because he has a physical flaw. Thus ²  he must not profane my holy places, for I am the Lord who sanctifies them.’”

Leviticus 23:14

23:14 You must not eat bread, roasted grain, or fresh grain until this very day, ³  until you bring the offering of your God. This is a perpetual statute throughout your generations ⁴  in all the places where you live.

Leviticus 23:17

23:17 From the places where you live you must bring two loaves of ⁵  bread for a wave offering; they must be made from two tenths of an ephah of fine wheat flour, baked with yeast, ⁶  as first fruits to the Lord.

Leviticus 23:21

23:21 “‘On this very day you must proclaim an assembly; it is to be a holy assembly for you. ⁷  You must not do any regular work. This is a perpetual statute in all the places where you live throughout your generations. ⁸ 

Leviticus 26:30

26:30 I will destroy your high places and cut down your incense altars, ⁹  and I will stack your dead bodies on top of the lifeless bodies of your idols. ¹⁰  I will abhor you. ¹¹ 

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¹ sn See the note on Lev 16:2 for the rendering “veil-canopy.”

² tn Heb “And.” The Hebrew conjunction ו (vav, “and”) can be considered to have resultative force here.

³ tn Heb “until the bone of this day.”

⁴ tn Heb “for your generations.”

⁵ tc Smr, LXX, Syriac, Tg. Onq., and Tg. Ps.-J. insert the word חַלּוֹת (khallot, “loaves”; cf. Lev 2:4 and the note there). Even though “loaves” is not explicit in the MT, the number “two” suggests that these are discrete units, not just a measure of flour, so “loaves” should be assumed even in the MT.

⁶ tn Heb “with leaven.” The noun “leaven” is traditional in English versions (cf. KJV, ASV, NASB, NRSV), but “yeast” is more commonly used today.

⁷ tn Heb “And you shall proclaim [an assembly] in the bone of this day; a holy assembly it shall be to you” (see the remarks in B. A. Levine, Leviticus [JPSTC], 160, and the remarks on the LXX rendering in J. E. Hartley, Leviticus [WBC], 367).

⁸ tn Heb “for your generations.”

⁹ sn Regarding these cultic installations, see the remarks in B. A. Levine, Leviticus (JPSTC), 188, and R. E. Averbeck, NIDOTTE 2:903. The term rendered “incense altars” might better be rendered “sanctuaries [of foreign deities]” or “stelae.”

¹⁰ tn The translation reflects the Hebrew wordplay “your corpses…the corpses of your idols.” Since idols, being lifeless, do not really have “corpses,” the translation uses “dead bodies” for people and “lifeless bodies” for the idols.

¹¹ tn Heb “and my soul will abhor you.”