Leviticus 22:3

22:3 Say to them, ‘Throughout your generations,¹ if any man from all your descendants approaches the holy offerings which the Israelites consecrate² to the Lord while he is impure,³ that person must be cut off from before me.⁴ I am the Lord.

Leviticus 25:50

25:50 He must calculate with the one who bought him the number of years⁵ from the year he sold himself to him until the jubilee year, and the cost of his sale must correspond to the number of years, according to the rate of wages a hired worker would have earned while with him.⁶

Leviticus 26:43

26:43 The land will be abandoned by them⁷ in order that it may make up for⁸ its Sabbaths while it is made desolate⁹ without them,¹⁰ and they will make up for their iniquity because¹¹ they have rejected my regulations and have abhorred¹² my statutes.

¹tn Heb “To your generations.”

²tn The Piel (v. 2) and Hiphil (v. 3) forms of the verb קָדַשׁ (qadash) appear to be interchangeable in this context. Both mean “to consecrate” (Heb “make holy [or “sacred”]”).

³tn Heb “and his impurity [is] on him”; NIV “is ceremonially unclean”; NAB, NRSV “while he is in a state of uncleanness.”

⁴sn Regarding the “cut off” penalty, see the note on Lev 7:20. Cf. the interpretive translation of TEV “he can never again serve at the altar.”

⁵tn Heb “the years.”

⁶tn Heb “as days of a hired worker he shall be with him.” For this and the following verses see the explanation in P. J. Budd, Leviticus (NCBC), 358-59.

⁷tn Heb “from them.” The preposition “from” refers here to the agent of the action (J. E. Hartley, Leviticus [WBC], 455).

⁸tn The jussive form of the verb with the simple vav (ו) here calls for a translation that expresses purpose.

⁹tn The verb is the Hophal infinitive construct with the third feminine singular suffix (GKC 182 §67.y; cf. v. 34).

¹⁰tn Heb “from them.”

¹¹tn Heb “because and in because,” a double expression, which is used only here and in Ezek 13:10 (without the vav) for emphasis (GKC 492 §158.b).

¹²tn Heb “and their soul has abhorred.”