Leviticus 4:16

4:16 Then the high priest ¹  must bring some of the blood of the bull to the Meeting Tent,

Leviticus 5:19

5:19 It is a guilt offering; he was surely guilty before the Lord.”

Leviticus 11:16

11:16 the eagle owl, ²  the short-eared owl, the long-eared owl, the hawk of any kind,

Leviticus 13:18

A Boil on the Skin

13:18 “When someone’s body has a boil on its skin ³  and it heals,

Leviticus 21:24

21:24 So ⁴  Moses spoke these things ⁵  to Aaron, his sons, and all the Israelites.

Leviticus 22:13

22:13 but if a priest’s daughter is a widow or divorced, and she has no children so that she returns to live in ⁶  her father’s house as in her youth, ⁷  she may eat from her father’s food, but no lay person may eat it.

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, ⁸  each day according to its regulation, ⁹ 

Leviticus 25:10

25:10 So you must consecrate the fiftieth year, ¹⁰  and you must proclaim a release ¹¹  in the land for all its inhabitants. That year will be your jubilee; ¹²  each one of you must return ¹³  to his property and each one of you must return to his clan.

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¹ tn Heb “the anointed priest” (so ASV, NAB, NASB, NIV, NRSV). This refers to the high priest (cf. TEV).

² tn Literally, “the daughter of the wasteland.” Various proposals for the species of bird referred to here include “owl” (KJV), “horned owl” (NIV, NCV), and “ostrich” (ASV, NAB, NASB, NRSV, NLT).

³ tc Heb (MT) reads, “And flesh if/when there is in it, in its skin, a boil.” Smr has only “in it,” not “in its skin,” and a few medieval Hebrew mss as well as the LXX, Syriac, and Vulgate have only “in its skin” (cf. v. 24 below), not “in it.” It does not effect the meaning of the verse, but one is tempted to suggest that “in it” (בוֹ, vo) was added in error as a partial dittography from the beginning of “in its skin” (בְעֹרוֹ, vÿ’oro).

⁴ tn Heb “And.” The Hebrew conjunction ו (vav, “and”) introduces a concluding statement for all the preceding material.

⁵ tn The words “these things” are not in the Hebrew text, but have been supplied in the translation for clarity.

⁶ tn Heb “to”; the words “live in” have been supplied in the translation for clarity.

⁷ tn Heb “and seed there is not to her and she returns to the house of her father as her youth.” The mention of having “no children” appears to imply that her children, if she had any, should support her; this is made explicit by NLT’s “and has no children to support her.”

⁸ tn The LXX has “[their] burnt offerings, and their sacrifices, and their drink offerings.”

⁹ tn Heb “a matter of a day in its day”; NAB “as prescribed for each day”; NRSV, NLT “each on its proper day.”

¹⁰ tn Heb “the year of the fifty years,” or perhaps “the year, fifty years” (GKC 435 §134.o, note 2).

¹¹ tn Cf. KJV, ASV, NAB, NIV, NRSV “liberty”; TEV, CEV “freedom.” The characteristics of this “release” are detailed in the following verses. For substantial summaries and bibliography on the biblical and ancient Near Eastern material regarding such a “release” see J. E. Hartley, Leviticus (WBC), 427-34, and B. A. Levine, Leviticus (JPSTC), 270-74.

¹² tn Heb “A jubilee that shall be to you.” Although there has been some significant debate about the original meaning of the Hebrew word translated “jubilee” (יוֹבֵל, yovel; see the summary in J. E. Hartley, Leviticus [WBC], 434), the term most likely means “ram” and can refer also to a “ram’s horn.” The fiftieth year would, therefore, be called the “jubilee” because of the associated sounding of the “ram’s horn” (see B. A. Levine, Leviticus [JPSTC], 172, and the literature cited there).

¹³ tn Heb “you [plural] shall return, a man.”