4:32 “‘But if he brings a sheep as his offering, for a sin offering, he must bring a flawless female.
13:40 “When a man’s head is bare so that he is balding in back, 3 he is clean. 13:41 If his head is bare on the forehead 4 so that he is balding in front, 5 he is clean.
27:22 “‘If he consecrates to the Lord a field he has purchased, 8 which is not part of his own landed property,
1 tn Heb “and it shall happen when he becomes guilty to one from these,” referring to any of “these” possible transgressions in Lev 5:1-4. Tg. Onq., the original Greek translation, and the Latin Vulgate omit this clause, possibly due to homoioteleuton because of the repetition of “to one from these” from the end of v. 4 in v. 5a (cf. the note on v. 4b).
sn What all the transgressions in Lev 5:1-4 have in common is that the time is past for handling the original situation properly (i.e., testifying in court, following purity regulations, or fulfilling an oath), so now the person has become guilty and needs to follow corrective sacrificial procedures.
2 tn Heb “which he sinned on it”; cf. ASV “confess that wherein he hath sinned”; NCV “must tell how he sinned.”
3 tn Heb “And a man, when his head is rubbed bare, he is bald-headed.” The translation offered here, referring to the back of the head (i.e., the area from the top of the head sloping backwards), is based on the contrast between this condition and that of the following verse. See also B. A. Levine, Leviticus (JPSTC), 82.
4 tn Heb “And if from the front edge of his face, his head is rubbed bare.” See the note on v. 40 above.
5 tn The rendering “balding in front” corresponds to the location of the bareness at the beginning of the verse.
6 tn Heb “right of redemption shall be to him.”
7 tn Heb “and if he sells.”
8 tn Heb “his field of purchase,” which is to be distinguished from his own ancestral “landed property” (cf. v. 16 above).