Leviticus 4:5

4:5 Then that high priest must take some of the blood 1  of the bull and bring it to the Meeting Tent.

Leviticus 4:16

4:16 Then the high priest 2  must bring some of the blood of the bull to the Meeting Tent,

Leviticus 19:26

Blood, Hair, and Body

19:26 “‘You must not eat anything with the blood still in it. 3  You must not practice either divination or soothsaying. 4 

1 tn Heb “from the blood of the bull” (and similarly throughout this chapter).

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

3 tn Heb “You shall not eat on the blood.” See the extensive remarks in J. E. Hartley, Leviticus (WBC), 319-20, and B. A. Levine, Leviticus (JPSTC), 132-33. The LXX has “on the mountains,” suggesting that this is a prohibition against illegitimate places and occasions of worship, not the eating of blood.

4 tn Heb “You shall not practice divination and you shall not practice soothsaying”; cf. NRSV “practice augury or witchcraft.” For suggestions regarding the practices involved see B. A. Levine, Leviticus (JPSTC), 133, and J. E. Hartley, Leviticus (WBC), 320.