5:11 “‘If he cannot afford 1 two turtledoves or two young pigeons, 2 he must bring as his offering for his sin which he has committed 3 a tenth of an ephah 4 of choice wheat flour 5 for a sin offering. He must not place olive oil on it and he must not put frankincense on it, because it is a sin offering.
1 tn Heb “and if his hand does not reach [or is not sufficient] to”; cf. NASB “if his means are insufficient for.” The expression is the same as that in Lev 5:7 above except for the verb: נָשַׂג (nasag, “to collect, to reach, to be sufficient”) is used here, but נָגַע (nagah, “to touch, to reach”) is used in v. 7. Smr has the former in both v. 7 and 11.
2 tn See the note on Lev 1:14 above (cf. also 5:7).
3 tn Heb “and he shall bring his offering which he sinned.” Like the similar expression in v. 7 above (see the note there), this is an abbreviated form of Lev 5:6, “and he shall bring his [penalty for] guilt to the
4 sn A tenth of an ephah would be about 2.3 liters, one day’s ration for a single person (J. Milgrom, Leviticus [AB], 1:306). English versions handle the amount somewhat differently, cf. NCV “about two quarts”; TEV “one kilogramme”; CEV “two pounds.”
5 tn See the note on Lev 2:1 above.
6 tn Heb “and he”; the referent has been specified in the translation for clarity. The “he” refers to the officiating priest. A similar shift between singular and plural occurs in Lev 1:7-9, but see the note on Lev 1:7 and J. E. Hartley, Leviticus [WBC], 89 for the possibility of textual corruption.
7 tn Heb “shall take up from it with his hand some of the choice wheat flour of the grain offering.”
8 sn See the note on Lev 2:2.
9 tc Smr reading, which includes the locative ה (hey, translated “on” the altar), is preferred here. This is the normal construction with the verb “offer up in smoke” in Lev 1-7 (see the note on Lev 1:9).
10 tn Heb “and he shall offer up in smoke [on] the altar a soothing aroma, its memorial portion, to the