14:21 “If the person is poor and does not have sufficient means, 8 he must take one male lamb as a guilt offering for a wave offering to make atonement for himself, one-tenth of an ephah of choice wheat flour mixed with olive oil for a grain offering, a log of olive oil, 9
1 sn The focus of sin offering “atonement” was purging impurities from the tabernacle (see the note on Lev 1:4).
2 tn Heb “from one from these,” referring to the four kinds of violations of the law delineated in Lev 5:1-4 (see the note on Lev 5:5 above and cf. Lev 4:27).
3 tn Heb “there shall be forgiveness to him” or “it shall be forgiven to him” (KJV similar).
4 tn Heb “and it”; the referent (the remaining portion of the offering) has been specified in the translation for clarity.
5 tn Heb “and it shall be to the priest like the grain offering,” referring to the rest of the grain that was not offered on the altar (cf. the regulations in Lev 2:3, 10).
6 sn A tenth of an ephah is about 2.3 liters, one day’s ration for a single person (J. Milgrom, Leviticus [AB], 1:306).
7 tn For the rendering “choice wheat flour” see the note on Lev 2:1.
8 tn Heb “and his hand does not reach”; NAB, NRSV “and cannot afford so much (afford these NIV).”
9 tn See the notes on v. 10 above.
10 tn Heb “And you shall present on the bread.”
11 tn Heb “seven flawless lambs, sons of a year.”
12 tn Heb “and one bull, a son of a herd.”
13 tc Smr and LXX add “flawless.”
14 tn Heb “and their grain offering.”
15 sn See the note on Lev 1:9.