Leviticus 6:17

6:17 It must not be baked with yeast. 1  I have given it as their portion from my gifts. It is most holy, 2  like the sin offering and the guilt offering.

Leviticus 7:30

7:30 With his own hands he must bring the Lord’s gifts. He must bring the fat with the breast 3  to wave the breast as a wave offering before the Lord, 4 

Leviticus 7:35

7:35 This is the allotment of Aaron and the allotment of his sons from the Lord’s gifts on the day Moses 5  presented them to serve as priests 6  to the Lord.

Leviticus 10:12-13

Perpetual Statutes Moses spoke to Aaron

10:12 Then Moses spoke to Aaron and to Eleazar and Ithamar, his remaining sons, “Take the grain offering which remains from the gifts of the Lord and eat it unleavened beside the altar, for it is most holy. 10:13 You must eat it in a holy place because it is your allotted portion 7  and the allotted portion of your sons from the gifts 8  of the Lord, for this is what I have been commanded. 9 

Leviticus 21:6

21:6 “‘They must be holy to their God, and they must not profane 10  the name of their God, because they are the ones who present the Lord’s gifts, 11  the food of their God. Therefore they must be holy. 12 

Leviticus 24:9

24:9 It will belong to Aaron and his sons, and they must eat it in a holy place because it is most holy to him, a perpetual allotted portion 13  from the gifts of the Lord.”

1 tn Heb “It must not be baked leavened” (cf. Lev 2:11). The noun “leaven” is traditional in English versions (cf. KJV, ASV, NASB, NRSV), but “yeast” is more commonly used today.

2 tn Heb “holiness of holinesses [or holy of holies] it is”; cf. NAB “most sacred.”

3 tn Heb “on the breast.”

4 tc Many Hebrew mss and some versions (esp. the LXX) limit the offerings in the last part of this verse to the fat portions, specifically, the fat and the fat lobe of the liver (see the BHS footnote). The verse is somewhat awkward in Hebrew but nevertheless correct.

tn Heb “the breast to wave it, a wave offering before the Lord.” Other possible translations are “to elevate the breast [as] an elevation offering before the Lord” (cf. NRSV) or “to present the breast [as] a presentation offering before the Lord.” See J. E. Hartley, Leviticus (WBC), 91, J. Milgrom, Leviticus (AB), 1:430-31, 461-72, and R. E. Averbeck, NIDOTTE 3:63-67.

5 tn Heb “the day he”; the referent (Moses) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

6 tn Heb “in the day of he presented them to serve as priests to the Lord.” The grammar here is relatively unusual. First, the verb “presented” appears to be in the perfect rather than the infinitive (but see GKC 531), the latter being normal in such temporal expressions. Second, the active verb form appears to be used as a passive plural (“they were presented”). However, if it is translated active and singular then Moses would be the subject: “on the day he [Moses] offered them [Aaron and his sons].”

7 tn Heb “statute” (cf. 10:9, 11); cf. KJV, NAB, NASB, NRSV “due”; NIV “share”; NLT “regular share.”

8 tn For the rendering of the Hebrew אִשֶׁה (’isheh) as “gift” rather than “offering [made] by fire,” see the note on Lev 1:9.

9 sn Cf. Lev 2:3 and 6:14-18 [6:7-11 HT] for these regulations.

10 sn Regarding “profane,” see the note on Lev 10:10 above.

11 sn Regarding the Hebrew term for “gifts,” see the note on Lev 1:9 above (cf. also 3:11 and 16 in combination with the word for “food” that follows in the next phrase here).

12 tc Smr and all early versions have the plural adjective “holy” rather than the MT singular noun “holiness.”

13 tn Or “a perpetual regulation”; NRSV “a perpetual due.”