Leviticus 6:18

6:18 Every male among the sons of Aaron may eat it. It is a perpetual allotted portion ¹  throughout your generations ²  from the gifts of the Lord. Anyone who touches these gifts ³  must be holy.’” ⁴ 

Leviticus 6:27

6:27 Anyone who touches its meat must be holy, and whoever spatters some of its blood on a garment, ⁵  you must wash ⁶  whatever he spatters it on in a holy place.

Leviticus 11:26-27

Inedible Land Quadrupeds

11:26 “‘All ⁷  animals that divide the hoof but it is not completely split in two ⁸  and do not chew the cud ⁹  are unclean to you; anyone who touches them becomes unclean. ¹⁰  11:27 All that walk on their paws among all the creatures that walk on all fours ¹¹  are unclean to you. Anyone who touches their carcass will be unclean until the evening,

Leviticus 15:10

15:10 Anyone who touches anything that was under him ¹²  will be unclean until evening, and the one who carries those items ¹³  must wash his clothes, bathe in water, and be unclean until evening.

Leviticus 15:19

Female Bodily Discharges

15:19 “‘When a woman has a discharge ¹⁴  and her discharge is blood from her body, ¹⁵  she is to be in her menstruation ¹⁶  seven days, and anyone who touches her will be unclean until evening.

Leviticus 25:49

25:49 or his uncle or his cousin ¹⁷  may redeem him, or anyone of the rest of his blood relatives – his family ¹⁸  – may redeem him, or if ¹⁹  he prospers he may redeem himself.

Leviticus 26:6

26:6 I will grant peace in the land so that ²⁰  you will lie down to sleep without anyone terrifying you. ²¹  I will remove harmful animals ²²  from the land, and no sword of war ²³  will pass through your land.

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¹ tn Or “a perpetual regulation”; cf. NASB “a permanent ordinance”; NRSV “as their perpetual due.”

² tn Heb “for your generations”; cf. NIV “for the generations to come.”

³ tn Heb “touches them”; the referent has been specified in the translation for clarity. In this context “them” must refer to the “gifts” of the Lord.

⁴ tn Or “anyone/anything that touches them shall become holy” (J. Milgrom, Leviticus [AB], 1:443-56). The question is whether this refers to the contagious nature of holy objects (cf. NAB, NASB, NIV, NRSV, NLT) or whether it simply sets forth a demand that anyone who touches the holy gifts of the Lord must be a holy person (cf. CEV). See R. E. Averbeck, NIDOTTE 2:900-902.

⁵ tn Heb “on the garment”; NCV “on any clothes”; CEV “on the clothes of the priest.”

⁶ tc The translation “you must wash” is based on the MT as it stands (cf. NASB, NIV). Smr, LXX, Syriac, Tg. Ps.-J., and the Vulgate have a third person masculine singular passive form (Pual), “[the garment] must be washed” (cf. NAB, NRSV, NLT). This could also be supported from the verbs in the following verse, and it requires only a repointing of the Hebrew text with no change in consonants. See the remarks in J. E. Hartley, Leviticus (WBC), 90 and J. Milgrom, Leviticus (AB), 1:404.

⁷ tn Heb “to all” (cf. the note on v. 24). This and the following verses develop more fully the categories of uncleanness set forth in principle in vv. 24-25.

⁸ tn Heb “divides hoof and cleft it does not cleave”; KJV “divideth the hoof, and is not clovenfooted”; NLT “divided but unsplit hooves.”

⁹ tn See the note on Lev 11:3.

¹⁰ sn Compare the regulations in Lev 11:2-8.

¹¹ tn Heb “the one walking on four.” Compare Lev 11:20-23.

¹² tn Heb “which shall be under him.” The verb is perhaps a future perfect, “which shall have been.”

¹³ tn Heb “them”; the referent (the previously mentioned items which were under the unclean person) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

¹⁴ tn See the note on Lev 15:2 above.

¹⁵ tn Heb “blood shall be her discharge in her flesh.” The term “flesh” here refers euphemistically to the female sexual area (cf. the note on v. 2 above).

¹⁶ tn See the note on Lev 12:2 and R. E. Averbeck, NIDOTTE 1:925-27.

¹⁷ tn Heb “the son of his uncle.”

¹⁸ tn Heb “or from the remainder of his flesh from his family.”

¹⁹ tc The LXX, followed by the Syriac, actually has “if,” which is not in the MT.

²⁰ tn Heb “and.” The Hebrew conjunction ו (vav, “and”) can be considered to have resultative force here.

²¹ tn Heb “and there will be no one who terrifies.” The words “to sleep” have been supplied in the translation for clarity.

²² tn Heb “harmful animal,” singular, but taken here as a collective plural (so almost all English versions).

²³ tn Heb “no sword”; the words “of war” are supplied in the translation to indicate what the metaphor of the sword represents.