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 7:19

7:19 The meat which touches anything ceremonially ⁵  unclean must not be eaten; it must be burned up in the fire. As for ceremonially clean meat, ⁶  everyone who is ceremonially clean may eat the meat.

Leviticus 7:24

7:24 Moreover, the fat of an animal that has died of natural causes ⁷  and the fat of an animal torn by beasts may be used for any other purpose, ⁸  but you must certainly never eat it.

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 ⁹  and the allotted portion of your sons from the gifts ¹⁰  of the Lord, for this is what I have been commanded. ¹¹ 

Leviticus 10:17

10:17 “Why did you not eat the sin offering in the sanctuary? For it is most holy and he gave it to you to bear the iniquity of the congregation, ¹²  to make atonement on their behalf before the Lord.

Leviticus 11:4

11:4 However, you must not eat these ¹³  from among those that chew the cud and have divided hooves: The camel is unclean to you ¹⁴  because it chews the cud ¹⁵  even though its hoof is not divided. ¹⁶ 

Leviticus 11:42

11:42 You must not eat anything that crawls ¹⁷  on its belly or anything that walks on all fours or on any number of legs ¹⁸  of all the swarming things that swarm on the land, because they are detestable.

Leviticus 23:14

23:14 You must not eat bread, roasted grain, or fresh grain until this very day, ¹⁹  until you bring the offering of your God. This is a perpetual statute throughout your generations ²⁰  in all the places where you live.

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 ²¹  from the gifts of the Lord.”

Leviticus 26:26

26:26 When I break off your supply of bread, ²²  ten women will bake your bread in one oven; they will ration your bread by weight, ²³  and you will eat and not be satisfied.

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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 The word “ceremonially” has been supplied in the translation both here and in the following sentence to clarify that the uncleanness involved is ritual or ceremonial in nature.

⁶ tn The Hebrew has simply “the flesh,” but this certainly refers to “clean” flesh in contrast to the unclean flesh in the first half of the verse.

⁷ tn Heb “carcass,” referring to the carcass of an animal that has died on its own, not the carcass of an animal slaughtered for sacrifice or killed by wild beasts. This has been clarified in the translation by supplying the phrase “of natural causes”; cf. NAB, TEV “that has died a natural death.”

⁸ tn Heb “shall be used for any work”; cf. NIV, NLT “may be used for any other purpose.”

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

¹⁰ tn For the rendering of the Hebrew אִשֶׁה (’isheh) as “gift” rather than “offering [made] by fire,” see the note on Lev 1:9.

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

¹² sn This translation is quite literal. On the surface it appears to mean that the priests would “bear the iniquity” of the congregation by the act of eating the sin offering (so J. Milgrom, Leviticus [AB], 1:622-25, 635-40). Such a notion is, however, found nowhere else in the Levitical regulations and seems unlikely (so J. E. Hartley, Leviticus [WBC], 136). A more likely interpretation is reflected in this interpretive rendering: “he gave it to you [as payment] for [your work of] bearing the iniquity of the congregation.” The previous section of the chapter deals with the prebends that the priests received for performing the ministry of the tabernacle (Lev 10:12-15). Lev 10:16-18, therefore, seems to continue the very same topic in the light of the most immediate situation (see R. E. Averbeck, NIDOTTE 2:702-4).

¹³ tn Heb “this,” but as a collective plural (see the following context).

¹⁴ sn Regarding “clean” versus “unclean,” see the note on Lev 10:10.

¹⁵ tn Heb “because a chewer of the cud it is” (see also vv. 5 and 6).

¹⁶ tn Heb “and hoof there is not dividing” (see also vv. 5 and 6).

¹⁷ tn Heb “goes” (KJV, ASV “goeth”); NIV “moves about”; NLT “slither along.” The same Hebrew term is translated “walks” in the following clause.

¹⁸ tn Heb “until all multiplying of legs.”

¹⁹ tn Heb “until the bone of this day.”

²⁰ tn Heb “for your generations.”

²¹ tn Or “a perpetual regulation”; NRSV “a perpetual due.”

²² tn Heb “When I break to you staff of bread” (KJV, ASV, and NASB all similar).

²³ tn Heb “they will return your bread in weight.”