Leviticus 6:22

6:22 The high priest who succeeds him¹ from among his sons must do it. It is a perpetual statute; it must be offered up in smoke as a whole offering to the Lord.

Leviticus 9:18

9:18 Then he slaughtered the ox and the ram – the peace offering sacrifices which were for the people – and Aaron’s sons handed² the blood to him and he splashed it against the altar’s sides.

Leviticus 13:21

13:21 If, however,³ the priest examines it, and⁴ there is no white hair in it, it is not deeper than the skin, and it has faded, then the priest is to quarantine him for seven days.⁵

Leviticus 13:26-27

13:26 If, however,⁶ the priest examines it and⁷ there is no white hair in the bright spot, it is not deeper than the skin,⁸ and it has faded, then the priest is to quarantine him for seven days.⁹ 13:27 The priest must then examine it on the seventh day, and if it is spreading further¹⁰ on the skin, then the priest is to pronounce him unclean. It is a diseased infection.¹¹

Leviticus 13:37

13:37 If, as far as the priest can see, the scall has stayed the same¹² and black hair has sprouted in it, the scall has been healed; the person is clean. So the priest is to pronounce him clean.¹³

Leviticus 14:11

14:11 and the priest who pronounces him clean will have the man who is being cleansed stand along with these offerings¹⁴ before the Lord at the entrance of the Meeting Tent.

Leviticus 14:18

14:18 and the remainder of the olive oil¹⁵ that is in his hand the priest is to put on the head of the one being cleansed. So the priest is to make atonement for him before the Lord.

Leviticus 14:20

14:20 and the priest is to offer¹⁶ the burnt offering and the grain offering on the altar. So the priest is to make atonement for him and he will be clean.

Leviticus 14:29

14:29 and the remainder of the olive oil that is in the hand¹⁷ of the priest he is to put¹⁸ on the head of the one being cleansed to make atonement for him before the Lord.

Leviticus 15:10

15:10 Anyone who touches anything that was under him¹⁹ will be unclean until evening, and the one who carries those items²⁰ must wash his clothes, bathe in water, and be unclean until evening.

Leviticus 15:15

15:15 and the priest is to make one of them a sin offering²¹ and the other a burnt offering.²² So the priest²³ is to make atonement for him before the Lord for²⁴ his discharge.

Leviticus 15:24

15:24 and if a man actually has sexual intercourse with her so that her menstrual impurity touches him,²⁵ then he will be unclean seven days and any bed he lies on will be unclean.

Leviticus 19:22

19:22 and the priest is to make atonement for him with the ram of the guilt offering before the Lord for his sin that he has committed,²⁶ and he will be forgiven²⁷ of his sin²⁸ that he has committed.

Leviticus 19:34

19:34 The foreigner who resides with you must be to you like a native citizen among you; so²⁹ you must love him as yourself, because you were foreigners in the land of Egypt. I am the Lord your God.

Leviticus 20:3-4

20:3 I myself will set my face³⁰ against that man and cut him off from the midst of his people,³¹ because he has given some of his children to Molech and thereby defiled my sanctuary and profaned my holy name.³² 20:4 If, however, the people of the land shut their eyes³³ to that man³⁴ when he gives some of his children to Molech so that they do not put him to death,

Leviticus 20:6

Prohibition against Spiritists and Mediums³⁵

20:6 “‘The person who turns to the spirits of the dead and familiar spirits³⁶ to commit prostitution by going after them, I will set my face³⁷ against that person and cut him off from the midst of his people.

Leviticus 21:12

21:12 He must not go out from the sanctuary and must not profane³⁸ the sanctuary of his God, because the dedication of the anointing oil of his God is on him. I am the Lord.

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 portion³⁹ from the gifts of the Lord.”

Leviticus 24:11

24:11 The Israelite woman’s son misused the Name and cursed,⁴⁰ so they brought him to Moses. (Now his mother’s name was Shelomith daughter of Dibri, of the tribe of Dan.)

Leviticus 24:23

24:23 Then Moses spoke to the Israelites and they brought the one who cursed outside the camp and stoned him with stones. So the Israelites did just as the Lord had commanded Moses.

Leviticus 27:18

27:18 but if⁴¹ he consecrates his field after the jubilee, the priest will calculate the price⁴² for him according to the years that are left until the next jubilee year, and it will be deducted from the conversion value.

Leviticus 27:23

27:23 the priest will calculate for him the amount of its conversion value until the jubilee year, and he must pay⁴³ the conversion value on that jubilee day as something that is holy to the Lord.

Leviticus 27:28

Things Permanently Dedicated to the Lord

27:28 “‘Surely anything which a man permanently dedicates to the Lord⁴⁴ from all that belongs to him, whether from people, animals, or his landed property, must be neither sold nor redeemed; anything permanently dedicated is most holy to the Lord.

¹tn Heb “And the anointed priest under him.”

²tn See the note on Lev 9:12.

³tn Heb “and if.”

⁴tn Heb “and behold” (so KJV, ASV, NASB).

⁵tn Heb “and the priest will shut him up seven days.”

⁶tn Heb “and if.”

⁷tn Heb “and behold” (so KJV, ASV); NASB “and indeed.”

⁸tn Heb “and low it is not ‘from’ (comparative מִן, min, “lower than”) the skin.” See the note on v. 20 above. Cf. TEV “not deeper than the surrounding skin.”

⁹tn Heb “and the priest will shut him up seven days.”

¹⁰tn Heb “is indeed spreading.”

¹¹tn For the rendering “diseased infection” see the note on v. 2 above.

¹²tn Heb “and if in his eyes the infection has stood.”

¹³tn This is the declarative Piel of the verb טָהֵר (taher, cf. the note on v. 6 above).

¹⁴tn The MT here is awkward to translate into English. It reads literally, “and the priest who pronounces clean (Piel participle of טָהֵר, taher) shall cause to stand (Hiphil of עָמַד, ’amad) the man who is cleansing himself (Hitpael participle of טָהֵר) and them” (i.e., the offerings listed in v. 10; the referent has been specified in the translation for clarity). Alternatively, the Piel of טָהֵר could be rendered “who performs the cleansing/purification” (J. Milgrom, Leviticus [AB], 1:827), perhaps even as a technical term for one who holds the office of “purification priest” (B. A. Levine, Leviticus [JPSTC], 87). It is probably better, however, to retain the same meaning here as in v. 7 above (see the note there regarding the declarative Piel use of this verb).

¹⁵tn Heb “and the remainder in the oil.”

¹⁶tn Heb “cause to go up.”

¹⁷tn Heb “on the hand.”

¹⁸tn Heb “give.”

¹⁹tn Heb “which shall be under him.” The verb is perhaps a future perfect, “which shall have been.”

²⁰tn Heb “them”; the referent (the previously mentioned items which were under the unclean person) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

²¹sn See the note on Lev 4:3 regarding the term “sin offering.”

²²tn Heb “and the priest shall make them one a sin offering and the one a burnt offering.” See the note on Lev 1:3 regarding the “burnt offering.”

²³tn Heb “And the priest.” The Hebrew conjunction ו (vav, “and”) can be considered to have resultative force here.

²⁴tn Heb “from”; see the note on 4:26.

²⁵tn Heb “and if a man indeed lies with her and her menstrual impurity is on him.”

²⁶tn Heb “on his sin which he has sinned.”

²⁷tn Heb “there shall be forgiveness to him” or “it shall be forgiven to him.”

²⁸tn Heb “from his sin.”

²⁹tn Heb “and.” The Hebrew conjunction ו (vav, “and”) can be considered to have resultative force here.

³⁰tn Heb “And I, I shall give my faces.”

³¹sn On the “cut off” penalty see the notes on Lev 7:20 and 17:4.

³²tn Heb “for the sake of defiling my sanctuary and to profane my holy name.”

³³tn Heb “And if shutting [infinitive absolute] they shut [finite verb].” For the infinitive absolute used to highlight contrast rather than emphasis see GKC 343 §113.p.

³⁴tn Heb “from that man” (so ASV); NASB “disregard that man.”

³⁵sn For structure and coherence in Lev 20:6-27 see the note on v. 27 below.

³⁶tn See the note on the phrase “familiar spirits” in Lev 19:31 above.

³⁷tn Heb “I will give my faces.”

³⁸sn Regarding “profane,” see the note on Lev 10:10 above.

³⁹tn Or “a perpetual regulation”; NRSV “a perpetual due.”

⁴⁰tn The verb rendered “misused” means literally “to bore through, to pierce” (HALOT 719 s.v. נקב qal); it is from נָקַב (naqav), not קָבַב (qavav; see the participial form in v. 16a). Its exact meaning here is uncertain. The two verbs together may form a hendiadys, “he pronounced by cursing blasphemously” (B. A. Levine, Leviticus [JPSTC], 166), the idea being one of the following: (1) he pronounced the name “Yahweh” in a way or with words that amounted to “some sort of verbal aggression against Yahweh himself” (E. S. Gerstenberger, Leviticus [OTL], 362), (2) he pronounced a curse against the man using the name “Yahweh” (N. H. Snaith, Leviticus and Numbers [NCBC], 110; G. J. Wenham, Leviticus [NICOT], 311), or (3) he pronounced the name “Yahweh” and thereby blasphemed, since the “Name” was never to be pronounced (a standard Jewish explanation). In one way or another, the offense surely violated Exod 20:7, one of the ten commandments, and the same verb for cursing is used explicitly in Exod 22:28 (27 HT) prohibition against “cursing” God. For a full discussion of these and related options for interpreting this verse see P. J. Budd, Leviticus (NCBC), 335-36; J. E. Hartley, Leviticus (WBC), 408-9; and Levine, 166.

⁴¹tn Heb “And if.” The Hebrew conjunction ו (vav, “and”) can be considered to have adversative force here.

⁴²tn Heb “the silver.”

⁴³tn Heb “give” (so KJV, ASV, NASB, NLT).

⁴⁴tn Heb “Surely, any permanently dedicated [thing] which a man shall permanently dedicate to the Lord.” The Hebrew term חֵרֶם (kherem) refers to things that are devoted permanently to the Lord (see the note on v. 21 above).