27:28 “‘Surely anything which a man permanently dedicates to the Lord 9 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.
1 tn Here the Hebrew text reads “offering” (קָרְבָּן, qorbban), not “grain offering” (מִנְחָה, minkhah), but in this context the term refers once again to the list in 7:12.
2 tn The term rendered “contribution offering” is תְּרוּמָה (tÿrumah), which generally refers to that which is set aside from the offerings to the
3 tn Heb “And he shall slaughter.”
4 tn Heb “in the place which.”
5 sn See the note on Lev 4:3 regarding the term “sin offering.”
6 sn See the note on Lev 1:3 regarding the “burnt offering.”
7 tn Since the priest himself presents this offering as a wave offering (v. 12), it would seem that the offering is already in his hands and he would, therefore, be the one who slaughtered the male lamb in this instance rather than the offerer. Smr and LXX make the second verb “to slaughter” plural rather than singular, which suggests that it is to be taken as an impersonal passive (see J. Milgrom, Leviticus [AB], 1:852).
8 tn Heb “the guilt offering, it [is] to the
9 tn Heb “Surely, any permanently dedicated [thing] which a man shall permanently dedicate to the