Leviticus 7:26

7:26 And you must not eat any blood of the birds or the domesticated land animals in any of the places where you live. ¹ 

Leviticus 11:2

11:2 “Tell the Israelites: ‘This is the kind of creature you may eat from among all the animals ²  that are on the land.

Leviticus 11:21

11:21 However, this you may eat from all the winged swarming things that walk on all fours, which have jointed legs ³  to hop with on the land.

Leviticus 11:29

Creatures that Swarm on the Land

11:29 “‘Now this is what is unclean to you among the swarming things that swarm on the land: ⁴  the rat, the mouse, the large lizard of any kind,

Leviticus 11:45

11:45 for I am the Lord who brought you up from the land of Egypt to be your God, ⁵  and you are to be holy because I am holy.

Leviticus 16:22

16:22 The goat is to bear on itself all their iniquities into an inaccessible land, ⁶  so he is to send the goat away ⁷  in the wilderness.

Leviticus 18:28

18:28 So do not make the land vomit you out because you defile it ⁸  just as it has vomited out the nations ⁹  that were before you.

Leviticus 19:29

19:29 Do not profane your daughter by making her a prostitute, ¹⁰  so that the land does not practice prostitution and become full of lewdness. ¹¹ 

Leviticus 22:24

22:24 You must not present to the Lord something with testicles that are bruised, crushed, torn, or cut off; ¹²  you must not do this in your land.

Leviticus 25:6

25:6 You may have the Sabbath produce ¹³  of the land to eat – you, your male servant, your female servant, your hired worker, the resident foreigner who stays with you, ¹⁴ 

Leviticus 25:11

25:11 That fiftieth year will be your jubilee; you must not sow the land, harvest its aftergrowth, or pick the grapes of its unpruned vines. ¹⁵ 

Leviticus 25:18

25:18 You must obey my statutes and my regulations; you must be sure to keep them ¹⁶  so that you may live securely in the land. ¹⁷ 

Leviticus 25:42

25:42 Since they are my servants whom I brought out from the land of Egypt, they must not be sold in a slave sale. ¹⁸ 

Leviticus 25:55

25:55 because the Israelites are my own servants; ¹⁹  they are my servants whom I brought out from the land of Egypt. I am the Lord your God.

Leviticus 26:4

26:4 I will give you your rains in their time so that ²⁰  the land will give its yield and the trees of the field will produce their fruit. ²¹ 

Leviticus 26:33

26:33 I will scatter you among the nations and unsheathe the sword ²²  after you, so your land will become desolate and your cities will become a waste.

Leviticus 26:42

26:42 I will remember my covenant with Jacob and also my covenant with Isaac and also my covenant with Abraham, ²³  and I will remember the land.

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¹ tn Heb “and any blood you must not eat in any of your dwelling places, to the bird and to the animal.”

² tn Heb “the animal,” but as a collective plural, and so throughout this chapter.

³ tn Heb “which to it are lower legs from above to its feet” (reading the Qere “to it” rather than the Kethib “not”).

⁴ tn For zoological analyses of the list of creatures in vv. 29-30, see J. Milgrom, Leviticus (AB), 1:671-72; and J. E. Hartley, Leviticus (WBC), 161-62.

⁵ tn Heb “to be to you for a God.”

⁶ tn The Hebrew term rendered “inaccessible” derives from a root meaning “to cut off” (cf. NAB “an isolated region”). Another possible translation would be “infertile land” (see HALOT 187 s.v. *גָּזֵּר and cf. NRSV “a barren region”; NLT “a desolate land.”

⁷ tn Heb “and he [the man (standing) ready, v. 21] shall send the goat away.”

⁸ tn Heb “And the land will not vomit you out in your defiling it.”

⁹ tc The MT reads the singular “nation” and is followed by ASV, NASB, NRSV; the LXX, Syriac, and Targum have the plural “nations” (cf. v. 24).

¹⁰ tn Heb “to make her practice harlotry.” Some recent English versions regard this as religious or temple prostitution (cf. TEV, CEV).

¹¹ tn Heb “and the land become full of lewdness.” Regarding the term “lewdness,” see the note on Lev 18:17 above.

¹² sn Compare Lev 21:20b.

¹³ tn The word “produce” is not in the Hebrew text but is implied; cf. NASB “the sabbath products.”

¹⁴ tn A “resident who stays” would be a foreign person who was probably residing as another kind of laborer in the household of a landowner (B. A. Levine, Leviticus [JPSTC], 170-71). See v. 35 below.

¹⁵ tn Heb “you shall not sow and you shall not…and you shall not….”

sn See v. 5 above and the notes there.

¹⁶ tn Heb “And you shall keep and do them.” This appears to be a kind of verbal hendiadys, where the first verb is a modifier of the action of the second verb (see GKC 386 §120.d, although שָׁמַר [shamar, “to keep”] is not cited there; cf. Lev 20:8, etc.).

¹⁷ tn Heb “and you shall dwell on the land to security.”

¹⁸ tn Or perhaps reflexive Niphal rather than passive, “they shall not sell themselves [as in] a slave sale.”

¹⁹ tn Heb “because to me the sons of Israel are servants.”

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

²¹ tn Heb “the tree of the field will give its fruit.” As a collective singular this has been translated as plural.

²² tn Heb “and I will empty sword” (see HALOT 1228 s.v. ריק 3).

²³ tn Heb “my covenant with Abraham I will remember.” The phrase “I will remember” has not been repeated in the translation for stylistic reasons.