Leviticus 9:4

9:4 and an ox and a ram for peace offerings to sacrifice before the Lord, and a grain offering mixed with olive oil, for today the Lord is going to appear ¹  to you.’”

Leviticus 17:7

17:7 So they must no longer offer ²  their sacrifices to the goat demons, ³  acting like prostitutes by going after them. ⁴  This is to be a perpetual statute for them throughout their generations. ⁵ 

Leviticus 20:6

Prohibition against Spiritists and Mediums ⁶ 

20:6 “‘The person who turns to the spirits of the dead and familiar spirits ⁷  to commit prostitution by going after them, I will set my face ⁸  against that person and cut him off from the midst of his people.

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¹ tn The verb is either a prophetic perfect (“will appear to you”) as in the MT (cf. IBHS §30.5.1.e; so many English versions), or a futurum instans participle (“is going to appear to you”) as in the LXX and several other versions (see the BHS footnote; cf. IBHS 627 §37.6f). In either case, the point is that Moses was anticipating that the Lord would indeed appear to them on this day (cf. vv. 6, 22-24).

² tn Heb “sacrifice.” This has been translated as “offer” for stylistic reasons to avoid the redundancy of “sacrifice their sacrifices.”

³ tn On “goat demons” of the desert regions see the note on Lev 16:8.

⁴ tn Heb “which they are committing harlotry after them.”

⁵ tn Heb “for your generations.”

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

⁷ tn See the note on the phrase “familiar spirits” in Lev 19:31 above.

⁸ tn Heb “I will give my faces.”