Discovery BoxLeviticus 13:45 
Context13:45 “As for the diseased person who has the infection, 1 his clothes must be torn, the hair of his head must be unbound, he must cover his mustache, 2 and he must call out ‘Unclean! Unclean!’
Leviticus 16:13
Context16:13 He must then put the incense on the fire before the Lord, and the cloud of incense will cover the atonement plate which is above the ark of the testimony, 3 so that he will not die. 4
Leviticus 17:13
Context17:13 “‘Any man from the Israelites 5 or from the foreigners who reside 6 in their 7 midst who hunts a wild animal 8 or a bird that may be eaten 9 must pour out its blood and cover it with soil,
1 tn Heb “And the diseased one who in him is the infection.”
2 tn Heb “and his head shall be unbound, and he shall cover on [his] mustache.” Tearing one’s clothing, allowing the hair to hang loose rather than bound up in a turban, and covering the mustache on the upper lip are all ways of expressing shame, grief, or distress (cf., e.g., Lev 10:6 and Micah 3:7).
3 tn The text here has only “above the testimony,” but this is surely a shortened form of “above the ark of the testimony” (see Exod 25:22 etc.; cf. Lev 16:2). The term “testimony” in this expression refers to the ark as the container of the two stone tablets with the Ten Commandments written on them (see Exod 25:16 with Deut 10:1, 5, etc.).
4 tn Heb “and he will not die,” but it is clear that the purpose for the incense cloud was to protect the priest from death in the presence of the
5 tc A few medieval Hebrew
6 tn Heb “from the sojourner who sojourns.”
7 tc The LXX, Syriac, Vulgate, and certain
8 tn Heb “[wild] game of animal.”
9 tn That is, it must be a clean animal, not an unclean animal (cf. Lev 11).
