Discovery BoxLeviticus 14:21 
ContextThe Eighth Day Atonement Rituals for the Poor Person
14:21 “If the person is poor and does not have sufficient means, 1 he must take one male lamb as a guilt offering for a wave offering to make atonement for himself, one-tenth of an ephah of choice wheat flour mixed with olive oil for a grain offering, a log of olive oil, 2
Leviticus 23:22
Context23:22 When you gather in the harvest 3 of your land, you must not completely harvest the corner of your field, 4 and you must not gather up the gleanings of your harvest. You must leave them for the poor and the foreigner. I am the Lord your God.’” 5
Leviticus 27:8
Context27:8 If he is too poor to pay the conversion value, he must stand the person before the priest and the priest will establish his conversion value; 6 according to what the man who made the vow can afford, 7 the priest will establish his conversion value.
1 tn Heb “and his hand does not reach”; NAB, NRSV “and cannot afford so much (afford these NIV).”
2 tn See the notes on v. 10 above.
3 tn Heb “And when you harvest the harvest.”
4 tn Heb “you shall not complete the corner of your field in your harvest.”
5 sn Compare Lev 19:9-10.
6 tn Heb “and the priest shall cause him to be valued.”
7 tn Heb “on the mouth which the hand of the one who vowed reaches.”
