Discovery BoxLeviticus 20:2 
Context20:2 “You are to say to the Israelites, ‘Any man from the Israelites or from the foreigners who reside in Israel 1 who gives any of his children 2 to Molech 3 must be put to death; the people of the land must pelt him with stones. 4
Leviticus 23:10
Context23:10 “Speak to the Israelites and tell them, ‘When you enter the land that I am about to give to you and you gather in its harvest, 5 then you must bring the sheaf of the first portion of your harvest 6 to the priest,
Leviticus 23:22
Context23:22 When you gather in the harvest 7 of your land, you must not completely harvest the corner of your field, 8 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.’” 9
Leviticus 23:39
Context23:39 “‘On 10 the fifteenth day of the seventh month, when you gather in the produce of the land, you must celebrate a pilgrim festival of the Lord for seven days. On the first day is a complete rest and on the eighth day is complete rest.
Leviticus 25:10
Context25:10 So you must consecrate the fiftieth year, 11 and you must proclaim a release 12 in the land for all its inhabitants. That year will be your jubilee; 13 each one of you must return 14 to his property and each one of you must return to his clan.
Leviticus 26:1
Context26:1 “‘You must not make for yourselves idols, 15 so you must not set up for yourselves a carved image or a pillar, and you must not place a sculpted stone in your land to bow down before 16 it, for I am the Lord your God.
Leviticus 26:5
Context26:5 Threshing season will extend for you until the season for harvesting grapes, 17 and the season for harvesting grapes will extend until sowing season, so 18 you will eat your bread until you are satisfied, 19 and you will live securely in your land.
Leviticus 26:43-44
Context26:43 The land will be abandoned by them 20 in order that it may make up for 21 its Sabbaths while it is made desolate 22 without them, 23 and they will make up for their iniquity because 24 they have rejected my regulations and have abhorred 25 my statutes. 26:44 In spite of this, however, when they are in the land of their enemies I will not reject them and abhor them to make a complete end of them, to break my covenant with them, for I am the Lord their God.
1 tn Heb “or from the sojourner who sojourns”; NAB “an alien residing in Israel.”
2 tn Heb “his seed” (so KJV, ASV); likewise in vv. 3-4.
3 tn Regarding Molech and Molech worship see the note on Lev 18:21.
4 tn This is not the most frequently-used Hebrew verb for stoning (see instead סָקַל, saqal), but a word that refers to the action of throwing, slinging, or pelting someone with stones (רָגָם, ragam; see HALOT 1187 s.v. רגם qal.a, and B. A. Levine, Leviticus [JPSTC], 136).
5 tn Heb “and you harvest its harvest.”
6 tn Heb “the sheaf of the first of your harvest.”
7 tn Heb “And when you harvest the harvest.”
8 tn Heb “you shall not complete the corner of your field in your harvest.”
9 sn Compare Lev 19:9-10.
10 tn Heb “Surely on the fifteenth day.” The Hebrew adverbial particle אַךְ (’akh) is left untranslated by most recent English versions; however, cf. NASB “On exactly the fifteenth day.”
11 tn Heb “the year of the fifty years,” or perhaps “the year, fifty years” (GKC 435 §134.o, note 2).
12 tn Cf. KJV, ASV, NAB, NIV, NRSV “liberty”; TEV, CEV “freedom.” The characteristics of this “release” are detailed in the following verses. For substantial summaries and bibliography on the biblical and ancient Near Eastern material regarding such a “release” see J. E. Hartley, Leviticus (WBC), 427-34, and B. A. Levine, Leviticus (JPSTC), 270-74.
13 tn Heb “A jubilee that shall be to you.” Although there has been some significant debate about the original meaning of the Hebrew word translated “jubilee” (יוֹבֵל, yovel; see the summary in J. E. Hartley, Leviticus [WBC], 434), the term most likely means “ram” and can refer also to a “ram’s horn.” The fiftieth year would, therefore, be called the “jubilee” because of the associated sounding of the “ram’s horn” (see B. A. Levine, Leviticus [JPSTC], 172, and the literature cited there).
14 tn Heb “you [plural] shall return, a man.”
15 sn For the literature regarding the difficult etymology and meaning of the term for “idols” (אֱלִילִם, ’elilim), see the literature cited in the note on Lev 19:4. It appears to be a diminutive play on words with אֵל (’el, “god, God”) and, perhaps at the same time, recalls a common Semitic word for “worthless, weak, powerless, nothingness.” Snaith suggests a rendering of “worthless godlings.”
16 tn Heb “on.” The “sculpted stone” appears to be some sort of stone with images carved into (see B. A. Levine, Leviticus [JPSTC], 181, and J. E. Hartley, Leviticus [WBC], 449).
17 tn Heb “will reach for you the vintage season.”
18 tn Heb “and.” The Hebrew conjunction ו (vav, “and”) can be considered to have resultative force here.
19 tn Heb “to satisfaction”; KJV, ASV, NASB “to the full.”
20 tn Heb “from them.” The preposition “from” refers here to the agent of the action (J. E. Hartley, Leviticus [WBC], 455).
21 tn The jussive form of the verb with the simple vav (ו) here calls for a translation that expresses purpose.
22 tn The verb is the Hophal infinitive construct with the third feminine singular suffix (GKC 182 §67.y; cf. v. 34).
23 tn Heb “from them.”
24 tn Heb “because and in because,” a double expression, which is used only here and in Ezek 13:10 (without the vav) for emphasis (GKC 492 §158.b).
25 tn Heb “and their soul has abhorred.”
