Discovery BoxLeviticus 22:3 
Context22:3 Say to them, ‘Throughout your generations, 1 if any man from all your descendants approaches the holy offerings which the Israelites consecrate 2 to the Lord while he is impure, 3 that person must be cut off from before me. 4 I am the Lord.
Leviticus 25:50
Context25:50 He must calculate with the one who bought him the number of years 5 from the year he sold himself to him until the jubilee year, and the cost of his sale must correspond to the number of years, according to the rate of wages a hired worker would have earned while with him. 6
Leviticus 26:43
Context26:43 The land will be abandoned by them 7 in order that it may make up for 8 its Sabbaths while it is made desolate 9 without them, 10 and they will make up for their iniquity because 11 they have rejected my regulations and have abhorred 12 my statutes.
1 tn Heb “To your generations.”
2 tn The Piel (v. 2) and Hiphil (v. 3) forms of the verb קָדַשׁ (qadash) appear to be interchangeable in this context. Both mean “to consecrate” (Heb “make holy [or “sacred”]”).
3 tn Heb “and his impurity [is] on him”; NIV “is ceremonially unclean”; NAB, NRSV “while he is in a state of uncleanness.”
4 sn Regarding the “cut off” penalty, see the note on Lev 7:20. Cf. the interpretive translation of TEV “he can never again serve at the altar.”
5 tn Heb “the years.”
6 tn Heb “as days of a hired worker he shall be with him.” For this and the following verses see the explanation in P. J. Budd, Leviticus (NCBC), 358-59.
7 tn Heb “from them.” The preposition “from” refers here to the agent of the action (J. E. Hartley, Leviticus [WBC], 455).
8 tn The jussive form of the verb with the simple vav (ו) here calls for a translation that expresses purpose.
9 tn The verb is the Hophal infinitive construct with the third feminine singular suffix (GKC 182 §67.y; cf. v. 34).
10 tn Heb “from them.”
11 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).
12 tn Heb “and their soul has abhorred.”
