Discovery BoxLeviticus 23:29 
Context23:29 Indeed, 1 any person who does not behave with humility on this particular day will be cut off from his people. 2
Leviticus 23:28
Context23:28 You must not do any work on this particular day, 3 because it is a day of atonement to make atonement for yourselves 4 before the Lord your God.
Leviticus 23:30
Context23:30 As for any person 5 who does any work on this particular day, I will exterminate 6 that person from the midst of his people! 7
1 tn The particular כִּי (ki) is taken in an asseverative sense here (“Indeed,” see the NJPS translation).
2 tn Heb “it [i.e., that person; literally “soul,” feminine] shall be cut off from its peoples [plural]”; NLT “from the community.”
3 tn Heb “in the bone of this day.”
4 tn Heb “on you [plural]”; cf. NASB, NRSV “on your behalf.”
5 tn Heb “And any person.”
6 tn See HALOT 3 s.v. I אבד hif. Cf. KJV, NASB, NIV, NRSV, NLT “destroy”; CEV “wipe out.”
7 tn Heb “its people” (“its” is feminine to agree with “person,” literally “soul,” which is feminine in Hebrew; cf. v. 29).
