Discovery BoxLeviticus 4:13 
Context4:13 “‘If the whole congregation of Israel strays unintentionally 1 and the matter is not noticed by 2 the assembly, and they violate one of the Lord’s commandments, which must not be violated, 3 so they become guilty,
Leviticus 7:2
Context7:2 In the place where they slaughter the burnt offering they must slaughter the guilt offering, and the officiating priest 4 must splash 5 the blood against the altar’s sides.
Leviticus 11:35
Context11:35 Anything their carcass may fall on will become unclean. An oven or small stove must be smashed to pieces; they are unclean, and they will stay unclean 6 to you.
Leviticus 21:5
Context21:5 Priests 7 must not have a bald spot shaved on their head, they must not shave the corner of their beard, and they must not cut slashes in their body. 8
Leviticus 22:25
Context22:25 Even from a foreigner 9 you must not present the food of your God from such animals as these, for they are ruined and flawed; 10 they will not be acceptable for your benefit.’”
Leviticus 25:45
Context25:45 Also you may buy slaves 11 from the children of the foreigners who reside with you, and from their families that are 12 with you, whom they have fathered in your land, they may become your property.
Leviticus 26:39
Context26:39 “‘As for the ones who remain among you, they will rot away because of 13 their iniquity in the lands of your enemies, and they will also rot away because of their ancestors’ 14 iniquities which are with them.
1 tn Heb “strays”; KJV “sin through ignorance.” The verb “strays” here is the verbal form of the noun in the expression “by straying” (see the note on Lev 4:2 above).
2 tn Heb “is concealed from the eyes of”; NASB, NRSV, NLT “escapes the notice of.”
3 tn Heb “and they do one from all the commandments of the
4 tn Heb “he”; the referent (the officiating priest) has been specified in the translation for clarity. This priest was responsible for any actions involving direct contact with the altar (e.g., the splashing of the blood).
6 tn Heb “be unclean.”
7 tn Heb “they”; the referent (priests, see the beginning of v. 1) has been specified in the translation for clarity.
8 tn Heb “and in their body they shall not [cut] slash[es]” (cf. Lev 19:28). The context connects these sorts of mutilations with mourning rites (cf. Lev 19:27-28 above).
9 tn Heb “And from the hand of a son of a foreigner.”
10 tn Heb “for their being ruined [is] in them, flaw is in them”; NRSV “are mutilated, with a blemish in them”; NIV “are deformed and have defects.” The MT term מָשְׁחָתָם (moshkhatam, “their being ruined”) is a Muqtal form (= Hophal participle) from שָׁחַת (shakhat, “to ruin”). Smr has plural בהם משׁחתים (“deformities in them”; cf. the LXX translation). The Qumran Leviticus scroll (11QpaleoLev) has תימ הם[…], in which case the restored participle would appear to be the same as Smr, but there is no בְּ (bet) preposition before the pronoun, yielding “they are deformed” (see D. N. Freedman and K. A. Mathews, The Paleo-Hebrew Leviticus Scroll, 41 and the remarks in J. E. Hartley, Leviticus [WBC], 358).
11 tn The word “slaves” is not in the Hebrew text, but is implied here.
12 tn Heb “family which is” (i.e., singular rather than plural).
13 tn Heb “in” (so KJV, ASV; also later in this verse).
14 tn Heb “fathers’” (also in the following verse).
