Discovery BoxLeviticus 4:21 
Context4:21 He 1 must bring the rest of the bull outside the camp 2 and burn it just as he burned the first bull – it is the sin offering of the assembly.
Leviticus 5:8
Context5:8 He must bring them to the priest and present first the one that is for a sin offering. The priest 3 must pinch 4 its head at the nape of its neck, but must not sever the head from the body. 5
Leviticus 9:15
Context9:15 Then he presented the people’s offering. He took the sin offering male goat which was for the people, slaughtered it, and performed a decontamination rite with it 6 like the first one. 7
Leviticus 23:17
Context23:17 From the places where you live you must bring two loaves of 8 bread for a wave offering; they must be made from two tenths of an ephah of fine wheat flour, baked with yeast, 9 as first fruits to the Lord.
Leviticus 23:20
Context23:20 and the priest is to wave them – the two lambs 10 – along with the bread of the first fruits, as a wave offering before the Lord; they will be holy to the Lord for the priest.
Leviticus 23:24
Context23:24 “Tell the Israelites, ‘In the seventh month, on the first day of the month, you must have a complete rest, a memorial announced by loud horn blasts, 11 a holy assembly.
Leviticus 23:40
Context23:40 On the first day you must take for yourselves branches from majestic trees 12 – palm branches, branches of leafy trees, and willows of the brook – and you must rejoice before the Lord your God for seven days.
1 sn See the note on the word “slaughter” in v. 15.
2 tn Heb “And he shall bring out the bull to from outside to the camp.”
3 tn Heb “he.” The subject (“he”) refers to the priest here, not the offerer who presented the birds to the priest (cf. v. 8a).
4 sn The action seems to involve both a twisting action, breaking the neck of the bird and severing its vertebrae, as well as pinching or nipping the skin, but in this case not severing the head from the main body (note the rest of this verse).
5 tn Heb “he shall not divide [it]” (see J. Milgrom, Leviticus [AB], 1:305).
6 tn The expression “and performed a decontamination rite [with] it” reads literally in the MT, “and decontaminated [with] it.” The verb is the Piel of חטא (kht’, Qal = “to sin”), which means “to decontaminate, purify” (i.e., “to de-sin”; see the note on Lev 8:15).
7 sn The phrase “like the first one” at the end of the verse refers back to the sin offering for the priests described in vv. 8-11 above. The blood of the sin offering of the common people was applied to the burnt offering altar just like that of the priests.
8 tc Smr, LXX, Syriac, Tg. Onq., and Tg. Ps.-J. insert the word חַלּוֹת (khallot, “loaves”; cf. Lev 2:4 and the note there). Even though “loaves” is not explicit in the MT, the number “two” suggests that these are discrete units, not just a measure of flour, so “loaves” should be assumed even in the MT.
9 tn Heb “with leaven.” The noun “leaven” is traditional in English versions (cf. KJV, ASV, NASB, NRSV), but “yeast” is more commonly used today.
10 tn Smr and LXX have the Hebrew article on “lambs.” The syntax of this verse is difficult. The object of the verb (two lambs) is far removed from the verb itself (shall wave) in the MT, and the preposition עַל (’al, “upon”), rendered “along with” in this verse, is also added to the far removed subject (literally, “upon [the] two lambs”; see B. A. Levine, Leviticus [JPSTC], 159). It is clear, however, that the two lambs and the loaves (along with their associated grain and drink offerings) constituted the “wave offering,” which served as the prebend “for the priest.” Burnt and sin offerings (vv. 18-19a) were not included in this (see Lev 7:11-14, 28-36).
11 tn Heb “a memorial of loud blasts.” Although the term for “horn” does not occur here, allowing for the possibility that vocal “shouts” of acclamation are envisioned (see P. J. Budd, Leviticus [NCBC], 325), the “blast” of the shofar (a trumpet made from a ram’s “horn”) is most likely what is intended. On this occasion, the loud blasts on the horn announced the coming of the new year on the first day of the seventh month (see the explanations in J. E. Hartley, Leviticus [WBC], 387, and B. A. Levine, Leviticus [JPSTC], 160).
12 tn Heb “fruit of majestic trees,” but the following terms and verses define what is meant by this expression. For extensive remarks on the celebration of this festival in history and tradition see B. A. Levine, Leviticus (JPSTC), 163; J. E. Hartley, Leviticus (WBC), 389-90; and P. J. Budd, Leviticus (NCBC), 328-29.
