Discovery BoxLeviticus 4:25 
Context4:25 Then the priest must take some of the blood of the sin offering with his finger and put it on the horns of the altar of burnt offering, and he must pour out the rest of its blood at the base of the altar of burnt offering.
Leviticus 4:30
Context4:30 Then the priest must take some of its blood with his finger and put it on the horns of the altar of burnt offering, and he must pour out all the rest of its blood at the base of the altar.
Leviticus 4:34
Context4:34 Then the priest must take some of the blood of the sin offering with his finger and put it on the horns of the altar of burnt offering, and he must pour out all the rest of its blood at the base of the altar.
Leviticus 6:10
Context6:10 Then the priest must put on his linen robe and must put linen leggings 1 over his bare flesh, and he must take up the fatty ashes of the burnt offering that the fire consumed on the altar, 2 and he must place them 3 beside the altar.
Leviticus 6:15
Context6:15 and the priest 4 must take up with his hand some of the choice wheat flour of the grain offering 5 and some of its olive oil, and all of the frankincense that is on the grain offering, and he must offer its memorial portion 6 up in smoke on the altar 7 as a soothing aroma to the Lord. 8
Leviticus 12:8
Context12:8 If she cannot afford a sheep, 9 then she must take two turtledoves or two young pigeons, 10 one for a burnt offering and one for a sin offering, and the priest is to make atonement on her behalf, and she will be clean.’” 11
Leviticus 14:6
Context14:6 Then 12 he is to take the live bird along with the piece of cedar wood, the scrap of crimson fabric, and the twigs of hyssop, and he is to dip them and the live bird in the blood of the bird slaughtered over the fresh water,
Leviticus 14:14
Context14:14 Then the priest is to take some of the blood of the guilt offering and put it on the right earlobe of the one being cleansed, 13 on the thumb of his right hand, and on the big toe 14 of his right foot.
Leviticus 14:21
Context14:21 “If the person is poor and does not have sufficient means, 15 he must take one male lamb as a guilt offering for a wave offering to make atonement for himself, one-tenth of an ephah of choice wheat flour mixed with olive oil for a grain offering, a log of olive oil, 16
Leviticus 14:25
Context14:25 Then he is to slaughter the male lamb of the guilt offering, and the priest is to take some of the blood of the guilt offering and put it on the right earlobe of the one being cleansed, 17 on the thumb of his right hand, and on the big toe 18 of his right foot.
Leviticus 14:51
Context14:51 He must then take the piece of cedar wood, the twigs of hyssop, the scrap of crimson fabric, and the live bird, and dip them in the blood of the slaughtered bird and in the fresh water, and sprinkle the house seven times.
Leviticus 16:14
Context16:14 Then he is to take some of the blood of the bull and sprinkle it with his finger on the eastern face of the atonement plate, 19 and in front of the atonement plate he is to sprinkle some of the blood seven times with his finger. 20
Leviticus 16:18
Context16:18 “Then 21 he is to go out to the altar which is before the Lord and make atonement for it. He is to take 22 some of the blood of the bull and some of the blood of the goat, and put it all around on the horns of the altar.
Leviticus 18:17
Context18:17 You must not have sexual intercourse with both a woman and her daughter; you must not take as wife either her son’s daughter or her daughter’s daughter to have intercourse with them. 23 They are closely related to her 24 – it is lewdness. 25
1 tn The exact nature of this article of the priest’s clothing is difficult to determine. Cf. KJV, ASV “breeches”; NAB “drawers”; NASB, NIV, NRSV, NLT “undergarments”; NCV “underclothes”; CEV “underwear”; TEV “shorts.”
2 tn Heb “he shall lift up the fatty ashes which the fire shall consume the burnt offering on the altar.”
3 tn Heb “it,” referring the “fatty ashes” as a single unit.
4 tn Heb “and he”; the referent has been specified in the translation for clarity. The “he” refers to the officiating priest. A similar shift between singular and plural occurs in Lev 1:7-9, but see the note on Lev 1:7 and J. E. Hartley, Leviticus [WBC], 89 for the possibility of textual corruption.
5 tn Heb “shall take up from it with his hand some of the choice wheat flour of the grain offering.”
7 tc Smr reading, which includes the locative ה (hey, translated “on” the altar), is preferred here. This is the normal construction with the verb “offer up in smoke” in Lev 1-7 (see the note on Lev 1:9).
8 tn Heb “and he shall offer up in smoke [on] the altar a soothing aroma, its memorial portion, to the
9 tn Heb “If her hand cannot find the sufficiency of a sheep.” Many English versions render this as “lamb.”
10 tn Heb “from the sons of the pigeon,” referring either to “young pigeons” or “various species of pigeon” (contrast J. Milgrom, Leviticus [AB], 1:168, with J. E. Hartley, Leviticus [WBC], 14; cf. Lev 1:14 and esp. 5:7-10).
11 tn Or “she will be[come] pure.”
12 tc Heb “the live bird he [i.e., the priest] shall take it.” Although the MT has no ו (vav, “and”) at the beginning of this clause, a few medieval Hebrew
13 tn Heb “and the priest shall put [literally ‘give’] on the lobe of the ear of the one being cleansed, the right one.”
14 tn The term for “big toe” (בֹּהֶן, bohen) is the same as that for “thumb.” It refers to the larger appendage on either the hand or the foot.
15 tn Heb “and his hand does not reach”; NAB, NRSV “and cannot afford so much (afford these NIV).”
16 tn See the notes on v. 10 above.
17 tn Heb “and the priest shall put [literally ‘give’] on the lobe of the ear of the one being cleansed, the right one.”
18 tn The term for “big toe” (בֹּהֶן, bohen) is the same as that for “thumb.” It refers to the larger appendage on either the hand or the foot.
19 tn Heb “on the faces of the atonement plate toward the east.” Some have taken this to mean that the ark was stationed just behind the veil-canopy on the eastern side of the most holy place. Thus, the high priest would need to enter and walk toward the west end of the most holy place and then turn eastward in order to face the ark and sprinkle the blood in an eastward direction. The rendering here, however, requires that the ark was stationed on the western end, or perhaps in the middle of the area, so that as the priest entered he was already facing the ark and would sprinkle the blood on the eastern face of the atonement plate, in a westward direction (see, e.g., J. E. Hartley, Leviticus [WBC], 239 versus J. Milgrom, Leviticus [AB], 1:1032).
20 sn Presumably in this case the blood was sprinkled seven times on the ground in front of the ark on which the atonement plate was mounted.
21 tn Heb “And.” The Hebrew conjunction ו (vav, “and”) indicates the sequence of events here.
22 tn Heb “And he shall take.”
23 tn Heb “You must not uncover the nakedness of both a woman and her daughter; the daughter of her son and the daughter of her daughter you must not take to uncover her nakedness.” Translating “her” as “them” provides consistency in the English. In this kind of context, “take” means to “take in marriage” (cf. also v. 18). The LXX and Syriac have “their nakedness,” referring to the nakedness of the woman’s granddaughters, rather than the nakedness of the woman herself.
24 tc Heb “they are her flesh.” The LXX reads “your” here (followed by NRSV). If the LXX reading were followed by the present translation, the result would be “They are closely related to you.”
25 tn The term rendered “lewdness” almost always carries a connotation of cunning, evil device, and divisiveness (cf. HALOT 272 s.v. I זִמָּה 2, “infamy”), and is closely associated with sexual and religious infidelity (cf., e.g., Lev 19:29; 20:14; Job 31:11; Jer 13:27; Ezek 16:27; 22:9). Recent English versions differ on how they handle this: NAB “would be shameful”; CEV “would make you unclean”; NIV “wickedness”; NLT “horrible wickedness”; NRSV “depravity”; TEV “incest.”
