Discovery BoxLeviticus 4:3 
Context4:3 “‘If the high priest 1 sins so that the people are guilty, 2 on account of the sin he has committed he must present a flawless young bull to the Lord 3 for a sin offering. 4
Leviticus 5:10
Context5:10 The second bird 5 he must make a burnt offering according to the standard regulation. 6 So the priest will make atonement 7 on behalf of this person for 8 his sin which he has committed, and he will be forgiven. 9
Leviticus 20:12-13
Context20:12 If a man has sexual intercourse with his daughter-in-law, both of them must be put to death. They have committed perversion; 10 their blood guilt is on themselves. 20:13 If a man has sexual intercourse with a male as one has sexual intercourse with a woman, 11 the two of them have committed an abomination. They must be put to death; their blood guilt is on themselves.
1 tn Heb “the anointed priest” (so ASV, NAB, NASB, NIV, NRSV). This refers to the high priest (cf. TEV, CEV, NLT).
2 tn Heb “to the guilt of the people”; NRSV “thus bringing guilt on the people.”
3 tn Heb “and he shall offer on his sin which he sinned, a bull, a son of the herd, flawless.”
4 sn The word for “sin offering” (sometimes translated “purification offering”) is the same as the word for “sin” earlier in the verse. One can tell which rendering is intended only by the context. The primary purpose of the “sin offering” (חַטָּאת, khatta’t) was to “purge” (כִּפֶּר, kipper, “to make atonement,” see 4:20, 26, 31, 35, and the notes on Lev 1:4 and esp. Lev 16:20, 33) the sanctuary or its furniture in order to cleanse it from any impurities and/or (re)consecrate it for holy purposes (see, e.g., Lev 8:15; 16:19). By making this atonement the impurities of the person or community were cleansed and the people became clean. See R. E. Averbeck, NIDOTTE 2:93-103.
5 tn The word “bird” is not in the Hebrew text, but is supplied in the translation for clarity.
6 sn The term “[standard] regulation” (מִשְׁפָּט, mishppat) here refers to the set of regulations for burnt offering birds in Lev 1:14-17.
7 sn The focus of sin offering “atonement” was purging impurities from the tabernacle (see the note on Lev 1:4).
8 tn See the note on 4:26 with regard to מִן, min.
9 tn Heb “there shall be forgiveness to him” or “it shall be forgiven to him” (KJV similar).
10 tn The Hebrew term תֶּבֶל (tevel, “perversion”) derives from the verb “to mix; to confuse” (cf. KJV, ASV “they have wrought confusion”).
11 tn Heb “[as the] lyings of a woman.” The specific reference here is to homosexual intercourse between males.
