Discovery BoxLeviticus 5:11 
Context5:11 “‘If he cannot afford 1 two turtledoves or two young pigeons, 2 he must bring as his offering for his sin which he has committed 3 a tenth of an ephah 4 of choice wheat flour 5 for a sin offering. He must not place olive oil on it and he must not put frankincense on it, because it is a sin offering.
Leviticus 5:17
Context5:17 “If a person sins and violates any of the Lord’s commandments which must not be violated 6 (although he did not know it at the time, 7 but later realizes he is guilty), then he will bear his punishment for iniquity 8
Leviticus 7:18
Context7:18 If some of the meat of his peace offering sacrifice is ever eaten on the third day it will not be accepted; it will not be accounted to the one who presented it, since it is spoiled, 9 and the person who eats from it will bear his punishment for iniquity. 10
Leviticus 13:4
Context13:4 “If 11 it is a white bright spot on the skin of his body, but it does not appear to be deeper than the skin, 12 and the hair has not turned white, then the priest is to quarantine the person with the infection for seven days. 13
Leviticus 13:34
Context13:34 The priest must then examine the scall on the seventh day, and if 14 the scall has not spread on the skin and it does not appear to be deeper than the skin, 15 then the priest is to pronounce him clean. 16 So he is to wash his clothes and be clean.
Leviticus 13:55
Context13:55 The priest must then examine it after the infection has been washed out, and if 17 the infection has not changed its appearance 18 even though the infection has not spread, it is unclean. You must burn it up in the fire. It is a fungus, whether on the back side or front side of the article. 19
Leviticus 16:2
Context16:2 and the Lord said to Moses: “Tell Aaron your brother that he must not enter at any time into the holy place inside the veil-canopy 20 in front of the atonement plate 21 that is on the ark so that he may not die, for I will appear in the cloud over the atonement plate.
Leviticus 18:9
Context18:9 You must not have sexual intercourse with your sister, whether she is your father’s daughter or your mother’s daughter, 22 whether she is born in the same household or born outside it; 23 you must not have sexual intercourse with either of them. 24
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. 25 They are closely related to her 26 – it is lewdness. 27
Leviticus 22:22
Context22:22 “‘You must not present to the Lord something blind, or with a broken bone, or mutilated, or with a running sore, 28 or with a festering eruption, or with a feverish rash. 29 You must not give any of these as a gift 30 on the altar to the Lord.
Leviticus 23:22
Context23:22 When you gather in the harvest 31 of your land, you must not completely harvest the corner of your field, 32 and you must not gather up the gleanings of your harvest. You must leave them for the poor and the foreigner. I am the Lord your God.’” 33
1 tn Heb “and if his hand does not reach [or is not sufficient] to”; cf. NASB “if his means are insufficient for.” The expression is the same as that in Lev 5:7 above except for the verb: נָשַׂג (nasag, “to collect, to reach, to be sufficient”) is used here, but נָגַע (nagah, “to touch, to reach”) is used in v. 7. Smr has the former in both v. 7 and 11.
2 tn See the note on Lev 1:14 above (cf. also 5:7).
3 tn Heb “and he shall bring his offering which he sinned.” Like the similar expression in v. 7 above (see the note there), this is an abbreviated form of Lev 5:6, “and he shall bring his [penalty for] guilt to the
4 sn A tenth of an ephah would be about 2.3 liters, one day’s ration for a single person (J. Milgrom, Leviticus [AB], 1:306). English versions handle the amount somewhat differently, cf. NCV “about two quarts”; TEV “one kilogramme”; CEV “two pounds.”
5 tn See the note on Lev 2:1 above.
6 tn Heb “and does one from all of the commandments of the
7 tn The words “at the time” are not in the Hebrew text, but are implied.
8 tn Heb “and he did not know, and he shall be guilty and he shall bear his iniquity” (for the rendering “bear his punishment [for iniquity]”) see the note on Lev 5:1.) This portion of v. 17 is especially difficult. The translation offered here suggests (as in many other English versions) that the offender did not originally know that he had violated the
9 tn Or “desecrated,” or “defiled,” or “forbidden.” For this difficult term see J. Milgrom, Leviticus (AB), 1:422. Cf. NIV “it is impure”; NCV “it will become unclean”; NLT “will be contaminated.”
10 tn Heb “his iniquity he shall bear” (cf. Lev 5:1); NIV “will be held responsible”; NRSV “shall incur guilt”; TEV “will suffer the consequences.”
11 tn Heb “and if.”
12 tn Heb “and deep is not its appearance from the skin”; cf. NAB “does not seem to have penetrated below the skin.”
13 tn Heb “and the priest will shut up the infection seven days.”
14 tn Heb “and behold” (so KJV, ASV).
15 tn Heb “and its appearance is not deep ‘from’ (comparative מִן, min, meaning “deeper than”) the skin.”
16 tn This is the declarative Piel of the verb טָהֵר (taher, cf. the note on v. 6 above).
17 tn Heb “and behold” (so KJV, ASV).
18 tn Heb “the infection has not changed its eye.” Smr has “its/his eyes,” as in vv. 5 and 37, but here it refers to the appearance of the article of cloth or leather, unlike vv. 5 and 37 where there is a preposition attached and it refers to the eyes of the priest.
19 tn The terms “back side” and “front side” are the same as those used in v. 42 for the “back or front bald area” of a man’s head. The exact meaning of these terms when applied to articles of cloth or leather is uncertain. It could refer, for example, to the inside versus the outside of a garment, or the back versus the front side of an article of cloth or leather. See J. Milgrom, Leviticus (AB), 1:814, for various possibilities.
20 tn Heb “into the holy place from house to the veil-canopy.” In this instance, the Hebrew term “the holy place” refers to “the most holy place” (lit. “holy of holies”), since it is the area “inside the veil-canopy” (cf. Exod 26:33-34). The Hebrew term פָּרֹכֶת (parokhet) is usually translated “veil” or “curtain,” but it seems to have stretched not only in front of but also over the top of the ark of the covenant which stood behind and under it inside the most holy place, and thus formed more of a canopy than simply a curtain (see R. E. Averbeck, NIDOTTE 3:687-89).
21 tn Heb “to the faces of the atonement plate.” The exact meaning of the Hebrew term כַּפֹּרֶת (kapporet) here rendered “atonement plate” is much debated. The traditional “mercy seat” (KJV, ASV, NASB, NRSV) does not suit the cognate relationship between this term and the Piel verb כִּפֶּר (kipper, “to make atonement, to make expiation”). The translation of the word should also reflect the fact that the most important atonement procedures on the Day of Atonement were performed in relation to it. Since the
22 tn Heb “the daughter of your father or the daughter of your mother.”
23 tn Heb “born of house or born of outside.” CEV interprets as “whether you grew up together or not” (cf. also TEV, NLT).
24 tc Several medieval Hebrew
tn For a smooth English translation “either of” was added.
25 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.
26 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.”
27 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.”
28 tn Or perhaps “a wart” (cf. NIV; HALOT 383 s.v. יַבֶּלֶת, but see the remarks in J. E. Hartley, Leviticus [WBC], 358).
29 sn See the note on Lev 21:20 above.
30 sn This term for offering “gift” is explained in the note on Lev 1:9.
31 tn Heb “And when you harvest the harvest.”
32 tn Heb “you shall not complete the corner of your field in your harvest.”
33 sn Compare Lev 19:9-10.
