Discovery BoxLeviticus 5:3 
Context5:3 or when he touches human uncleanness with regard to anything by which he can become unclean, 1 even if he did not realize it, but he himself has later come to know it and is guilty;
Leviticus 6:18
Context6:18 Every male among the sons of Aaron may eat it. It is a perpetual allotted portion 2 throughout your generations 3 from the gifts of the Lord. Anyone who touches these gifts 4 must be holy.’” 5
Leviticus 6:27
Context6:27 Anyone who touches its meat must be holy, and whoever spatters some of its blood on a garment, 6 you must wash 7 whatever he spatters it on in a holy place.
Leviticus 7:19
Context7:19 The meat which touches anything ceremonially 8 unclean must not be eaten; it must be burned up in the fire. As for ceremonially clean meat, 9 everyone who is ceremonially clean may eat the meat.
Leviticus 11:26-27
Context11:26 “‘All 10 animals that divide the hoof but it is not completely split in two 11 and do not chew the cud 12 are unclean to you; anyone who touches them becomes unclean. 13 11:27 All that walk on their paws among all the creatures that walk on all fours 14 are unclean to you. Anyone who touches their carcass will be unclean until the evening,
Leviticus 15:10
Context15:10 Anyone who touches anything that was under him 15 will be unclean until evening, and the one who carries those items 16 must wash his clothes, bathe in water, and be unclean until evening.
Leviticus 15:19
Context15:19 “‘When a woman has a discharge 17 and her discharge is blood from her body, 18 she is to be in her menstruation 19 seven days, and anyone who touches her will be unclean until evening.
Leviticus 15:24
Context15:24 and if a man actually has sexual intercourse with her so that her menstrual impurity touches him, 20 then he will be unclean seven days and any bed he lies on will be unclean.
1 tn Heb “or if he touches uncleanness of mankind to any of his uncleanness which he becomes unclean in it.”
2 tn Or “a perpetual regulation”; cf. NASB “a permanent ordinance”; NRSV “as their perpetual due.”
3 tn Heb “for your generations”; cf. NIV “for the generations to come.”
4 tn Heb “touches them”; the referent has been specified in the translation for clarity. In this context “them” must refer to the “gifts” of the
5 tn Or “anyone/anything that touches them shall become holy” (J. Milgrom, Leviticus [AB], 1:443-56). The question is whether this refers to the contagious nature of holy objects (cf. NAB, NASB, NIV, NRSV, NLT) or whether it simply sets forth a demand that anyone who touches the holy gifts of the
6 tn Heb “on the garment”; NCV “on any clothes”; CEV “on the clothes of the priest.”
7 tc The translation “you must wash” is based on the MT as it stands (cf. NASB, NIV). Smr, LXX, Syriac, Tg. Ps.-J., and the Vulgate have a third person masculine singular passive form (Pual), “[the garment] must be washed” (cf. NAB, NRSV, NLT). This could also be supported from the verbs in the following verse, and it requires only a repointing of the Hebrew text with no change in consonants. See the remarks in J. E. Hartley, Leviticus (WBC), 90 and J. Milgrom, Leviticus (AB), 1:404.
8 tn The word “ceremonially” has been supplied in the translation both here and in the following sentence to clarify that the uncleanness involved is ritual or ceremonial in nature.
9 tn The Hebrew has simply “the flesh,” but this certainly refers to “clean” flesh in contrast to the unclean flesh in the first half of the verse.
10 tn Heb “to all” (cf. the note on v. 24). This and the following verses develop more fully the categories of uncleanness set forth in principle in vv. 24-25.
11 tn Heb “divides hoof and cleft it does not cleave”; KJV “divideth the hoof, and is not clovenfooted”; NLT “divided but unsplit hooves.”
12 tn See the note on Lev 11:3.
13 sn Compare the regulations in Lev 11:2-8.
14 tn Heb “the one walking on four.” Compare Lev 11:20-23.
15 tn Heb “which shall be under him.” The verb is perhaps a future perfect, “which shall have been.”
16 tn Heb “them”; the referent (the previously mentioned items which were under the unclean person) has been specified in the translation for clarity.
17 tn See the note on Lev 15:2 above.
18 tn Heb “blood shall be her discharge in her flesh.” The term “flesh” here refers euphemistically to the female sexual area (cf. the note on v. 2 above).
19 tn See the note on Lev 12:2 and R. E. Averbeck, NIDOTTE 1:925-27.
20 tn Heb “and if a man indeed lies with her and her menstrual impurity is on him.”
