Discovery BoxLeviticus 6:17 
Context6:17 It must not be baked with yeast. 1 I have given it as their portion from my gifts. It is most holy, 2 like the sin offering and the guilt offering.
Leviticus 6:25
Context6:25 “Tell Aaron and his sons, ‘This is the law of the sin offering. In the place where the burnt offering is slaughtered the sin offering must be slaughtered before the Lord. It is most holy. 3
Leviticus 10:12
Context10:12 Then Moses spoke to Aaron and to Eleazar and Ithamar, his remaining sons, “Take the grain offering which remains from the gifts of the Lord and eat it unleavened beside the altar, for it is most holy.
Leviticus 10:17
Context10:17 “Why did you not eat the sin offering in the sanctuary? For it is most holy and he gave it to you to bear the iniquity of the congregation, 4 to make atonement on their behalf before the Lord.
Leviticus 14:13
Context14:13 He must then slaughter 5 the male lamb in the place where 6 the sin offering 7 and the burnt offering 8 are slaughtered, 9 in the sanctuary, because, like the sin offering, the guilt offering belongs to the priest; 10 it is most holy.
Leviticus 16:33
Context16:33 and he is to purify 11 the Most Holy Place, 12 he is to purify the Meeting Tent and the altar, 13 and he is to make atonement for 14 the priests and for all the people of the assembly.
Leviticus 24:9
Context24:9 It will belong to Aaron and his sons, and they must eat it in a holy place because it is most holy to him, a perpetual allotted portion 15 from the gifts of the Lord.”
Leviticus 27:28
Context27:28 “‘Surely anything which a man permanently dedicates to the Lord 16 from all that belongs to him, whether from people, animals, or his landed property, must be neither sold nor redeemed; anything permanently dedicated is most holy to the Lord.
1 tn Heb “It must not be baked leavened” (cf. Lev 2:11). The noun “leaven” is traditional in English versions (cf. KJV, ASV, NASB, NRSV), but “yeast” is more commonly used today.
2 tn Heb “holiness of holinesses [or holy of holies] it is”; cf. NAB “most sacred.”
3 tn Heb “holiness of holinesses [or holy of holies] it is.” Cf. NAB “most sacred”; CEV “very sacred”; TEV “very holy.”
4 sn This translation is quite literal. On the surface it appears to mean that the priests would “bear the iniquity” of the congregation by the act of eating the sin offering (so J. Milgrom, Leviticus [AB], 1:622-25, 635-40). Such a notion is, however, found nowhere else in the Levitical regulations and seems unlikely (so J. E. Hartley, Leviticus [WBC], 136). A more likely interpretation is reflected in this interpretive rendering: “he gave it to you [as payment] for [your work of] bearing the iniquity of the congregation.” The previous section of the chapter deals with the prebends that the priests received for performing the ministry of the tabernacle (Lev 10:12-15). Lev 10:16-18, therefore, seems to continue the very same topic in the light of the most immediate situation (see R. E. Averbeck, NIDOTTE 2:702-4).
5 tn Heb “And he shall slaughter.”
6 tn Heb “in the place which.”
7 sn See the note on Lev 4:3 regarding the term “sin offering.”
8 sn See the note on Lev 1:3 regarding the “burnt offering.”
9 tn Since the priest himself presents this offering as a wave offering (v. 12), it would seem that the offering is already in his hands and he would, therefore, be the one who slaughtered the male lamb in this instance rather than the offerer. Smr and LXX make the second verb “to slaughter” plural rather than singular, which suggests that it is to be taken as an impersonal passive (see J. Milgrom, Leviticus [AB], 1:852).
10 tn Heb “the guilt offering, it [is] to the
11 tn Heb “to atone” (also later in this verse); see the note on “purifying the holy place” in 16:20.
12 tn Heb “the sanctuary of the holy place.” Although this is the only place this expression occurs in the OT, it clearly refers to the innermost shrine behind the veil-canopy, where the ark of the covenant was located.
13 tn Heb “and the tent of meeting and the alter he shall atone.” The repetition of the verb כִּפֶּר (kipper, “to atone”) at the beginning and end of the sequence appears to be strange, but the MT accents suggest that only “the Most Holy Place” goes with the verb at the beginning of the verse. Of course, the purging of “the Most Holy Place” has been the main emphasis of this chapter from the start (see vv. 2-3 and 11-17).
14 tn At this point in the verse the verb כִּפֶּר (kipper, “to make atonement”) takes its object with the preposition עַל (’al, “for”; literally, “upon”; contrast the first part of the verse and cf. the notes on Lev 1:4 and 16:20 above).
15 tn Or “a perpetual regulation”; NRSV “a perpetual due.”
16 tn Heb “Surely, any permanently dedicated [thing] which a man shall permanently dedicate to the
