Discovery BoxLeviticus 6:3 
Context6:3 or has found something lost and denies it and swears falsely 1 concerning any one of the things that someone might do to sin 2 –
Leviticus 9:6
Context9:6 Then Moses said, “This is what the Lord has commanded you to do 3 so that the glory of the Lord may appear 4 to you.”
Leviticus 11:43
Context11:43 Do not make yourselves detestable by any of the swarming things. 5 You must not defile yourselves by them and become unclean by them,
Leviticus 18:21
Context18:21 You must not give any of your children as an offering to Molech, 6 so that you do not profane 7 the name of your God. I am the Lord!
Leviticus 18:24
Context18:24 “‘Do not defile yourselves with any of these things, for the nations which I am about to drive out before you 8 have been defiled with all these things.
Leviticus 18:26
Context18:26 You yourselves must obey 9 my statutes and my regulations and must not do any of these abominations, both the native citizen and the resident foreigner in your midst, 10
Leviticus 18:28-29
Context18:28 So do not make the land vomit you out because you defile it 11 just as it has vomited out the nations 12 that were before you. 18:29 For if anyone does any of these abominations, the persons who do them will be cut off from the midst of their people. 13
Leviticus 19:4
Context19:4 Do not turn to idols, 14 and you must not make for yourselves gods of cast metal. I am the Lord your God.
Leviticus 19:12
Context19:12 You must not swear falsely 15 in my name, so that you do not profane 16 the name of your God. I am the Lord.
Leviticus 19:17
Context19:17 You must not hate your brother in your heart. You must surely reprove your fellow citizen so that you do not incur sin on account of him. 17
Leviticus 19:29
Context19:29 Do not profane your daughter by making her a prostitute, 18 so that the land does not practice prostitution and become full of lewdness. 19
Leviticus 22:24
Context22:24 You must not present to the Lord something with testicles that are bruised, crushed, torn, or cut off; 20 you must not do this in your land.
Leviticus 23:8
Context23:8 You must present a gift to the Lord for seven days, and the seventh day is a holy assembly; you must not do any regular work.’”
Leviticus 23:28
Context23:28 You must not do any work on this particular day, 21 because it is a day of atonement to make atonement for yourselves 22 before the Lord your God.
Leviticus 23:31
Context23:31 You must not do any work. This is a perpetual statute throughout your generations 23 in all the places where you live.
Leviticus 25:36
Context25:36 Do not take interest or profit from him, 24 but you must fear your God and your brother must live 25 with you.
Leviticus 26:15
Context26:15 if you reject my statutes and abhor my regulations so that you do not keep 26 all my commandments and you break my covenant –
Leviticus 26:18
Context26:18 “‘If, in spite of all these things, 27 you do not obey me, I will discipline you seven times more on account of your sins. 28
Leviticus 26:23
Context26:23 “‘If in spite of these things 29 you do not allow yourselves to be disciplined and you walk in hostility against me, 30
1 tn Heb “and swears on falsehood”; cf. CEV “deny something while under oath.”
2 tn Heb “on one from all which the man shall do to sin in them.”
3 tn Heb “which the
4 tn Heb “and the glory of the
5 tn Heb “by any of the swarming things that swarm.”
6 tn Heb “And from your seed you shall not give to cause to pass over to Molech.” Smr (cf. also the LXX) has “to cause to serve” rather than “to cause to pass over.” For detailed remarks on Molech and Molech worship see N. H. Snaith, Leviticus and Numbers (NCBC), 87-88; P. J. Budd, Leviticus (NCBC), 259-60; and J. E. Hartley, Leviticus (WBC), 333-37, and the literature cited there. It could refer to either human sacrifice or a devotion of children to some sort of service of Molech, perhaps of a sexual sort (cf. Lev 20:2-5; 2 Kgs 23:10, etc.). The inclusion of this prohibition against Molech worship here may be due to some sexual connection of this kind, or perhaps simply to the lexical link between זֶרַע (zera’) meaning “seed, semen” in v. 20 but “offspring” in v. 21.
7 tn Heb “and you shall not profane.” Regarding “profane,” see the note on Lev 10:10 above.
8 tn Heb “which I am sending away (Piel participle of שָׁלַח [shalakh, “to send”]) from your faces.” The rendering here takes the participle as anticipatory of the coming conquest events.
9 tn Heb “And you shall keep, you.” The latter emphatic personal pronoun “you” is left out of a few medieval Hebrew
10 tn Heb “the native and the sojourner”; NIV “The native-born and the aliens”; NAB “whether natives or resident aliens.”
11 tn Heb “And the land will not vomit you out in your defiling it.”
12 tc The MT reads the singular “nation” and is followed by ASV, NASB, NRSV; the LXX, Syriac, and Targum have the plural “nations” (cf. v. 24).
13 sn Regarding the “cut off” penalty see the note on Lev 7:20.
14 sn Regarding the difficult etymology and meaning of the term for “idols” (אֱלִילִים, ’elilim), see B. A. Levine, Leviticus (JPSTC), 126; J. E. Hartley, Leviticus (WBC), 304; N. H. Snaith, Leviticus and Numbers (NBC), 89; and Judith M. Hadley, NIDOTTE 1:411. It appears to be a diminutive play on words with אֵל (’el, “god; God”) and, perhaps at the same time, recalls a common Semitic word for “worthless; weak; powerless; nothingness.” Snaith suggests a rendering of “worthless godlings.”
15 tn Heb “And you shall not swear to the falsehood.”
16 tn Heb “and you shall not profane”; NAB “thus profaning.”
17 tn Heb “and you will not lift up on him sin.” The meaning of the line is somewhat obscure. It means either (1) that one should rebuke one’s neighbor when he sins lest one also becomes guilty, which is the way it is rendered here (see NIV, NRSV, NEB, JB; see also B. A. Levine, Leviticus [JPSTC], 129-30, and J. E. Hartley, Leviticus [WBC], 303, and the discussion on pp. 316-17), or (2) one may rebuke one’s neighbor without incurring sin just as long as he does not hate him in his heart (see the first part of the verse; cf. NASB, NAB).
18 tn Heb “to make her practice harlotry.” Some recent English versions regard this as religious or temple prostitution (cf. TEV, CEV).
19 tn Heb “and the land become full of lewdness.” Regarding the term “lewdness,” see the note on Lev 18:17 above.
21 tn Heb “in the bone of this day.”
22 tn Heb “on you [plural]”; cf. NASB, NRSV “on your behalf.”
23 tn Heb “for your generations.”
24 tn The meaning of the terms rendered “interest” and “profit” is much debated (see the summaries in P. J. Budd, Leviticus [NCBC], 354-55 and B. A. Levine, Leviticus [JPSTC], 178). Verse 37, however, suggests that the first refers to a percentage of money and the second percentage of produce (see J. E. Hartley, Leviticus [WBC], 421).
25 tn In form the Hebrew term וְחֵי (vÿkhey, “shall live”) is the construct plural noun (i.e., “the life of”), but here it is used as the finite verb (cf. v. 35 and GKC 218 §76.i).
26 tn Heb “to not do.”
27 tn Heb “And if until these.”
28 tn Heb “I will add to discipline you seven [times] on your sins.”
29 tn Heb “And if in these.”
30 tn Heb “with me,” but see the added preposition בְּ (bet) on the phrase “in hostility” in vv. 24 and 27.
