Discovery BoxLeviticus 7:16 
Context7:16 “‘If his offering is a votive or freewill sacrifice, 1 it may be eaten on the day he presents his sacrifice, and also the leftovers from it may be eaten on the next day, 2
Leviticus 8:33
Context8:33 And you must not go out from the entrance of the Meeting Tent for seven days, until the day when your days of ordination are completed, because you must be ordained over a seven-day period. 3
Leviticus 23:27
Context23:27 “The 4 tenth day of this seventh month is the Day of Atonement. 5 It is to be a holy assembly for you, and you must humble yourselves 6 and present a gift to the Lord.
Leviticus 25:9
Context25:9 You must sound loud horn blasts 7 – in the seventh month, on the tenth day of the month, on the Day of Atonement – you must sound the horn in your entire land.
1 tn For the distinction between votive and freewill offerings see the note on Lev 22:23 and the literature cited there.
2 tn Heb “and on the next day and the left over from it shall be eaten.”
3 tn Heb “because seven days he shall fill your hands”; KJV “for seven days shall he consecrate you”; CEV “ends seven days from now.”
sn It is apparent that the term for “ordination offering” (מִלֻּאִים, millu’im; cf. Lev 7:37 and the note there) is closely related to the expression “he shall fill (Piel מִלֵּא, mille’) your hands” in this verse. Some derive the terminology from the procedure in Lev 8:27-28, but the term for “hands” there is actually “palms.” It seems more likely that it derives from the notion of putting the priestly responsibilities (or possibly its associated prebends) under their control (i.e., “filling their hands” with authority; see J. Milgrom, Leviticus [AB], 1:538-39). The command “to keep the charge of the
4 tn Heb “Surely the tenth day” or perhaps “Precisely the tenth day.” The Hebrew adverbial particle אַךְ (’akh) is left untranslated by most recent English versions; cf. however NASB “On exactly the tenth day.”
5 sn See the description of this day and its regulations in Lev 16 and the notes there.
6 tn Heb “you shall humble your souls.” See the note on Lev 16:29 above.
7 sn On the “loud horn blasts” see the note on Lev 23:24, but unlike the language there, the Hebrew term for “horn” (שׁוֹפָר, shofar) actually appears here in this verse (twice).
