Discovery BoxLeviticus 7:34 
Context7:34 for the breast of the wave offering and the thigh of the contribution offering I have taken from the Israelites out of their peace offering sacrifices and have given them to Aaron the priest and to his sons from the people of Israel as a perpetual allotted portion.’” 1
Leviticus 8:31
Context8:31 Then Moses said to Aaron and his sons, “Boil the meat at the entrance of the Meeting Tent, and there you are to eat it and the bread which is in the ordination offering basket, just as I have commanded, 2 saying, ‘Aaron and his sons are to eat it,’
Leviticus 10:19
Context10:19 But Aaron spoke to Moses, “See here! 3 Just today they presented their sin offering and their burnt offering before the Lord and such things as these have happened to me! If I had eaten a sin offering today would the Lord have been pleased?” 4
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 5 in front of the atonement plate 6 that is on the ark so that he may not die, for I will appear in the cloud over the atonement plate.
Leviticus 17:14
Context17:14 for the life of all flesh is its blood. 7 So I have said to the Israelites: You must not eat the blood of any living thing 8 because the life of every living thing is its blood – all who eat it will be cut off. 9
Leviticus 18:3
Context18:3 You must not do as they do in the land of Egypt where you have been living, 10 and you must not do as they do in the land of Canaan into which I am about to bring you; 11 you must not 12 walk in their statutes.
Leviticus 20:25
Context20:25 Therefore you must distinguish 13 between the clean animal and the unclean, and between the unclean bird and the clean, and you must not make yourselves detestable by means of an animal or bird or anything that creeps on the ground – creatures 14 I have distinguished for you as unclean. 15
Leviticus 22:3
Context22:3 Say to them, ‘Throughout your generations, 16 if any man from all your descendants approaches the holy offerings which the Israelites consecrate 17 to the Lord while he is impure, 18 that person must be cut off from before me. 19 I am the Lord.
Leviticus 23:10
Context23:10 “Speak to the Israelites and tell them, ‘When you enter the land that I am about to give to you and you gather in its harvest, 20 then you must bring the sheaf of the first portion of your harvest 21 to the priest,
Leviticus 23:22
Context23:22 When you gather in the harvest 22 of your land, you must not completely harvest the corner of your field, 23 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.’” 24
Leviticus 26:1
Context26:1 “‘You must not make for yourselves idols, 25 so you must not set up for yourselves a carved image or a pillar, and you must not place a sculpted stone in your land to bow down before 26 it, for I am the Lord your God.
Leviticus 26:36
Context26:36 “‘As for 27 the ones who remain among you, I will bring despair into their hearts in the lands of their enemies. The sound of a blowing leaf will pursue them, and they will flee as one who flees the sword and fall down even though there is no pursuer.
1 tn Or “a perpetual regulation”; cf. NASB “as their due forever”; NRSV “as a perpetual due”; NLT “their regular share.”
2 tn Several major ancient versions have the passive form of the verb (see BHS v. 31 note c; cf. Lev 8:35; 10:13). In that case we would translate, “just as I was commanded.”
3 tn Or “Behold!” (so KJV, ASV, NASB); NRSV “See.”
4 tn Heb “today they presented their sin offering and their burnt offering before the
5 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).
6 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
7 tn Heb “for the life/soul (נֶפֶשׁ, nefesh) of all flesh, its blood in its life/soul (נֶפֶשׁ) it is.” The LXX, Syriac, and Vulgate leave out “in its life/soul,” which would naturally yield “for the life of all flesh, its blood it is” (see J. E. Hartley, Leviticus [WBC], 261, 263). The present translation is something of an oversimplification, but the meaning is basically the same in any case. Cf. NRSV “For the life of every creature – its blood is its life.”
8 tn Heb “of all flesh” (also later in this verse). See the note on “every living thing” in v. 11.
9 tn For remarks on the “cut off” penalty see the note on v. 4 above.
10 tn Heb “As the work [or “deed”] of the land of Egypt, which you were dwelling in it, you must not do.”
11 tn Heb “and as the work [or “deed”] of the land of Canaan which I am bringing you to there, you must not do.” The participle “I am bringing” is inceptive; the
12 tn Heb “and you shall not walk.”
13 tn Heb “And you shall distinguish.” The verb is the same as “set apart” at the end of the previous verse. The fact that God had “set them apart” from the other peoples roundabout them called for them to “distinguish between” the clean and the unclean, etc.
14 tn The word “creatures” has been supplied in the translation to make it clear that the following relative clause modifies the animal, bird, or creeping thing mentioned earlier, and not the ground itself.
15 tc The MT has “to defile,” but Smr, LXX, and Syriac have “to uncleanness.”
16 tn Heb “To your generations.”
17 tn The Piel (v. 2) and Hiphil (v. 3) forms of the verb קָדַשׁ (qadash) appear to be interchangeable in this context. Both mean “to consecrate” (Heb “make holy [or “sacred”]”).
18 tn Heb “and his impurity [is] on him”; NIV “is ceremonially unclean”; NAB, NRSV “while he is in a state of uncleanness.”
19 sn Regarding the “cut off” penalty, see the note on Lev 7:20. Cf. the interpretive translation of TEV “he can never again serve at the altar.”
20 tn Heb “and you harvest its harvest.”
21 tn Heb “the sheaf of the first of your harvest.”
22 tn Heb “And when you harvest the harvest.”
23 tn Heb “you shall not complete the corner of your field in your harvest.”
24 sn Compare Lev 19:9-10.
25 sn For the literature regarding the difficult etymology and meaning of the term for “idols” (אֱלִילִם, ’elilim), see the literature cited in the note on Lev 19:4. 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.”
26 tn Heb “on.” The “sculpted stone” appears to be some sort of stone with images carved into (see B. A. Levine, Leviticus [JPSTC], 181, and J. E. Hartley, Leviticus [WBC], 449).
27 tn Heb “And.”
