Leviticus 7:36
Context7:36 This is what the Lord commanded to give to them from the Israelites on the day Moses 1 anointed them 2 – a perpetual allotted portion throughout their generations. 3
Leviticus 24:7-8
Context24:7 You must put pure frankincense 4 on each row, 5 and it will become a memorial portion 6 for the bread, a gift 7 to the Lord. 24:8 Each Sabbath day 8 Aaron 9 must arrange it before the Lord continually; this portion 10 is from the Israelites as a perpetual covenant.
1 tn Heb “the day he”; the referent (Moses) has been specified in the translation for clarity.
2 tn Heb “which the
3 tn Heb “for your generations”; cf. NIV “for the generations to come”; TEV “for all time to come.”
4 tn This is not just any “incense” (קְטֹרֶת, qÿtoret; R. E. Averbeck, NIDOTTE 3:913-16), but specifically “frankincense” (לְבֹנָה, lÿvonah; R. E. Averbeck, NIDOTTE 2:756-57).
5 tn Heb “on [עַל, ’al] the row,” probably used distributively, “on each row” (J. E. Hartley, Leviticus [WBC], 395-96). Perhaps the frankincense was placed “with” or “along side of” each row, not actually on the bread itself, and was actually burned as incense to the
6 sn The “memorial portion” (אַזְכָרָה, ’azkharah) was normally the part of the grain offering that was burnt on the altar (see Lev 2:2 and the notes there), as opposed to the remainder, which was normally consumed by the priests (Lev 2:3; see the full regulations in Lev 6:14-23 [6:7-16 HT]).
7 sn See the note on Lev 1:9 regarding the term “gift.”
8 tn Heb “In the day of the Sabbath, in the day of the Sabbath.” The repetition is distributive. A few medieval Hebrew
9 tn Heb “he”; the referent (Aaron) has been specified in the translation for clarity.
10 tn The word “portion” is supplied in the translation here for clarity, to specify what “this” refers to.