Leviticus 7:6
Context7:6 Any male among the priests may eat it. It must be eaten in a holy place. It is most holy. 1
Leviticus 11:8
Context11:8 You must not eat from their meat and you must not touch their carcasses; 2 they are unclean to you.
Leviticus 11:11
Context11:11 Since they are detestable to you, you must not eat their meat and their carcass you must detest.
Leviticus 11:39
Context11:39 “‘Now if an animal 3 that you may eat dies, 4 whoever touches its carcass will be unclean until the evening.
Leviticus 19:26
Context19:26 “‘You must not eat anything with the blood still in it. 5 You must not practice either divination or soothsaying. 6
Leviticus 22:12
Context22:12 If a priest’s daughter marries a lay person, 7 she may not eat the holy contribution offerings, 8
Leviticus 25:7
Context25:7 your cattle, and the wild animals that are in your land – all its produce will be for you 9 to eat.
Leviticus 25:12
Context25:12 Because that year is a jubilee, it will be holy to you – you may eat its produce 10 from the field.
Leviticus 25:20
Context25:20 If you say, ‘What will we eat in the seventh year if we do not sow and gather our produce?’
1 tn Heb “holiness of holinesses [or holy of holies] it is”; NAB “most sacred”; TEV “very holy.”
2 sn The regulations against touching the carcasses of dead unclean animals (contrast the restriction against eating their flesh) is treated in more detail in Lev 11:24-28 (cf. also vv. 29-40). For the time being, this chapter continues to develop the issue of what can and cannot be eaten.
3 tn This word for “animal” refers to land animal quadrupeds, not just any beast that dwells on the land (cf. 11:2).
4 tn Heb “which is food for you” or “which is for you to eat.”
5 tn Heb “You shall not eat on the blood.” See the extensive remarks in J. E. Hartley, Leviticus (WBC), 319-20, and B. A. Levine, Leviticus (JPSTC), 132-33. The LXX has “on the mountains,” suggesting that this is a prohibition against illegitimate places and occasions of worship, not the eating of blood.
6 tn Heb “You shall not practice divination and you shall not practice soothsaying”; cf. NRSV “practice augury or witchcraft.” For suggestions regarding the practices involved see B. A. Levine, Leviticus (JPSTC), 133, and J. E. Hartley, Leviticus (WBC), 320.
7 tn Heb “And a daughter of a priest, if she is to a man, a stranger” (cf. the note on v. 10 above).
8 tn Heb “she in the contribution of the holy offerings shall not eat.” For “contribution [offering]” see the note on Lev 7:14 and the literature cited there. Cf. NCV “the holy offerings”; TEV, NLT “the sacred offerings.”
9 tn The words “for you” are implied.
10 tn That is, the produce of the land (fem.; cf. v. 7 above).