Imamat 6:22
6:22 The high priest who succeeds him
1 from among his sons must do it. It is a perpetual statute; it must be offered up in smoke as a whole offering to the
Lord.
Imamat 16:34
16:34 This is to be a perpetual statute for you
2 to make atonement for the Israelites for
3 all their sins once a year.”
4 So he did just as the
Lord had commanded Moses.
5
Imamat 20:22
Exhortation to Holiness and Obedience
20:22 “‘You must be sure to obey all my statutes and regulations, 6 so that 7 the land to which I am about to bring you to take up residence there does not vomit you out.
Imamat 23:41
23:41 You must celebrate it as a pilgrim festival to the
Lord for seven days in the year. This is a perpetual statute throughout your generations;
8 you must celebrate it in the seventh month.
Imamat 27:19
27:19 If, however, the one who consecrated the field redeems it,
9 he must add to it one fifth of the conversion price
10 and it will belong to him.
11
1 tn Heb “And the anointed priest under him.”
2 tn Heb “And this shall be for you to a statute of eternity” (cf. v. 29a above). cf. NASB “a permanent statute”; NIV “a lasting ordinance.”
3 tn Heb “from”; see note on 4:26.
4 tn Heb “one [feminine] in the year.”
5 tn The MT of Lev 16:34b reads literally, “and he did just as the Lord had commanded Moses.” This has been retained here in spite of the fact that it suggests that Aaron immediately performed the rituals outlined in Lev 16 (see, e.g., J. E. Hartley, Leviticus [WBC], 224 and 243; J. Milgrom, Leviticus [AB], 1:1059; note that Aaron was the one to whom Moses was to speak the regulations in this chapter, v. 2). The problem is that the chapter presents these procedures as regulations for “the tenth day of the seventh month” and calls for their fulfillment at that time (Lev 16:29; cf. Lev 23:26-32 and the remarks in P. J. Budd, Leviticus [NCBC], 237), not during the current (first) month (Exod 40:2; note also that they left Sinai in the second month, long before the next seventh month, Num 10:11). The LXX translates, “once in the year it shall be done as the Lord commanded Moses,” attaching “once in the year” to this clause rather than the former one, and rendering the verb as passive, “it shall be done” (cf. NAB, NIV, etc.). We have already observed the passive use of active verbs in this context (see the note on v. 32 above). The RSV (cf. also the NRSV, TEV, CEV, NLT) translates, “And Moses did as the Lord commanded him,” ignoring the fact that the name Moses in the Hebrew text has the direct object indicator. Passive verbs, however, regularly take subjects with direct object indicators (see, e.g., v. 27 above). The NIV renders it “And it was done, as the Lord commanded Moses,” following the LXX passive translation. The NASB translates, “And just as the Lord had commanded Moses, so he did,” transposing the introductory verb to the end of the sentence and supplying “so” in order to make it fit the context.
6 tn Heb “And you shall keep all my statutes and all my regulations and you shall do them.” This appears to be a kind of verbal hendiadys, where the first verb is a modifier of the action of the second verb (see GKC 386 §120.d, although שָׁמַר [shamar, “to keep”] is not cited there; cf. Lev 22:31, etc.).
7 tn Heb “and.” The Hebrew conjunction ו (vav, “and”) can be considered to have resultative force here.
8 tn Heb “for your generations.”
9 tn Heb “And if redeeming [infinitive absolute] he redeems [finite verb] the field, the one who consecrated it.” For the infinitive absolute used to highlight contrast rather than emphasis see GKC 343 §113.p.
10 tn Heb “the silver of the conversion value.”
11 tn Heb “and it shall rise to him.” See HALOT 1087 s.v. קום 7 for the rendering offered here, but see also the note on the end of v. 14 above (cf. J. E. Hartley, Leviticus [WBC], 476, 478).