Imamat 11:45

11:45 for I am the Lord who brought you up from the land of Egypt to be your God, ¹  and you are to be holy because I am holy.

Imamat 18:21

18:21 You must not give any of your children as an offering to Molech, ²  so that you do not profane ³  the name of your God. I am the Lord!

Imamat 19:12

19:12 You must not swear falsely ⁴  in my name, so that you do not profane ⁵  the name of your God. I am the Lord.

Imamat 19:32

19:32 You must stand up in the presence of the aged, honor the presence of an elder, and fear your God. I am the Lord.

Imamat 23:9

The Presentation of First Fruits

23:9 The Lord spoke to Moses:

Imamat 23:11

23:11 and he must wave the sheaf before the Lord to be accepted for your benefit ⁶  – on the day after the Sabbath the priest is to wave it. ⁷ 

Imamat 23:26

The Day of Atonement

23:26 The Lord spoke to Moses:

Imamat 24:22

24:22 There will be one regulation ⁸  for you, whether a foreigner or a native citizen, for I am the Lord your God.’”

Imamat 27:32

27:32 All the tithe of herd or flock, everything which passes under the rod, the tenth one will be holy to the Lord. ⁹ 

[11:45]  ¹ tn Heb “to be to you for a God.”

[18:21]  ² tn Heb “And from your seed you shall not give to cause to pass over to Molech.” Smr (cf. also the LXX) has “to cause to serve” rather than “to cause to pass over.” For detailed remarks on Molech and Molech worship see N. H. Snaith, Leviticus and Numbers (NCBC), 87-88; P. J. Budd, Leviticus (NCBC), 259-60; and J. E. Hartley, Leviticus (WBC), 333-37, and the literature cited there. It could refer to either human sacrifice or a devotion of children to some sort of service of Molech, perhaps of a sexual sort (cf. Lev 20:2-5; 2 Kgs 23:10, etc.). The inclusion of this prohibition against Molech worship here may be due to some sexual connection of this kind, or perhaps simply to the lexical link between זֶרַע (zera’) meaning “seed, semen” in v. 20 but “offspring” in v. 21.

[18:21]  ³ tn Heb “and you shall not profane.” Regarding “profane,” see the note on Lev 10:10 above.

[19:12]  ⁴ tn Heb “And you shall not swear to the falsehood.”

[19:12]  ⁵ tn Heb “and you shall not profane”; NAB “thus profaning.”

[23:11]  ⁶ tn Heb “for your acceptance.”

[23:11]  ⁷ sn See Lev 7:30 for a note on the “waving” of a “wave offering.”

[24:22]  ⁸ tn Heb “a regulation of one”; KJV, ASV “one manner of law”; NASB “one standard.”

[27:32]  ⁹ sn The tithed animal was the tenth one that passed under the shepherd’s rod or staff as they were being counted (see J. E. Hartley, Leviticus [WBC], 485, and B. A. Levine, Leviticus [JPSTC], 200).