Imamat 2:3

2:3 The remainder of the grain offering belongs to Aaron and to his sons ¹  – it is ²  most holy ³  from the gifts of the Lord.

Imamat 4:13

For the Whole Congregation

4:13 “‘If the whole congregation of Israel strays unintentionally ⁴  and the matter is not noticed by ⁵  the assembly, and they violate one of the Lord’s commandments, which must not be violated, ⁶  so they become guilty,

Imamat 4:26

4:26 Then the priest ⁷  must offer all of its fat up in smoke on the altar like the fat of the peace offering sacrifice. So the priest will make atonement ⁸  on his behalf for ⁹  his sin and he will be forgiven. ¹⁰ 

Imamat 6:30

6:30 But any sin offering from which some of its blood is brought into the Meeting Tent to make atonement in the sanctuary must not be eaten. It must be burned up in the fire. ¹¹ 

Imamat 7:16

7:16 “‘If his offering is a votive or freewill sacrifice, ¹²  it may be eaten on the day he presents his sacrifice, and also the leftovers from it may be eaten on the next day, ¹³ 

Imamat 8:17

8:17 but the rest of the bull – its hide, its flesh, and its dung – he completely burned up ¹⁴  outside the camp just as the Lord had commanded Moses. ¹⁵ 

Imamat 8:33

8:33 And you must not go out from the entrance of the Meeting Tent for seven days, until the day when your days of ordination are completed, because you must be ordained over a seven-day period. ¹⁶ 

Imamat 9:24

9:24 Then fire went out from the presence of the Lord ¹⁷  and consumed the burnt offering and the fat parts on the altar, and all the people saw it, so they shouted loudly and fell down with their faces to the ground. ¹⁸ 

Imamat 14:40

14:40 then the priest is to command that the stones that had the infection in them be pulled and thrown ¹⁹  outside the city ²⁰  into an unclean place.

Imamat 14:45

14:45 He must tear down the house, ²¹  its stones, its wood, and all the plaster of the house, and bring all of it ²²  outside the city to an unclean place.

Imamat 14:48

14:48 “If, however, the priest enters ²³  and examines it, and the ²⁴  infection has not spread in the house after the house has been replastered, then the priest is to pronounce the house clean because the infection has been healed.

Imamat 16:20

The Live Goat Ritual Procedures

16:20 “When he has finished purifying the holy place, ²⁵  the Meeting Tent, and the altar, he is to present the live goat.

Imamat 18:25

18:25 Therefore ²⁶  the land has become unclean and I have brought the punishment for its iniquity upon it, ²⁷  so that the land has vomited out its inhabitants.

Imamat 20:5

20:5 I myself will set my face against that man and his clan. I will cut off from the midst of their people both him and all who follow after him in spiritual prostitution, ²⁸  to commit prostitution by worshiping Molech. ²⁹ 

Imamat 21:23

21:23 but he must not go into the veil-canopy ³⁰  or step forward to the altar because he has a physical flaw. Thus ³¹  he must not profane my holy places, for I am the Lord who sanctifies them.’”

Imamat 22:32

22:32 You must not profane my holy name, and I will be sanctified in the midst of the Israelites. I am the Lord who sanctifies you,

Imamat 26:26

26:26 When I break off your supply of bread, ³²  ten women will bake your bread in one oven; they will ration your bread by weight, ³³  and you will eat and not be satisfied.

Imamat 27:30

Redemption of the Tithe

27:30 “‘Any tithe ³⁴  of the land, from the grain of the land or from the fruit of the trees, belongs to the Lord; it is holy to the Lord.

[2:3]  ¹ tn Heb “…is to Aaron and to his sons.” The preposition “to” (לְ, lamed) indicates ownership. Cf. NAB, NASB, NIV and other English versions.

[2:3]  ² tn The words “it is” (הוּא, hu’) are not in the MT, but are supplied for the sake of translation into English. The Syriac also for translational reasons adds it between “most holy” and “from the gifts” (cf. 1:13, 17).

[2:3]  ³ tn Heb “holy of holies”; KJV, NASB “a thing most holy.”

[4:13]  ⁴ tn Heb “strays”; KJV “sin through ignorance.” The verb “strays” here is the verbal form of the noun in the expression “by straying” (see the note on Lev 4:2 above).

[4:13]  ⁵ tn Heb “is concealed from the eyes of”; NASB, NRSV, NLT “escapes the notice of.”

[4:13]  ⁶ tn Heb “and they do one from all the commandments of the Lord which must not be done” (cf. v. 2).

[4:26]  ⁷ tn Heb “Then he”; the referent has been specified in the translation for clarity. Based on the parallel statements in 4:10 and 4:31, it is the priest who performs this action rather than the person who brought the offering.

[4:26]  ⁸ sn The focus of sin offering “atonement” was purging impurities from the tabernacle (see the note on Lev 1:4).

[4:26]  ⁹ tn Heb “from.” In this phrase the preposition מִן (min) may be referring to the reason or cause (“on account of, because of”; GKC 383 §119.z). As J. E. Hartley (Leviticus [WBC], 47) points out, “from” may refer to the removal of the sin, but is an awkward expression. Hartley also suggests that the phrasing might be “an elliptical expression for יְכַפֵּר עַל־לְטַהֵר אֶת־מִן, ‘he will make expiation for…to cleanse…from…,’ as in 16:30.”

[4:26]  ¹⁰ tn Heb “there shall be forgiveness to him” or “it shall be forgiven to him” (KJV similar).

[6:30]  ¹¹ tn Heb “burned with fire,” an expression which is sometimes redundant in English, but here means “burned up,” “burned up entirely.”

[7:16]  ¹² tn For the distinction between votive and freewill offerings see the note on Lev 22:23 and the literature cited there.

[7:16]  ¹³ tn Heb “and on the next day and the left over from it shall be eaten.”

[8:17]  ¹⁴ tn Heb “he burned with fire,” an expression which is sometimes redundant in English, but here means “burned up,” “burned up entirely.”

[8:17]  ¹⁵ sn See Lev 4:11-12, 21; 6:30 [23 HT].

[8:33]  ¹⁶ tn Heb “because seven days he shall fill your hands”; KJV “for seven days shall he consecrate you”; CEV “ends seven days from now.”

[8:33]  sn It is apparent that the term for “ordination offering” (מִלֻּאִים, millu’im; cf. Lev 7:37 and the note there) is closely related to the expression “he shall fill (Piel מִלֵּא, mille’) your hands” in this verse. Some derive the terminology from the procedure in Lev 8:27-28, but the term for “hands” there is actually “palms.” It seems more likely that it derives from the notion of putting the priestly responsibilities (or possibly its associated prebends) under their control (i.e., “filling their hands” with authority; see J. Milgrom, Leviticus [AB], 1:538-39). The command “to keep the charge of the Lord” in v. 35 and the expression “by the hand of Moses” (i.e., under the authoritative hand of Moses, v. 36) may also support this interpretation.

[9:24]  ¹⁷ tn Heb “from to the faces of the Lord.” The rendering here is based on the use of “my faces” and “your faces” referring to the very “presence” of the Lord in Exod 33:14-15.

[9:24]  ¹⁸ tn Heb “fell on their faces.” Many English versions and commentaries render here “shouted for joy” (e.g., NIV; cf. NCV, NLT) or “shouted joyfully,” but the fact the people “fell on their faces” immediately afterward suggests that they were frightened as, for example, in Exod 19:16b; 20:18-21.

[14:40]  ¹⁹ tn Heb “and the priest shall command and they shall pull out the stones which in them is the infection, and they shall cast them.” The second and third verbs (“they shall pull out” and “they shall throw”) state the thrust of the priest’s command, which suggests the translation “that they pull out…and throw” (cf. also vv. 4a, 5a, and 36a above), and for the impersonal passive rendering of the active verb (“be pulled and thrown”) see the note on v. 4 above.

[14:40]  ²⁰ tn Heb “into from outside to the city.”

[14:45]  ²¹ tn Smr, LXX, Syriac, and Tg. Ps.-J. have the plural verb, perhaps suggesting a passive translation, “The house…shall be torn down” (cf. NAB, NIV, TEV, NLT, and see the note on v. 4b above).

[14:45]  ²² tn Once again, Smr, LXX, and Syriac have the plural verb, perhaps to be rendered passive, “shall be brought.”

[14:48]  ²³ tn Heb “And if the priest entering [infinitive absolute] enters [finite verb]” For the infinitive absolute used to highlight contrast rather than emphasis see GKC 343 §113.p.

[14:48]  ²⁴ tn Heb “and behold” (so KJV, ASV); NASB “and the mark has not indeed spread.”

[16:20]  ²⁵ tn Heb “And he shall finish from atoning the holy place.” In this case, the “holy place” etc. are direct objects of the verb “to atone” (cf. v. 33a below). In this case, therefore, the basic meaning of the verb (i.e., “to purge” or “wipe clean”) comes to the forefront. When the prepositions עַל (’al) or בֲּעַד (ba’ad) occur with the verb כִּפֶּר (kipper) the purging is almost always being done “for” or “on behalf of” priests or people (see the note on Lev 1:4 as well as R. E. Averbeck, NIDOTTE 2:698, the literature cited there, and B. A. Levine, Leviticus [JPSTC], 110, for more details).

[18:25]  ²⁶ tn Heb “And.” The Hebrew conjunction ו (vav, “and”) can be considered to have resultative or even inferential force here.

[18:25]  ²⁷ tn Heb “and I have visited its [punishment for] iniquity on it.” See the note on Lev 17:16 above.

[20:5]  ²⁸ tn The adjective “spiritual” has been supplied in the translation to clarify that this is not a reference to literal prostitution, but figuratively compares idolatry to prostitution.

[20:5]  ²⁹ tn Heb “to commit harlotry after Molech.” The translation employs “worshiping” here for clarity (cf. NAB, NCV, TEV, CEV, NLT). On the “cut off” penalty see the note on Lev 7:20.

[21:23]  ³⁰ sn See the note on Lev 16:2 for the rendering “veil-canopy.”

[21:23]  ³¹ tn Heb “And.” The Hebrew conjunction ו (vav, “and”) can be considered to have resultative force here.

[26:26]  ³² tn Heb “When I break to you staff of bread” (KJV, ASV, and NASB all similar).

[26:26]  ³³ tn Heb “they will return your bread in weight.”

[27:30]  ³⁴ tn On the “tithe” system in Israel, see R. E. Averbeck, NIDOTTE 2:1035-55 and esp. pp. 1041-42 on Lev 27:30-33.