Imamat 5:1

Additional Sin Offering Regulations

5:1 “‘When a person sins ¹  in that he hears a public curse against one who fails to testify ²  and he is a witness (he either saw or knew what had happened ³ ) and he does not make it known, ⁴  then he will bear his punishment for iniquity. ⁵ 

Imamat 13:28

13:28 But if the bright spot stays in its place, has not spread on the skin, ⁶  and it has faded, then it is the swelling of the burn, so the priest is to pronounce him clean, ⁷  because it is the scar of the burn.

Imamat 13:37

13:37 If, as far as the priest can see, the scall has stayed the same ⁸  and black hair has sprouted in it, the scall has been healed; the person is clean. So the priest is to pronounce him clean. ⁹ 

Imamat 13:57

13:57 Then if ¹⁰  it still appears again in the garment or the warp or the woof, or in any article of leather, it is an outbreak. Whatever has the infection in it you must burn up in the fire.

Imamat 14:48

14:48 “If, however, the priest enters ¹¹  and examines it, and the ¹²  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 27:18

27:18 but if ¹³  he consecrates his field after the jubilee, the priest will calculate the price ¹⁴  for him according to the years that are left until the next jubilee year, and it will be deducted from the conversion value.

[5:1]  ¹ tn Heb “And a person when he sins.” Most English versions translate this as the protasis of a conditional clause: “if a person sins” (NASB, NIV).

[5:1]  sn The same expression occurs in Lev 4:2 where it introduces sins done “by straying unintentionally from any of the commandments of the Lord which must not be done” (see the notes there). Lev 5:1-13 is an additional section of sin offering regulations directed at violations other than those referred to by this expression in Lev 4:2 (see esp. 5:1-6), and expanding on the offering regulations for the common person in Lev 4:27-35 with concessions to the poor common person (5:7-13).

[5:1]  ² tn The words “against one who fails to testify” are not in the Hebrew text, but have been supplied to make sense of the remark about the “curse” (“imprecation” or “oath”; cf. ASV “adjuration”; NIV “public charge”) for the modern reader. For the interpretation of this verse reflected in the present translation see J. Milgrom, Leviticus (AB), 1:292-97.

[5:1]  ³ tn The words “what had happened” are not in the Hebrew text, but are implied.

[5:1]  ⁴ tn Heb “and hears a voice of curse, and he is a witness or he saw or he knew, if he does not declare.”

[5:1]  ⁵ tn Heb “and he shall bear his iniquity.” The rendering “bear the punishment (for the iniquity)” reflects the use of the word “iniquity” to refer to the punishment for iniquity (cf. NRSV, NLT “subject to punishment”). It is sometimes referred to as the consequential use of the term (cf. Lev 5:17; 7:18; 10:17; etc.).

[13:28]  ⁶ tn Heb “and if under it the bright spot stands, it has not spread in the skin.”

[13:28]  ⁷ tn This is the declarative Piel of the verb טָהֵר (taher; cf. the note on v. 6 above).

[13:37]  ⁸ tn Heb “and if in his eyes the infection has stood.”

[13:37]  ⁹ tn This is the declarative Piel of the verb טָהֵר (taher, cf. the note on v. 6 above).

[13:57]  ¹⁰ tn Heb “And if”; NIV, NCV “But if”; NAB “If, however.”

[14:48]  ¹¹ 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]  ¹² tn Heb “and behold” (so KJV, ASV); NASB “and the mark has not indeed spread.”

[27:18]  ¹³ tn Heb “And if.” The Hebrew conjunction ו (vav, “and”) can be considered to have adversative force here.

[27:18]  ¹⁴ tn Heb “the silver.”