Imamat 1:6

1:6 Next, the one presenting the offering ¹  must skin the burnt offering and cut it into parts,

Imamat 4:19

4:19 “‘Then the priest ²  must take all its fat ³  and offer the fat ⁴  up in smoke on the altar.

Imamat 12:3

12:3 On ⁵  the eighth day the flesh of his foreskin ⁶  must be circumcised.

Imamat 25:13

Release of Landed Property

25:13 “‘In this year of jubilee you must each return ⁷  to your property.

[1:6]  ¹ tn Heb “Then he”; the referent (the offerer) has been specified in the translation for clarity. The LXX and Smr have “they” rather than “he” in both halves of this verse, suggesting that the priests, not the offerer, were to skin and cut the carcass of the bull into pieces (cf. the notes on vv. 5a and 9a).

[4:19]  ² tn Heb “Then he”; the referent has been specified in the translation for clarity. Based on the parallel statement in 4:10 and 4:31, it is the priest who performs this action rather than the person who brought the offering.

[4:19]  ³ tn Heb “take up all its fat from it”; NASB “shall remove all its fat from it.”

[4:19]  sn See the full discussion of the fat regulations in Lev 4:8-9 above.

[4:19]  ⁴ tn Heb “it”; the referent (the fat) has been specified in the translation for clarity. Only the fat is meant here, since the “rest” of the bull is mentioned in v. 21.

[12:3]  ⁵ tn Heb “and in….”

[12:3]  ⁶ tn This rendering, “the flesh of his foreskin,” is literal. Based on Lev 15:2-3, one could argue that the Hebrew word for “flesh” here (בָּשָׂר, basar) is euphemistic for the male genitals and therefore translate “the foreskin of his member” (see, e.g., J. Milgrom, Leviticus [AB], 1:748). A number of English versions omit this reference to the foreskin and mention only circumcision, presumably for euphemistic reasons (cf. NIV, NCV, TEV, CEV, NLT).

[25:13]  ⁷ tn Heb “you [plural] shall return, a man.”