Imamat 1:8

1:8 Then the sons of Aaron, the priests, must arrange the parts with the head and the suet ¹  on the wood that is in the fire on the altar. ² 

Imamat 2:12

2:12 You can present them to the Lord as an offering of first fruit, ³  but they must not go up to the altar for a soothing aroma.

Imamat 13:10

13:10 The priest will then examine it, ⁴  and if ⁵  a white swelling is on the skin, it has turned the hair white, and there is raw flesh in the swelling, ⁶ 

Imamat 13:43

13:43 The priest is to examine it, ⁷  and if ⁸  the swelling of the infection is reddish white in the back or front bald area like the appearance of a disease on the skin of the body, ⁹ 

Imamat 14:52

14:52 So he is to decontaminate the house with the blood of the bird, the fresh water, the live bird, the piece of cedar wood, the twigs of hyssop, and the scrap of crimson fabric,

Imamat 25:38

25:38 I am the Lord your God who brought you out from the land of Egypt to give you the land of Canaan – to be your God. ¹⁰ 

Imamat 25:42

25:42 Since they are my servants whom I brought out from the land of Egypt, they must not be sold in a slave sale. ¹¹ 

Imamat 27:21

27:21 When it reverts ¹²  in the jubilee, the field will be holy to the Lord like a permanently dedicated field; ¹³  it will become the priest’s property. ¹⁴ 

[1:8]  ¹ tc A few Hebrew mss, Smr, LXX, Syriac, and Tg. Onq. have the conjunction “and” before “the head,” which would suggest the rendering “and the head and the suet” rather than the rendering of the MT here, “with the head and the suet.”

[1:8]  sn “Suet” is the specific term used for the hard, fatty tissues found around the kidneys of sheep and cattle. A number of modern English versions have simplified this to “fat” (e.g., NIV, NCV, TEV, CEV, NLT).

[1:8]  ² tn Heb “on the wood, which is on the fire, which is on the altar.” Cf. NIV “on the burning wood”; NLT “on the wood fire.”

[2:12]  ³ sn The “first fruit” referred to here was given to the priests as a prebend for their service to the Lord, not offered on the altar (Num 18:12).

[13:10]  ⁴ tn Heb “and the priest shall see.” The pronoun “it” is unexpressed, but it should be assumed and it refers to the infection (cf. the note on v. 8 above).

[13:10]  ⁵ tn Heb “and behold” (so KJV, ASV).

[13:10]  ⁶ tn Heb “and rawness [i.e., something living] of living flesh is in the swelling”; KJV, NASB, NRSV “quick raw flesh.”

[13:43]  ⁷ tn Heb “and the priest shall see it” (cf. KJV). The MT has “him/it” which some take to refer to the person as a whole (i.e., “him”; see, e.g., J. Milgrom, Leviticus [AB], 1:770; NIV, NRSV, etc.), while others take it as a reference to the “infection” (נֶגַע, nega’) in v. 42 (J. E. Hartley, Leviticus [WBC], 172, 177). Smr has “her/it,” which would probably refer to “disease” (צָרַעַת, tsara’at) in v. 42. The general pattern in the chapter suggests that “it,” either the infection or the disease, is the object of the examination (see, e.g., v. 3 above and v. 50 below).

[13:43]  ⁸ tn Heb “and behold.”

[13:43]  ⁹ tn Heb “like appearance of disease of skin of flesh.”

[25:38]  ¹⁰ tn Heb “to be to you for a God.”

[25:42]  ¹¹ tn Or perhaps reflexive Niphal rather than passive, “they shall not sell themselves [as in] a slave sale.”

[27:21]  ¹² tn Heb “When it goes out” (cf. Lev 25:25-34).

[27:21]  ¹³ tn Heb “like the field of the permanent dedication.” The Hebrew word חֵרֶם (kherem) is a much discussed term. In this and the following verses it refers in a general way to the fact that something is permanently devoted to the Lord and therefore cannot be redeemed (cf. v. 20b). See J. A. Naudé, NIDOTTE 2:276-77; N. Lohfink, TDOT 5:180-99, esp. pp. 184, 188, and 198-99; and the numerous explanations in J. E. Hartley, Leviticus (WBC), 483-85.

[27:21]  ¹⁴ tn Heb “to the priest it shall be his property.”