Imamat 17:8

17:8 “You are to say to them: ‘Any man ¹  from the house of Israel or ²  from the foreigners who reside ³  in their ⁴  midst, who offers ⁵  a burnt offering or a sacrifice

Imamat 17:10

Prohibition against Eating Blood

17:10 “‘Any man ⁶  from the house of Israel or from the foreigners who reside ⁷  in their ⁸  midst who eats any blood, I will set my face against that person who eats the blood, and I will cut him off from the midst of his people, ⁹ 

Imamat 17:12

17:12 Therefore, I have said to the Israelites: No person among you is to eat blood, ¹⁰  and no resident foreigner who lives among you is to eat blood. ¹¹ 

Imamat 18:26

18:26 You yourselves must obey ¹²  my statutes and my regulations and must not do any of these abominations, both the native citizen and the resident foreigner in your midst, ¹³ 

Imamat 19:34

19:34 The foreigner who resides with you must be to you like a native citizen among you; so ¹⁴  you must love him as yourself, because you were foreigners in the land of Egypt. I am the Lord your God.

Imamat 25:6

25:6 You may have the Sabbath produce ¹⁵  of the land to eat – you, your male servant, your female servant, your hired worker, the resident foreigner who stays with you, ¹⁶ 

[17:8]  ¹ tn Heb “Man, man.” The repetition of the word “man” is distributive, meaning “any [or “every”] man” (GKC 395-96 §123.c; cf. Lev 15:2).

[17:8]  ² tn Heb “and.” Here the Hebrew conjunction ו (vav, “and”) has an alternative sense (“or”).

[17:8]  ³ tn Heb “from the sojourner who sojourns.”

[17:8]  ⁴ tc The LXX, Syriac, and Vulgate have “your” (plural) rather than “their.”

[17:8]  ⁵ tn Heb “causes to go up.”

[17:10]  ⁶ tn Heb “And man, man.” The repetition of the word “man” is distributive, meaning “any (or every) man” (GKC 395-96 §123.c; cf. Lev 15:2).

[17:10]  ⁷ tn Heb “from the sojourner who sojourns.”

[17:10]  ⁸ tc The LXX, Syriac, and Vulgate have “your” (plural) rather than “their.”

[17:10]  ⁹ tn Heb “I will give my faces against [literally “in”] the soul/person/life [נֶפֶשׁ, nefesh, feminine] who eats the blood and I will cut it [i.e., that נֶפֶשׁ, nefesh] off from the midst of its people.” The uses of נֶפֶשׁ in this and the following verse are most significant for the use of animal blood in Israel’s sacrificial system. Unfortunately, it is a most difficult word to translate accurately and consistently, and this presents a major problem for the rendering of these verses (see, e.g., G. J. Wenham, Leviticus [NICOT], 244-45). No matter which translation of נֶפֶשׁ one uses here, it is important to see that both man and animal have נֶפֶשׁ and that this נֶפֶשׁ is identified with the blood. See the further remarks on v. 11 below. On the “cutting off” penalty see the note on v. 4 above. In this instance, God takes it on himself to “cut off” the person (i.e., extirpation).

[17:12]  ¹⁰ tn Heb “all/any person from you shall not eat blood.”

[17:12]  ¹¹ tn Heb “and the sojourner, the one sojourning in your midst, shall not eat blood.”

[18:26]  ¹² tn Heb “And you shall keep, you.” The latter emphatic personal pronoun “you” is left out of a few medieval Hebrew mss, Smr, the LXX, Syriac, and Vulgate.

[18:26]  ¹³ tn Heb “the native and the sojourner”; NIV “The native-born and the aliens”; NAB “whether natives or resident aliens.”

[19:34]  ¹⁴ tn Heb “and.” The Hebrew conjunction ו (vav, “and”) can be considered to have resultative force here.

[25:6]  ¹⁵ tn The word “produce” is not in the Hebrew text but is implied; cf. NASB “the sabbath products.”

[25:6]  ¹⁶ tn A “resident who stays” would be a foreign person who was probably residing as another kind of laborer in the household of a landowner (B. A. Levine, Leviticus [JPSTC], 170-71). See v. 35 below.