Imamat 4:5

4:5 Then that high priest must take some of the blood ¹  of the bull and bring it to the Meeting Tent.

Imamat 14:15

14:15 The priest will then take some of the log of olive oil and pour it into his own left hand. ² 

Imamat 14:49

14:49 Then he ³  is to take two birds, a piece of cedar wood, a scrap of crimson fabric, and some twigs of hyssop ⁴  to decontaminate ⁵  the house,

Imamat 16:5

16:5 He must also take ⁶  two male goats ⁷  from the congregation of the Israelites for a sin offering and one ram for a burnt offering.

Imamat 16:7

16:7 He must then take the two goats ⁸  and stand them before the Lord at the entrance of the Meeting Tent,

Imamat 18:18

18:18 You must not take a woman in marriage and then marry her sister as a rival wife ⁹  while she is still alive, ¹⁰  to have sexual intercourse with her.

Imamat 24:5

24:5 “You must take choice wheat flour ¹¹  and bake twelve loaves; ¹²  there must be two tenths of an ephah of flour in ¹³  each loaf,

Imamat 25:36

25:36 Do not take interest or profit from him, ¹⁴  but you must fear your God and your brother must live ¹⁵  with you.

[4:5]  ¹ tn Heb “from the blood of the bull” (and similarly throughout this chapter).

[14:15]  ² tn Heb “And the priest…shall pour on the left hand of the priest.” As the Rabbis observe, the repetition of “priest” as the expressed subject of both verbs in this verse may suggest that two priests were involved in this ritual (see m. Nega’im 14:8, referred to by J. Milgrom, Leviticus [AB], 1:852), but the seemingly unnecessary repetition of “priest” in several verses throughout the chapter argues against this (see esp. vv. 3, 14, 18, 20, 24, and 26). Moreover, in this case, “priest” may be repeated to avoid confusing the priest’s hand with that of the one being cleansed (cf. v. 14).

[14:49]  ³ tn The pronoun “he” refers to the priest mentioned in the previous verse.

[14:49]  ⁴ tn Regarding these ritual materials, see the note on v. 4 above.

[14:49]  ⁵ tn Regarding the Piel of חָטָא (khata’, cf. v. 52) meaning to “decontaminate” or “perform a decontamination,” see the notes on Lev 8:15 and 9:15.

[14:49]  sn In Lev 8:15, for example, the “sin offering” is used to “decontaminate” the burnt offering altar. As argued above (see the note on v. 7 above), these ritual materials and the procedures performed with them do not constitute a “sin offering” (contrast vv. 19 and 31 above). In fact, no sin offering was required for the purification of a house.

[16:5]  ⁶ tn Heb “And he shall take.”

[16:5]  ⁷ tn Heb “he-goats of goats”; CEV “two goats, both of them males.”

[16:7]  ⁸ tn Heb “the two he-goats,” referred to as “two he-goats of goats” in v. 5.

[18:18]  ⁹ tn Or “as a concubine”; Heb “And a woman to her sister you shall not take to be a second wife [or “to be a concubine”].” According to HALOT 1059 s.v. III צרר, the infinitive “to be a second wife” (לִצְרֹר, litsror) is a denominative verb from II צָרָה A (“concubine; second wife”), which, in turn, derives from II צר “to treat with hostility” (cf. J. E. Hartley, Leviticus [WBC], 283, and B. A. Levine, Leviticus [JPSTC], 122).

[18:18]  ¹⁰ tn Heb “on her in her life.”

[24:5]  ¹¹ sn See the note on Lev 2:1.

[24:5]  ¹² tn Heb “and bake it twelve loaves”; KJV, NAB, NASB “cakes.”

[24:5]  ¹³ tn The words “of flour” are supplied in the translation for clarity.

[24:5]  sn See the note on Lev 5:11.

[25:36]  ¹⁴ tn The meaning of the terms rendered “interest” and “profit” is much debated (see the summaries in P. J. Budd, Leviticus [NCBC], 354-55 and B. A. Levine, Leviticus [JPSTC], 178). Verse 37, however, suggests that the first refers to a percentage of money and the second percentage of produce (see J. E. Hartley, Leviticus [WBC], 421).

[25:36]  ¹⁵ tn In form the Hebrew term וְחֵי (vÿkhey, “shall live”) is the construct plural noun (i.e., “the life of”), but here it is used as the finite verb (cf. v. 35 and GKC 218 §76.i).