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 13:27

13:27 The priest must then examine it on the seventh day, and if it is spreading further ⁶  on the skin, then the priest is to pronounce him unclean. It is a diseased infection. ⁷ 

Imamat 16:13

16:13 He must then put the incense on the fire before the Lord, and the cloud of incense will cover the atonement plate which is above the ark of the testimony, ⁸  so that he will not die. ⁹ 

Imamat 19:9

Leaving the Gleanings

19:9 “‘When you gather in the harvest ¹⁰  of your land, you must not completely harvest the corner of your field, ¹¹  and you must not gather up the gleanings of your harvest.

Imamat 23:6

23:6 Then on the fifteenth day of the same month ¹²  will be the festival of unleavened bread to the Lord; seven days you must eat unleavened bread.

Imamat 25:46

25:46 You may give them as inheritance to your children after you to possess as property. You may enslave them perpetually. However, as for your brothers the Israelites, no man may rule over his brother harshly. ¹³ 

[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.).

[13:27]  ⁶ tn Heb “is indeed spreading.”

[13:27]  ⁷ tn For the rendering “diseased infection” see the note on v. 2 above.

[16:13]  ⁸ tn The text here has only “above the testimony,” but this is surely a shortened form of “above the ark of the testimony” (see Exod 25:22 etc.; cf. Lev 16:2). The term “testimony” in this expression refers to the ark as the container of the two stone tablets with the Ten Commandments written on them (see Exod 25:16 with Deut 10:1, 5, etc.).

[16:13]  ⁹ tn Heb “and he will not die,” but it is clear that the purpose for the incense cloud was to protect the priest from death in the presence of the Lord (cf. vv. 1-2 above).

[19:9]  ¹⁰ tn Heb “And in your harvesting the harvest.”

[19:9]  ¹¹ tn Heb “you shall not complete the corner of your field to harvest.”

[23:6]  ¹² tn Heb “to this month.”

[25:46]  ¹³ tn Heb “and your brothers, the sons of Israel, a man in his brother you shall not rule in him in violence.”