Imamat 5:18
Konteks5:18 and must bring a flawless ram from the flock, convertible into silver shekels, 1 for a guilt offering to the priest. So the priest will make atonement 2 on his behalf for his error which he committed 3 (although he himself had not known it) and he will be forgiven. 4
Imamat 10:1
Konteks10:1 Then 5 Aaron’s sons, Nadab and Abihu, each took his fire pan and put fire in it, set incense on it, and presented strange fire 6 before the Lord, which he had not commanded them to do.
Imamat 17:14
Konteks17:14 for the life of all flesh is its blood. 7 So I have said to the Israelites: You must not eat the blood of any living thing 8 because the life of every living thing is its blood – all who eat it will be cut off. 9
Imamat 19:20
Konteks19:20 “‘When a man has sexual intercourse with a woman, 10 although she is a slave woman designated for another man and she has not yet been ransomed, or freedom has not been granted to her, there will be an obligation to pay compensation. 11 They must not be put to death, because she was not free.
[5:18] 1 tn The statement here is condensed. See the full expression in 5:15 and the note there.
[5:18] 2 sn Regarding “make atonement” see the note on Lev 1:4.
[5:18] 3 tn Heb “on his straying which he strayed.” See the note on Lev 4:2.
[5:18] 4 tn Heb “there shall be forgiveness to him” or “it shall be forgiven to him” (KJV and NASB both similar).
[10:1] 5 tn Although it has been used elsewhere in this translation as an English variation from the ubiquitous use of vav in Hebrew, in this instance “then” as a rendering for vav is intended to show that the Nadab and Abihu catastrophe took place on the inauguration day described in Lev 9. The tragic incident in Lev 10 happened in close temporal connection to the
[10:1] 6 tn The expression “strange fire” (אֵשׁ זָרָה, ’esh zarah) seems imprecise (cf. NAB “profane fire”; NIV “unauthorized fire”; NRSV “unholy fire”; NLT “a different kind of fire”) and has been interpreted numerous ways (see the helpful summary in J. E. Hartley, Leviticus [WBC], 132-33). The infraction may have involved any of the following or a combination thereof: (1) using coals from someplace other than the burnt offering altar (i.e., “unauthorized coals” according to J. Milgrom, Leviticus [AB], 1:598; cf. Lev 16:12 and cf. “unauthorized person” אִישׁ זָר (’ish zar) in Num 16:40 [17:5 HT], NASB “layman”), (2) using the wrong kind of incense (cf. the Exod 30:9 regulation against “strange incense” קְטֹרֶת זָרָה (qÿtoreh zarah) on the incense altar and the possible connection to Exod 30:34-38), (3) performing an incense offering at an unprescribed time (B. A. Levine, Leviticus [JPSTC], 59), or (4) entering the Holy of Holies at an inappropriate time (Lev 16:1-2).
[17:14] 7 tn Heb “for the life/soul (נֶפֶשׁ, nefesh) of all flesh, its blood in its life/soul (נֶפֶשׁ) it is.” The LXX, Syriac, and Vulgate leave out “in its life/soul,” which would naturally yield “for the life of all flesh, its blood it is” (see J. E. Hartley, Leviticus [WBC], 261, 263). The present translation is something of an oversimplification, but the meaning is basically the same in any case. Cf. NRSV “For the life of every creature – its blood is its life.”
[17:14] 8 tn Heb “of all flesh” (also later in this verse). See the note on “every living thing” in v. 11.
[17:14] 9 tn For remarks on the “cut off” penalty see the note on v. 4 above.
[19:20] 10 tn Heb “And a man when he lies with a woman the lying of seed.”
[19:20] 11 sn That is, the woman had previously been assigned for marriage to another man but the marriage deal had not yet been consummated. In the meantime, the woman has lost her virginity and has, therefore, lost part of her value to the master in the sale to the man for whom she had been designated. Compensation was, therefore, required (see the explanation in B. A. Levine, Leviticus [JPSTC], 130-31).
