Imamat 7:5
Konteks7:5 Then the priest must offer them up in smoke on the altar 1 as a gift to the Lord. It is a guilt offering.
Imamat 27:2
Konteks27:2 “Speak to the Israelites and tell them, ‘When a man makes a special votive offering 2 based on the conversion value of persons to the Lord, 3
Imamat 27:7
Konteks27:7 If the person is from sixty years old and older, if he is a male the conversion value is fifteen shekels, and for the female ten shekels.
[7:5] 1 tn See the note on Lev 1:9 above.
[27:2] 2 tn Cf. the note on Lev 22:21. Some take this as an expression for fulfilling a vow, “to fulfill a vow” (e.g., HALOT 927-28 s.v. פלא piel and NASB; cf. NRSV “in fulfillment of a vow”) or, alternatively, “to make a vow” or “for making a vow” (HALOT 928 s.v. פלא piel [II פלא]). Perhaps it refers to the making a special vow, from the verb פָלָא (pala’, “to be wonderful; to be remarkable”), cf. Milgrom, Numbers [JPSTC], 44. B. A. Levine, Leviticus (JPSTC), 151 and 193, suggests that this is a special term for “setting aside a votive offering” (related to פָלָה, palah, “to set aside”). In general, the point of the expression seems to be that this sacrifice is a special gift to God that arose out of special circumstances in the life of the worshiper.
[27:2] 3 tn Heb “in your valuation, persons to the