Imamat 8:28

8:28 Moses then took them from their palms and offered them up in smoke on the altar ¹  on top of the burnt offering – they were an ordination offering for a soothing aroma; it was a gift to the Lord.

Imamat 11:13

Clean and Unclean Birds

11:13 “‘These you are to detest from among the birds – they must not be eaten, because they are detestable: ²  the griffon vulture, the bearded vulture, the black vulture,

Imamat 11:27

11:27 All that walk on their paws among all the creatures that walk on all fours ³  are unclean to you. Anyone who touches their carcass will be unclean until the evening,

Imamat 11:35

11:35 Anything their carcass may fall on will become unclean. An oven or small stove must be smashed to pieces; they are unclean, and they will stay unclean ⁴  to you.

Imamat 17:7

17:7 So they must no longer offer ⁵  their sacrifices to the goat demons, ⁶  acting like prostitutes by going after them. ⁷  This is to be a perpetual statute for them throughout their generations. ⁸ 

Imamat 21:6

21:6 “‘They must be holy to their God, and they must not profane ⁹  the name of their God, because they are the ones who present the Lord’s gifts, ¹⁰  the food of their God. Therefore they must be holy. ¹¹ 

Imamat 22:11

22:11 but if a priest buys a person with his own money, ¹²  that person ¹³  may eat the holy offerings, ¹⁴  and those born in the priest’s ¹⁵  own house may eat his food. ¹⁶ 

Imamat 23:2

23:2 “Speak to the Israelites and tell them, ‘These are the Lord’s appointed times which you must proclaim as holy assemblies – my appointed times: ¹⁷ 

Imamat 25:55

25:55 because the Israelites are my own servants; ¹⁸  they are my servants whom I brought out from the land of Egypt. I am the Lord your God.

[8:28]  ¹ tn Heb “toward the altar” (see the note on Lev 1:9).

[11:13]  ² tn For zoological remarks on the following list of birds see J. Milgrom, Leviticus (AB), 1:662-64; and J. E. Hartley, Leviticus (WBC), 159-60.

[11:27]  ³ tn Heb “the one walking on four.” Compare Lev 11:20-23.

[11:35]  ⁴ tn Heb “be unclean.”

[17:7]  ⁵ tn Heb “sacrifice.” This has been translated as “offer” for stylistic reasons to avoid the redundancy of “sacrifice their sacrifices.”

[17:7]  ⁶ tn On “goat demons” of the desert regions see the note on Lev 16:8.

[17:7]  ⁷ tn Heb “which they are committing harlotry after them.”

[17:7]  ⁸ tn Heb “for your generations.”

[21:6]  ⁹ sn Regarding “profane,” see the note on Lev 10:10 above.

[21:6]  ¹⁰ sn Regarding the Hebrew term for “gifts,” see the note on Lev 1:9 above (cf. also 3:11 and 16 in combination with the word for “food” that follows in the next phrase here).

[21:6]  ¹¹ tc Smr and all early versions have the plural adjective “holy” rather than the MT singular noun “holiness.”

[22:11]  ¹² tn Heb “and a priest, if he buys a person, the property of his silver.”

[22:11]  ¹³ tn Heb “he”; the referent (the person whom the priest has purchased) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

[22:11]  ¹⁴ tn Heb “eat it”; the referent (the holy offerings) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

[22:11]  ¹⁵ tn Heb “his”; the referent (the priest) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

[22:11]  ¹⁶ tn Heb “and the [slave] born of his house, they shall eat in his food.” The LXX, Syriac, Tg. Onq., Tg. Ps.-J., and some mss of Smr have plural “ones born,” which matches the following plural “they” pronoun and the plural form of the verb.

[23:2]  ¹⁷ tn Heb “these are them, my appointed times.”

[23:2]  sn The term מוֹעֵד (mo’ed, rendered “appointed time” here) can refer to either a time or place of meeting. See the note on “tent of meeting” (אֹהֶל מוֹעֵד, ’ohel mo’ed) in Lev 1:1.

[25:55]  ¹⁸ tn Heb “because to me the sons of Israel are servants.”