5:11 The priests left the holy place. 1 All the priests who participated had consecrated themselves, no matter which division they represented. 2
1 tn Heb “and when the priests went from the holy place.” The syntactical relationship of this temporal clause to the following context is unclear. Perhaps the thought is completed in v. 14 after a lengthy digression.
2 tn Heb “Indeed [or “for”] all the priests who were found consecrated themselves without guarding divisions.”
3 tn Heb “to their brothers.”
4 tn Heb “like great, like small” (i.e., old and young alike).
5 tn Heb “in addition enrolling them by males from a son of three years and upwards, to everyone who enters the house of the