Leviticus 2:3

2:3 The remainder of the grain offering belongs to Aaron and to his sons ¹  – it is ²  most holy ³  from the gifts of the Lord.

Leviticus 2:10

2:10 The remainder of the grain offering belongs to Aaron and to his sons – it is ⁴  most holy from the gifts of the Lord.

Leviticus 6:17

6:17 It must not be baked with yeast. ⁵  I have given it as their portion from my gifts. It is most holy, ⁶  like the sin offering and the guilt offering.

Leviticus 7:19-20

7:19 The meat which touches anything ceremonially ⁷  unclean must not be eaten; it must be burned up in the fire. As for ceremonially clean meat, ⁸  everyone who is ceremonially clean may eat the meat. 7:20 The person who eats meat from the peace offering sacrifice which belongs to the Lord while his uncleanness persists ⁹  will be cut off from his people. ¹⁰ 

Leviticus 10:17-18

10:17 “Why did you not eat the sin offering in the sanctuary? For it is most holy and he gave it to you to bear the iniquity of the congregation, ¹¹  to make atonement on their behalf before the Lord. 10:18 See here! ¹²  Its blood was not brought into the holy place within! ¹³  You should certainly have eaten it in the sanctuary just as I commanded!”

Leviticus 21:21-23

21:21 No man from the descendants of Aaron the priest who has a physical flaw may step forward ¹⁴  to present the Lord’s gifts; he has a physical flaw, so he must not step forward to present the food of his God. 21:22 He may eat both the most holy and the holy food of his God, 21:23 but he must not go into the veil-canopy ¹⁵  or step forward to the altar because he has a physical flaw. Thus ¹⁶  he must not profane my holy places, for I am the Lord who sanctifies them.’”

¹ tn Heb “…is to Aaron and to his sons.” The preposition “to” (לְ, lamed) indicates ownership. Cf. NAB, NASB, NIV and other English versions.

² tn The words “it is” (הוּא, hu’) are not in the MT, but are supplied for the sake of translation into English. The Syriac also for translational reasons adds it between “most holy” and “from the gifts” (cf. 1:13, 17).

³ tn Heb “holy of holies”; KJV, NASB “a thing most holy.”

⁴ tn See the note on “it is” in v. 9b.

⁵ tn Heb “It must not be baked leavened” (cf. Lev 2:11). The noun “leaven” is traditional in English versions (cf. KJV, ASV, NASB, NRSV), but “yeast” is more commonly used today.

⁶ tn Heb “holiness of holinesses [or holy of holies] it is”; cf. NAB “most sacred.”

⁷ tn The word “ceremonially” has been supplied in the translation both here and in the following sentence to clarify that the uncleanness involved is ritual or ceremonial in nature.

⁸ tn The Hebrew has simply “the flesh,” but this certainly refers to “clean” flesh in contrast to the unclean flesh in the first half of the verse.

⁹ tn Heb “and his unclean condition is on him.”

¹⁰ sn The exact meaning of this penalty clause is not certain. It could mean that he will be executed, whether by God or by man, he will be excommunicated from sanctuary worship and/or community benefits (cf. TEV, CEV), or his line will be terminated by God (i.e., extirpation), etc. See J. E. Hartley, Leviticus (WBC), 100; J. Milgrom, Leviticus (AB), 1:457-60; and B. A. Levine, Leviticus (JPSTC), 241-42 for further discussion.

¹¹ sn This translation is quite literal. On the surface it appears to mean that the priests would “bear the iniquity” of the congregation by the act of eating the sin offering (so J. Milgrom, Leviticus [AB], 1:622-25, 635-40). Such a notion is, however, found nowhere else in the Levitical regulations and seems unlikely (so J. E. Hartley, Leviticus [WBC], 136). A more likely interpretation is reflected in this interpretive rendering: “he gave it to you [as payment] for [your work of] bearing the iniquity of the congregation.” The previous section of the chapter deals with the prebends that the priests received for performing the ministry of the tabernacle (Lev 10:12-15). Lev 10:16-18, therefore, seems to continue the very same topic in the light of the most immediate situation (see R. E. Averbeck, NIDOTTE 2:702-4).

¹² tn Or “Behold!” (so KJV, ASV, NASB).

¹³ sn The term here rendered “within” refers to the bringing of the blood inside the holy place for application to the altar of incense rather than to the altar of burnt offering in the courtyard of the tabernacle (cf. Lev 4:7, 16-18; 6:30 [23 HT]).

¹⁴ tn Or “shall approach” (see HALOT 670 s.v. נגשׁ).

¹⁵ sn See the note on Lev 16:2 for the rendering “veil-canopy.”

¹⁶ tn Heb “And.” The Hebrew conjunction ו (vav, “and”) can be considered to have resultative force here.