Leviticus 1:12

1:12 Next, the one presenting the offering ¹  must cut it into parts, with its head and its suet, and the priest must arrange them on the wood which is in the fire, on the altar.

Leviticus 8:23

8:23 and he slaughtered it. ²  Moses then took some of its blood and put it on Aaron’s right earlobe, ³  on the thumb of his right hand, and on the big toe ⁴  of his right foot.

Leviticus 12:3

12:3 On ⁵  the eighth day the flesh of his foreskin ⁶  must be circumcised.

¹ tn Heb “Then he”; the referent (the offerer) has been specified in the translation for clarity (so also in v. 13).

² tn Again, Aaron probably did the slaughtering (cf. the notes on Lev 8:15-16 above).

³ tn Heb “on the lobe of the ear of Aaron, the right one.”

⁴ tn The term for “big toe” (בֹּהֶן, bohen) is the same as that for “thumb.” It refers to the larger appendage on either the hand or the foot.

³ tn Heb “and in….”

⁴ tn This rendering, “the flesh of his foreskin,” is literal. Based on Lev 15:2-3, one could argue that the Hebrew word for “flesh” here (בָּשָׂר, basar) is euphemistic for the male genitals and therefore translate “the foreskin of his member” (see, e.g., J. Milgrom, Leviticus [AB], 1:748). A number of English versions omit this reference to the foreskin and mention only circumcision, presumably for euphemistic reasons (cf. NIV, NCV, TEV, CEV, NLT).