Leviticus 1:4

1:4 He must lay his hand on the head of the burnt offering, and it will be accepted for him to make atonement¹ on his behalf.

Leviticus 4:29

4:29 He must lay his hand on the head of the sin offering and slaughter² the sin offering in the place where the burnt offering is slaughtered.

Leviticus 8:12

8:12 He then poured some of the anointing oil on the head of Aaron and anointed him to consecrate him.

Leviticus 8:18

8:18 Then he presented the burnt offering ram and Aaron and his sons laid their hands on the head of the ram,

Leviticus 3:2

3:2 He must lay his hand on the head of his offering and slaughter it at the entrance of the Meeting Tent, and the sons of Aaron, the priests, must splash the blood against the altar’s sides.³

Leviticus 4:15

4:15 the elders of the congregation must lay their hands on the head of the bull before the Lord, and someone must slaughter⁴ the bull before the Lord.

Leviticus 4:24

4:24 He must lay his hand on the head of the male goat and slaughter⁵ it in the place where the burnt offering is slaughtered before the Lord – it is a sin offering.

Leviticus 4:33

4:33 He must lay his hand on the head of the sin offering and slaughter it for a sin offering in the place where the burnt offering is slaughtered.

Leviticus 8:14

Consecration Offerings

8:14 Then he brought near the sin offering bull⁶ and Aaron and his sons laid their hands on the head of the sin offering bull,

Leviticus 8:22

8:22 Then he presented the second ram, the ram of ordination,⁷ and Aaron and his sons laid their hands on the head of the ram

Leviticus 14:18

14:18 and the remainder of the olive oil⁸ that is in his hand the priest is to put on the head of the one being cleansed. So the priest is to make atonement for him before the Lord.

Leviticus 14:29

14:29 and the remainder of the olive oil that is in the hand⁹ of the priest he is to put¹⁰ on the head of the one being cleansed to make atonement for him before the Lord.

Leviticus 16:21

16:21 Aaron is to lay his two hands on the head of the live goat and confess over it all the iniquities of the Israelites and all their transgressions in regard to all their sins,¹¹ and thus he is to put them¹² on the head of the goat and send it away into the wilderness by the hand of a man standing ready.¹³

Leviticus 3:8

3:8 He must lay his hand on the head of his offering and slaughter it before the Meeting Tent, and the sons of Aaron must splash¹⁴ its blood against the altar’s sides.

Leviticus 4:4

4:4 He must bring the bull to the entrance of the Meeting Tent before the Lord, lay his hand on the head of the bull, and slaughter the bull before the Lord.

¹tn “To make atonement” is the standard translation of the Hebrew term כִּפֶּר, (kipper); cf. however TEV “as a sacrifice to take away his sins” (CEV similar). The English word derives from a combination of “at” plus Middle English “one[ment],” referring primarily to reconciliation or reparation that is made in order to accomplish reconciliation. The primary meaning of the Hebrew verb, however, is “to wipe [something off (or on)]” (see esp. the goal of the sin offering, Lev 4, “to purge” the tabernacle from impurities), but in some cases it refers metaphorically to “wiping away” anything that might stand in the way of good relations by bringing a gift (see, e.g., Gen 32:20 [21 HT], “to appease; to pacify” as an illustration of this). The translation “make atonement” has been retained here because, ultimately, the goal of either purging or appeasing was to maintain a proper relationship between the Lord (who dwelt in the tabernacle) and Israelites in whose midst the tabernacle was pitched (see R. E. Averbeck, NIDOTTE 2:689-710 for a full discussion of the Hebrew word meaning “to make atonement” and its theological significance).

²tc The LXX has a plural form here (see v. 24 above and the note on Lev 1:5a).

³tn See the remarks on Lev 1:3-5 above for some of the details of translation here.

⁴tn Heb “and he shall slaughter.” The singular verb seems to refer to an individual who represents the whole congregation, perhaps one of the elders referred to at the beginning of the verse, or the officiating priest (cf. v. 21). The LXX and Syriac make the verb plural, referring to “the elders of the congregation.”

⁵tn The LXX has a plural form here and also for the same verb later in the verse. See the note on Lev 1:5a.

⁶sn See Lev 4:3-12 above for the sin offering of the priests. In this case, however, the blood manipulation is different because Moses, not Aaron (and his sons), is functioning as the priest. On the one hand, Aaron and his sons are, in a sense, treated as if they were commoners so that the blood manipulation took place at the burnt offering altar in the court of the tabernacle (see v. 15 below), not at the incense altar inside the tabernacle tent itself (contrast Lev 4:5-7 and compare 4:30). On the other hand, since it was a sin offering for the priests, therefore, the priests themselves could not eat its flesh (Lev 4:11-12; 6:30 [23 HT]), which was the normal priestly practice for sin offerings of commoners (Lev 6:26[19], 29[22]).

⁷tn For “ordination offering” see Lev 7:37

⁸tn Heb “and the remainder in the oil.”

⁹tn Heb “on the hand.”

¹⁰tn Heb “give.”

¹⁰tn Heb “transgressions to all their sins.”

¹¹tn Heb “and he shall give them.”

¹²tn The meaning of the Hebrew term עִתִּי (’itti) is uncertain. It is apparently related to עֵת (’et, “time”), and could perhaps mean either that he has been properly “appointed” (i.e., designated) for the task (e.g., NIV and NRSV) or “ready” (e.g., NASB and NEB).

¹¹tn See the note on this term at 1:5.