Leviticus 11:29

Creatures that Swarm on the Land

11:29 “‘Now this is what is unclean to you among the swarming things that swarm on the land: ¹  the rat, the mouse, the large lizard of any kind,

Leviticus 11:41

11:41 Every swarming thing that swarms on the land is detestable; it must not be eaten.

Leviticus 18:28

18:28 So do not make the land vomit you out because you defile it ²  just as it has vomited out the nations ³  that were before you.

Leviticus 22:24

22:24 You must not present to the Lord something with testicles that are bruised, crushed, torn, or cut off; ⁴  you must not do this in your land.

Leviticus 22:33

22:33 the one who brought you out from the land of Egypt to be your God. ⁵  I am the Lord.”

Leviticus 25:6

25:6 You may have the Sabbath produce ⁶  of the land to eat – you, your male servant, your female servant, your hired worker, the resident foreigner who stays with you, ⁷ 

Leviticus 25:18

25:18 You must obey my statutes and my regulations; you must be sure to keep them ⁸  so that you may live securely in the land. ⁹ 

Leviticus 25:42

25:42 Since they are my servants whom I brought out from the land of Egypt, they must not be sold in a slave sale. ¹⁰ 

Leviticus 26:4

26:4 I will give you your rains in their time so that ¹¹  the land will give its yield and the trees of the field will produce their fruit. ¹² 

Leviticus 26:19

26:19 I will break your strong pride and make your sky like iron and your land like bronze.

Leviticus 26:32-33

26:32 I myself will make the land desolate and your enemies who live in it will be appalled. 26:33 I will scatter you among the nations and unsheathe the sword ¹³  after you, so your land will become desolate and your cities will become a waste.

Leviticus 26:39

Restoration through Confession and Repentance

26:39 “‘As for the ones who remain among you, they will rot away because of ¹⁴  their iniquity in the lands of your enemies, and they will also rot away because of their ancestors’ ¹⁵  iniquities which are with them.

Leviticus 27:24

27:24 In the jubilee year the field will return to the one from whom he bought it, the one to whom it belongs as landed property.

¹ tn For zoological analyses of the list of creatures in vv. 29-30, see J. Milgrom, Leviticus (AB), 1:671-72; and J. E. Hartley, Leviticus (WBC), 161-62.

² tn Heb “And the land will not vomit you out in your defiling it.”

³ tc The MT reads the singular “nation” and is followed by ASV, NASB, NRSV; the LXX, Syriac, and Targum have the plural “nations” (cf. v. 24).

³ sn Compare Lev 21:20b.

⁴ tn Heb “to be to you for God.”

⁵ tn The word “produce” is not in the Hebrew text but is implied; cf. NASB “the sabbath products.”

⁶ tn A “resident who stays” would be a foreign person who was probably residing as another kind of laborer in the household of a landowner (B. A. Levine, Leviticus [JPSTC], 170-71). See v. 35 below.

⁶ tn Heb “And you shall keep and do them.” This appears to be a kind of verbal hendiadys, where the first verb is a modifier of the action of the second verb (see GKC 386 §120.d, although שָׁמַר [shamar, “to keep”] is not cited there; cf. Lev 20:8, etc.).

⁷ tn Heb “and you shall dwell on the land to security.”

⁷ tn Or perhaps reflexive Niphal rather than passive, “they shall not sell themselves [as in] a slave sale.”

⁸ tn Heb “and.” The Hebrew conjunction ו (vav, “and”) can be considered to have resultative force here.

⁹ tn Heb “the tree of the field will give its fruit.” As a collective singular this has been translated as plural.

⁹ tn Heb “and I will empty sword” (see HALOT 1228 s.v. ריק 3).

¹⁰ tn Heb “in” (so KJV, ASV; also later in this verse).

¹¹ tn Heb “fathers’” (also in the following verse).