Leviticus 11:45

11:45 for I am the Lord who brought you up from the land of Egypt to be your God, ¹  and you are to be holy because I am holy.

Leviticus 13:24

A Burn on the Skin

13:24 “When a body has a burn on its skin ²  and the raw area of the burn becomes a reddish white or white bright spot,

Leviticus 13:45

The Life of the Person with Skin Disease

13:45 “As for the diseased person who has the infection, ³  his clothes must be torn, the hair of his head must be unbound, he must cover his mustache, ⁴  and he must call out ‘Unclean! Unclean!’

Leviticus 19:34

19:34 The foreigner who resides with you must be to you like a native citizen among you; so ⁵  you must love him as yourself, because you were foreigners in the land of Egypt. I am the Lord your God.

Leviticus 20:26

20:26 You must be holy to me because I, the Lord, am holy, and I have set you apart from the other peoples to be mine.

Leviticus 21:6

21:6 “‘They must be holy to their God, and they must not profane ⁶  the name of their God, because they are the ones who present the Lord’s gifts, ⁷  the food of their God. Therefore they must be holy. ⁸ 

Leviticus 25:29

Release of Houses

25:29 “‘If a man sells a residential house in a walled city, ⁹  its right of redemption must extend ¹⁰  until one full year from its sale; ¹¹  its right of redemption must extend to a full calendar year. ¹² 

Leviticus 25:50

25:50 He must calculate with the one who bought him the number of years ¹³  from the year he sold himself to him until the jubilee year, and the cost of his sale must correspond to the number of years, according to the rate of wages a hired worker would have earned while with him. ¹⁴ 

Leviticus 27:3

27:3 the conversion value of the male ¹⁵  from twenty years old up to sixty years old ¹⁶  is fifty shekels by the standard of the sanctuary shekel. ¹⁷ 

Leviticus 27:33

27:33 The owner ¹⁸  must not examine the animals to distinguish between good and bad, and he must not exchange it. If, however, he does exchange it, ¹⁹  both the original animal ²⁰  and its substitute will be holy. ²¹  It must not be redeemed.’”

¹ tn Heb “to be to you for a God.”

² tn Heb “Or a body, if there is in its skin a burn of fire.”

³ tn Heb “And the diseased one who in him is the infection.”

⁴ tn Heb “and his head shall be unbound, and he shall cover on [his] mustache.” Tearing one’s clothing, allowing the hair to hang loose rather than bound up in a turban, and covering the mustache on the upper lip are all ways of expressing shame, grief, or distress (cf., e.g., Lev 10:6 and Micah 3:7).

⁴ tn Heb “and.” The Hebrew conjunction ו (vav, “and”) can be considered to have resultative force here.

⁵ sn Regarding “profane,” see the note on Lev 10:10 above.

⁶ sn Regarding the Hebrew term for “gifts,” see the note on Lev 1:9 above (cf. also 3:11 and 16 in combination with the word for “food” that follows in the next phrase here).

⁷ tc Smr and all early versions have the plural adjective “holy” rather than the MT singular noun “holiness.”

⁶ tn Heb “a house of a residence of a walled city.”

⁷ tn Heb “shall be.”

⁸ tn Heb “of its sale.”

⁹ tn Heb “days its right of redemption shall be” (see B. A. Levine, Leviticus [JPSTC], 176).

⁷ tn Heb “the years.”

⁸ tn Heb “as days of a hired worker he shall be with him.” For this and the following verses see the explanation in P. J. Budd, Leviticus (NCBC), 358-59.

⁸ tn Heb “your conversion value shall be [for] the male.”

⁹ tn Heb “from a son of twenty years and until a son of sixty years.”

¹⁰ tn See the note on Lev 5:15.

⁹ tn Heb “he”; the referent (the owner of the animal) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

¹⁰ tn Heb “And if exchanging [infinitive absolute] he exchanges it [finite verb].” For the infinitive absolute used to highlight contrast rather than emphasis see GKC 343 §113.p.

¹¹ tn Heb “it and its substitute.” The referent (the original animal offered) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

¹² tn Heb “it shall be and its substitute shall be holy.”