Leviticus 11:8

11:8 You must not eat from their meat and you must not touch their carcasses; ¹  they are unclean to you.

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. ² 

Leviticus 8:28

8:28 Moses then took them from their palms and offered them up in smoke on the altar ³  on top of the burnt offering – they were an ordination offering for a soothing aroma; it was a gift to the Lord.

Leviticus 11:13

Clean and Unclean Birds

11:13 “‘These you are to detest from among the birds – they must not be eaten, because they are detestable: ⁴  the griffon vulture, the bearded vulture, the black vulture,

Leviticus 11:27

11:27 All that walk on their paws among all the creatures that walk on all fours ⁵  are unclean to you. Anyone who touches their carcass will be unclean until the evening,

Leviticus 11:35

11:35 Anything their carcass may fall on will become unclean. An oven or small stove must be smashed to pieces; they are unclean, and they will stay unclean ⁶  to you.

Leviticus 17:7

17:7 So they must no longer offer ⁷  their sacrifices to the goat demons, ⁸  acting like prostitutes by going after them. ⁹  This is to be a perpetual statute for them throughout their generations. ¹⁰ 

Leviticus 21:6

21:6 “‘They must be holy to their God, and they must not profane ¹¹  the name of their God, because they are the ones who present the Lord’s gifts, ¹²  the food of their God. Therefore they must be holy. ¹³ 

Leviticus 22:11

22:11 but if a priest buys a person with his own money, ¹⁴  that person ¹⁵  may eat the holy offerings, ¹⁶  and those born in the priest’s ¹⁷  own house may eat his food. ¹⁸ 

Leviticus 23:2

23:2 “Speak to the Israelites and tell them, ‘These are the Lord’s appointed times which you must proclaim as holy assemblies – my appointed times: ¹⁹ 

Leviticus 25:55

25:55 because the Israelites are my own servants; ²⁰  they are my servants whom I brought out from the land of Egypt. I am the Lord your God.

Leviticus 11:10

11:10 But any creatures that do not have both fins and scales, whether in the seas or in the streams, from all the swarming things of the water and from all the living creatures that are in the water, are detestable to you.

Leviticus 11:26

Inedible Land Quadrupeds

11:26 “‘All ²¹  animals that divide the hoof but it is not completely split in two ²²  and do not chew the cud ²³  are unclean to you; anyone who touches them becomes unclean. ²⁴ 

Leviticus 11:42

11:42 You must not eat anything that crawls ²⁵  on its belly or anything that walks on all fours or on any number of legs ²⁶  of all the swarming things that swarm on the land, because they are detestable.

Leviticus 16:4

16:4 He must put on a holy linen tunic, ²⁷  linen leggings are to cover his body, ²⁸  and he is to wrap himself with a linen sash ²⁹  and wrap his head with a linen turban. ³⁰  They are holy garments, so he must bathe ³¹  his body in water and put them on.

Leviticus 17:5

17:5 This is so that ³²  the Israelites will bring their sacrifices that they are sacrificing in the open field ³³  to the Lord at the entrance of the Meeting Tent to the priest and sacrifice them there as peace offering sacrifices to the Lord.

Leviticus 22:2

22:2 “Tell Aaron and his sons that they must deal respectfully with the holy offerings ³⁴  of the Israelites, which they consecrate to me, so that they do not profane my holy name. ³⁵  I am the Lord.

¹ sn The regulations against touching the carcasses of dead unclean animals (contrast the restriction against eating their flesh) is treated in more detail in Lev 11:24-28 (cf. also vv. 29-40). For the time being, this chapter continues to develop the issue of what can and cannot be eaten.

² tn Or perhaps reflexive Niphal rather than passive, “they shall not sell themselves [as in] a slave sale.”

³ tn Heb “toward the altar” (see the note on Lev 1:9).

⁴ tn For zoological remarks on the following list of birds see J. Milgrom, Leviticus (AB), 1:662-64; and J. E. Hartley, Leviticus (WBC), 159-60.

⁵ tn Heb “the one walking on four.” Compare Lev 11:20-23.

⁶ tn Heb “be unclean.”

⁷ tn Heb “sacrifice.” This has been translated as “offer” for stylistic reasons to avoid the redundancy of “sacrifice their sacrifices.”

⁸ tn On “goat demons” of the desert regions see the note on Lev 16:8.

⁹ tn Heb “which they are committing harlotry after them.”

¹⁰ tn Heb “for your generations.”

⁸ sn Regarding “profane,” see the note on Lev 10:10 above.

⁹ 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).

¹⁰ tc Smr and all early versions have the plural adjective “holy” rather than the MT singular noun “holiness.”

⁹ tn Heb “and a priest, if he buys a person, the property of his silver.”

¹⁰ tn Heb “he”; the referent (the person whom the priest has purchased) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

¹¹ tn Heb “eat it”; the referent (the holy offerings) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

¹² tn Heb “his”; the referent (the priest) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

¹³ tn Heb “and the [slave] born of his house, they shall eat in his food.” The LXX, Syriac, Tg. Onq., Tg. Ps.-J., and some mss of Smr have plural “ones born,” which matches the following plural “they” pronoun and the plural form of the verb.

¹⁰ tn Heb “these are them, my appointed times.”

¹¹ tn Heb “because to me the sons of Israel are servants.”

¹² tn Heb “to all” (cf. the note on v. 24). This and the following verses develop more fully the categories of uncleanness set forth in principle in vv. 24-25.

¹³ tn Heb “divides hoof and cleft it does not cleave”; KJV “divideth the hoof, and is not clovenfooted”; NLT “divided but unsplit hooves.”

¹⁴ tn See the note on Lev 11:3.

¹⁵ sn Compare the regulations in Lev 11:2-8.

¹³ tn Heb “goes” (KJV, ASV “goeth”); NIV “moves about”; NLT “slither along.” The same Hebrew term is translated “walks” in the following clause.

¹⁴ tn Heb “until all multiplying of legs.”

¹⁴ sn The term “tunic” refers to a shirt-like garment worn next to the skin and, therefore, put on first (cf. Exod 28:4, 39-40; 29:5, 8; 39:27). It covered the upper body only. For detailed remarks on the terminology for the priestly clothing in this verse (except the “linen leggings”) see the notes on Lev 8:7-9 and the literature cited there.

¹⁵ tn Heb “shall be on his flesh.” As in many instances in Lev 15, the term “flesh” or “body” here is euphemistic for the male genitals (J. Milgrom, Leviticus [AB], 1:1017, and J. E. Hartley, Leviticus [WBC], 222; cf. the note on Lev 15:2), which the priest must be careful not to expose during such ritual procedures (see Exod 20:26 with 28:42-43).

¹⁶ sn The sash fastened the tunic around the waist (Exod 28:4, 39; 29:9; 39:29).

¹⁷ tn Heb “and in a turban of linen he shall wrap.”

¹⁸ tn Heb “and he shall bathe….”

¹⁵ tn Heb “So that which.”

¹⁶ tn Heb “on the faces of the field.”

¹⁶ tn Heb “holy things,” which means the “holy offerings” in this context, as the following verses show. The referent has been specified in the translation for clarity.

¹⁷ tn Heb “from the holy things of the sons of Israel, and they shall not profane my holy name, which they are consecrating to me.” The latter (relative) clause applies to the “the holy things of the sons of Israel” (the first clause), not the Lord’s name (i.e., the immediately preceding clause). The clause order in the translation has been rearranged to indicate this.