Leviticus 14:53

14:53 and he is to send the live bird away outside the city ¹  into the open countryside. So he is to make atonement for the house and it will be clean.

Leviticus 16:26

16:26 and the one who sent the goat away to Azazel ²  must wash his clothes, bathe his body in water, and afterward he may reenter the camp.

Leviticus 20:22

Exhortation to Holiness and Obedience

20:22 “‘You must be sure to obey all my statutes and regulations, ³  so that ⁴  the land to which I am about to bring you to take up residence there does not vomit you out.

Leviticus 26:30

26:30 I will destroy your high places and cut down your incense altars, ⁵  and I will stack your dead bodies on top of the lifeless bodies of your idols. ⁶  I will abhor you. ⁷ 

Leviticus 26:33

26:33 I will scatter you among the nations and unsheathe the sword ⁸  after you, so your land will become desolate and your cities will become a waste.

¹ tn Heb “to from outside to the city.”

² tn For “Azazel” see the note on v. 8 above.

³ tn Heb “And you shall keep all my statutes and all my regulations and you shall 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 22:31, etc.).

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

⁴ sn Regarding these cultic installations, see the remarks in B. A. Levine, Leviticus (JPSTC), 188, and R. E. Averbeck, NIDOTTE 2:903. The term rendered “incense altars” might better be rendered “sanctuaries [of foreign deities]” or “stelae.”

⁵ tn The translation reflects the Hebrew wordplay “your corpses…the corpses of your idols.” Since idols, being lifeless, do not really have “corpses,” the translation uses “dead bodies” for people and “lifeless bodies” for the idols.

⁶ tn Heb “and my soul will abhor you.”

⁵ tn Heb “and I will empty sword” (see HALOT 1228 s.v. ריק 3).