Leviticus 14:54

Summary of Purification Regulations for Infections

14:54 “This is the law for all diseased infections, for scall, ¹ 

Leviticus 7:10

7:10 Every grain offering, whether mixed with olive oil or dry, belongs to all the sons of Aaron, each one alike. ² 

Leviticus 7:24

7:24 Moreover, the fat of an animal that has died of natural causes ³  and the fat of an animal torn by beasts may be used for any other purpose, ⁴  but you must certainly never eat it.

Leviticus 5:3

5:3 or when he touches human uncleanness with regard to anything by which he can become unclean, ⁵  even if he did not realize it, but he himself has later come to know it and is guilty;

Leviticus 13:12

13:12 If, however, the disease breaks out ⁶  on the skin so that the disease covers all the skin of the person with the infection ⁷  from his head to his feet, as far as the priest can see, ⁸ 

Leviticus 16:16

16:16 So ⁹  he is to make atonement for the holy place from the impurities of the Israelites and from their transgressions with regard to all their sins, ¹⁰  and thus he is to do for the Meeting Tent which resides with them in the midst of their impurities.

Leviticus 22:5

22:5 or a man who touches a swarming thing by which he becomes unclean, ¹¹  or touches a person ¹²  by which he becomes unclean, whatever that person’s impurity ¹³  –

Leviticus 5:4

5:4 or when a person swears an oath, speaking thoughtlessly ¹⁴  with his lips, whether to do evil or to do good, with regard to anything which the individual might speak thoughtlessly in an oath, even if he did not realize it, but he himself has later come to know it and is guilty with regard to one of these oaths ¹⁵  –

Leviticus 11:26

Inedible Land Quadrupeds

11:26 “‘All ¹⁶  animals that divide the hoof but it is not completely split in two ¹⁷  and do not chew the cud ¹⁸  are unclean to you; anyone who touches them becomes unclean. ¹⁹ 

Leviticus 11:42

11:42 You must not eat anything that crawls ²⁰  on its belly or anything that walks on all fours or on any number of legs ²¹  of all the swarming things that swarm on the land, because they are detestable.

Leviticus 13:51

13:51 He must then examine the infection on the seventh day. If the infection has spread in the garment, or in the warp, or in the woof, or in the leather – whatever the article into which the leather was made ²²  – the infection is a malignant disease. It is unclean.

Leviticus 22:18

22:18 “Speak to Aaron, his sons, and all the Israelites and tell them, ‘When any man ²³  from the house of Israel or from the foreigners in Israel ²⁴  presents his offering for any of the votive or freewill offerings which they present to the Lord as a burnt offering,

Leviticus 25:10

25:10 So you must consecrate the fiftieth year, ²⁵  and you must proclaim a release ²⁶  in the land for all its inhabitants. That year will be your jubilee; ²⁷  each one of you must return ²⁸  to his property and each one of you must return to his clan.

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, ²⁹  and thus he is to put them ³⁰  on the head of the goat and send it away into the wilderness by the hand of a man standing ready. ³¹ 

¹ tn Heb “and for the scall”; NASB “a scale”; NIV “any infectious skin disease.” Cf. Lev 13:29-37.

² tn Heb “a man like his brother.”

³ tn Heb “carcass,” referring to the carcass of an animal that has died on its own, not the carcass of an animal slaughtered for sacrifice or killed by wild beasts. This has been clarified in the translation by supplying the phrase “of natural causes”; cf. NAB, TEV “that has died a natural death.”

⁴ tn Heb “shall be used for any work”; cf. NIV, NLT “may be used for any other purpose.”

⁴ tn Heb “or if he touches uncleanness of mankind to any of his uncleanness which he becomes unclean in it.”

⁵ tn Heb “And if spreading [infinitive absolute] it spreads out [finite verb].” For the infinitive absolute used to highlight contrast rather than emphasis see GKC 343 §113.p.

⁶ tn Heb “all the skin of the infection,” but see v. 4 above.

⁷ tn Heb “to all the appearance of the eyes of the priest.”

⁶ tn Heb “And.” The Hebrew conjunction ו (vav, “and”) can be considered to have resultative or even inferential force here.

⁷ tn Heb “to all their sins.”

⁷ tn Heb “which there shall be uncleanness to him.”

⁸ tn The Hebrew term for “person” here is אָדָם (adam, “human being”), which could either a male or a female person.

⁹ tn Heb “to all his impurity.” The phrase refers to the impurity of the person whom the man touches to become unclean (see the previous clause). To clarify this, the translation uses “that person’s” rather than “his.”

⁸ tn Heb “to speak thoughtlessly”; cf. NAB “rashly utters an oath.”

⁹ tn Heb “and is guilty to one from these,” probably referring here to any of “these” things about which one might swear a thoughtless oath (J. E. Hartley, Leviticus [WBC], 45), with the word “oath” supplied in the translation for clarity. Another possibility is that “to one from these” is a dittography from v. 5 (cf. the note on v. 5a), and that v. 4 ends with “and is guilty” like vv. 2 and 3 (J. Milgrom, Leviticus [AB], 1:300).

⁹ 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.

¹⁰ tn Heb “divides hoof and cleft it does not cleave”; KJV “divideth the hoof, and is not clovenfooted”; NLT “divided but unsplit hooves.”

¹¹ tn See the note on Lev 11:3.

¹² sn Compare the regulations in Lev 11:2-8.

¹⁰ tn Heb “goes” (KJV, ASV “goeth”); NIV “moves about”; NLT “slither along.” The same Hebrew term is translated “walks” in the following clause.

¹¹ tn Heb “until all multiplying of legs.”

¹¹ tn Heb “to all which the leather was made into a handiwork.”

¹² tn Heb “Man, man.” The reduplication is a way of saying “any man” (cf. Lev 15:2; 17:3, etc.; see the distributive repetition of the noun in GKC 395-96 §123.c).

¹³ tn Heb “and from the foreigner [singular] in Israel.” Some medieval Hebrew mss, Smr, LXX, Syriac, and Vulgate add “who resides” after “foreigner”: “the foreigner who resides in Israel” (cf., e.g., Lev 20:2 above).

¹³ tn Heb “the year of the fifty years,” or perhaps “the year, fifty years” (GKC 435 §134.o, note 2).

¹⁴ tn Cf. KJV, ASV, NAB, NIV, NRSV “liberty”; TEV, CEV “freedom.” The characteristics of this “release” are detailed in the following verses. For substantial summaries and bibliography on the biblical and ancient Near Eastern material regarding such a “release” see J. E. Hartley, Leviticus (WBC), 427-34, and B. A. Levine, Leviticus (JPSTC), 270-74.

¹⁵ tn Heb “A jubilee that shall be to you.” Although there has been some significant debate about the original meaning of the Hebrew word translated “jubilee” (יוֹבֵל, yovel; see the summary in J. E. Hartley, Leviticus [WBC], 434), the term most likely means “ram” and can refer also to a “ram’s horn.” The fiftieth year would, therefore, be called the “jubilee” because of the associated sounding of the “ram’s horn” (see B. A. Levine, Leviticus [JPSTC], 172, and the literature cited there).

¹⁶ tn Heb “you [plural] shall return, a man.”

¹⁴ tn Heb “transgressions to all their sins.”

¹⁵ tn Heb “and he shall give them.”

¹⁶ tn 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).