Leviticus 16:1

The Day of Atonement

16:1 The Lord spoke to Moses after the death of Aaron’s two sons when they approached the presence of the Lord ¹  and died,

Leviticus 17:8

17:8 “You are to say to them: ‘Any man ²  from the house of Israel or ³  from the foreigners who reside ⁴  in their ⁵  midst, who offers ⁶  a burnt offering or a sacrifice

¹ tn Heb “in their drawing near to the faces of the Lord.” The rendering here relies on the use of this expression for the very “presence” of God in Exod 33:14-15 and in the Lev 9:24-10:2 passage, where the Nadab and Abihu catastrophe referred to here is narrated.

² tn Heb “Man, man.” The repetition of the word “man” is distributive, meaning “any [or “every”] man” (GKC 395-96 §123.c; cf. Lev 15:2).

³ tn Heb “and.” Here the Hebrew conjunction ו (vav, “and”) has an alternative sense (“or”).

⁴ tn Heb “from the sojourner who sojourns.”

⁵ tc The LXX, Syriac, and Vulgate have “your” (plural) rather than “their.”

⁶ tn Heb “causes to go up.”