Leviticus 16:20

The Live Goat Ritual Procedures

16:20 “When he has finished purifying the holy place, ¹  the Meeting Tent, and the altar, he is to present the live goat.

Leviticus 19:9

Leaving the Gleanings

19:9 “‘When you gather in the harvest ²  of your land, you must not completely harvest the corner of your field, ³  and you must not gather up the gleanings of your harvest.

Leviticus 26:44

26:44 In spite of this, however, when they are in the land of their enemies I will not reject them and abhor them to make a complete end of them, to break my covenant with them, for I am the Lord their God.

Leviticus 23:22

23:22 When you gather in the harvest ⁴  of your land, you must not completely harvest the corner of your field, ⁵  and you must not gather up the gleanings of your harvest. You must leave them for the poor and the foreigner. I am the Lord your God.’” ⁶ 

Leviticus 26:16

26:16 I for my part ⁷  will do this to you: I will inflict horror on you, consumption and fever, which diminish eyesight and drain away the vitality of life. ⁸  You will sow your seed in vain because ⁹  your enemies will eat it. ¹⁰ 

¹ tn Heb “And he shall finish from atoning the holy place.” In this case, the “holy place” etc. are direct objects of the verb “to atone” (cf. v. 33a below). In this case, therefore, the basic meaning of the verb (i.e., “to purge” or “wipe clean”) comes to the forefront. When the prepositions עַל (’al) or בֲּעַד (ba’ad) occur with the verb כִּפֶּר (kipper) the purging is almost always being done “for” or “on behalf of” priests or people (see the note on Lev 1:4 as well as R. E. Averbeck, NIDOTTE 2:698, the literature cited there, and B. A. Levine, Leviticus [JPSTC], 110, for more details).

² tn Heb “And in your harvesting the harvest.”

³ tn Heb “you shall not complete the corner of your field to harvest.”

³ tn Heb “And when you harvest the harvest.”

⁴ tn Heb “you shall not complete the corner of your field in your harvest.”

⁵ sn Compare Lev 19:9-10.

⁴ tn Or “I also” (see HALOT 76 s.v. אַף 6.b).

⁵ tn Heb “soul.” These expressions may refer either to the physical effects of consumption and fever as the rendering in the text suggests (e.g., J. E. Hartley, Leviticus [WBC], 452, 454, “diminishing eyesight and loss of appetite”), or perhaps the more psychological effects, “which exhausts the eyes” because of anxious hope “and causes depression” (Heb “causes soul [נֶפֶשׁ, nefesh] to pine away”), e.g., B. A. Levine, Leviticus (JPSTC), 185.

⁶ tn Heb “and.” The Hebrew conjunction ו (vav, “and”) can be considered to have causal force here.

⁷ tn That is, “your enemies will eat” the produce that grows from the sown seed.