22:22 “‘You must not present to the Lord something blind, or with a broken bone, or mutilated, or with a running sore, 3 or with a festering eruption, or with a feverish rash. 4 You must not give any of these as a gift 5 on the altar to the Lord.
27:28 “‘Surely anything which a man permanently dedicates to the Lord 13 from all that belongs to him, whether from people, animals, or his landed property, must be neither sold nor redeemed; anything permanently dedicated is most holy to the Lord.
1 tn Heb “So that which.”
2 tn Heb “on the faces of the field.”
3 tn Or perhaps “a wart” (cf. NIV; HALOT 383 s.v. יַבֶּלֶת, but see the remarks in J. E. Hartley, Leviticus [WBC], 358).
4 sn See the note on Lev 21:20 above.
5 sn This term for offering “gift” is explained in the note on Lev 1:9.
5 tn Heb “And you shall present on the bread.”
6 tn Heb “seven flawless lambs, sons of a year.”
7 tn Heb “and one bull, a son of a herd.”
8 tc Smr and LXX add “flawless.”
9 tn Heb “and their grain offering.”
10 sn See the note on Lev 1:9.
7 tn The Hebrew term עֲצֶרֶת (’atseret) “solemn assembly [day]” derives from a root associated with restraint or closure. It could refer either to the last day as “closing assembly” day of the festival (e.g., NIV) or a special day of restraint expressed in a “solemn assembly” (e.g., NRSV); cf. NLT “a solemn closing assembly.”
9 tn Heb “Surely, any permanently dedicated [thing] which a man shall permanently dedicate to the