Leviticus 17:8

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

Leviticus 19:19

19:19 You must keep my statutes. You must not allow two different kinds of your animals to breed, you must not sow your field with two different kinds of seed, and you must not wear a garment made of two different kinds of fabric.


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).

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

tn Heb “from the sojourner who sojourns.”

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

tn Heb “causes to go up.”

tn Heb “Your animals, you shall not cross-breed two different kinds.”

tn Heb “you shall not cause to go up on you.”

sn Cf. Deut 22:11 where the Hebrew term translated “two different kinds” (כִּלְאַיִם, kilayim) refers to a mixture of linen and wool woven together in a garment.