14:54 “This is the law for all diseased infections, for scall, 6
19:23 “‘When you enter the land and plant any fruit tree, 8 you must consider its fruit to be forbidden. 9 Three years it will be forbidden to you; 10 it must not be eaten.
7:11 “‘This is the law of the peace offering sacrifice which he 13 is to present to the Lord.
11:29 “‘Now this is what is unclean to you among the swarming things that swarm on the land: 14 the rat, the mouse, the large lizard of any kind,
1 tn Heb “Your animals, you shall not cross-breed two different kinds.”
2 tn Heb “you shall not cause to go up on you.”
3 sn Cf. Deut 22:11 where the Hebrew term translated “two different kinds” (כִּלְאַיִם, kil’ayim) refers to a mixture of linen and wool woven together in a garment.
4 tn Heb “every crow to its kind.” Many English versions (e.g., KJV, NASB, NIV, NRSV, NLT) render this as “raven.”
7 tn For entomological remarks on the following list of insects see J. Milgrom, Leviticus (AB), 1:665-66; and J. E. Hartley, Leviticus (WBC), 160-61.
10 tn Heb “and for the scall”; NASB “a scale”; NIV “any infectious skin disease.” Cf. Lev 13:29-37.
13 tn Heb “and the buzzard to its kind” (see also vv. 16 and 19 for the same expression “of any kind”).
16 tn Heb “tree of food”; KJV, ASV, NASB, NRSV “trees for food.”
17 tn Heb “you shall circumcise its fruit [as] its foreskin,” taking the fruit to be that which is to be removed and, therefore, forbidden. Since the fruit is uncircumcised it is forbidden (see J. E. Hartley, Leviticus [WBC], 306, and esp. B. A. Levine, Leviticus [JPSTC], 131-32).
18 tn Heb “it shall be to you uncircumcised.”
19 tn Literally, “the daughter of the wasteland.” Various proposals for the species of bird referred to here include “owl” (KJV), “horned owl” (NIV, NCV), and “ostrich” (ASV, NAB, NASB, NRSV, NLT).
22 tn Heb “the one walking on four.” Compare Lev 11:20-23.
25 tn This “he” pronoun refers to the offerer. Smr and LXX have plural “they.”
28 tn For zoological analyses of the list of creatures in vv. 29-30, see J. Milgrom, Leviticus (AB), 1:671-72; and J. E. Hartley, Leviticus (WBC), 161-62.
31 tn Or “for a thank offering.”
32 tn See the notes on Lev 2:4.
33 tn See the note on Lev 6:21 [6:14 HT].
34 tn Heb “choice wheat flour well soaked ring-shaped loaves.” See the note on Lev 2:1.