Leviticus 2:11

Additional Grain Offering Regulations

2:11 “‘No grain offering which you present to the Lord can be made with yeast, ¹  for you must not offer up in smoke any yeast or honey as a gift to the Lord. ² 

Leviticus 3:1

Peace Offering Regulations: Animal from the Herd

3:1 “‘Now if his offering is a peace offering sacrifice, ³  if he presents an offering from the herd, he must present before the Lord a flawless male or a female. ⁴ 

Leviticus 6:30

6:30 But any sin offering from which some of its blood is brought into the Meeting Tent to make atonement in the sanctuary must not be eaten. It must be burned up in the fire. ⁵ 

Leviticus 7:16

7:16 “‘If his offering is a votive or freewill sacrifice, ⁶  it may be eaten on the day he presents his sacrifice, and also the leftovers from it may be eaten on the next day, ⁷ 

Leviticus 11:40

11:40 One who eats from its carcass must wash his clothes and be unclean until the evening, and whoever carries its carcass must wash his clothes and be unclean until the evening.

Leviticus 11:42

11:42 You must not eat anything that crawls ⁸  on its belly or anything that walks on all fours or on any number of legs ⁹  of all the swarming things that swarm on the land, because they are detestable.

Leviticus 15:15

15:15 and the priest is to make one of them a sin offering ¹⁰  and the other a burnt offering. ¹¹  So the priest ¹²  is to make atonement for him before the Lord for ¹³  his discharge.

Leviticus 15:30

15:30 and the priest is to make one a sin offering and the other a burnt offering. ¹⁴  So the priest ¹⁵  is to make atonement for her before the Lord from her discharge of impurity.

Leviticus 16:10

16:10 but the goat which has been designated by lot for Azazel is to be stood alive ¹⁶  before the Lord to make atonement on it by sending it away to Azazel into the wilderness. ¹⁷ 

Leviticus 17:13

17:13 “‘Any man from the Israelites ¹⁸  or from the foreigners who reside ¹⁹  in their ²⁰  midst who hunts a wild animal ²¹  or a bird that may be eaten ²²  must pour out its blood and cover it with soil,

Leviticus 19:23

The Produce of Fruit Trees

19:23 “‘When you enter the land and plant any fruit tree, ²³  you must consider its fruit to be forbidden. ²⁴  Three years it will be forbidden to you; ²⁵  it must not be eaten.

Leviticus 20:6

Prohibition against Spiritists and Mediums ²⁶ 

20:6 “‘The person who turns to the spirits of the dead and familiar spirits ²⁷  to commit prostitution by going after them, I will set my face ²⁸  against that person and cut him off from the midst of his people.

Leviticus 20:27

Prohibition against Spiritists and Mediums

20:27 “‘A man or woman who ²⁹  has in them a spirit of the dead or a familiar spirit ³⁰  must be put to death. They must pelt them with stones; ³¹  their blood guilt is on themselves.’”

Leviticus 25:46

25:46 You may give them as inheritance to your children after you to possess as property. You may enslave them perpetually. However, as for your brothers the Israelites, no man may rule over his brother harshly. ³² 

¹ tn Heb “Every grain offering which you offer to the Lord must not be made leavened.” The noun “leaven” is traditional in English versions (cf. KJV, ASV, NASB, NRSV), but “yeast” is more commonly used today.

² tc A few Hebrew mss, Smr, LXX, and Tg. Ps.-J. have the verb “present” rather than “offer up in smoke,” but the MT is clearly correct. One could indeed present leavened and honey sweetened offerings as first fruit offerings, which were not burned on the altar (see v. 12 and the note there), but they could not be offered up in fire on the altar. Cf. the TEV’s ambiguous “you must never use yeast or honey in food offered to the Lord.”

³ sn The peace offering sacrifice primarily enacted and practiced communion between God and man (and between the people of God). This was illustrated by the fact that the fat parts of the animal were consumed on the altar of the Lord but the meat was consumed by the worshipers in a meal before God. This is the only kind of offering in which common worshipers partook of the meat of the animal. When there was a series of offerings that included a peace offering (see, e.g., Lev 9:8-21, sin offerings, burnt offerings, and afterward the peace offerings in vv. 18-21), the peace offering was always offered last because it expressed the fact that all was well between God and his worshiper(s). There were various kinds of peace offerings, depending on the worship intended on the specific occasion. The “thank offering” expressed thanksgiving (e.g., Lev 7:11-15; 22:29-30), the “votive offering” fulfilled a vow (e.g., Lev 7:16-18; 22:21-25), and the “freewill offering” was offered as an expression of devotion and praise to God (e.g., Lev 7:16-18; 22:21-25). The so-called “ordination offering” was also a kind of peace offering that was used to consecrate the priests at their ordination (e.g., Exod 29:19-34; Lev 7:37; 8:22-32). See R. E. Averbeck, NIDOTTE 1:1066-73 and 4:135-43.

⁴ tn Heb “if a male if a female, perfect he shall present it before the Lord.” The “or” in the present translation (and most other English versions) is not present in the Hebrew text here, but see v. 6 below.

⁵ tn Heb “burned with fire,” an expression which is sometimes redundant in English, but here means “burned up,” “burned up entirely.”

⁷ tn For the distinction between votive and freewill offerings see the note on Lev 22:23 and the literature cited there.

⁸ tn Heb “and on the next day and the left over from it shall be eaten.”

⁹ tn Heb “goes” (KJV, ASV “goeth”); NIV “moves about”; NLT “slither along.” The same Hebrew term is translated “walks” in the following clause.

¹⁰ tn Heb “until all multiplying of legs.”

¹¹ sn See the note on Lev 4:3 regarding the term “sin offering.”

¹² tn Heb “and the priest shall make them one a sin offering and the one a burnt offering.” See the note on Lev 1:3 regarding the “burnt offering.”

¹³ tn Heb “And the priest.” The Hebrew conjunction ו (vav, “and”) can be considered to have resultative force here.

¹⁴ tn Heb “from”; see the note on 4:26.

¹³ tn Heb “And the priest shall make the one a sin offering and the one a burnt offering.”

¹⁴ tn Heb “And the priest.” The Hebrew conjunction ו (vav, “and”) can be considered to have resultative force here.

¹⁵ tn The LXX has “he shall stand it” (cf. v. 7).

¹⁶ tn Heb “to make atonement on it to send it away to Azazel toward the wilderness.”

¹⁷ tc A few medieval Hebrew mss, Smr, and Tg. Ps.-J. have “from the house of Israel” as in vv. 3, 8, and 10, but the LXX agrees with the MT.

¹⁸ tn Heb “from the sojourner who sojourns.”

¹⁹ tc The LXX, Syriac, Vulgate, and certain mss of Smr have “your” (plural) rather than “their” (cf. v. 10 above).

²⁰ tn Heb “[wild] game of animal.”

²¹ tn That is, it must be a clean animal, not an unclean animal (cf. Lev 11).

¹⁹ tn Heb “tree of food”; KJV, ASV, NASB, NRSV “trees for food.”

²⁰ 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).

²¹ tn Heb “it shall be to you uncircumcised.”

²¹ sn For structure and coherence in Lev 20:6-27 see the note on v. 27 below.

²² tn See the note on the phrase “familiar spirits” in Lev 19:31 above.

²³ tn Heb “I will give my faces.”

²³ tc Smr, LXX, Syriac, and some Targum mss have the relative pronoun אֲשֶׁר (’asher, “who, which”), rather than the MT’s כִּי (ki, “for, because, that”).

²⁴ tn See the note on the phrase “familiar spirit” in Lev 19:31 above.

²⁵ tn This is not the most frequently-used Hebrew verb for stoning, but a word that refers to the action of throwing, slinging, or pelting someone with stones (see the note on v. 2 above). Smr and LXX have “you [plural] shall pelt them with stones.”

²⁵ tn Heb “and your brothers, the sons of Israel, a man in his brother you shall not rule in him in violence.”