Leviticus 3:17

3:17 This is ¹  a perpetual statute throughout your generations ²  in all the places where you live: You must never eat any fat or any blood.’” ³ 

Leviticus 4:5

4:5 Then that high priest must take some of the blood ⁴  of the bull and bring it to the Meeting Tent.

Leviticus 7:27

7:27 Any person who eats any blood – that person will be cut off from his people.’” ⁵ 

Leviticus 16:19

16:19 Then he is to sprinkle on it some of the blood with his finger seven times, and cleanse and consecrate it ⁶  from the impurities of the Israelites.

Leviticus 19:16

19:16 You must not go about as a slanderer among your people. ⁷  You must not stand idly by when your neighbor’s life is at stake. ⁸  I am the Lord.

Leviticus 20:12

20:12 If a man has sexual intercourse with his daughter-in-law, both of them must be put to death. They have committed perversion; ⁹  their blood guilt is on themselves.

¹ tn The words “This is” are not in the Hebrew text, but are supplied due to requirements of English style.

² tn Heb “for your generations”; NAB “for your descendants”; NLT “for you and all your descendants.”

³ tn Heb “all fat and all blood you must not eat.”

⁴ tn Heb “from the blood of the bull” (and similarly throughout this chapter).

⁷ sn See the note on Lev 7:20.

¹⁰ tn Heb “and he shall purify it and he shall consecrate it.”

¹³ tn The term רָכִיל (rakhil) is traditionally rendered “slanderer” here (so NASB, NIV, NRSV; see also J. E. Hartley, Leviticus [WBC], 304, 316), but the exact meaning is uncertain (see the discussion in B. A. Levine, Leviticus [JPSTC], 129). It is sometimes related to I רָכַל (“to go about as a trader [or “merchant”]”; BDB 940 s.v. רָכַל), and taken to refer to cutthroat business dealings, but there may be a II רָכַל, the meaning of which is dubious (HALOT 1237 s.v. II *רכל). Some would render it “to go about as a spy.”

¹⁴ tn Heb “You shall not stand on the blood of your neighbor.” This part of the verse is also difficult to interpret. The rendering here suggests that one will not allow a neighbor to be victimized, whether in court (cf. v. 15) or in any other situation (see the discussion in B. A. Levine, Leviticus [JPSTC], 129).

¹⁶ tn The Hebrew term תֶּבֶל (tevel, “perversion”) derives from the verb “to mix; to confuse” (cf. KJV, ASV “they have wrought confusion”).