Leviticus 4:20

4:20 He must do with the rest of the bull just as he did with the bull of the sin offering; this is what he must do with it. ¹  So the priest will make atonement ²  on their behalf and they will be forgiven. ³ 

Leviticus 8:28

8:28 Moses then took them from their palms and offered them up in smoke on the altar ⁴  on top of the burnt offering – they were an ordination offering for a soothing aroma; it was a gift to the Lord.

Leviticus 11:13

Clean and Unclean Birds

11:13 “‘These you are to detest from among the birds – they must not be eaten, because they are detestable: ⁵  the griffon vulture, the bearded vulture, the black vulture,

Leviticus 11:22

11:22 These you may eat from them: ⁶  the locust of any kind, the bald locust of any kind, the cricket of any kind, the grasshopper of any kind.

Leviticus 11:27

11:27 All that walk on their paws among all the creatures that walk on all fours ⁷  are unclean to you. Anyone who touches their carcass will be unclean until the evening,

Leviticus 11:33

11:33 As for any clay vessel they fall into, ⁸  everything in it ⁹  will become unclean and you must break it.

Leviticus 11:35

11:35 Anything their carcass may fall on will become unclean. An oven or small stove must be smashed to pieces; they are unclean, and they will stay unclean ¹⁰  to you.

Leviticus 13:58

13:58 But the garment or the warp or the woof or any article of leather which you wash and infection disappears from it ¹¹  is to be washed a second time and it will be clean.”

Leviticus 21:6

21:6 “‘They must be holy to their God, and they must not profane ¹²  the name of their God, because they are the ones who present the Lord’s gifts, ¹³  the food of their God. Therefore they must be holy. ¹⁴ 

Leviticus 22:11

22:11 but if a priest buys a person with his own money, ¹⁵  that person ¹⁶  may eat the holy offerings, ¹⁷  and those born in the priest’s ¹⁸  own house may eat his food. ¹⁹ 

Leviticus 23:2

23:2 “Speak to the Israelites and tell them, ‘These are the Lord’s appointed times which you must proclaim as holy assemblies – my appointed times: ²⁰ 

Leviticus 25:31

25:31 The houses of villages, however, ²¹  which have no wall surrounding them ²²  must be considered as the field ²³  of the land; they will have the right of redemption and must revert in the jubilee.

Leviticus 25:44-45

25:44 “‘As for your male and female slaves ²⁴  who may belong to you – you may buy male and female slaves from the nations all around you. ²⁵  25:45 Also you may buy slaves ²⁶  from the children of the foreigners who reside with you, and from their families that are ²⁷  with you, whom they have fathered in your land, they may become your property.

Leviticus 25:55

25:55 because the Israelites are my own servants; ²⁸  they are my servants whom I brought out from the land of Egypt. I am the Lord your God.

¹ sn Cf. Lev 4:11-12 above for the disposition of “the [rest of] the bull.”

² sn The focus of sin offering “atonement” was purging impurities from the tabernacle (see the note on Lev 1:4).

³ tn Heb “there shall be forgiveness to them” or “it shall be forgiven to them.”

⁴ tn Heb “toward the altar” (see the note on Lev 1:9).

⁷ tn For zoological remarks on the following list of birds see J. Milgrom, Leviticus (AB), 1:662-64; and J. E. Hartley, Leviticus (WBC), 159-60.

¹⁰ 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.

¹³ tn Heb “the one walking on four.” Compare Lev 11:20-23.

¹⁶ tn Heb “And any earthenware vessel which shall fall from them into its midst.”

¹⁷ tn Heb “all which is in its midst.”

¹⁹ tn Heb “be unclean.”

²² tn Heb “and the infection turns aside from them.”

²⁵ sn Regarding “profane,” see the note on Lev 10:10 above.

²⁶ sn Regarding the Hebrew term for “gifts,” see the note on Lev 1:9 above (cf. also 3:11 and 16 in combination with the word for “food” that follows in the next phrase here).

²⁷ tc Smr and all early versions have the plural adjective “holy” rather than the MT singular noun “holiness.”

²⁸ tn Heb “and a priest, if he buys a person, the property of his silver.”

²⁹ tn Heb “he”; the referent (the person whom the priest has purchased) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

³⁰ tn Heb “eat it”; the referent (the holy offerings) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

³¹ tn Heb “his”; the referent (the priest) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

³² tn Heb “and the [slave] born of his house, they shall eat in his food.” The LXX, Syriac, Tg. Onq., Tg. Ps.-J., and some mss of Smr have plural “ones born,” which matches the following plural “they” pronoun and the plural form of the verb.

³¹ tn Heb “these are them, my appointed times.”

³⁴ tn Heb “And the houses of the villages.”

³⁵ tn Heb “which there is not to them a wall.”

³⁶ tn Heb “on the field.”

³⁷ tn Heb “And your male slave and your female slave.” Smr has these as plural terms, “slaves,” not singular.

³⁸ tn Heb “ from the nations which surround you, from them you shall buy male slave and female slave.”

⁴⁰ tn The word “slaves” is not in the Hebrew text, but is implied here.

⁴¹ tn Heb “family which is” (i.e., singular rather than plural).

⁴³ tn Heb “because to me the sons of Israel are servants.”