Leviticus 5:8-9

5:8 He must bring them to the priest and present first the one that is for a sin offering. The priest ¹  must pinch ²  its head at the nape of its neck, but must not sever the head from the body. ³  5:9 Then he must sprinkle ⁴  some of the blood of the sin offering on the wall of the altar, and the remainder of the blood ⁵  must be squeezed out at the base of the altar – it is a sin offering.

Leviticus 9:3

9:3 Then tell the Israelites: ‘Take a male goat ⁶  for a sin offering and a calf and lamb, both a year old and flawless, ⁷  for a burnt offering,

Leviticus 14:22

14:22 and two turtledoves or two young pigeons, ⁸  which are within his means. ⁹  One will be a sin offering and the other a burnt offering. ¹⁰ 

Leviticus 14:31

14:31 a sin offering and the other a burnt offering along with the grain offering. ¹¹  So the priest is to make atonement for the one being cleansed before the Lord.

Leviticus 15:14-15

15:14 Then on the eighth day he is to take for himself two turtledoves or two young pigeons, ¹²  and he is to present himself ¹³  before the Lord at the entrance of the Meeting Tent and give them to the priest, 15:15 and the priest is to make one of them a sin offering ¹⁴  and the other a burnt offering. ¹⁵  So the priest ¹⁶  is to make atonement for him before the Lord for ¹⁷  his discharge.

Leviticus 15:30

15:30 and the priest is to make one a sin offering and the other a burnt offering. ¹⁸  So the priest ¹⁹  is to make atonement for her before the Lord from her discharge of impurity.

Leviticus 16:5

16:5 He must also take ²⁰  two male goats ²¹  from the congregation of the Israelites for a sin offering and one ram for a burnt offering.

Hebrews 10:6-10

10:6 “Whole burnt offerings and sin-offerings you took no delight in.

10:7 “Then I said, ‘Here I am: ²²  I have come – it is written of me in the scroll of the book – to do your will, O God.’” ²³ 

10:8 When he says above, “Sacrifices and offerings and whole burnt offerings and sin-offerings you did not desire nor did you take delight in them” ²⁴  (which are offered according to the law), 10:9 then he says, “Here I am: I have come to do your will.” ²⁵  He does away with ²⁶  the first to establish the second. 10:10 By his will ²⁷  we have been made holy through the offering of the body of Jesus Christ once for all.

¹ tn Heb “he.” The subject (“he”) refers to the priest here, not the offerer who presented the birds to the priest (cf. v. 8a).

² sn The action seems to involve both a twisting action, breaking the neck of the bird and severing its vertebrae, as well as pinching or nipping the skin, but in this case not severing the head from the main body (note the rest of this verse).

³ tn Heb “he shall not divide [it]” (see J. Milgrom, Leviticus [AB], 1:305).

⁴ tn The Hebrew verb וְהִזָּה (vÿhizzah, Hiphil of נָזָה, nazah) does indeed mean “sprinkle” or “splatter” (cf. Lev 4:6, 17). Contrast “splash” in Lev 1:5, etc. (זָרָק, zaraq).

⁵ tn Heb “the remainder in the blood.” The Heb. preposition “in” (בְּ, bÿ) is used here to mean “some among” a whole collection of something.

⁶ tn Heb “a he-goat of goats.”

⁷ tn Heb “and a calf and a lamb, sons of a year, flawless”; KJV, ASV, NRSV “without blemish”; NASB, NIV “without defect”; NLT “with no physical defects.”

⁸ tn Heb “from the sons of the pigeon,” referring either to “young pigeons” or “various species of pigeon” (contrast J. Milgrom, Leviticus [AB], 1:168 with J. E. Hartley, Leviticus [WBC], 14; cf. Lev 1:14 and esp. 5:7-10).

⁹ tn Heb “which his hand reaches”; NRSV “such as (which NIV) he can afford.”

¹⁰ tn Heb “and one shall be a sin offering and the one a burnt offering.” The versions struggle with whether or not “one” should or should not have the definite article in its two occurrences in this verse (KJV, ASV, NAB, NASB all have the English definite article with both). The MT has the first without and the second with the article.

¹¹ tn Heb “and the one a burnt offering on the grain offering.”

¹² tn Heb “from the sons of the pigeon,” referring either to “young pigeons” or “various species of pigeon” (contrast J. Milgrom, Leviticus [AB], 1:168 with J. E. Hartley, Leviticus [WBC], 14; cf. Lev 1:14 and esp. 5:7-10).

¹³ tc The MT has the Qal form of the verb בּוֹא (bo’) “to come” here, but the LXX (followed generally by the Syriac and Tg. Ps.-J.) reflects the Hiphil form of the same verb, “to bring” as in v. 29 below. In v. 29, however, there is no additional clause “and give them to the priest,” so the Hiphil is necessary in that context while it is not necessary here in v. 14.

¹⁴ sn See the note on Lev 4:3 regarding the term “sin offering.”

¹⁵ 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.”

¹⁶ tn Heb “And the priest.” The Hebrew conjunction ו (vav, “and”) can be considered to have resultative force here.

¹⁷ tn Heb “from”; see the note on 4:26.

¹⁸ tn Heb “And the priest shall make the one a sin offering and the one a burnt offering.”

¹⁹ tn Heb “And the priest.” The Hebrew conjunction ו (vav, “and”) can be considered to have resultative force here.

²⁰ tn Heb “And he shall take.”

²¹ tn Heb “he-goats of goats”; CEV “two goats, both of them males.”

²² tn Grk “behold,” but this construction often means “here is/there is” (cf. BDAG 468 s.v. ἰδού 2).

²³ sn A quotation from Ps 40:6-8 (LXX). The phrase a body you prepared for me (in v. 5) is apparently an interpretive expansion of the HT reading “ears you have dug out for me.”

²⁴ sn Various phrases from the quotation of Ps 40:6 in Heb 10:5-6 are repeated in Heb 10:8.

²⁵ tc The majority of mss, especially the later ones (א² 0278^vid 1739 Ï lat), have ὁ θεός (Jo qeo", “God”) at this point, while most of the earliest and best witnesses lack such an explicit addressee (so Ì⁴⁶ א* A C D K P Ψ 33 1175 1881 2464 al). The longer reading is a palpable corruption, apparently motivated in part by the wording of Ps 40:8 (39:9 LXX) and by the word order of this same verse as quoted in Heb 10:7.

²⁶ tn Or “abolishes.”

²⁷ tn Grk “by which will.” Because of the length and complexity of the Greek sentence, a new sentence was started here in the translation.